• PunnyName@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    When people say, “beggars can’t be choosers”, my response is always, “how do they stop being beggars, then, Karen?”

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      2 months ago

      The conservative mindset believes social class is preordained. Karen believes people who have become homeless are destined to remain that way and it’d be a waste of resources to try to help them.

      If you look at it through this lens, the phone is just prolonging their thrashing before they accept their fate and starve to death.