• UnequalExchange@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Serious question how often do you talk to homeless people or to peoplee who you suspect to be homeless? Also what do you talk about with them . I wanma brighten their days after I give them money but when I talk to them my brain goes blank cause I have nothing iseful to tell them…

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      5 days ago

      i live in central europe and we don’t have the same extent of homelessness crisis as seems to be currently going on in america. there is still homeless people here but it’s far fewer and there’s often good services available that people could use, but for one reason or another don’t use.

      so yeah, i do talk to homeless people sometimes but not a lot. sometimes i give them 2€ or sth but typically (when we meet on the street) they move on quickly and i don’t really know what to talk about with them anyways. i do however sometimes go to anarchist meetups etc where there are also people who are unemployed, almost-homeless etc and i do talk more to them then.

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        5 days ago

        well ya of course they would be anarchists. Bordering on homelessness, like me, tends to lead to a person discovering just how bullsh1te this genocidal Ponzi Scheme we got going on is

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          5 days ago

          eh, i’m not sure what came first: the anarchy or the almost-homelessness. i actually suspect, in many cases, the anarchy. (and i respect them for that, staying true to their principles)

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            5 days ago

            you could be right. I rarely ask commies and annarchists what their ‘Origin Story’ was lol. It was the opposite for me though lol