(06-01-2022, 03:41 PM)NightskyeB4Dawn Wrote: Those homes didn't look as bad as I thought they would. Those living on the streets live in less than humane conditions as well as unsanitary conditions, but the majority of them are there by choice.

I often work with those that are victims or homelessness, but a large number are homeless by choice, and will reject any assistance that comes with requirements, or changes in behavior.(1)

There are areas all over America that are considered ghettos but they are very small in comparison to whole. Most areas have programs that offer some kind of help, and those that take advantage of the help, fare well. Unfortunately, the majority are not victims, they are the result of poor judgment, mental impairment, and or substance abuse.

This has been the face of homelessness, but that face is changing rapidly. We are now having a large increase in the number of working poor. I am hoping that the working poor will realize that they are backing the wrong horse, and I hope that they will use their intelligence and buying power to their advantage, instead of just following the crumbs being scattered by government.

Personally I would rather eat tree bark and grasshoppers, than the poop meat, and the soylent green the government is planning for our future.(2) If we have any hope of surviving this insanity and the coming Mad Max Thunderdome, we had better get ready now.

1. I have had the same experience. A gentleman I worked with last winter would have rather frozen to death than look after himself. Friends and family kept trying but he refused. What are you supposed to do? I do not feel sorry for him when multiple opportunities were presented.  

2. If you have any good grasshopper recipes, please let me know. 

(06-01-2022, 03:41 PM)NightskyeB4Dawn Wrote: Those homes didn't look as bad as I thought they would. Those living on the streets live in less than humane conditions as well as unsanitary conditions, but the majority of them are there by choice.

That one was the primer.  His videos (for me at least) are like watching a train wreck.  Hate seeing it ... Can't look away.

(06-01-2022, 09:21 PM)Snarl Wrote:

(06-01-2022, 03:41 PM)NightskyeB4Dawn Wrote: Those homes didn't look as bad as I thought they would. Those living on the streets live in less than humane conditions as well as unsanitary conditions, but the majority of them are there by choice.

That one was the primer.  His videos (for me at least) are like watching a train wreck.  Hate seeing it ... Can't look away.

I know there are people living in sad situations. I am just glad that this circumstances are still few enough that they draw interest. 

Wait until everything around you looks like this. 

Right now, most of the people in these situations have some responsibility in their homelessness. We are headed for a huge increase in the number of homeless, through no fault of their own.

Outside of trusting in a corrupt, deceitful, establishment that sees them as an unnecessary inconvenience.

(06-01-2022, 09:30 PM)NightskyeB4Dawn Wrote:

(06-01-2022, 09:21 PM)Snarl Wrote:

(06-01-2022, 03:41 PM)NightskyeB4Dawn Wrote: Those homes didn't look as bad as I thought they would.

That one was the primer.  His videos (for me at least) are like watching a train wreck.  Hate seeing it ... Can't look away.

Wait until everything around you looks like this.

I traveled behind the Iron Curtain to Poland and Czechoslovakia via train.  It was picture perfect desolation. Felt like an actor in a black and white movie, but everything was orderly and clean looking.

Some of the stuff he's filmed reminds me starkly of Haiti.  In Haiti, I wouldn't eat or drink anything that wasn't pre-packaged in America ... and no one was allowed to even brush up against me.  If there's a Hell on Earth ...

(06-01-2022, 09:42 PM)Snarl Wrote: I
traveled behind the Iron Curtain to Poland and Czechoslovakia via train.  It was picture perfect desolation. Felt like an actor in a black and white movie, but everything was orderly and clean looking.

Some of the stuff he's filmed reminds me starkly of Haiti.  In Haiti, I wouldn't eat or drink anything that wasn't pre-packaged in America ... and no one was allowed to even brush up against me.  If there's a Hell on Earth ...

My grandmother always used to say, "You may have an excuse for being poor, there is no excuse for being dirty."

(06-01-2022, 09:30 PM)NightskyeB4Dawn Wrote: I know there are people living in sad situations. I am just glad that this circumstances are still few enough that they draw interest. 

Wait until everything around you looks like this. 

Right now, most of the people in these situations have some responsibility in their homelessness. We are headed for a huge increase in the number of homeless, through no fault of their own.

Outside of trusting in a corrupt, deceitful, establishment that sees them as an unnecessary inconvenience.

Your "homeless" posts are starting to give me flashbacks to 1980's post-apocalyptic dystopian movies. Entire cities of nothing but folks in rags huddled around burn-barrels...

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(06-01-2022, 09:42 PM)Snarl Wrote: Some of the stuff he's filmed reminds me starkly of Haiti.  In Haiti, I wouldn't eat or drink anything that wasn't pre-packaged in America ... and no one was allowed to even brush up against me.  If there's a Hell on Earth ...

Yeah, Haiti is the very definition of third-world shit-hole. I think if you looked up "third world shit-hole" in Websters, you would find the entry "see Haiti". It's the only place I've ever seen humans making cookies or little cakes out of dirt and water, baking or frying them, and then eating them.

What's worse is that Haitians are now pouring across the southern border right along with all the other riff-raff. All I can say is they'd best stay away from my patch, 'coz I'll deport them straight to Kingdom Come, without paperwork. The government may not defend it's borders, but I will sure as hell defend mine.

I can get along with almost any one. I've been told that I could probably get along with Satan himself. But I've never met a Haitian I can get along with, and now I'm old enough and close enough to the grave that it ain't even worth the effort of trying. I've got nothing left to lose by putting them out of my misery.

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most people have no idea just how serious a situation can turn in a heartbeat.

Quote:Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?

(06-02-2022, 06:06 AM)727Sky Wrote: most people have no idea just how serious a situation can turn in a heartbeat.

Quote:Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?

I have always liked that from him. It is 100% true.

(06-02-2022, 06:06 AM)727Sky Wrote: most people have no idea just how serious a situation can turn in a heartbeat.

Quote:Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?

This is exactly what I keep reminding people of every chance I get.

If you are going to die any way, why not go out fighting, and under your own control.

You sure have a better chance of survival, even if that chance is small, if you fight back, than just lying there crapping in your undies.