Exactly. This headline is inaccurate garbage. It should be something like “Trump blames Iran” + preferably “without evidence”

How very charitable of you.

He’s not weird.

I get your frustration. “Why won’t they accept our help dammit” is a common refrain. But it’s one that assumes that (a) homelessness is a simple matter of not being housed and (b) housed people understand the appropriate solutions. In fact not being housed is mostly a symptom and the issues at play are much more complex, ranging from lack of opportunity and generational poverty to substance and mental health issues.

And it’s also a cause… of shame, guilt, more mental health issues, more substance abuse. Often these mix in with the preconditions that come with offers of “help” to make it impossible to say yes.

I have refused housing because I didn’t think I could live up to the obligations it came with. I’ve refused housing because it was clearly unsafe. And I’ve refused housing simply because I was suffering from severe untreated depression and couldn’t handle being around people or even just accepting help.

So the truth is that yes, no one wakes up and chooses homelessness… but it’s important to understand that the lack of housing is only one component of homelessness. I didn’t choose to be born trans & gay and have to deal with all the mental health and societal issues that came with that. But I choose to not being housed at times because that was the only way I could even attempt to heal and deal with it safely and on my terms.

“And now, for our next trick, we will proceed to criminalizing poverty!”

“The proof is that there isn’t any proof”

Sums it up beautifully. I am so stealing this. Thank you!

It’s not too late to swap him out. Eric Trump would be a big step up!

Yeah, Nebula is quite good. Really like Curiosity Stream too… I subscribe to both.

But alas, most channels I follow are Youtube only and not likely to change :(

Sorry who are you?

But do you have a viable alternative in your back pocket?

Clearly YOU can’t

Comrade! You are in danger of a serious reprimand. Tidy Bear is on his way to your apartment now to ensure that your mission objectives are VERY clear. вы понимаете?

The fairest behaviour

Are you new here?

My biggest concern are the people who won’t vote for her based on her gender or race.

Agree with you broadly. Yet… this type of concern is exactly why we end up with candidates like Biden. I say at this point pedal to the metal, let’s go all in and make it stick. For me she’s progressive enough given that no electable candidate will be as progressive as I’d like.

There is legitimate criticism which is substantive and specific. And then there is the “I don’t know what it is, but there’s something about her I just don’t like” which invariably and (to me at least) is quite obviously a gut reaction against strong-minded, intelligent and bold women.

Hillary Clinton got both. I’ve yet to see any substantive criticism of Harris… it’s all been in the latter vein. Like literally “she’s just not likable”.

Why? Is it the woman thing?

Harris is even more unlikeable than a corpse and hrc, so the DNC will likely settle on her.

Why?

She’s a shit candidate and has 0 chance of winning against Trump.

Zero percent eh? Which polls are you averaging to get that number?

“Because reasons!”

Her approval numbers are pretty terrible.

Well, she is an uppity woman, after all.

/s