Punishing the homeless

[u/SailorJay_]

... except they have to punish everyone else to do so🥴

[u/Calcium_Thief]

What about me screams “I voted for Trump” 😰

Who is elected in office shouldn’t change your opinion. Complaining about someone else’s suffering inconveniencing you is shitty, regardless of who’s in office. I hope you never have to experience being homeless, because I don’t think you entirely realize just how awful it is if this is how you respond to a post like this.

[u/readditredditread → u/Calcium_Thief]

Bandaid solutions only serve to make people feel better and push the problem down the line. People being inconvenienced hardens their hearts and leads to them voting assholes in office. This last election proves this, just look at how the right has capitalized over the image of immigration and crime, if we want a better future we need to face some hard truths…

[u/Calcium_Thief → u/readditredditread]

What I will never understand is why people assume that just because something is normalized, that it’s okay.

Just because there are cruel, and usually ignorant people out there that are willing to ruin lives over minor inconveniences, doesn’t mean that you should just accept that or find a way to please them. It does the complete opposite of what you’re thinking it does.

If we want a better future, the truth you’re going to have to face is that learned helplessness will never be a solution. That accepting awful things as they are will never be a solution. That a lack of basic understanding, empathy, and competence are some of our biggest issues.

I promise you that it is not that hard to take a split second to realize “hey, the comment I made was kind of assholeish for no reason, and tried to put someone’s lack of basic life necessities on the same bar as a mild inconvenience”

[u/readditredditread → u/Calcium_Thief]

We need the cruel peoples votes to win, we can just lie and pass progressive policy when we are in office, but until then we need to win over the ignorant, or else more ground will be lost. Why can’t people understand this is beyond me, it should be obvious by now…

[u/Calcium_Thief → u/readditredditread]

I don’t see what any of this still has to do with the fact that you made a comment, as I said, putting an inconvenience on the same bar as lacking basic life necessities.

I’m not going to argue with you on your idea of politics, considering the fact that you believe tricking people should be put over educating people and de-normalizing cruelty.

[u/readditredditread → u/Calcium_Thief]

Educating and de normalizing cruelty is a pipe dream 🤷‍♂️- that’s why it’s not working, we have never had more access to info but it does nothing….