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I... honestly, I can't help wondering what kind of idiot tries to live outdoors in Alaska. It's Alaska. Half of it's above the Arctic Circle. The clothing and equipment necessary to live outdoors in Alaska costs almost as much as a plane ticket to California. And not having that kind of equipment will quite simply make you dead. Anyone knows that. And yes, I know a lot of them are crazy or developmentally disabled, and those people can't help what happens to them in a situation like that. But short of that -- fuck me running. The list of things I wouldn't be willing to do in order to avoid being homeless in Alaska has, like, ten things on it. Fifteen, max.
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Can you imagine how desolate ones life must be, to see ten people, your friends, live and die like this, and still not change your own behavior?

This is generations of repressed angst being very poorly expressed.
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Such is the nature of Obama's America
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more like Palin's America, Prezzie, all glamorizin' that frozen northern wasteland
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Because this never happened before Obama was elected. Nope, not ever.
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Judah, you think those homeless people traveled up to Alaska to be homeless? Can you make a list of why that just might not be the case with, "like, ten things on it"? Because if you don't, you are quite probably developmentally disabled yourself.
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Bum-sicles?
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Most of those people died during summer, when it's quite warm in Anchorage. Presumably (hopefully) their homelessness was a temporary condition, and they were working on finding more substantial accomodation for the winter.
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That was history's worst guessing game, Charles.
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People don't die of exposure in Alaska because it happened to be cold that night, they die of exposure because they are drunk or otherwise mentally impaired (e.g. old people with dementia). Furthermore, Anchorage is cool and damp during the summer, so even getting soaked in a June rainstorm can be fatal if you aren't able or conscious enough to dry off.
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As this economy moves closer to collapse & the mainstream media & governmental agencies, by their willful incompetence, encourage a culture of denial & irrational arguments, we will only see more of these types of deaths. How many deaths already go unnoticed by the general public. Will it be a "mystery" like the birds falling out of the sky in Arkansas, after so many environmental calamities & policy subversion's suppressed by private interest or will we Americans finally wake up to the fact that our better interest are the ones we all share - the ones we might see we have in common if we move toward a more pedestrian, agrarian culture?

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