• Varyk@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    2 months ago

    fuck.

    One in four foster kids will end up homeless.

    https://nfyi.org/issues/homelessness/

    up to 3 out of 10 homeless people are foster kids who aged out.

    what the fuck.

    I thought it was bad enough knowing about the veteran rights.

    some of the studies show higher rates.

    The studies. on the homeless children.

      • koella@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        So when conservatives want to ban abortions they are basically trying to increase the flow in this pipeline to get more prison slave labor

        • ReanuKeeves@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          10000% yes. The easiest people to manipulate are the desperate and manipulators love dangling carrots.

          What’s worse is that this is easily recognizable but nothing will ever be done about the nutjobs who enjoy watching others suffer at their hand.

          There is no reason to believe we don’t live in hell

  • collapse_already@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    In addition to the appalling foster care kid stats for homeless, around 13% of homeless are veterans (obviously some qualify as both). Funny how support for the military dries up once they get discharged.

    Then we have the complete lack of any kind of assistance for the mentally ill.

    We shouldn’t even pretend that we are civilized. We treat our fellow humans so barbarically.

    • L3ft_F13ld!@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      While this is accurate, most people have a better chance of actually understanding it when you use the full quote.

      We live in a world where people have to be convinced to care for and sympathize with those around them.

    • butter@midwest.socialEnglish
      0·
      2 months ago

      I think the second guy had it backwards.

      Wikipedia (If you don’t like it, use it’s sources):

      Nearly half of foster children in the US become homeless when they reach the age of 18

  • Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de
    01·
    2 months ago

    Liberals are also to blame for gaslighting and selling workers out to the capital class for 50+ years. The last Democrat President that actually fought for the proletariat was FDR with his New Deal programs.

    Yes, liberals were less evil than Republicans, but when Obama tried to give us universal healthcare they stabbed him in the back and when Bernie set multiple grassroot funding records, they conspired against him and stabbed the entire nation in the back. So if we factor in the opportunities for real leftist leadership that liberals stole from us than that opportunity cost is nearly as damaging as what Republicans are doing.