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I'm gonna mute this one (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] 1 point 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

I'm literally homeless right now! I've been living in a van for 5 solid years. But no matter how bad things get, my dignity & self-respect & shame will NEVER allow me to stoop to panhandling. Standing on a corner with a cardboard sign would be utterly demoralizing, degrading, not to mention dangerous for a cute single vulnerable girl. Anyway panhandling is illegal in my state. Whenever one of those people pop up, the police swoop in damn quick. We simply don't see panhandlers anymore. There are resources available for the down-and-out. Sure, maybe not a cool easy $1k a day, but resources are available. I've used 'em all. With dignity slightly dented but ultimately intact.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    I'm literally homeless right now!

    Anyway panhandling is illegal in my state. Whenever one of those people pop up, the police swoop in damn quick. We simply don't see panhandlers anymore.

    ... then why is your pet peeve a thing you know doesn't happen?

    Oh, right, its because you view panhandling as just fundentally more immoral / less dignified than going to a food bank or whatever.

    Don't really see why, people tip people everyday, every damn grocery store asks you to round up to donate to a charity that mostly exists for tax write off purposes and has a terrible ratio of donations spent on admin overhead, e-begging / donation seeking is a whole entire phenomenon.

    But you apparently have either such strong personal views, or such a huge ego that needs to be better than others like you, that you decide to be bothered by a theoretical red herring that you actually know is bullshit.

    Sure dude, ok then.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    I live in a van therefore I've lived all over the country. I have seen panhandlers. In fact I used to give to them when I was young & naive. But rarely do I see panhandlers in my current California.

    To your other points, tipping low-paid service workers is traditional and plenty of customers despise it but at least those workers are WORKING.

    Grocery store checkout charity begs are ignored by 99.99% of the population. 0.01% of the population who donates to those things are idiots.

    You think I have issues. I bet you don't even see your own issues. Are you just a rage bait/engagement bait commenter?

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    Yep, you've seen panhandlers.

    How many of them did you meet who make:

    like $1,000 a day, when I earn less than that working 10x as hard at a real job.

    The answer is zero, but you are too full of yourself to admit that, because you think you are better than them.

    You're not.

    You're worse actually, because you're a liar, a proud one who won't admit it even when you've been caught.

    I have, entirely unironically, met and known meth and fentanyl addicts doing their damndest to get clean and go straight, who are better people than you.

    I am not a rage baiter, I am a bullshit detector.

    Streets ain't kind to bullshitters.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    What do you think I'm lying about?

    You need to fix your bullshit detector because it's clearly broken.

    Go ahead and keep thinking that people who take meth & fentanyl are better than someone like me who's never touched drugs or alcohol in my life because one of my earliest memories at age 4 was hearing my father come into the house staggering drunk & sounding all scary, and I made a decision at age 4 that I will never touch any mind-altering substance. I loved my dad, I was a daddy's girl and it shattered my heart & world to see him unwell & struggling. When I was 14 he took himself into rehab because he had discovered cocaine and it was destroying his life and career, and towards the end of his rehab they invited the family to come in for family group sessions and that's the first time I had cried in years. When I was 21 my dad was still struggling with alcohol & cocaine and he hung himself. I'm 50 years old now and I've remained a firm teetotaler because I know better.

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