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I'm so confused about where this hostility came from. They were just trying to be helpful, you could have easily left it at "your idea is terrible and here's why", but then you decided to attack them directly as well. Why?
Because they were giving useless advice that they should have known would be useless, and even worse than that, it would have endangered me and likely led to my death, again, they should have known this if they actually read what I wrote.
Would you be angry if someone seriously suggested to you that while in an injured state, what you should do is injure yourself further with a plan that has next to no chance of success?
Further, if you were starving, exhausted, traumatized from recently being beaten, mugged and losing all your possessions, would you be angry if someone told you that /actually/ you should prioritize registering to vote right now, that that is the most important thing?
You have obviously never been homeless.
Perhaps you should read it again if you are confused.
My aching torn ligaments only permit me to type so much, so often.
This is what you sound like: ‘This person experiencing homelessness isn’t a ray of sunshine because they’ve realised the systematic changes that would be required to actually address the problem. Also, they have the audacity to be angry about it!’
Seriously? You are an asshole if you can’t empathise with someone who might be a bit prickly if they just wrote out an essay which was cogent and then told ‘well you wouldn’t be homeless if you just used homelessness services!’
If those services had adequate resourcing would people be experiencing homelessness?
Put yourself in their shoes; sleep rough a couple of nights and see how bright, cheery and willing to hear such sage advice from comfortable, housed and warm Lemmings you’d be.
I wouldn't expect them to be nice and jolly about it. But you don't have to be a ray of sunshine to avoid being an ass. I sympathize with them, but the person they responded to was genuinely trying to be helpful.
As for everything else you said, maybe you should re-read Stovetop's comment? Nothing was said about using homelessness services to avoid being homeless. It was literally just an idea as to how they might be able to vote despite their unfortunate situation.
I did read it and vexikron’s reply about how voting isn’t their priority because they are injured and homeless.
Which is why it’s kind of irrelevant until the homelessness episode ends; you can’t focus on other aspects of your life.
Vexikron isn’t being an ass, they’re being a regular human who is having a shit time of it and responding to lemmings who are telling them to just go to a shelter and vote their way out of it.
That solution to their problem is tone deaf and insulting.
It's not like they pulled the voting comment out of their ass as a solution to homelessness. It was a response to Vexikron saying they wouldn't be able to vote in their comment.