Anonymous
6/17/2025, 1:06:21 AM No.17769382
Historically were "Hobos" less gut wrenchingly offensive human beings than modern day crackheads? Eg: Jordan Neely
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Anonymous
6/17/2025, 1:12:48 AM No.17769397
>>17769382 (OP)
>people get failed by the system, fall through the cracks
>"gut wrenchingly offensive"
it's sad how effective blaming poor people for everything works in america.
>people get failed by the system, fall through the cracks
>"gut wrenchingly offensive"
it's sad how effective blaming poor people for everything works in america.
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 1:13:06 AM No.17769398
>>17769382 (OP)
Technically speaking, a hobo is someone who travelled, typically by hitchhiking or jumping on trains, but didn't work, a tramp travelled and worked typically low paying odd jobs, and a bum neither traveled nor worked.
The modern homeless crackhead is more of a bum than a hobo.
Technically speaking, a hobo is someone who travelled, typically by hitchhiking or jumping on trains, but didn't work, a tramp travelled and worked typically low paying odd jobs, and a bum neither traveled nor worked.
The modern homeless crackhead is more of a bum than a hobo.
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Anonymous
6/17/2025, 1:51:12 AM No.17769491
>>17769398
There was a whole spectrum of people who hopped freights, summed up by those three broad classes. Many of them were very political in a labor union/anarchist sense. There was also a big criminal element, either preying or other hobos or on regular citizens, and a queer subculture as well, often with an older “jocker” using a young “punk” to gain sympathy in begging for handouts. The song “Big Rock Candy Mountains” is a cleaned up version an older hobo luring a young kid out to a life on the road.
They created a lot of interesting songs, poems and folklore and there’s been a continued lineage of hobo culture, even though it’s mostly LARPers today. In a sense they were always consciously living out their own myths, just like cowboys, gangsters and other American archetypes.
There was a whole spectrum of people who hopped freights, summed up by those three broad classes. Many of them were very political in a labor union/anarchist sense. There was also a big criminal element, either preying or other hobos or on regular citizens, and a queer subculture as well, often with an older “jocker” using a young “punk” to gain sympathy in begging for handouts. The song “Big Rock Candy Mountains” is a cleaned up version an older hobo luring a young kid out to a life on the road.
They created a lot of interesting songs, poems and folklore and there’s been a continued lineage of hobo culture, even though it’s mostly LARPers today. In a sense they were always consciously living out their own myths, just like cowboys, gangsters and other American archetypes.
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 1:55:55 AM No.17769503
>>17769382 (OP)
Hobos were travelling workers, so they werent complete anti-social deranged retards (for the most part)
They were basically just dirt poor people looking for any sort of work for any sort of pay, including working for food and/or a place to sleep for the night, usually in the barn. There were even Hobo codes of conduct which were meant to keep the public in towns across America sympathetic too them as they passed through. They didnt want them being drunk and harassing the townfolks.
Hobos were travelling workers, so they werent complete anti-social deranged retards (for the most part)
They were basically just dirt poor people looking for any sort of work for any sort of pay, including working for food and/or a place to sleep for the night, usually in the barn. There were even Hobo codes of conduct which were meant to keep the public in towns across America sympathetic too them as they passed through. They didnt want them being drunk and harassing the townfolks.
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 2:08:40 AM No.17769534
>>17769382 (OP)
historical hobos generally hated the drunks conmen and violent transients because it made life harder for the guys that wanted to live an honest life on the road. and the honest ones self policed the weed out the scumbags and protect the regular people that offered help or work to the hobos.
you can look up examples of hobo signs they would etch into door posts/fences/etc to let other hobos know what to expect in the area, the honest hobos looking out for each other
historical hobos generally hated the drunks conmen and violent transients because it made life harder for the guys that wanted to live an honest life on the road. and the honest ones self policed the weed out the scumbags and protect the regular people that offered help or work to the hobos.
you can look up examples of hobo signs they would etch into door posts/fences/etc to let other hobos know what to expect in the area, the honest hobos looking out for each other
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Anonymous
6/17/2025, 3:35:15 AM No.17769735