Home secretary criticised for tweets vowing to restrict use of tents by homeless people, ‘many of them from abroad’
Good idea Suella! And after that, so they don’t all freeze to death, we could build huge great ‘houses’ for the ‘poor’ (we can think of a catchy name later). And then obviously, as we can’t just give these lucky people something for free, we can put them to work 18 hour days for the privilege of living there.
I’ve come to the conclusion that lots of things can be described as a “choice”. Working in a sweatshop is a choice. Who you fuck is a choice. Being poor is a choice. But choices are, to one degree or another, informed by your environment. Sometimes just a little, sometimes to the point where the word “choice” implies more freedom of action than a person actually has.
Being an asshole, for example, would be much closer to the un-coerced end of that spectrum than being homeless.
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Hey, brexit was a lifestyle choice. 🤷♂️
I know “sleeping rough” is the UK phrase for being homeless or living on the street but “rough sleeping” just sounds too close to “rough sex” for me
I figured out what it meant from context but when I first read the headline my immediate thought was something along the lines of “what the hell does that mean? Sleeping on a bed without sheets? lumpy pillows? The fuck?” lol
I was picturing restless sleep after a night shift when you have an opening shift just after sunrise.
And running British concentration camps with horrible conditions is her family business, just like her dad who fled Kenya during the Mau Mau uprising.
I can’t speak to the UK, but here in Oregon:
“I don’t want to go to a shelter, I couldn’t do it, being out here, it’s freedom.”
Mostly when they say “freedom” what they mean is “shelters won’t let them bring their drugs, alcohol, and pit bulls.”
Oh look, it’s the dumbass with the bad takes lol.
