Fuck tiny houses.
So, on an FB post with this link: 'Families come here to grieve': Pleas grow for Portland officials to address homeless camp outside cemetery', so I made the following comment:
Maybe if the city didn't uproot them every time they find somewhere out of the way to settle down, they wouldn't have to settle in places like this.
You know what would be cheaper in the long run than continually uprooting these people's lives and destroying what few belongings they have would be? GIVING THEM HOMES TO LIVE IN
Resulting in the following exchange:
Some numbskull: I agree, they made a very small number of tiny homes and those few were well received and the people who got them are doing much better. This needs to be done on a much larger scale.
Me: Tiny homes just contribute to the problem, while making liberals feel like they're helping when they aren't. Nobody sane wants to live in a box the size of a garden shed, especially not one that can be stolen because it's on wheels. And that's just for starters. The whole "tiny house" movement is just another case of liberals pretending they're helping to assuage their own guilt while getting to also not do anything actually helpful.
Honestly, between conservatives and liberals, at least conservatives don't even pretend that they don't care. Makes me glad to be a leftist.
Me: Heck, I live in an apartment big enough to hold two or three tiny houses in it, and I feel cramped in such a small space. I can't even begin to fathom how liberals can think homeless people want to live in a wooden box the size of my bedroom. Might as well staple two coffins together and call it a tiny house.
Me: "Today on Pretending To Help, we're going to build a tiny house from a coffin so that this homeless man has somewhere to sleep. And when he dies from hunger and depression from living in a literal box, the government can just nail the lid to the house and bury him at no extra cost to the government!"
Me: I mean honestly we consider mobile homes to be such trashy poverty life that everyone knows it sucks to live in one, and they're like two or three times the size of these idiotic "tiny houses."
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Granted, no reply yet. Will keep y'all updated though. This was cross-posted from https://alex-antonin.dreamwidth.org/339531.html
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Maybe if the city didn't uproot them every time they find somewhere out of the way to settle down, they wouldn't have to settle in places like this.
You know what would be cheaper in the long run than continually uprooting these people's lives and destroying what few belongings they have would be? GIVING THEM HOMES TO LIVE IN
Resulting in the following exchange:
Some numbskull: I agree, they made a very small number of tiny homes and those few were well received and the people who got them are doing much better. This needs to be done on a much larger scale.
Me: Tiny homes just contribute to the problem, while making liberals feel like they're helping when they aren't. Nobody sane wants to live in a box the size of a garden shed, especially not one that can be stolen because it's on wheels. And that's just for starters. The whole "tiny house" movement is just another case of liberals pretending they're helping to assuage their own guilt while getting to also not do anything actually helpful.
Honestly, between conservatives and liberals, at least conservatives don't even pretend that they don't care. Makes me glad to be a leftist.
Me: Heck, I live in an apartment big enough to hold two or three tiny houses in it, and I feel cramped in such a small space. I can't even begin to fathom how liberals can think homeless people want to live in a wooden box the size of my bedroom. Might as well staple two coffins together and call it a tiny house.
Me: "Today on Pretending To Help, we're going to build a tiny house from a coffin so that this homeless man has somewhere to sleep. And when he dies from hunger and depression from living in a literal box, the government can just nail the lid to the house and bury him at no extra cost to the government!"
Me: I mean honestly we consider mobile homes to be such trashy poverty life that everyone knows it sucks to live in one, and they're like two or three times the size of these idiotic "tiny houses."
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Granted, no reply yet. Will keep y'all updated though. This was cross-posted from https://alex-antonin.dreamwidth.org/339531.html
You can comment either here or there.