>>158702>I'd probably risk getting assaulted. Just better I not be put in that situation. I'm on a website like this and I think 'fuck the man, fight the power', whatever. But in reality I KNOW the person ripping off the store is a fucking meth head or a fentanyl junkie. It's not some poor schmo who lost his job and just needs something to eat. It's a deplorable scumbag looking to sell it or return it for fucking drug money. What the fuck is up with this site and these thinly-veiled reactionary tirades?
"Um, like fight the power & shit but like um did you know drug addicts exist"It's clear that a post like this is made by someone who has spent more time thinking of reactionary excuses to shit on homeless people than about actual class politics. The idea that there is some objective moral line between different kinds of homeless people depending on whether they're addicted to drugs or not is a poor understanding of the circumstances of extreme poverty. Even engaging with posts like this is nauseating because, from experience, I know that a typical response to my criticism will be to "inform" me that
"um acshully they're not all from the ghetto, and they're bad, and you're a DAM BLEEDING HEART LIBERAL" or whatever, and there's always a complete obliviousness displayed to the point in favor of these stupid cliches where it's assumed that anyone who recognizes poverty as a broad systemic problem must
romanticize the poor in some way. In reality, the opposite is true; I recognize the corrupting effects of poverty for what they are, I recognize the miserable existence of addicts (whether or not every single one of them
starts as poor as they end, I do not care - the condition of these people and their context in broader society is not dependent on how sympathetic I find them or their backstory personally), and I've worked jobs where people like this were co-workers.
Whether it is unemployment & eviction, mental illness, drug addiction, or some combination of these, all homelessness is ultimately economic. Those least equipped to be sheltered would benefit from the same reforms which would radically lower housing costs and improve employment prospects and infrastructure for the rest of the working class. We exist under the shadow of a hostile force which destroys lives, wealth, and cities, and condemns those who would seek to mitigate the degradation and alienation it creates. That's not as abstract as it sounds, it's something I see in the rot around this place. We should have time to deal with this stuff appropriately, but instead of that we either have time or we have money, and the money goes to the landlord, to the state, to domestic surveillance and Israeli healthcare.