• Rose Thorne(She/Her)@lemm.ee
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    19 days ago

    Always keep a couple crackheads. Also, make sure you filter your crackheads. You want the ones who’ll help you clean your garage for $10, not the ones who will clean out your garage for about $10 down at the pawn shop.

    Promote a positive environment, help turn the crackden into a crackhome.

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    19 days ago

    I lived in a run down part of town a few houses down from a crack/coke distributor in college and once a friend locked himself out of the car. Before we could even panic someone popped out with a hanger and opened it in like 30 seconds. Crisis averted!

    Also got pulled over on my own street regularly though (“you looked nervous”) and my dad almost got arrested when he was dropping off plants (cacti and flowers).

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    18 days ago

    That’s why you befriend them instead of scaring them away.

    Until the fact that you befriended them gets you fired because it scares your coworkers.

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      17 days ago

      There are some radical left-wing neighborhoods in Germany, that try to keep rents low by shooting into the air with blank firearms

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        I half-expected the German radical left-wing to keep rents low by shooting into the landlords with firearms.

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    17 days ago

    This one’s for every friend who got taken off the streets
    So the upper class could sleep, so the upper class could sleep
    I’ll miss the spraypaint and slashed tires.

    -Pat “the Bunny” Schneeweis

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    19 days ago

    What a dehumanizing way to talk about homeless people :/

    People you know, and yourself, could become homeless tomorrow. This dehumanization leads to violence against homeless people.

    They’re people too and they deserve a place to be. The solution to homelessness is not just moving them to another side of town, but among other things reducing the cost of apartments and houses.

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      Let’s assume this is real, if you are noisy to the point of bothering others and you happen to be spending your time on the street doing it, being called derogatory names is expected, irrespective of your home ownership status.

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        19 days ago

        The post is not just about calling people derogatory names, it is also about flying a drone with a voice message. When push comes to shove, the voice message is a threat of calling the police. Where are the crackheads going to go now ?

        They have no other place to be. So asking them to leave is just asking them to go to a new place, and then a new place after that and so on, while each day some of them die due to cold, violence and other accumulating factors.

        This is a systematic issue, and we need to fix the system and be compassionate, rather than just push poor people around.

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      19 days ago

      The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood.

      Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.

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          19 days ago

          In case you missed the reference, OP’s image suggests they’re a villain.

          I guess fiction cannot ever depict bad people because their intent dehumanizes <insert marginalized people>