i knew one of those chinless gymbro 'i have a n*rdic jawline' white supremacists, and watched people mock his weak chin.
it did succeed in making him shut the fuck up.
it also succeeded in aggravating him into murder-suiciding his brother and a neighbour, so i can't say it made him any less racist.
La majestueuse égalité des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain.
— Anatole France, Le Lys rouge
in most places i've lived, my physical neighbours did not want to be known, and did not want to know anyone else, either. granted, most of them really only used their apartments/houses as a very expensive sleeping place and nothing more. they didn't really live in their houses; it was just where they usually slept between working.
even when the neighbours were friendly, there were no common spaces and the housing too small to accommodate get-togethers, and no third places to go to. and the friendly neighbours were always apart of the conspicuously racist pensioner cabal.
as Cowbee wrote: the 'free market' narrative assumes the market is participatory, and that you can simply opt out ('go live in the woods').
but capitalism doesn't work without a labour market, and the labour market isn't stable without a buffer of un[der]employment. so living outside the market — and general 'propertylessness' — is criminalised or made so inconvenient/unsustainable that you're left with 'the choice' between peonage or starvation. the people who fall into homelessness and houselessness serve as a warning to anyone who might consider 'opting out'.
i don't think anyone genuinely believes this is a real choice, but i've experienced this narrative being used to dismiss critiques of capitalism and wage slavery.
i've been seeing them in German, but i believe the dbzer0 host is also in France.
what does this have to do with houseless people?
All the time spent thinking how to solve a problem is also work.
try telling that to every manager i've ever had.
i believe they're @ing you because they're posting from Mastadon.