A thread in which OP posts about some derelict acting like the methed out weirdo that they are, a guy sounding exactly like the hippy teacher from beavis & butthead chimes in
I'm going to guess that you might live in an inner-city neighbourhood? Poverty is probably the overwhelming reason you see people out on the streets having a hard time. That woman's anger is probably redirected frustration at whatever else is going on in her life.
Having insecure, unsuitable, overcrowded or substandard housing, food insecurity and generally not being able to afford stuff is stressor. Then there is the vicious cycle of poverty causing trauma (usually generational) which leads to mental health issues, then you aren't able to get them treated, or even escape the conditions that make them worse.
Basically, a lot of folks live very high stress lives, and don't have the resources, community, family etc to live with more security, and as austerity gets worse, things get more expensive, housing gets worse, food gets expensive, healthcare gets harder to access etc etc etc, you will see more people publically having crises.
Also, Being assertive, direct, agressive etc etc etc is a strategy to get your needs met in a lot of social situations, but like a lot of behaviours, it can become maladaptive and anti-social in a lot of other settings.
I don't know when poverty suddenly became a get out of jail free card for anything and everything
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I agree with leftoids on some key policy issues but it's the constant veneration of weakness like this that makes me sick at the thought of identifying with them
There, I've expressed myself while being heckin' emotionally vulnerable, upmarsey now
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I think welfare isn't a bad idea, especially if the alternative is filial responsibility but absolving poors from any and all personal responsibility is counter productive. The law should be more immediate and punitive, and we should beat tramps with batons like in silent comedies
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Idk man I feel like the country is rich enough to throw survival amounts of money at all the hobos and then ignore them without issue.
The only uncomfortable issue liberal states have to get around is the willingness to create hobo cities where you have super affordable housing and a big park 300 meters away for hobos to live in who cannot adjust to living in a house.
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I feel we already do. They get fed and can get sheltered should they choose. They're not rational actors though so they destroy any actual living space and end up back at square 1.
Agree with government sanctioned shanty towns. Corral them to one area with plumbing and narcan and let them do as they please
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You just need to do the black housing project repeat but for homeless hobos away from the city proper.
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Around the time that consooomer culture became so all-encompassing that even people living on well-above average incomes are living 'paycheck to paycheck'
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Yet the economy only goes up 2.5% per year.
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The economy might not be going gangbusters like it was in recent decades, but we're so close to the zenith of abundance in the West.
Either this is just a dip on a continued upward march of living standards, or Westerners are going to rediscover what real hardship looks like.
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Living
standards always go up. I expect every new discovery made in quantum mechanics is seeing applications in tech within a decade.
What worries me is that outside
of quantum mechanics, there 
isn't really 
any advancements in physics 
that would 
lead to new technological capabilities.
We need our science
to make discoveries about how the universe works and can be manipulated at the pico scale 
fast because that's where 
the scale 
is headed 
to make even more dense and powerful technologies to further advance 
society.
I fear the gap between
scientific discoveries and scientific application 
is growing ever smaller 
to the point 
that we might reach the limits of technological growth simply because we haven't been able to make any further baseline high value scientific discoveries fast enough.
Sure we could top off another 30-40 years still even if scientific progress
stopped, just by finishing connecting the patterns 
between 
all that we have already discovered, but it would 
never 
again be as fast as it is in current day.
There is no way for westerners to discover what real hardship looks like because for real hardship to occur either population would
have to grow too fast, or the state 
would 
have to fall into active technological decline. Stagnation today 
just means you are stuck on current levels of buying power, not even the same tech levels. If westerners are not facing real hardship at today's level of tech then they won't feel hardship even if their economy doesn't grow any further.
Jewish lives matter
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I'm not joking, you've fricked your sister, you've been doxxed, you've been ridiculed to the extreme by a group of people who get ridiculed by normies 99% of the time. It has never been so over as it is for you right now.
There is no way up left for you. You have no shot left at a thriving career, a caring husband, a loving father or anything else. I would have liked to see you become a useful member of society but come on, if you had the resolve to become one, you would have the tenacity to not frick your sister
You're probably going to die in a meth or heroin OD when you're 40 and your last days would be a painful hallucination of the places you always wanted to visit
It's better to just keep yourself safe when you no there's no way you're escaping this fate. I would suggest blade to the wrist because it matches your aesthetic.
Snapshots:
https://old.reddit.com/r/Winnipeg/comments/1ew3tc6/is_everyone_irrational/:
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ghostarchive.org
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