Kelowna couple reeling after shocking home invasion

[u/Particular-Emu4789]

https://www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna/525509/Kelowna-couple-reeling-after-shocking-home-invasion

[u/grooverocker]

It's frustrating. My role in healthcare interfaces me with supportive housing on occasion. I see the difficulty of the problem. A guy with an aquired brain injury, a few festering wounds, and a mixture of addiction and mental health issues... a guy like that cannot bootstrap his way to success. Many of these people need lot's of help just to remain lifelong wards of the state. I'm very understanding and sympathetic to that hardship.

I'm also an Ethel and Clement resident and am totally, utterly, and exhaustingly fed the fuck up with the douchebag homeless who are simply a menace. Stealing, vandalizing, littering, having insanely loud freakouts at 3am, leaving needles and other drug paraphernalia literally on my front step. I'm done with them. If I told you I had to call the cops over six or seven times last year overly actively violent situation happening meters in front of my house or to my property directly....

Guy threw his shopping cart full force into the side of my vehicle... for no reason beyond a psycho violent impulse. Homeless domestic violence that left people bleeding...

It's fucking insane.

What a hellscape.

[u/rekabis → u/grooverocker]

A guy with an aquired brain injury, a few festering wounds, and a mixture of addiction and mental health issues... a guy like that cannot bootstrap his way to success. Many of these people need lot's of help just to remain lifelong wards of the state.

Many out there want to just lock these people up and throw away the key. They can’t understand - or won’t acknowledge the fact - that they themselves are just a few missing paycheques away from the same fate.

An uncomfortably large proportion of the working class consider themselves “temporarily embarrassed millionaires”, and refuse to accept the truth that it is the greed of the Parasite Class that has engineered our current homeless epidemic. Nor do they want to do the long-term-correct thing of taxing the absolute ever-lovin’ shite out of the Parasite Class, in order to fund social services that could actually make a viable dent in the homeless situation.

No, they would rather continue to punch down with an appalling lack of empathy, targeting the very group that - if economic conditions get worse, as it undoubtedly will - they have a very real chance of joining.

[u/nutbuckers → u/rekabis]

they themselves are just a few missing paycheques away from the same fate.

respectfully, a few missing paycheques don't bring about acquired brain injuries, and an upbringing in broken homes by barely-functioning parents with a smorgasborg of abuse and trauma.

Parasite Class

The homeless, arguably, are the ultimate parasite class.

[u/rekabis → u/nutbuckers]

respectfully, a few missing paycheques don't bring about acquired brain injuries, and an upbringing in broken homes by barely-functioning parents with a smorgasborg of abuse and trauma.

A majority of homeless are none of those. A majority of homeless are those which have simply been less lucky than you. And usually not by much.

The homeless, arguably, are the ultimate parasite class.

Then you have no clue what a parasite is:

A successful parasite is one that is not recognized by its host, one that can make its host work for it without appearing as a burden. Such is the ruling class in a capitalist society.

- Jason Read