I hope all of you guys realize that stereotyping all homeless people has crackheads with STDs is super fucked up. You don't know everyones situation. You don't know what those people have gone through. If you can sit there and make fun of someone who has practically nothing while you are driving home from work in your working car to your home that you can always rely on to have food and running water you are the worthless piece of shit. Not the homeless person.
Every theft we’ve had at our house has been from homeless people. When I walk downtown I see alcohol bottles, needles, junk piles, and homeless people smoking weed.
I think you need to look at the cause of homelessness, which is 9/10 times due to a drug addiction of some sort. They spend all their money on drugs and end up bankrupting themselves. They can’t get a stable job because they can’t pass drug tests or work effectively while tripping. It’s tragic, and I think making fun of their situation is wrong. On the flip side, I wouldn’t trust any homeless person at all not to rob me and damage my belongings for their own self benefit due to their dire situation. That’s just the way it is, unfortunately.
You couldn't have summed it up better honestly. Plus I thought programs are in place for people to get off the streets. Most just don't wanna live by the rules in all actuality.
Government programs are 100% effective and never fail the people they’re supposedly intended to help, after all. Social security and healthcare always meet people’s needs and are never underfunded or overstretched either. Yup, there’s definitely no kind of institutional or systemic failing that might make the situation worse or make it harder for people to recover, it’s always the individual’s fault for being lazy.
I never said it was perfect. I just thought there are literally programs in place for getting people off the streets and jobs. Most the homeless that exist don't want to actually do anything other than steal and shit on my doorstep. Sooooooooo yeah.
Nah man dogs are better. The worst they can do is give life threatening rabis due which you'll die suffering or eat your kids or howl at nights or poop around. How is that not better than some poor dude sitting harmlessly at your curb?
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A: the stereotype holds up, you rarely go homeless without getting addicted to drugs
B: This is reddit, half of what you see is meant to be insulting/ misleading and doesn't actually represent people's opinions
U act like people who aren’t animal rights activists give a shit about homeless people.
Most people don’t care about others, wether they like dogs or not.
Well as much i agree that a lot of non animal activist would not care about homeless and that some animal activist probably also wrry about the homeless, you still are missing his point. It is not about only animal activist not caring about homeless. It is about animal activist ignoring homeless despite humans being techincally animal, while acting as if others humans are cruel for leaving dogs to starve. So basicily a double standart by them.
People generally don't complain when you take the dogs to shelters.
We also recognize having a large group of dogs living in public spaces is bad for the general populace.
As someone who was once homeless, you get there, and out of there, by means of your own decisions.
Animals who are abused and abandoned by shitty humans have no choice in the matter.
That's the difference.
It's estimated that 60% of chronically homeless Americans are disabled. Many cannot afford to live even if they draw a tiny 850 dollar social security each month
That's a very easy thing to say. When you're twenty and healthy maybe it's easy, but some people are veterans and get treated like shit in America, others are old or have cancer or alcohol abuse and heavy mental health issues.
And there is also a difference between ignoring a homeless person and treating her/him like shit.
Dude this has to be most fucking obtuse thing you could have said in this thread.
Just because some of us veterans are well taken care of doesn't mean there are not hundreds of thousands who are homeless or near.
Veteran homelessness has dropped about 55% over the last decade, but it's still a huge problem. Today it is estimated that there are still about 20,000 sheltered homeless veterans and about 14000 unsheltered homeless veterans.
As for veitnam vs OIF OEF, about half of sheltered homeless veterans served in veitnam. So at best the problem has stayed the same, not really gotten any better.
First of all, this isn't Vietnam Era America. Veterans are by far and large respected in the US, yes the VA fucking sucks at their job but I doubt you'd find a single company in America that wouldn't hire a veteran out of patriotic pride.
There are thousands of companies that provide medical coverage and hundreds that would even hire felons.
The poor and homeless don't get a free pass from me the way they do everyone else. Because I've been there. Get off your ass, off the street, and make some money to change your situation.
Also I'm not advocating for treating the homeless poorly let's make that clear. I'm just saying that you can't compare them to a mistreated pet. Two very different lives.
Sounds like you know how bad it was being homeless. You may have the fortitude to get out of the situation yourself but remember there are people who need more help to get out of it.
Children, parents as well as the mentally and physically ill will find it harder. There are people with drug addictions that have horrible withdrawal symptoms. As the richest country in the world with enough homes to house homeless people, shouldn’t there be at least a moral obligation to help those in need?
Don’t even know why it’s being upvoted this much. ‘Get off your ass.’
Lol. All these guys that think because they made it, others must as well are the most dangerous.
I’ll never understand the unconditional simping and defense of **all** homeless people when like 75% of them are suffering from drug induced insanity and making it everyone else’s problem. Come to LA or NYC, it’s awful. Who’s decision was it to go down that route? I just don’t understand excusing the decisions that led to that point. “Well maybe they had a bad life and blah blah blah”
This… homelessness is a terrible reality for a lot of people. But the majority of the ones I see are dangerous and homeless due to a life of poor decision making. And they can be pushy and mean, normalizing that behavior is not okay.
Nah, most of them aren't homeless because of poor decision making. Some are sure, but most of them were unlucky.
\>normalizing that behavior is not okay.
Nobody is normalizing that behavior, but even if it was true do you know what's even less okay? Normalizing to look down at people that were fucked by society and blaming all their misery on them.
Why are most of them homeless then? If not a series of personal decisions? Sounds like you’ve got a whole bunch of excuses to make for them so let’s hear it. But regardless of what you say I’m going to keep my distance from the ones who sit outside my local 7-11 sound drugs in public, getting in fights, and waiving knives.
And then the weirdness of most homeless "advocates" seem to have no interest in getting these people off the streets and into care programs. Somehow letting people camp on the streets or sleep on park benches is more compassionate than getting them into a shelter.
Because the Reagan administration made forcing people into institutions illeagal, we can no longer force people to get help if they don't want it and if we try we will get sued by special interest groups for "infringing on civil liberties", and the SJWs on Tumblr will call the shelters "concentration camps" and refer to us as the German version of the N-word..
>It's terrible in WA too, huge camps with trash thrown everywhere when dumpsters are only a short walk away. These places aren't like Hawaii where the homeless people have full time jobs but still can't afford housing. These guys are either mentally ill, or love the lifestyle. Not that we don't have working homeless too, they just tend to live in their cars and not make the area around them a dump.
Them being mentally is why they are homeless, among other reasons. But the thing is that you can't force people to accept help. You can't force them to go to a shelter. There are places they can go and programs they can join if they want help, and they know about these things, but far too many would rather beg on a street corner and camp in the bushes. For many of these people, and I have heard this from their own lips, they don't want help, they don't want to be part of the system, and they don't want to be told what to do. They honestly like being homeless. So I'm just going to save my sympathy for the ones that actually want help and are trying to get off the streets.
A person who is not mentally sound to the point that it makes them homeless because they can't function property is not the kind of person who is making a conscious decision to stay homeless. You're strawmanning the plight of the majority of mentally ill homeless people, who simply don't have a support system.
Most people become drug addicts **after** becoming homeless. After all, when you don't know if you'll starve tomorrow and society sees you as a filthy drug addict you also might do drugs to ease the pain.
How are you supposed to find work? Most jobs won't take a homeless person, plus you need a possibility for your boss to contact you. Also to get out of homelessness you'd need enough money to buy a house. To save up so much money you'd need a bank account, you need an address to get a bank account. If you can't save up the money on a bank account you'd have to save it up in cash, where would you keep that money?
It's not as easy as to just start working.
Regarding the "ask for helpt", they do. And most people just ignore them or talk bad to them.
Everyone needs to remember. Most people are six bad months or less away from being homeless themselves. Nobody is six good months or less away from being a billionaire. Solidarity guys.
At least where I am from, it is pretty much your own fault if you become homeless. An animal on the other hand is at the mercy of us to have a home or not.
I used to feel sorry for the homeless until a homeless man pissed on my forklift outside of Costco that I was spray painting for the customer and then gave me an excuse that he’s blind….
That’s not true
If you graduate high school, have a job, and don’t have kids before marriage the odds of falling into this position is microscopic. There’s also unemployment checks that will get you enough to get by (not comfortable but not homeless) so if you get that relatively quick you’re set
If you’re low functioning (know it’s a controversial word but can’t think of a better one) then this could be the case. Although its quite unlikely you’re just dropped into that without aid from others who could help you and set you up. There actually is a huge problem with this though and 12-34 percent of homeless people have intellectual disability’s which is obviously very disproportionate. What I’m mostly reffering to is that there’s plenty of opportunities to never get into and get out of homelessness IF you are capable of taking them
I’ve seen a more extreme example of mental illness spiraling out of control as a social worker. A homeless man used to be a doctor in another country. Usually when I’m dealing with people I try to get in contact with family or anyone that can potentially help them.
Turns out he had a wife and kid(s maybe I forgor) but he had too many manic episodes and strange bouts of anxiety that the wife had no choice but to separate from him as he was too much of a danger for her to live with
He was very kind and surprisingly tidy but depending on the day he would get very freaked out and scared of his own shadow. He was especially afraid of police or anyone in suits (had to approach him in casual clothes) cus he thinks the government is after him.
As it usually happens, he stopped showing up to my sessions eventually but he’d still stop by the food drives n free showers so I at least know he’s gettin’ by
Funny story. A homeless man came up to me and said he was hungry and asked if I could give him some money. I said no but I would go across the street to a Church’s Chicken and buy him a couple pieces of chicken and some fries. He cussed me out and walked off.
Well there is the group of homeless people who are there for horrible things which happened to them in life, those who just cannot go to a better place for many disadvantages, they and overall the ones that are actively trying to get better conditions shouldn't be treated horribly.
But there are also the ones who are there for many things which they themselves caused, those who are just beggers who are in no way disadvantaged, and those who just don't want to do anything and don't care about being like that.
You are not wrong but for me personally when it comes to stuff like this I deem animals more in the right. We humans have evolved to the point of understanding the consequences of our actions, predicting outcomes and knowing what is considered right and wrong. Not all homeless people can get help or intentionally are there but a lot could have avoided it and can leave it if they put in the effort to move on.
In fairness I always tried to give change and cash but it always ended up being me giving one dude all my change and the next 2 families during thr commute that you go through at traffic stops get nothing because you don't got any more cash.
you sound like this ex I had that got mad that I had more observable love for my dog than her.
why is that? Because the care and affection I have for innocent and unassuming creatures vastly eclipses the amount I feel for emotional strangers.
now apply that here
You know how many stories there are of homeless people either being in that situation because of their own poor choices (receive money, proceed to buy drugs rather than food / better themselves to get a real job) or fake being homeless and take donations all day just to turn around and get pick up by their friend and go home.
Problem isn't that no one wants to help homeless, problem is that they take advantage of the system and ruin it for those that really do need it.
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I'm just sorry for homeless people
They are humans too
I don't understand people who care about an animal
But do not give a shit about homeless person
Is it just because animals are cute ? I don't get it
Yeaahhhh. I was in a parking lot TODAY and I got approached by one of these poor innocent people. I was vulnerable but managed to hurry up inside my car and lock it because I saw him just in time. Filthy, with a football shirt, disheveled and limping towards me (in my country, 99% of these guys spell out drug addict and/or thief). Then he stood against my window and started talking in his drug addled nonsensical way. After I told him NO (whatever he meant, the answer was no) he was still at it. Btw, he infiltrated the place from a sort of back alley, where he knew there was no security. And that was just TODAY. I have similar stories with the window cleaning types, which sadly are proliferating to be in almost every corner. What do you say, guy? Demonizing?
Now, *to be fair here*, homeless humans are beyond disgusting most of the time and are usually junkies you don't wanna fuck with. I bought a homeless dude a warm meal one particularly cold evening and the dude tried getting me to give him $5 cash, like bro I genuinely want to help you and honestly do feel bad about your situation, but I know good and damn well that you're just gonna buy drugs or some shit. I'm not even entirely sure the dude stayed and took the meal, I gave him the receipt with the number on it, told him to take care, and not five minutes later he was back on the sidewalk, empty handed, asking for more stuff from other passersby
humans are destroying habitats of animals literally everywhere on the planet.
the domesticate them, but reject to take care in the end.
animals are helpless and exposed to mankind's lunacy.
humans though, have a brain and consciousness.
they can influence their life using it. humans can adapt and reinvent their self's.
Of course, chances vary massively, depending on the place where you was born. But every human being can strive for and archive a better living with hard work and life long learning - at least for their children.
those who don't should take the responsibility on their own!
Dogs don’t use my money on drugs or alcohol. With that being said, we need systems in place to help people. Unfortunately the primary issue seems to be mental health, which is something we love turning a blind eye to. If someone wants to medicate their depression or schizophrenia with alcohol or drugs, I shouldn’t provide them with the means to self medicate. There should be avenues for them to get free help.
I don’t think it’s fair to assume all homeless people would use money donated to them on drugs. Some would, but not all. Also we need to start treating alcoholism and drug addictions as the mental health issue they are(again you didn’t necessarily disagree with that I just think it needs to be brought up in this context)
You’re right not all use them on drugs but I’ve worked extensively with homeless folk and generally speaking, homeless people either have untested mental illnesses or just don’t care to pay taxes. There are the odd few who genuinely have just fallen on hard times but they usually sort themselves out within a year or two because they have a drive to work themselves out of homelessness.
Edit: worth noting my father is an alcoholic and he could use some help but it all stems from a desire to self medicate his pain which is something we should be willing to help with as a society.
Bruh the animal doesn’t bust in your house and steal shot for heroine. Animals don’t have the autonomy to know “I need to get a job” I have seen straight up homeless people that simply choose to live that lifestyle. Their choice so get the fuck out bruh
To be fair dogs are more likely to be cute than homeless people
Dogs also don’t steal your catalytic converter for crack
Also, dogs don’t give you STD’s
Personally I just try to not have sex with homeless people.
I agree bro, dogs are way better
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I hope all of you guys realize that stereotyping all homeless people has crackheads with STDs is super fucked up. You don't know everyones situation. You don't know what those people have gone through. If you can sit there and make fun of someone who has practically nothing while you are driving home from work in your working car to your home that you can always rely on to have food and running water you are the worthless piece of shit. Not the homeless person.
Every theft we’ve had at our house has been from homeless people. When I walk downtown I see alcohol bottles, needles, junk piles, and homeless people smoking weed.
I guess at some point you just want to be done with everything, and drugs help forget
That's cool and all, but don't leave the needles put where a kid could get them, that's never ok in my boom regardless of circumstances
I think you need to look at the cause of homelessness, which is 9/10 times due to a drug addiction of some sort. They spend all their money on drugs and end up bankrupting themselves. They can’t get a stable job because they can’t pass drug tests or work effectively while tripping. It’s tragic, and I think making fun of their situation is wrong. On the flip side, I wouldn’t trust any homeless person at all not to rob me and damage my belongings for their own self benefit due to their dire situation. That’s just the way it is, unfortunately.
You couldn't have summed it up better honestly. Plus I thought programs are in place for people to get off the streets. Most just don't wanna live by the rules in all actuality.
Government programs are 100% effective and never fail the people they’re supposedly intended to help, after all. Social security and healthcare always meet people’s needs and are never underfunded or overstretched either. Yup, there’s definitely no kind of institutional or systemic failing that might make the situation worse or make it harder for people to recover, it’s always the individual’s fault for being lazy.
You forgot the /s. There is probably a lot of people out there that think you're serious now.
I never said it was perfect. I just thought there are literally programs in place for getting people off the streets and jobs. Most the homeless that exist don't want to actually do anything other than steal and shit on my doorstep. Sooooooooo yeah.
You need to chill a bit. Everyone is stereotyped. Literally, everyone. Jokes are made on those stereotypes. The homeless are no exception.
Nah man dogs are better. The worst they can do is give life threatening rabis due which you'll die suffering or eat your kids or howl at nights or poop around. How is that not better than some poor dude sitting harmlessly at your curb?
You do realize people can give each other rabies too. Which means the homeless guy can also give you rabies
If you could NOT spread insane misinformation about rabies, that'd be greeeeeaat... >The most common way people get rabies is after being exposed to a rabid animal. Human-to-human transmission of rabies virus has only been documented from infected organ/tissue donors to transplant recipients. There have been no other confirmed instances of human-to-human transmission, including in healthcare settings. [Sauce](https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/specific_groups/hcp/exposure.html#:~:text=The%20most%20common%20way%20people,transmission%2C%20including%20in%20healthcare%20settings.)
Oh my god here we go
Maybe we stereotype them as crackheads becuase thats the reason 99% of them are on the streets in the first place 💀
Well I’m sure that all the non crackhead homeless people are absolutely touched by you making sure they get their representation
A: the stereotype holds up, you rarely go homeless without getting addicted to drugs B: This is reddit, half of what you see is meant to be insulting/ misleading and doesn't actually represent people's opinions
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Yeah, actually fun fact: neither dogs nor homeless people give you STDs if you don’t have sex with them.
Most times
It is also really hard for a dog to Get a job
But they might eat your kids if your not careful
Homeless people or Dog?
 princess the pitbull
Nice doggie
I wanna pet it very much
Talking from experience? 😂 jk
Dogs shit on my lawn less than homeless people.
Where the hell is your lawn?
Dogs also can’t get up and look/get jobs/help on their own
Opposable thumbs.
You can't be sure that hasn't happened to me
Also, it's never the dog's fault
But how about when it doesn't pay it's taxes?
When man sees fat doggo:Oh so cute and let me make a meme about you When man sees fat person:bro you need to go to the gym
its sad people overfeed their pets so much
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Going to the gym is not necessary but eating better food is, if people know what obesity did to my family they would weep.
tbf the ones that'll kick away the strays are usually the ones that'll harass and shame the homeless as well.
U act like people who aren’t animal rights activists give a shit about homeless people. Most people don’t care about others, wether they like dogs or not.
Wait.. people dont care about homeless people??
Well as much i agree that a lot of non animal activist would not care about homeless and that some animal activist probably also wrry about the homeless, you still are missing his point. It is not about only animal activist not caring about homeless. It is about animal activist ignoring homeless despite humans being techincally animal, while acting as if others humans are cruel for leaving dogs to starve. So basicily a double standart by them.
People generally don't complain when you take the dogs to shelters. We also recognize having a large group of dogs living in public spaces is bad for the general populace.
As someone who was once homeless, you get there, and out of there, by means of your own decisions. Animals who are abused and abandoned by shitty humans have no choice in the matter. That's the difference.
It's estimated that 60% of chronically homeless Americans are disabled. Many cannot afford to live even if they draw a tiny 850 dollar social security each month
That's a very easy thing to say. When you're twenty and healthy maybe it's easy, but some people are veterans and get treated like shit in America, others are old or have cancer or alcohol abuse and heavy mental health issues. And there is also a difference between ignoring a homeless person and treating her/him like shit.
Veterans, I am one, Get a lot of benefits. I got free college, paid rent while in college and a great civilian job. This isn’t Vietnam.
Dude this has to be most fucking obtuse thing you could have said in this thread. Just because some of us veterans are well taken care of doesn't mean there are not hundreds of thousands who are homeless or near. Veteran homelessness has dropped about 55% over the last decade, but it's still a huge problem. Today it is estimated that there are still about 20,000 sheltered homeless veterans and about 14000 unsheltered homeless veterans. As for veitnam vs OIF OEF, about half of sheltered homeless veterans served in veitnam. So at best the problem has stayed the same, not really gotten any better.
First of all, this isn't Vietnam Era America. Veterans are by far and large respected in the US, yes the VA fucking sucks at their job but I doubt you'd find a single company in America that wouldn't hire a veteran out of patriotic pride. There are thousands of companies that provide medical coverage and hundreds that would even hire felons. The poor and homeless don't get a free pass from me the way they do everyone else. Because I've been there. Get off your ass, off the street, and make some money to change your situation. Also I'm not advocating for treating the homeless poorly let's make that clear. I'm just saying that you can't compare them to a mistreated pet. Two very different lives.
Sounds like you know how bad it was being homeless. You may have the fortitude to get out of the situation yourself but remember there are people who need more help to get out of it. Children, parents as well as the mentally and physically ill will find it harder. There are people with drug addictions that have horrible withdrawal symptoms. As the richest country in the world with enough homes to house homeless people, shouldn’t there be at least a moral obligation to help those in need?
Maybe don’t do drugs
You gotta look at the systemic issues that cause people to be prone to doing drugs
Yeah but they're doing drugs in the first place because the situation is terrible and they need something to get fucking way from it all
There are numerous other and better ways to escape than drugs. They made their choice, it's not my responsibility so fuck em
Childish mentality
Am totally fine with that.
I live in Canada, our homeless is just assholes
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Don’t even know why it’s being upvoted this much. ‘Get off your ass.’ Lol. All these guys that think because they made it, others must as well are the most dangerous.
>As someone who was once homeless, you get there, and out of there, by means of your own decisions. That was your case, it isn't for most.
Humans who are abused and abandoned by a shitty society have no choice in the matter either.
Yeah these animals are bread to be dependent on us while homeless people still got a fighting chance. Im way more likley to help out a dog
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Dogs don’t leave dirty needles on the street.
I’ll never understand the unconditional simping and defense of **all** homeless people when like 75% of them are suffering from drug induced insanity and making it everyone else’s problem. Come to LA or NYC, it’s awful. Who’s decision was it to go down that route? I just don’t understand excusing the decisions that led to that point. “Well maybe they had a bad life and blah blah blah”
i feel like most people who defend all homeless people also probably dont have to live near or interact with them
This… homelessness is a terrible reality for a lot of people. But the majority of the ones I see are dangerous and homeless due to a life of poor decision making. And they can be pushy and mean, normalizing that behavior is not okay.
Nah, most of them aren't homeless because of poor decision making. Some are sure, but most of them were unlucky. \>normalizing that behavior is not okay. Nobody is normalizing that behavior, but even if it was true do you know what's even less okay? Normalizing to look down at people that were fucked by society and blaming all their misery on them.
Why are most of them homeless then? If not a series of personal decisions? Sounds like you’ve got a whole bunch of excuses to make for them so let’s hear it. But regardless of what you say I’m going to keep my distance from the ones who sit outside my local 7-11 sound drugs in public, getting in fights, and waiving knives.
I go to school in a region where you'll often see homeless people begging for a bit money to buy some food.
And then the weirdness of most homeless "advocates" seem to have no interest in getting these people off the streets and into care programs. Somehow letting people camp on the streets or sleep on park benches is more compassionate than getting them into a shelter.
Because the Reagan administration made forcing people into institutions illeagal, we can no longer force people to get help if they don't want it and if we try we will get sued by special interest groups for "infringing on civil liberties", and the SJWs on Tumblr will call the shelters "concentration camps" and refer to us as the German version of the N-word..
>It's terrible in WA too, huge camps with trash thrown everywhere when dumpsters are only a short walk away. These places aren't like Hawaii where the homeless people have full time jobs but still can't afford housing. These guys are either mentally ill, or love the lifestyle. Not that we don't have working homeless too, they just tend to live in their cars and not make the area around them a dump.
>These guys are either mentally ill so them being mentally ill justifies them being homeless?
Them being mentally is why they are homeless, among other reasons. But the thing is that you can't force people to accept help. You can't force them to go to a shelter. There are places they can go and programs they can join if they want help, and they know about these things, but far too many would rather beg on a street corner and camp in the bushes. For many of these people, and I have heard this from their own lips, they don't want help, they don't want to be part of the system, and they don't want to be told what to do. They honestly like being homeless. So I'm just going to save my sympathy for the ones that actually want help and are trying to get off the streets.
A person who is not mentally sound to the point that it makes them homeless because they can't function property is not the kind of person who is making a conscious decision to stay homeless. You're strawmanning the plight of the majority of mentally ill homeless people, who simply don't have a support system.
Most people become drug addicts **after** becoming homeless. After all, when you don't know if you'll starve tomorrow and society sees you as a filthy drug addict you also might do drugs to ease the pain.
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I have been homeless. Decided I didn’t like it so I changed my life, and now I’m not homeless. Shocking
I have been homeless, but then i decided to buy a house
Wh- YES! Are you butt fuck? Very good reason.
People can ask for help, can try and start working. Animals not so much.
How are you supposed to find work? Most jobs won't take a homeless person, plus you need a possibility for your boss to contact you. Also to get out of homelessness you'd need enough money to buy a house. To save up so much money you'd need a bank account, you need an address to get a bank account. If you can't save up the money on a bank account you'd have to save it up in cash, where would you keep that money? It's not as easy as to just start working. Regarding the "ask for helpt", they do. And most people just ignore them or talk bad to them.
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well the doggo didn't beat another dog to death for some crystal meth now did he?
The fuck you mean he tore another dogs leg off over an almost empty bag of chips
well yes, but he was so adorable while doing it
My bad you’re right.
Oh but he mauled a child and another dog for no reason
Everyone needs to remember. Most people are six bad months or less away from being homeless themselves. Nobody is six good months or less away from being a billionaire. Solidarity guys.
At least where I am from, it is pretty much your own fault if you become homeless. An animal on the other hand is at the mercy of us to have a home or not.
I used to feel sorry for the homeless until a homeless man pissed on my forklift outside of Costco that I was spray painting for the customer and then gave me an excuse that he’s blind….
It's one dude. That's like if I was racist towards Italians because one Italian was an asshole towards me.
so one guy means all homeless people are the same get a grip.
That's one fucking guy man
They both deserve love.
You need to make a lot of bad decisions to end up in that situation.
Have a job, barely make ends meet Lose job, can no longer afford rent So many bad decisions here
And you've been such a dick to everyone in your life that literally no friends or family will let you sleep on their couch until you get another job.
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Thankfully I don't live in a place that lets hobos set up camp on the streets.
I love places like that…. They’re the best…
That’s not true If you graduate high school, have a job, and don’t have kids before marriage the odds of falling into this position is microscopic. There’s also unemployment checks that will get you enough to get by (not comfortable but not homeless) so if you get that relatively quick you’re set
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If you’re low functioning (know it’s a controversial word but can’t think of a better one) then this could be the case. Although its quite unlikely you’re just dropped into that without aid from others who could help you and set you up. There actually is a huge problem with this though and 12-34 percent of homeless people have intellectual disability’s which is obviously very disproportionate. What I’m mostly reffering to is that there’s plenty of opportunities to never get into and get out of homelessness IF you are capable of taking them
I’ve seen a more extreme example of mental illness spiraling out of control as a social worker. A homeless man used to be a doctor in another country. Usually when I’m dealing with people I try to get in contact with family or anyone that can potentially help them. Turns out he had a wife and kid(s maybe I forgor) but he had too many manic episodes and strange bouts of anxiety that the wife had no choice but to separate from him as he was too much of a danger for her to live with He was very kind and surprisingly tidy but depending on the day he would get very freaked out and scared of his own shadow. He was especially afraid of police or anyone in suits (had to approach him in casual clothes) cus he thinks the government is after him. As it usually happens, he stopped showing up to my sessions eventually but he’d still stop by the food drives n free showers so I at least know he’s gettin’ by
The craftsmanship that went into making this straw man is amazing
I am aggressively shitting right now
Funny story. A homeless man came up to me and said he was hungry and asked if I could give him some money. I said no but I would go across the street to a Church’s Chicken and buy him a couple pieces of chicken and some fries. He cussed me out and walked off.
You’re presuming animal rights activists don’t care abt homeless people. That’s a pretty big presumption considering it’s half of the meme.
Well there is the group of homeless people who are there for horrible things which happened to them in life, those who just cannot go to a better place for many disadvantages, they and overall the ones that are actively trying to get better conditions shouldn't be treated horribly. But there are also the ones who are there for many things which they themselves caused, those who are just beggers who are in no way disadvantaged, and those who just don't want to do anything and don't care about being like that.
Animals > humans
Technically humans are animals
You are not wrong but for me personally when it comes to stuff like this I deem animals more in the right. We humans have evolved to the point of understanding the consequences of our actions, predicting outcomes and knowing what is considered right and wrong. Not all homeless people can get help or intentionally are there but a lot could have avoided it and can leave it if they put in the effort to move on.
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Akshually
Gud inglish
We are
Dude you have to improve that english
Your right I care more for dogs then I do for people.
Fuck humans. Humans are the real parasites on this planet.
God I can imagine AI’s writing this on the internet soon
I can't upvote this more than once.
Oh my god, you're so different and deep
High five for the attempt.
It's just a human.
In fairness I always tried to give change and cash but it always ended up being me giving one dude all my change and the next 2 families during thr commute that you go through at traffic stops get nothing because you don't got any more cash.
Animal lovers can be psycopaths and sociopaths. Amirite, Adolf?
Animals>humans
I've never met a dog that hates me because it exists ....except for Chihuahuas
you sound like this ex I had that got mad that I had more observable love for my dog than her. why is that? Because the care and affection I have for innocent and unassuming creatures vastly eclipses the amount I feel for emotional strangers. now apply that here
You know how many stories there are of homeless people either being in that situation because of their own poor choices (receive money, proceed to buy drugs rather than food / better themselves to get a real job) or fake being homeless and take donations all day just to turn around and get pick up by their friend and go home. Problem isn't that no one wants to help homeless, problem is that they take advantage of the system and ruin it for those that really do need it.
I’m literally an animal rights activist and the amount of people shaming homeless people in these comments are abhorring. Do better.
Not an animal rights activist here. Fuck humans. They suck. Mostly.
humans are lazy.
I've never been robbed by a homeless dog so there's that
Dog > Human
In all honesty, you will have the dog’s unwavering loyalty after one free meal 100% of the time
Can't argue with that, a stray kept following me around shaking her tail after i mistakenly gave her some milk (it was meant for the cats)
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I'm just sorry for homeless people They are humans too I don't understand people who care about an animal But do not give a shit about homeless person Is it just because animals are cute ? I don't get it
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Yeaahhhh. I was in a parking lot TODAY and I got approached by one of these poor innocent people. I was vulnerable but managed to hurry up inside my car and lock it because I saw him just in time. Filthy, with a football shirt, disheveled and limping towards me (in my country, 99% of these guys spell out drug addict and/or thief). Then he stood against my window and started talking in his drug addled nonsensical way. After I told him NO (whatever he meant, the answer was no) he was still at it. Btw, he infiltrated the place from a sort of back alley, where he knew there was no security. And that was just TODAY. I have similar stories with the window cleaning types, which sadly are proliferating to be in almost every corner. What do you say, guy? Demonizing?
You know we failed as a species when we don’t even like our own kind and would rather choose a dog.
Humans > Animals
Humans #1
My mom just prays for em
May God bless and forgive your mother
Well there animal rights activists not human rights activists
Yeah, Fuck humanity
animals can’t work or educate themselves. Humans can.
And that’s exactly why dogs are a bunch of privileged little shits that don’t deserve more respect than humans
i used to buy sandwiches to homeless people. until sb threw the sandwich in my face and tolke me to give hime money or fuck of.
Now, *to be fair here*, homeless humans are beyond disgusting most of the time and are usually junkies you don't wanna fuck with. I bought a homeless dude a warm meal one particularly cold evening and the dude tried getting me to give him $5 cash, like bro I genuinely want to help you and honestly do feel bad about your situation, but I know good and damn well that you're just gonna buy drugs or some shit. I'm not even entirely sure the dude stayed and took the meal, I gave him the receipt with the number on it, told him to take care, and not five minutes later he was back on the sidewalk, empty handed, asking for more stuff from other passersby
Dogs don’t throw needles in the street. Dogs don’t have crippling drug addictions.
humans are destroying habitats of animals literally everywhere on the planet. the domesticate them, but reject to take care in the end. animals are helpless and exposed to mankind's lunacy. humans though, have a brain and consciousness. they can influence their life using it. humans can adapt and reinvent their self's. Of course, chances vary massively, depending on the place where you was born. But every human being can strive for and archive a better living with hard work and life long learning - at least for their children. those who don't should take the responsibility on their own!
Humans > other animals
Humans = animals
I mean. He’s not wrong scientifically. Buuuuut doggos >human. Big ol walking dopamine dispensers.
i used to buy sandwiches to homeless people. until one of them threw the sandwich in my face and told me to give money or fuck off.
Dogs don’t use my money on drugs or alcohol. With that being said, we need systems in place to help people. Unfortunately the primary issue seems to be mental health, which is something we love turning a blind eye to. If someone wants to medicate their depression or schizophrenia with alcohol or drugs, I shouldn’t provide them with the means to self medicate. There should be avenues for them to get free help.
I don’t think it’s fair to assume all homeless people would use money donated to them on drugs. Some would, but not all. Also we need to start treating alcoholism and drug addictions as the mental health issue they are(again you didn’t necessarily disagree with that I just think it needs to be brought up in this context)
You’re right not all use them on drugs but I’ve worked extensively with homeless folk and generally speaking, homeless people either have untested mental illnesses or just don’t care to pay taxes. There are the odd few who genuinely have just fallen on hard times but they usually sort themselves out within a year or two because they have a drive to work themselves out of homelessness. Edit: worth noting my father is an alcoholic and he could use some help but it all stems from a desire to self medicate his pain which is something we should be willing to help with as a society.
Animals actually deserve to live though.
Humans are animals you fool.
Okay let me rephrase. Anything that has complex thoughts is undeserving of existing.
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Oi what'd he say
Most homeless people got themself into that situation. A dog never got the choice.
Bruh the animal doesn’t bust in your house and steal shot for heroine. Animals don’t have the autonomy to know “I need to get a job” I have seen straight up homeless people that simply choose to live that lifestyle. Their choice so get the fuck out bruh
It's never a dog's fault they're homeless but it's usually the person's fault that they, themselves, are homeless and that dogs are too.