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There are those whom, no doubt, want me to advocate, and make excuses for the poor behaviour they show towards their countrymen. They seek for me to advocate hatred, anger, to say that harassment of minorities and majorities both - or perhaps more importantly, other human beings, is alright. They want to know that their campaign of dehumanization is okay, for me …
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You are judged by how you treat those you regard as below you, and in this, modern progressivism has been judged and found wanting.
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@hybotics So quickly have the same people who pretend to speak for me by virtue of my being a lesbian, or woman, or disabled, have turned on me the moment I disagreed with them. They don't speak for me, I do. And I am not willing to accept anything else. I fought for years for the right to be treated like a goddamned human being having grown up in a time less a…
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@hybotics If you don't mind my asking, where are you from? Here in Canada, that would not be allowed if it constituted a health hazard.
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@hybotics I am not well-versed in Californian law but given their many restrictions and labelling requirements for things considered health hazards I can only imagine the law is on your side. Here's hoping.
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@hybotics Yeah a lot of the time even when the law protects you it can't stop a landlord from being a dick.
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@hybotics I get like that when things brush up against my PTSD so while it's for a different reason I can understand entirely. I can be forgiving (at least in retrospect I suppose) of someone who unintentionally and unknowingly does something that does so, since I can't expect everyone I interact with to even know I have PTSD let alone what triggers it, but people …
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@hybotics Probably, since that sounds like unlawful detention to me.
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@hybotics If you don't want to be there and you haven't committed a crime, you generally can't be detained unless you consent to it. But the finer points of this vary greatly from state to state and I'm not a lawyer.
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@hybotics Ive been homeless but it was when I was much younger. Coming out to my parents went .. not so well.
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@hybotics Geez, I don't even know what to say to that. It's not a pleasant situation. Being a young woman on the streets of the big city wasn't either, for different reasons. But no one seems to care about the homeless these days :/
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@hybotics That is very good of them. I'm glad you had that help at least. I had basically nothing, until my elder sister found out what happened to me. That was a long winter, and Canadian winters aren't kind, either.
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@hybotics I make a point now every winter of going through my wardrobe and donating the stuff I no longer need to the local shelter. Paying it back and paying it forward, you know?
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@hybotics I used to volunteer there when I was able to but last christmas I had to have my right leg amputated at the knee and I'm just starting to be able to properly get about on it with a prosthetic. I might anyways. We'll see. Don't want to push it and fuck up my recovery or something.
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@strypey @hybotics Mine was a complicated affair but to sum it up basically comes down to "things rapidly went to shit when I came out to my parents as a lesbian"
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@hybotics @strypey There were a lot of people who thought to try to take advantage of me when I was on the streets. I didn't go anywhere without a weapon. I'm a tiny woman.
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@hybotics @strypey Geez that's terrible :c I had to keep my backpack close, but never had anything major stolen. Food a couple times but not in any situation where I was going to starve or something, thank goodness.
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@strypey @hybotics This wasn't when I was homeless, but I've had my cane stolen more times than I can count.
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@hybotics @strypey We develop technologies to fix the problems we cannot bother ourselves as persons about.
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@hybotics @strypey Ive only been able to live relatively "well" by living in the middle of nowhere and being willing to lend a hand to the harvest. It's out of yesteryear (and so is the internet), but I wouldn't trade the sense of community for the world. When I was on food stamps, the stuff the food bank gave me was a weeks worth of food and I was supposed to mak…
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@hybotics @strypey I doubt the high-flighting startup capitalists of the world with their millions and Silicon Valley mansions care too much about us :/
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@ninjabuttocks @strypey @hybotics I can't say my own experience has been a tremendously good inspiration in that point, sorry. But I hope whatever does happen there for you goes better than it did for me.
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