I live in NYC, I have never personally done this but I know people who have struggled, and the best thing is to maybe not dress in a suit but your nicest clothes, showered, and groomed enough so people think you’re middle class plus going through one unique moment of poverty and not someone chronically poor… and just go to a food place (not a restaurant, somewhere that sells food… deli, grocery store, maybe even a food cart) ideally in a nice neighborhood. Ask to see the manager or ideally the owner (since they have way more leeway than employees) and without giving this huge sob story, politely ask for food.
They will almost never say no, and in fact you might get lucky and be given a month’s worth of food. It sucks that we have more sympathy for a moment of difficulty for the better off than a lifetime of suffering for the poor but here we are. It reminds me of the state Senator in Wisconsin or Michigan or wherever arguing against free food in schools because kids that don’t get enough sustenance in their youth have a lifetime of reduced intelligence and even charisma and if they gave every kid food, “we’d have no mechanics or bricklayers!”.
The typical socdem/communist divide. Morality only exists within “my nation”, and Ethan has identified himself as Israeli, for a bunch of different (shitty) reasons.
There’s a lot of Jewish communists that have written a lot about how crippling to leftist values the existence of Israel has become. Many early communists were Jewish, I mean look at Marx and Trotsky, but in general it’s a lot easier for people to support a stateless and uniform world when you have no state and feel (correctly so until the modern British born, then American run colony of “Israel”) masqueraded are always the victim. Much like the persecuted religious sects kicked out of England to the US, prisoners in Australia, etc. we see how fast the bullied can become bullies once they’re given their own place, money and weapons to bully.
Once Israel seemed like a project that wasn’t inevitable to collapse, there were people who advocated against nationalism, that were brutalized by ethnostates, being given an ethnostate they quickly go from “nobody should be a target, because we’re all humans” to “WE shouldn’t be a target because we’re amazing, all the propaganda I grew up listening to says the same thing.”