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[โ€“] zifnab25@hexbear.net 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

that's literally what we're doing

Hey fuck it, in all seriousness. If you see someone outside in the cold freezing, bring them in. If you're cold, they're cold.

At the same time, its infuriating to see some smugface on Twitter tell randos that they've somehow made a personal decision to shuttle billions to the Bezos Klan and murder a few thousand lumpen proletariat on the back end. We might be indoors, but we are as much under the gun of capitalism as everyone else.

The TrueAnon Crew did a great interview with a couple of homelessness activists in the Sacramento Area. And they'll give you an earful about how city leadership and police goons make villainizing and harassing anyone bold enough help too many people at once. In my hometown of Houston, I've seen first hand the amazing folks at Food Not Bombs eat tens of thousands of dollars in citations for daring to feed hungry people on my city streets.

We aren't participants in this holocaust. We are simply prisoners in marginally better cells. The existential horror of homelessness is that it is a weapon directed at each and every one of us. Our commitment to our unhoused neighbors should come as much out of a sense of self-preservation as charity or guilt. It cannot be seen as a consumer choice, but a revolutionary act. In the end, we stay warm together or we all freeze separately.

[โ€“] showmustgo@hexbear.net 1 points 10 months ago

And your life is another example. It's the life of someone who's gotten away with something. And yet your fanaticism is so extreme that you won't let that thought come into your mind.