Is it true that there's a secret hobo code that they paint on walls and stuff? An American guy I met overseas told me this once, but I think he was pulling my leg.
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Ask a hobo libertarian anything
As the title says, I'm a hobo, poor, unemployed, spent much of my life homeless. Also, I'm very much a hater of communists, liberals and conservatives, even though I have a lot of friends who espouse these views. Feel free to ask me anything and I will attempt to answer.
Is it true that there's a secret hobo code that they paint on walls and stuff? An American guy I met overseas told me this once, but I think he was pulling my leg.
Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice. -George Jackson
There is no such thing as an innocent bystander. -Abbie Hoffman
If you hate communists, why did you join this board? Serious question.
"I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless robots who protect them and their property." - Assata Shakur
Are you a hobo because you refuse to work or to contribute to society and are therefore a parasite that deserves to suffer?
Haha, no, I've never heard of anything like that. Did he say what the code was meant to communicate? A lot of hobos are graffiti artists, but they usually paint a personal tag, or a gang signature or something.
Haha. Certainly conservatives would make that assessment. Social Darwinists surely would. There is no doubt that I have made some bad choices in my life, but I wouldn't call myself a leech either. I do live off tax dollars, that is true but I try my best to give back in whatever ways I can. I have worked at times and paid taxes, I've no doubt drained the system of more $ than I have put in. I suppose it a subjective judgement, whether I am a parasite or deserve to suffer. It would be no matter who you asked your question about.
Is it your opinion one must work to contribute to society?
What are some good train hopping tips?
I wanna try it out when the weather improves.
Train hopping is more for drifter type hobos. A hobo is better off just finding a city to settle into, where he knows the transit system, where to hustle, sleep, drug dealers, and all the basic shit you learn by living in a city. Every time you go somewhere new you gotta learn all this stuff again. Train hopping is also very 70's too I think. If you need to, you can get a ticket of heaps of charities, or government assistance as well (at least where I am ). You just tell them you have a relative who died, or you have to get to XYZ for for a job interview and they will give you a greyhound voucher. There is something romantic about hopping a train though, I must admit.
As a libertarian, do you believe you deserve to be a hobo?
No. And I believe being a hobo is a valid choice in life.
This was true in the early 20th and you can find things online that show the kinds of art and symbols that were part of "hobo culture" - particularly in the depression. One symbol that really stuck out was one for "a guy who will give you food, but you have to hear his prothluytisin". Mostly the symbols explain things like: this house is full of assholes/the cops are brutal here/this person will give you food and board for chores or preeching.
I don't know of anything as universal as the hobo symbols supposedly were, but I'm sure people today have similar sorts of communication methods for similar reasons: letting other people know about unspoken boundaries, threats, or opportuinities.
I would also like to know why you came onto a political website if you hate politics.
Last edited by Jimmie Higgins; 16th December 2012 at 08:54.
I didn't say I hate politics, I said I hate communists, liberals and conservatives.
How does it feel to be called a parasite by your fellow libertarians?
FKA Red Godfather
Water off a ducks back mate.
What kind of libertarian are you? Would you say you tend toward the 'right' or the 'left'?
Do you practice self-reliance in any way?
"John Henry said to his captain, 'A man ain't nothin' but a man - -but before I'd let your steam drill beat me down, I'd die with a hammer in my hand." - Woody Guthrie
You're lucky you don't live in a right-libertarian paradise where paramilitaries would socially cleanse (massacre) you and thousands like you because they devalue property or trespass on private property.
My question: would your life have been better if you were forced in sewers by private militias?
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American-style rightwing libertarianism has no place for hobos. Tim Cornelis is absolutely right. Smellincoffee is right to seek clarification as to the type of libertarianism. Are you a devotee of Ayn Rand style libertarianism and if so do you realize that your way of life is an entire repudiation of her ideology?
You say you hate communists, but most people who do think communism is what the Soviets and NorthKoreans practice. Is that you? Or do you actualy know what communism and socialism actually are? How much about communism, Marxism, socialism, and anarchism do you know?
I'm inclined to believe that you are full of shit, but sure you might be one of the entrepreneurs who sleeps in his or her car. I really don't believe that you have been homeless for a large part of your life. But anyway, I hope that you are having fun trolling us, libertarians don't have much to do.
“How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?” Charles Bukowski, Factotum
"In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, as 'right-to-work.' It provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining... We demand this fraud be stopped." MLK
-fka Redbrother
Probably a dumb-ass question, but a serious one: How the hell do you go online so freakin' much as a homeless poor person?
"But we anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselfs" - Errico Malatesta ("Anarchism and Organization")
"It is very well imaginable that man can get a communist dictature, which takes care that the needs of the stomach are provided, but that thereby freedom still by far isn't for everyone. That's why the struggle shouldn't just be against private property, but against authority too." - Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis ("Van christen tot anarchist ")
