• AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    There seem to be more people out of power interested in blaming powerless suffering populations for their own suffering than recognizing the atrocity and wanting to help.

    You show 100 truly random Americans footage of our society’s sins in the form of our innumerable tent cities filled with the people, and most of them will chastise those victims of our society for being “lazy” or “drug addicts,” as if addiction wasn’t a disease often triggered from desparation, or that failing to be a productive little capitalist cog in our owner’s profit machine means you deserve to die prematurely of exposure to the elements and police capital defense force brutality.

    The answer most Americans have to such things is to complain enough to have those human beings forcibly removed from the sidewalks and underpasses they subsist in to find another, because that average American feels above having to look at them, and is concerned about how those human being’s continued existence is diminishing local property values.

    The more beaten down, abused, and powerless you become in the US, the less help you will be offered. Wealthy people are thrown free, expensive services and merchandise hard working people could never afford to actually purchase outright, people pour money into a manager’s kid’s GoFundMe for their soccer league because that “charity” gives pretty feels all around, meanwhile a homeless person is denied a cot at an overfilled shelter because they’re an alcoholic and dare to try to sleep out of the rain AND numb their very real physical and emotional pain, for lack of actual, compassionate, patient, funded mental health services. Get the fuck out of here you piece of shit. Why can’t you winos just go off and die, amirite?

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        1 year ago

        People are mostly good. Propaganda designed to enforce certain beliefs makes people think those less fortunate are lazy, entitled, and less deserving. It’s also human nature to discount any luck in our success stories and attribute them to only/mostly hard work.

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        1 year ago

        I think that’s one of the biggest issues, people believing what they want to believe, despite all of us being subject to the same reality.

        That said, believe what you like. Sorry for bringing rain to the parade.