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I once heard a SOCIAL WORKER in a hospital say out loud during rounds "you know I don't get it, if you're a homeless person why don't you just get a job?" ...it's grim out there

If I recall correctly, some genuinely believe being broke, disabled, or homeless is a personal moral failing and they wouldn't be that if they were a ""good"" person.

“Why is my ‘nice’ neighborhood such an epicenter of human misery? Why do my ‘nice’ neighbors look away or say horrible things about people who are clearly suffering? Can I really think of myself as a fundamentally good person if I laughed along with them?”

Things people have told me are the real reason some folks "choose" homelessness: -Easier to do drugs all the time -They like the "freedom" -They're modern-day nomads -They're a specific sub-set of the Sovereign Citizen movement Of course none of the people telling me these were homeless themselves

Growing up my mom told me that all the homeless people we’d see on the side of the road asking for change were grifters who all lived in houses the next town over and just did that to con people out of money

you ain't heard? They be making millions out there beggin for change!

They don’t think that far. Or at all really

As someone who works in social services field, don't forget the anti-homeless architecture!

Some of them detest their lives and fantasize about a lack of responsibility to others and even their own wellbeing, and thus view being homeless as an actual win that they are just too afraid to take.

“Oh, they don’t want to be homeless, they’re just lazy!”

If it was so good all those conservatives would be first people in line for their share.

you would think introspection would be natural for self-centered people and yet alas

I think what's more infuriating than people thinking it's a choice is people thinking all homeless people are faking being homeless people because "you don't see them during the winter". Yeah cause that's code blue season, they're crammed into a shelter like a sardine so they don't freeze to death

Those same assholes also WILDLY overestimate the benefits received by people on public assistance. Belief in welfare Cadillacs runs very deep among suburban white folks.

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Those people will never survive being actually homeless.

It’s part of the homosexual agenda. Step one is making everyone homeless using gay frogs.

on more than one occasion i have heard from these types that they believe homeless people are lazy. one guy actually claimed that they did it because the homeless were making upwards of 30-40k a year panhandling and i barked in his face like a seal laughing. i could not help it

mentally ill homeless doordash driver here, ama shelters won't take me because my ADHD medication, which I need to actually operate, is fucking meth.

It's because conservatives genuinely believe that people have financial incentives to be homeless because of government programs.

I challenge them to go through the process of becoming homeless, and live as a homeless person, without exhibiting symptoms of trauma induced mental illness

If it's not a choice then I'll have to sit with my feelings and examine the possible reasons why I'm not homeless, and ho boy, will I NOT be doing that.

The state of mental health care in the US is appalling. The Dallas County jail has more mentally ill inmates on any given night than all the in patient mental health beds in the state. And anyone can refuse treatment, no matter if their illness causes them to reject needed help.

Ehh that’s more of an Acceptable Political Stance to justify the mass murder

To hear NIMBY neolibs tell it, the homeless people chose to start doing fent, which ruined their lives to the point that they became homeless, and now they just don't want to accept help because that would interrupt their doing drugs

How would they get the checks?

Usually something about how they can totally make 6 figures begging for change on the sidewalk or getting free checks from the government or something. Idk, conservatives believe in a lot of social programs that are not real.

my ex used to yell "PANHANDLING IS ILLEGAL" at them, lovely individual 🤐

when you’re homeless they give you all the free fentanyl you can handle as long as you promise to never ever produce anything for society

Nevermind the whole “alms to the poor” thing. I’m sure Jesus meant somebody else when he was talking about that.

The primary cause of homelessness is high housing costs. Lowering the price of housing will lower the number of homeless.

There’s definitely a significant number of people who believe that most homeless people choose their situation.