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Maybe this has been said a lot already but neither republicans nor democrats have done much of anything for most of my entire lifetime to help the poverty, decaying infrastructure, meager health care and failing education in southern and midwestern states but between the two of them the republicans keep securing votes from those areas by catering their flippant lies and false promises directly to those demographics. Nobody is going to defeat the right wing without beating them at that game and to beat them at that game they also have to actually make good on those promises and actually help the people whose living situations look like this:
Courage the Cowardly Dog didn’t make this shit up, WE used to live in what was practically this picture. The only civilization for an hour in any direction had mcdonalds, gas stations, dollar general and an extremely small, extremely pricey grocery store and those were your food choices unless you had a reliable car. Big corporations owned the miles and miles of farmland in all directions, dousing them with pesticides the entire town could smell all day. Inches of dust would cake to everything. Nobody had jobs unless they could afford the hour commute and even then what qualified as “the city” was more like a city’s walking corpse, businesses boarding up and fleeing to the coasts if their land wasn’t just bought up and leveled for more corn production.
There are millions of people stuck living this way and nobody is fucking doing anything about it.
Even on this website I see people just laugh about it and dismiss everyone out there as a bunch of white racists, as if their living conditions probably aren’t part of why some of them are so angry and ignorant and willing to vote a complete monster into the white house if he feeds them enough bullshit, as if there aren’t also lots of sweet and well meaning people stuck out there starving, as if there aren’t lots of marginalized people out there who have no support network or transportation or escape route, as if even the racists don’t have little innocent children who don’t know better and need a fucking chance to go to school and eat something other than pepsi and hot dogs if they’re ever going to break the cycle of hate they didn’t ask to be born into.
Hey congrats to those who looked at this and posted literally the exact same black-hearted classism it was decrying and which is fundamentally identical to how Trumpers themselves react to homeless people. Your confidence in your wretchedness is at least technically impressive.
I made a decision to not reblog anybody else in the notes, whichever side they’re on, but multiple people still responded to all this with “why don’t you just move!?!” and when called on it dug their heels in to keep sticking by that suggestion. I’ve deleted almost all of that so I don’t have to look at it anymore, but don’t worry, I literally went into every single one of their DM’s and bitched at them for it so none of y’all have to.
Let’s go over what “just moving away” entails:
Finding a new home for rent in your desired location and sending in an application, which itself often costs $50.
Having a positive credit score or hoping they’re just kind enough to not care about that.
Hoping they don’t choose someone else over you and just keep your $50, which is a high possibility because almost every livable home in a coastal city gets multiple applicants the entire time it’s on the market.
Proving you have and sometimes proving you WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE an income of more than the rent amount. In my area they demand two to three times the total rent amount.
Having half to all of the first month’s rent and a security deposit to offer up front, which if you’re lucky to find a decomposing slum might cost a bare minimum of $300 in total but is vastly more likely to cost $900 or more.
Having money to set up the water, electricity and other utilities for that first month if they aren’t included in the rental price.
Having the money to transport at least yourself. Even if we’re talking just one person with a few belongings by car or by plane that’s also going to be hundreds of dollars.
Hoping you can somehow secure a job long distance, secure one the very moment you get there, or be allowed to rent that apartment on the *promise* that you’ll find one in time to pay another month’s rent.
Hoping that the job even pays enough to do that at all.
Of course just to get the fucking job is a competition with potentially dozens of people and its own lengthy process. If you don’t find that miracle home that lets you rent a place jobless, you’re looking at spending more money you don’t have on hotels or living homeless for a while, growing dirtier and sicker and hungrier every day which all makes you look “undesirable” to employers.
So when you say “just move,” you’re telling people who live paycheck-to-paycheck, with maybe $50 “life savings,” to pull more money out of their ass than their entire family has possibly ever seen in one place and gamble it all on the slim hope that every step of this process will succeed without a single unexpected complication because if ANY part of it does, and it is almost certainly going to, then you might just lose even the option to crawl back to the rotten. leaking farmhouse you at least knew was safer than sleeping under a bridge.
I live on the edges of one of those coastal, hip liberal cities everybody flees to. We have an overwhelming homeless population. Someone is begging for money at almost every single intersection and parking lot. People sleep in tents in the woods until they give up and die. Thousands of them are people who became desperate enough one day to roll the dice and “jUsT mOvE”
bogleech:
bogleech:
bogleech:
Maybe this has been said a lot already but neither republicans nor democrats have done much of anything for most of my entire lifetime to help the poverty, decaying infrastructure, meager health care and failing education in southern and midwestern states but between the two of them the republicans keep securing votes from those areas by catering their flippant lies and false promises directly to those demographics. Nobody is going to defeat the right wing without beating them at that game and to beat them at that game they also have to actually make good on those promises and actually help the people whose living situations look like this:
Courage the Cowardly Dog didn’t make this shit up, WE used to live in what was practically this picture. The only civilization for an hour in any direction had mcdonalds, gas stations, dollar general and an extremely small, extremely pricey grocery store and those were your food choices unless you had a reliable car. Big corporations owned the miles and miles of farmland in all directions, dousing them with pesticides the entire town could smell all day. Inches of dust would cake to everything. Nobody had jobs unless they could afford the hour commute and even then what qualified as “the city” was more like a city’s walking corpse, businesses boarding up and fleeing to the coasts if their land wasn’t just bought up and leveled for more corn production.
There are millions of people stuck living this way and nobody is fucking doing anything about it.
Even on this website I see people just laugh about it and dismiss everyone out there as a bunch of white racists, as if their living conditions probably aren’t part of why some of them are so angry and ignorant and willing to vote a complete monster into the white house if he feeds them enough bullshit, as if there aren’t also lots of sweet and well meaning people stuck out there starving, as if there aren’t lots of marginalized people out there who have no support network or transportation or escape route, as if even the racists don’t have little innocent children who don’t know better and need a fucking chance to go to school and eat something other than pepsi and hot dogs if they’re ever going to break the cycle of hate they didn’t ask to be born into.
Hey congrats to those who looked at this and posted literally the exact same black-hearted classism it was decrying and which is fundamentally identical to how Trumpers themselves react to homeless people. Your confidence in your wretchedness is at least technically impressive.
I made a decision to not reblog anybody else in the notes, whichever side they’re on, but multiple people still responded to all this with “why don’t you just move!?!” and when called on it dug their heels in to keep sticking by that suggestion. I’ve deleted almost all of that so I don’t have to look at it anymore, but don’t worry, I literally went into every single one of their DM’s and bitched at them for it so none of y’all have to.
Let’s go over what “just moving away” entails:
Finding a new home for rent in your desired location and sending in an application, which itself often costs $50.
Having a positive credit score or hoping they’re just kind enough to not care about that.
Hoping they don’t choose someone else over you and just keep your $50, which is a high possibility because almost every livable home in a coastal city gets multiple applicants the entire time it’s on the market.
Proving you have and sometimes proving you WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE an income of more than the rent amount. In my area they demand two to three times the total rent amount.
Having half to all of the first month’s rent and a security deposit to offer up front, which if you’re lucky to find a decomposing slum might cost a bare minimum of $300 in total but is vastly more likely to cost $900 or more.
Having money to set up the water, electricity and other utilities for that first month if they aren’t included in the rental price.
Having the money to transport at least yourself. Even if we’re talking just one person with a few belongings by car or by plane that’s also going to be hundreds of dollars.
Hoping you can somehow secure a job long distance, secure one the very moment you get there, or be allowed to rent that apartment on the *promise* that you’ll find one in time to pay another month’s rent.
Hoping that the job even pays enough to do that at all.
Of course just to get the fucking job is a competition with potentially dozens of people and its own lengthy process. If you don’t find that miracle home that lets you rent a place jobless, you’re looking at spending more money you don’t have on hotels or living homeless for a while, growing dirtier and sicker and hungrier every day which all makes you look “undesirable” to employers.
So when you say “just move,” you’re telling people who live paycheck-to-paycheck, with maybe $50 “life savings,” to pull more money out of their ass than their entire family has possibly ever seen in one place and gamble it all on the slim hope that every step of this process will succeed without a single unexpected complication because if ANY part of it does, and it is almost certainly going to, then you might just lose even the option to crawl back to the rotten. leaking farmhouse you at least knew was safer than sleeping under a bridge.
I live on the edges of one of those coastal, hip liberal cities everybody flees to. We have an overwhelming homeless population. Someone is begging for money at almost every single intersection and parking lot. People sleep in tents in the woods until they give up and die. Thousands of them are people who became desperate enough one day to roll the dice and “jUsT mOvE”
