• Soulg@sh.itjust.works
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        8 months ago

        some homeless people got there by making bad choices.

        But, you know what I’ll say it, making a few bad choices shouldn’t convict you to a life on the street and being treated as subhuman by people around you

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          8 months ago

          I agree.

          But you also can’t help someone unless they want to be helped. There are people out there who will take every advantage of any resources available while making absolutely no effort to change the pattern of behavior that led them there.

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        8 months ago

        Motherfucker, I’ve been homeless a lot in my life and I live/work downtown, surrounded by all types of homeless.

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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        8 months ago

        Not only do I live pretty close to a tent city of homeless people, I’ve spent a lot of time in San Francisco interviewing homeless people there back when I was in high school working for the school paper.

        You have no fucking clue what you’re talking about.

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          8 months ago

          I too live near the San Francisco and know there is no linear answer. Odd how even in an anecdote we still corroborate that there are more factors to why homeless people cannot find housing. Odd. Does that mean we have confirmation bias? Or does that mean facts support our theories?