• Seagoon_
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    26 days ago

    Outrageous opinion follows.

    Life for homeless people in Australia is usually better than life for average people in most of the world. They still have clean food, clean water, good medical care if they walk into a hospital, clean streets. True, they often have psych problems and need care. But they don’t need to worry about open sewers and such.

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      26 days ago

      Um no.

      Strapping yourself to ceiling beams to sleep so you don’t get assaulted.

      Boyo at 14 in the RMIT brewery.

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        26 days ago

        i didn’t say it was safe or good or something to aspire to nor a reason to not stop homelessness or help, just that there are some of the same advantages of an advanced industrial country.

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      26 days ago

      Actually, fuck that um.

      This is a disgusting and ill considered opinion.

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        26 days ago

        ffs,

        clean water is precious, sewers is precious, etc

        our whole society benefits from these basics

        we do need to care about everyone and stop homelessness, and it’s possible, we just need the will , we need to tax mining companies etc

        we know it’s possible to help people because we did it during covid