Satanic Capitalist

I know it's been awhile. I haven't posted here because I don't have but one or two followers. But things always take a drastic turn in my life. I have had problems with my right foot changing shape sometime in June. Just happened very quickly. It's a bunion but it's really arthritis and the joints get dislodged and it causes a world of pain. But they won't do s*** for you here unless you see a podiatrist and I've been on a wait list for an appointment November 15th! I knew damn well I would end up in the ER before then and that's what happened! My left foot a few weeks ago the middle joint of the big toe dislodged and was causing pain but that got infected badly and so I felt sick and had chills that I couldn't shake Friday and eventually got up the strength to shower and call 911. My left big toe has been amputated and I haven't seen it completely or seen what was done on the right foot to save that toe. But I can see my toes sticking out from the bandage so they didn't even reshape it like you would for a bunion surgery. They would put some kind of pins in the bones to set it straight again but they didn't do that. My left foot started bleeding like crazy a little more than an hour after getting back in my room from surgery. And so the point is there is absolutely no help here for transportation. There's some big office of Rich big wigs who decide who gets to have housing for the rest of their lives or anything else from any other service. So no matter what social service organization is helping you they still have to beg the rich snobs on their throne at this Central authority for help. And they have already determined that I don't deserve housing and I also don't deserve to get rides anywhere when I have had the hardest time walking as it is. So I need help to get an Uber home whenever I am released from the hospital. I'm afraid it may not be for a week or more and I really hate being away from my apartment when my lease is almost up and the place is a complete zoo and I'm afraid people might try to break into my apartment if they don't hear any music they will surely know I'm not home because I play music all the time. I don't play it loudly but you can kind of hear just normal conversation through the walls. But of course total strangers don't help me out. So I came here just hoping someone will see it and be able to help. Cashapp $stephseth13 Venmo stephashe13

homeless man, bradley grimes: i sleep outside because i dont have a house

the UK: how about we criminalize u for being poor

Bradley Grimes:

The UK:

Also The UK:

Sleep is a necessity, not a crime.

#SCOTUS is corrupt and cruelly deranged.

And who enforces this? Is it just a few bad apples, or is it all cops?

How hard is it for them to find cops willing to enforce this? Do they have to sift through hundreds of heroic cops who refuse until they find the one cop who's monstrous enough to enforce this, or do they easily find cops willing to enforce this because monstrous cops are everywhere and being a monster is part of the job?

"All cops are bad" is not a stereotype. It's literally a requirement for the job that every single one knew about.

Long before acab trended I was told “there’s no such thing as a good cop” by a farmer in my hometown. He explained that a cop has to either enforce bad laws or selectively apply the law according to their own judgment. They could either be bad at their job or a bad person, but it had to be at least one.

Pre-law school I worked for a courthouse and was still of the (head up your own ass) opinion that individual bad cops could be replaced by cops who wanted to do good and if enough good cops joined they could outnumber the bad while we work to fix a “broken” system.

Two experiences that forever shifted my outlook are this:

1. I had the opportunity to go on ride-alongs with the sheriffs department. Those deputies turned on sirens to scare people walking down the street. One catcalled a woman crossing the street holding what I assume was her boyfriend’s hand. These cops were assholes, and it dramatically lessened my opinion of them as people but I still chalked it up to these individuals and not their jobs, until we went with writ services to serve an eviction notice.

I was terrified about what escalation could occur with such assholes handling it, and was relieved the person wasn’t home and the notice was taped to the door. But I knew even then that it wasn’t just escalation I was afraid of, it was having to look that person in the eye while the cops taped a probably life-destroying piece of paper on their door.

2. A trans woman had been attacked in the county jail and a picket protest was planned for outside the front doors of the jail. I knew the risks of attending while working at the courthouse down the street but obviously drawing attention to heinous abuse was more important than maintaining good relationships at work, and surely the decent cops and court officials would respect my choice to side with justice.

And then I saw them. While a group of us stood in work clothes with little paper signs chanting about injustice, the cops were decked out in riot gear, waiting to beat our asses. We hadn’t blocked a road. We didn’t have bricks. No one was in bloc—most of us had our faces out as recognizable colleagues—and still they were prepared to beat us senseless for demanding an end to mistreatment in a “justice” building. I met eyes with people I knew and liked yet they, in that moment, were indistinguishable from the ones I hated.

Yes of course the cops who “abuse” their power and harass people are vile, but at the end of the day, the friendly cop I ate lunch with showed up to kick my head in. The cops who have ice cream with the neighborhood drag people crying from their homes. The cops who do community charity work fall in line behind the “bad” cops. They beat protesters, they attack homeless camps, they destroy donated food and water, and they will do it all to you even while calling you a friend because they were ordered to, because it’s their job.

If every bad cop was replaced by my lunch buddy, absolutely nothing about the role of police would change.

ACAB means all.

[ID, 2 tweets. The first is by the Associated Press, @/ A P. It reads, Florida set to ban homeless from sleeping on public property.

Second tweet is by Cheryl Lynn Eaton, @/ cheryl lynn eaton. It reads, So, to be clear, if you are an American who is too poor to own a home or a car, and you are found asleep in a public place in Florida, you will be arrested, fined, and perhaps imprisoned. If imprisoned, you will likely provide free labor to a private company while you are held. /. End ID]

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If you give $100 to a homeless person, they'll be in shock by your generosity. They'll feel guilty taking such a ridiculously large amount of money from you.

But if you give $1,500 to your landlord every month, next year they'll demand more unless the law literally says they can't.

Meanwhile, people demonize the homeless person as a "freeloader" while respecting the landlord.

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