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poor_skills. The information is fabulous but the people... are not. It's overtaken with the 'poor elite' who start jumping all over anyone who is deemed 'not poor enough' or who's dealing with a difficult situation.
For instance, right now there's a single mom in SoCal asking about teaming up with another single mom to rent a house and split bills. She's getting a lot of static just short of calling her an unfit mother. WTF? What's she supposed to do, shove the kids back in her fucking womb? And since when did kids need their own rooms? Millions of kids the world over share a single room with their entire families and do just fine. As for living in SoCal, yes it's expensive, but there's dozens of circumstances that could explain a single mom living there -- a job that offers health insurance she or her kids desperately need, proximity to family or the kids' dad, any number of things. We don't goddamn know, and its none of our business.
An earlier case was a woman inquiring about food for her pit bull mix. She was finding it hard to afford dog food and wanted to know if there was somewhere she could go to get some. Everyone starts yelling "REHOME HIM!" at her, as though homes for pit bull mixes are plentiful. They're often wonderful dogs, but NOBODY WANTS THEM. A lot of landlords and even some cities ban them outright. If she took that dog to a shelter, the odds that it'd be euthanized are pretty good. So what the hell is she supposed to do, swallow her pride and scrounge around for food, or dump it to be euthanized?
It's gotten so bad the mods have locked the comm, and almost every newbie starts their post with, "I'm sorry if this isn't on topic [i.e. poor enough to suit the 'poor elite'], but..."
poor_skills. The information is fabulous but the people... are not. It's overtaken with the 'poor elite' who start jumping all over anyone who is deemed 'not poor enough' or who's dealing with a difficult situation. For instance, right now there's a single mom in SoCal asking about teaming up with another single mom to rent a house and split bills. She's getting a lot of static just short of calling her an unfit mother. WTF? What's she supposed to do, shove the kids back in her fucking womb? And since when did kids need their own rooms? Millions of kids the world over share a single room with their entire families and do just fine. As for living in SoCal, yes it's expensive, but there's dozens of circumstances that could explain a single mom living there -- a job that offers health insurance she or her kids desperately need, proximity to family or the kids' dad, any number of things. We don't goddamn know, and its none of our business.
An earlier case was a woman inquiring about food for her pit bull mix. She was finding it hard to afford dog food and wanted to know if there was somewhere she could go to get some. Everyone starts yelling "REHOME HIM!" at her, as though homes for pit bull mixes are plentiful. They're often wonderful dogs, but NOBODY WANTS THEM. A lot of landlords and even some cities ban them outright. If she took that dog to a shelter, the odds that it'd be euthanized are pretty good. So what the hell is she supposed to do, swallow her pride and scrounge around for food, or dump it to be euthanized?
It's gotten so bad the mods have locked the comm, and almost every newbie starts their post with, "I'm sorry if this isn't on topic [i.e. poor enough to suit the 'poor elite'], but..."
