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Ben Hart @pavlovforgoths.com · 05/10/2026

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Katherine Bailey
8h·
Stratford-Drayton Square
Ben
being truthful is professional. I know that you are just gathering a list of resources, but in the end, many of them are just out of funds and cannot help. We need systemic change, and that starts with our commissioners and city manager.
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Katherine Bailey
8h·
Stratford-Drayton Square
Ben
and it is wildly unprofessional of you to think I side with Lee and Herman. Lee and Herman are not doing the work, I am and I hope you are. I can give my clients lists of resources all day, but in the end, if they cannot get help from anywhere on the list, it is pointless. What does help is educating people like Lee and Herman about the problem and getting everyone on the same page to make changes.
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Ben Hart
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Woodlake
Katherine
I have been up since four in the morning in addition to working my retail job. I am repainting a map of the entire town for this flier. This is just one of the major, massive projects I have planned for Athens.

I do not need someone replying to the comment of someone sympathizing with criticism of me and saying that that perspective -- which includes one guy who doesn't even visit our public library but wanted to make up a story to play pretend and materialize the shadows he sees on the walls of his personal cave -- is reality.

You should be using your platform and your education to inform the public just how much people need these resources., not lifting up the flame so that the shadows grow bigger. I understand that you probably just wanted to vent. We are in public. Not everyone reading your comments has the privilege of the education we both had.

People like me, who I am willing to bet are making way less than you can imagine at our regular jobs, are out there spending our off-time actually talking to the homeless, making sure they have what they need.

If you want to help, once again, my DMs are always open.

Ben Hart@pavlovforgoths.com

If you want to see me doing this in a different way, there's the replies to a local Nextdoor post. I don't think Katherine thinks that I'm 'supporting the homeless economy,' but I definitely think she didn't read the comments thoroughly before responding.