I’m chilling in the parking lot of the gym right now and it’s very apparent that there is a couple next to me living in their car. At first I thought they were just getting it on - she brushed her teeth and they both leaned their seats back. But I, being the confused creeper I am, looked through my car window again only to realize they’re sleeping. Then it hit me.
They’re living in their fucking car in a gym parking lot.
I don’t know why I’m hit so hard by this, I’m sure you all see it often, but fuck. It makes me sad.
Radicalization points +100
I don’t know why I’m hit so hard by this
Cause you’re a human being with empathy? Never let yourself think it’s ‘weird’ to find this sort of thing horrifying. Or as someone much more eloquent said: “If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.”
Ahh, Che.
Yes, you’re right. It is fucked. I’ve just been told off by my friends sometimes like “yeah dude that’s life” or other shit like that so I’m always hesitant to call it like it is
“yeah dude that’s life”
I hate that so much. No it’s not life. You’re not living that way, I’m not living that way and neither of us would accept if we were suddenly living that way. I understand, because it’s a sort of learned helpness in a way I guess, but it still makes my blood boil because it is direct hostility towards those people.
I like to imagine everyone going ‘okay!’ making them switch all their belongings with those of the homeless person and see how ‘normal’ they think it is then.
Your friends are liberals I presume? I hear the same nonsense from my family. There is no ‘that’s just life’ - no innate, immutable state to which human experience is perpetually bound. These supposed facts of reality are very much an intentional state of affairs, and one that can be changed and, insha’allah, will be.
I bet that both of them were just thinking, ‘Thank God that I live in a neoliberal democracy based on two‐party rule and supply side economics right now and not somewhere with a centrally planned economy.’
it’s homelessness - intentional or not. there’s a lot of factors at play. some folks like to blame landlords but the way I figure it, if you live in an area that you cant afford you’ll eventually end up sleeping in a car outside of a gym - or on a slab of cardboard in an alley.
you have to remember too that some people choose to live that sort of lifestyle - like retirees who tour the country in RV’s, they’re just not in an RV yet.
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if you had to choose between a shelter and a vehicle though?
Living in a shelter still counts as homelessness
No one chooses to be homeless. You don’t sleep in your car outside a gym by choice. Having a cheap gym membership is a common survival tactic for people in that position. Gives them access to showers and bathrooms. These are not the “retire to a camp ground with my RV” types.
The reality is, our society chooses to allow that level of poverty to be maintained.
They way I see it, I sincerely hope you never end up homeless.
