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4 years agoHouseless comrades have wants along with their needs, just like everyone. If looking good is important for OP’s mental health then hell yeah OP deserves some stylish clothes. I just donated a fuckton of clothes and supplies, as well as an old Xbox 360 to a houseless family temporarily living in a hotel, and the highlight was def the Xbox.
Just wanted to thank you for this, super informative!
Heads up: Uninformed spontaneous takes.
I don’t think you can be a serious leftist if you aren’t willing to criticize decisions made in leftist states. History should be treated as a series of experiments & case studies. No state is perfect. Forced integration always seems to end up a cruel affair, and I’m sure many decisions were made from a place of prejudice, rather than economic liberation. It would take a lot of confidence to ever consider something like that a necessary evil.
The Sámi people are a nomadic ethnic group in Scandinavia and are another interesting case study. Historically brutalized and a subject of prejudice, they do retain some nomadic freedoms today, herding reindeer etc, even if many are settled today. One of my favorite unique laws in Sweden is that basically all land away from private property is public land, so you can set up a tent and hang out anywhere you want. However the govt has done cruel things in other ways, destroying important Sámi sites as recently as 2011.