we have countless empty homes, we have far more empty homes than homeless people, and simply being housed away from the windchill is enough to save a life in the bitter cold of the east.
People die in front of empty homes they aren’t allowed to enter simply because no one owns them yet.
People are dying because the rich would rather homes stay empty and dilapidate than have said homes save the lives of the poor.
Instead of utilizing the abundant homes and housing infrastructure we already possess, folks are forced to waste their money doing shit like this:
because despite being more expensive and less efficient, housing people for a night in one of the worst polar vortexes we’ve seen in years is more legal than paying for heating in more long-term solutions.
It would literally be cheaper to set up another homeless shelter with heating than continue to do something like this, but folks feel like their arms are turned, and this is the best they can do instead of battle with our legal infrastructure.
When people die in these metro areas, they’re dying in areas that hold more than enough homes and heating.
Capitalism kills folks for being poor, don’t forget that. This is a lethal system.
How many winters must me sit through and watch innocent people die because they couldn’t afford housing?
All the while we fight over building a wall whose cost could easily house the freezing homeless folks out east.
Why do we need “border security” when our government openly and willingly kills folks within the borders? Are they trying to trap us in here?
we spend on this over the homeless because our sociopolitical infrastructure makes it very difficult for the average individual to help their fellow person.
I really fucking hate this. I fucking hate this because when I was homeless two winters ago around this time of the year (2017), I lived in my car. And fuck it was so hard, it gets cold even IN my car at night. I had to triple up blankets… I can only imagine those without vehicles and are on foot and homeless. 😢 Shit, when I was homeless and I used to use the park’s bathroom to do my bidness, I used to run into the same homeless folks who frequented that same park as me… and god it is so fucked up, it is so fucking humiliating because that park was literally a block away from an affluent neighborhood 😥 it makes me damn cry just thinking about it… that neighborhood by the parkwhere I used to park my car at had BIG empty houses… I wouldn’t have known had Joseph not pointed it out that the folks who probably lived in those big houses were out of town …being homeless really changed me. Like it woke me the fuck up. If i, a person who worked her ass off in her early 20s and obtained 2 degrees, became homeless and is currently earning barely 10/hr (after taxes), then how can ignorant folks say shit like ““well if they’d gone to school and stopped being lazy then they wouldn’t be homeless” (heard plenty of people I used to know say that). It’s fucking ridiculous. Like this is fucking ridiculous.
i cant tell which is my favorite part. the frantic pulling of the hose as its getting sucked into the sky like a spaghetti noodle, the random “OH YEAH BABY!”, or the guy just chuckin a rock into the fire tornado at the end as if that’s gonna show it who’s boss
i first misread that caption as “horse sucked in by fire tornado” and i have to say i was very disappointed
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