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Nathan 🏳️🌈
Macfarlanatic@nathan I was a homeless person, now living in a HUD apartment....not finding that amusing.
Druhim 🦀☭🐙@macfarlanatic why would you think this was meant to be amusing? It's just stating a fact that working class people literally share more material interests with you than with the capital class and all the bourgeoise politicians who serve them in both parties.
💐 🏖 🌺 𝕂𝕚𝕂𝕚@macfarlanatic @nathan Don’t think it was intended to be amusing.
Homeless people are not a scourge on the earth. Billionaires just might be. 🤷♂️
Homeless people are not a scourge on the earth. Billionaires just might be. 🤷♂️
Joe Cluxton@ZeKik @macfarlanatic @nathan well if it’s not meant to be funny who is the “you” that it’s aimed at because it certainly isn’t me .
@joecluxton @ZeKik @macfarlanatic What's your problem? I'm not guessing why you're mad at a factual statement.
@ZeKik @nathan @macfarlanatic I’m not mad at the statement I’m asking who it’s aimed at or who it applies too when you say “ you have more in common”
@joecluxton @ZeKik @macfarlanatic Literally everyone? You're closer to being homeless than you are to becoming a billionaire. Homelessness can affect any of us for any number of reasons. Many people are one paycheck away from being homeless. Yet some people choose to kiss the feet of billionaires because they believe they too can achieve immoral amount of wealth and they achieved it by being smart when in reality they exploit people closer to homelessness.
It's not difficult to understand.
@nathan @ZeKik @macfarlanatic Right so it’s 1 a.m. here I’ll bid you good night and leave you to dream on .
Giant@ZeKik @nathan @macfarlanatic it’s almost as if you were listening in to the conversation I was just having with my brother. This is it exactly. You nailed it, man. Homelessness can affect any of us, and will for sure affect many of us. Anything can happen; it doesn’t take much. They are us, we are them.
On the flip side, neither i nor anyone I know will ever be a billionaire. Watching workers and poor folks stick up for the rich is very sad.
On the flip side, neither i nor anyone I know will ever be a billionaire. Watching workers and poor folks stick up for the rich is very sad.
Octavia con Amore@joecluxton
@ZeKik @macfarlanatic @nathan
The intended audience is the temporarily-embarrased-billionaire that's all too common in the US. They defends billionaires when they exploid all of us but have 0 sympathy for the homeless/houseless people. This particular phrasing is generally a solidarity thing, i.e. it's not workers vs homeless, it's the rich wealth/resource hoarders vs the rest of us.
@ZeKik @macfarlanatic @nathan
The intended audience is the temporarily-embarrased-billionaire that's all too common in the US. They defends billionaires when they exploid all of us but have 0 sympathy for the homeless/houseless people. This particular phrasing is generally a solidarity thing, i.e. it's not workers vs homeless, it's the rich wealth/resource hoarders vs the rest of us.
Gemma M@joecluxton @ZeKik @macfarlanatic @nathan I am afraid to say that nobody is ever that far. It has happened to very well established people, people get bankrupted all the time, and then it's an unstoppable ball downhill.. nobody will want you near fearing you to beg them or steal them.. try living with any backing warranty to be able to rent a housing, etc, etc... Sorry to give you the terrifiying picture but it is necesary to know that people in that situation aren't any different from you. 🤨
@macfarlanatic Yeah no you've completely misunderstood.
Andy Pellew@nathan... And to a billionaire the difference would be indistinguishable - if they even took the time to care and attempt to distinguish between the two
Little Rascal 🏴☠️@nathan to quote Marjane Satrapi:
"The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you.
And our governments are very much the same."
anakita [MUWDWED]
Zigga 🏳️🌈♦️♠️❤️♣️@nathan sad but true
margeois
camifili@nathan we're closer to the homeless than we are to the billionaire, but we prefer to think we're middle class... bfff
@nathan "middle class" being have enough money to pass the month
Wiley@nathan true. Most people don’t realize (or accept the reality) that they are just a month or two from being homeless, when they believe they’re just a few good months away from being a billionaire (or even a millionaire).
Sure, windfalls can and do happen, however that’s not the case for the majority of people.
Ty Ross
PokÉryn@nathan Jokes on you, I am the homeless person!
…wait.
Astraldad@nathan ain’t that the truth.
Profane Mystic@nathan I read this with a “For Whom the Bell Tolls” vibe. Why do we learn and worship the names of billionaires, but won’t look a person without a home in the eye? It may be not much that a homeless person cares _for you_ but it’s not much a stretch to my mind that it’s still more than a billionaire does…
dafnis@nathan in terms of money I'm indistinguishable from a homeless person when compared to a billionaire. In terms of privilege and general quality of life I couldn't disagree more.
@dafnis It's not about that. Read the other replies.
@nathan and when homeless people are blamed of being alcoholic or drug adiccted, they have all the common with quite a bunch of billionaires. So, how come? 🤨
Piggleston Pecanpants@nathan Well duh. I used to be homeless.
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