Straight from the showers at RNC headquarters
Better shower thought: When the rich push the cost of housing high enough that a good portion of a society is one or two crises away from being homeless the best economic policy for fixing the situation is making the rich scared as fuck so whatever compromise we put on the table looks much more appealing than what the general public is threatening to do to the rich in the streets.
I’ve already had my one crisis. If I have another I’ll be fucked. Where do we start?
I think anything meaningful has to start from local mutual aid networks, creates connections with your neighbors under the assumption that we need to take care of each other, we can’t assume the system will be functional.
Even if your goal isn’t directly to organize locally, it is a prerequisite to getting pretty much anything meaningful done (which I kind of hate because when people call it “organizing” they aren’t kidding, and I hate organizing things lol) because whatever meaningful thing you want to happen will inevitably be implemented on a human level through those local connections.
Not really something i would aspire to. Spent my childhood couch surfing and living in my moms green stationwagon. Not something to brag about in any view
what if the one thing you’d be good at objectively sucks?
The real shower thought: Some thoughts are better than others.
I have this thought regularly. I realize. I’m too industrious. I’d be so great at being homeless I’d end up with a home…
“Too industrious” to be homeless sounds like nonsense victim-blaming to me. Homeless people aren’t all lazy, and lazy people definitely aren’t all homeless. It’s a societal failing, not a personal one.
Speaking from experience I was terrible at it. I was very good at being similar to Diogenes, but I can’t sleep well without a bed and it makes me bitchy
If you’re housed I’ll trade you my current situation so you can test that for yourself.
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barrellarge ceramic jar?In this economy, in this part of the city, where continuously existing outside is illegal?
You can be a famously witty cynic without living in a barrel.
