Comments by "Chompy the Beast" (@chompythebeast) on "Fact Feast" channel.

Thank you so much for these analyses of the history of early modern poverty. A great deal has changed in the last hundred and a half years or so, but one thing that has certainly not changed enough is the criminalization of poverty, and the refusal of classist systems of power to act with the knowledge that the vast majority of crime or anti-social behavior is the result of unmet physical or psychological needs, not the result of inborn traits
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We are obligated, as members of society, to see to it that our neighbors are not left wanting the fundamental needs of life itself. I pity the mugger more than I do the posh socialite who regularly turns his nose up at his struggling fellow human beings and supports a classist system that keeps them struggling. But it isn't about who we elect to pity―if we want it to stop, the only real solution is to address the root causes of such crimes. Crackdown, the most common and most ignorant response, simply doesn't work. What is needed is to foster a civilization which actively attempts to prevent the circumstances which lead to poverty rather than actively and deliberately manufacturing poverty as our current societies do. Class divisions create this inequity, and they create a breeding ground for crime
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Your content really helps to galvanize how important conscious social programs are, and how essential it is that we model our societies to benefit all of our neighbors and not just the wealthy few on the backs of the beleaguered many
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Sometimes your videos make me feel less crazy. The world is a mad place, and so much of this continues to this day, and so few seem to care, let alone even begin to admit or understand it. How common hatred is, how common state violence is, how common apathy is. It hurts to cope with, especially when you're made to feel criminal or even insane for challenging a cruel status quo
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Statistics don't really matter to the 600,000+ people living on the streets in the USA alone, despite the USA also having more than 17 million unoccupied homes. Past vs present growth doesn't really mean anything to the 1 in 3 Americans who go to bed hungry every night, despite the fact that up to 40% of all food brought to market in the US goes to waste
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@bridgethannah2933 Partitions do the opposite of making seats more efficient, they inherently reduce seat space. But they are definitely meant to prevent people from reclining on them, because people without shelter trying to get some sleep is less important than people casually visiting a park taking a seat, apparently
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Treatment of the houseless has in many ways barely changed. Police still conduct so-called "sweeps" of encampments, stealing and destroying what little the people there have (even though they're obligated by law to hold seized property for a certain amount of time) and sending the people scattering with nowhere else to go but another encampment, where the process is repeated. What good is our society if it is willing to treat its least powerful members so cruelly? How can we be so wealthy as a nation and yet turn our backs on so many living in poverty? Human beings are not "swept", dirt is. We need to stop treating our own neighbors so literally like dirt
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Class traitors are class traitors, and that's exactly what the position is
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Capitalism, then and now, has never provided a solution to the horrors it creates at its lowest end. This is because that is beyond its scope: It requires poverty, its threat and its abuses, in order to function. It is today fundamentally outmoded in the way that absolute monarchy was in Victoria's time. We must arrange our societies with the primary goal of preventing such horrific exploitation
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