• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    Yep yep yep.

    People who’ve never been homeless, they don’t understand this country.

    Its that simple.

    You’re not a real person anymore, you’re garbage that talks for some reason, has the gall to make eye contact for some reason.

    And anyone can become homeless rather quickly, if they have a run of sufficiently bad luck, untrusthworthy friends/family, just are the wrong skin color or sexual orientation, etc.

    Anybody who has not experienced it is fucking delusional about what this country really is, and I mean that absolutely, doesn’t matter what your ideology or day job is.

    But yeah, I had to move halfway across the country, via Greyhound, to find a place to live.

    Its not impossible to do this on SSDI alone (I was very seriously injured in my run of homelessness), I’ve managed to do it, but… its extremely difficult.

    There were many days I was sure would be my last.

    Saw a lot of people die.

    Thats my American experience: No one cares, fuck you, die.

    Glad you’ve survived it as well, at least thus far.