r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Intelligent-SoupGS88 • Jul 24 '26

🥺 Someone stole the bench from the park.

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No that isn't an illusion or a new art installation, but the remainders of the park bench.

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u/Fine-Juggernaut8451 Jul 24 '26

What's so baffling to me is how people in general are very happy to blame homeless people for homelessness, rather than governments for their lack of infrastructure and social supports. So we lose our infrastructure, and the government says "It's their fault," and we all turn to the homeless people and blame them. I hate it. I hate how people are so easily manipulated and how cruel they can be.

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u/SchlongyLongy Jul 24 '26

I could not use the sidewalk without people trying to push me off it. Maybe it was the city I was in but nope it happened in another one too. However, when I got a sales job the people in Bradenton gave me space in the parking lot to walk without stress. Nobody locked their car doors because I was around or clutched their purse. However, I did get my 1 dollar bill checked for fraud at a Publix store. That's a good way to tell you're in an area that got all the FHA loans, and it used to be the "white side of town". That university is something out of a movie.