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Damn, I miss Portland. The downtown was nice, until the homeless people starts setting tents in the park.
Damn those people for…being poor and not having homes…
I guess I can't complain because there's always someone in worse position than me, huh...
Also, I take it you've never been to a city with homelessness issue.
Jesus. Everyone has heir own problems. But counting other people’s misfortune as your hardship because you have to…see them, is pretty fucking disgusting.
I live in a major city. Every major city has one. And the much, much smaller city I used to live in, it was more pointed. But I don’t see it as a problem with them existing in my city. I see it as a problem of…these people are cast out by society. Seeing their misery as your annoyance is…fucking insane.
I'm not complaining because I have to see them suffering. I'm complaining because many of them are actively destroying public property. But of course you wouldn't pay attention to that because you just want to be mad at something on internet. I don't get what your problem is, but you're a hypocritical and full of shit.
I can’t imagine things are any better now with so many seeking asylum.
Yeah, the situation is shit everywhere, for many different reasons. I guess I can't blame the homeless folks themselves. Not sure if I could do any better in their position.
Well said
I work with unhoused folks on the regular - some of them are definitely on the street because of their actions. Some of them know it, some of them blame the world around them. Others are certainly victims of the system where they were dealt a shitty hand and played it as best they knew how. The only problem is that the best they knew how was not very good, likely because of a lack of support/parenting growing up. Oh, and the disabled folk. They just get straight up screwed by every system.
The really frustrating thing is how many people just straight up need a parent (we call them case workers but let's be honest about the work they do) to get through life - a responsible adult who will guide them to the right choices and educate them on how to interact with society - but we simply can't help everyone and even if we had the people power you can't help someone who doesn't see the problem or will not accept your help. The human in me says we need to reach and help these people, but the logician in me says there are diminishing returns on trying to help people who don't or won't change their behavior.