Saw a TikTok about some woman asking why men have to disturb the peace of a Saturday or Sunday morning by mowing their lawn or using a leaf blower, and you would’ve thought she went on a bigoted rant by the comment section. Like damn she was just talking about how it would be nice to enjoy a peaceful morning and random commenters took it as a personal attack. Shit you not I truly believe some suburbanites would go to war over their lawn the way they treat it like a fortress to a castle.
Is this not extremely silly when you type it all out? Time is a circle and I feel like I’m a peasant under feudalism watching kings, nobles and knights protect their land like it’s under some type of threat
When homeless, would look at open spaces, abandoned buildings, and think what a waste. I would understand about homeless encampment, more understanding, found self getting way more tolerant. More forgiving. I actually got excited when seeing homeless people on streets being resourceful, building communities.
This year, finally got an studio apt. Rent controlled, many people here, including me working to recover from homelessness.
My case manager came to my apt to fix my window. I’m on the back apt building. Love location cuz it looks onto a fenced in property, undeveloped, just trees.
He looked at the space. And said what a waste, so many homeless people could be housed there.
I said, no way, then it’d get crowded, filthy, crime. It’d ruin my peace. Then I stopped. Realized, how little it took for me to go to the darkside.
we also don’t need to sacrifice more undeveloped green spaces to house everyone. that lot should be expropriated into a public space and the “filth and crime” should be averted by meeting the material needs of people so they don’t do antisocial things like litter or have to steal.
the littering would be especially easy to deal with as you really only need to provide convenient public bins around. It’s like how public defecation is a lack of public toilets. These are both such basic problems to solve
I think it’s important in that narrative that you did stop and think about that impulse. Yes, we’re extremely sensitive to the means by which our needs are met. But we’re also sensitive to our own pasts, our cultures, our relationships, etc. There are good reasons class traitors existing. There are also many good reasons to remember to be kind. I feel like that gets left out of talks about how people’s ideology relates to their position.