Summary
Elon Musk has called homelessness a “lie” and “propaganda,” claiming advocacy groups profit from maintaining high homelessness rates.
Partnering with Donald Trump, Musk is pushing for drastic federal budget cuts targeting programs for vulnerable populations, including food stamps and healthcare.
Trump’s plan includes forcing unhoused individuals into treatment or institutionalization.
Critics argue these approaches criminalize homelessness while ignoring root causes like lack of affordable housing.
Homelessness in the U.S. has reached record levels, with 650,000 people affected in 2023, prompting calls for evidence-based solutions over punitive measures.
Can’t he fuck off and die on Mars already?
Trump’s plan includes forcing unhoused individuals into treatment or institutionalization.
The good old Victorian approach
“What you actually have are violent drug zombies with dead eyes, and needles and human feces on the street.”
Yo this is the most cartoonish out-of-touch shit take I’ve see. In an election that accused a disenfranchised minority group of eating people’s pets!
So the one thing that differentiates homeless people and CEOs in shit in the street?
What an objectively evil thing to think, let alone say.
You reap what you sow. I hope you will suffer for your stupidity.
Once upon a time, I was saving for a Tesla. Not anymore. The end.
Going for a Nisan Leaf?
Someone tell me how this guy is NOT an idiot but smart, and got rich by being smart. This line of thinking is just going to incite a civil war and tank the economy. Everyone is three meals away from a revolution.
Nah musk was born rich. Blood diamond wealthy. However just enough stupid “rich” fucks buy into his stupid branding: ie the cybertruck
trump already believes homeless people are richer than him because they don’t hold debt.
What happened to “make Orwell fiction again” Elon?
Elon Musk is a certified piece of shit.
How many keurigs do he think he weighs?
Lol, Courics! Keurig is a coffee maker whereas Katie Couric is a piece of shit.
Elon
MuskCuntWe’ve all agreed that cunt is not suitable to describe him as, per the Internet, “a cunt has warmth and depth”…two qualities that Elon clearly fucking lacks.
I reserve your definition for vagina or pussy.
Elon is the coarse derogatory dried up sandy rocky Tanami desert Aussie version.
We don’t certify pieces of shit.
We just set them on fire.
Centrist?
He has no moral code beyond what benefits him most. Even centrists have ideals they somewhat stick to. Elon just believes in whatever benefits him most in the moment. I think it is like a character trait almost, he has a great instinct for how to make money with (other people’s) money. Kinda like the world class poker players. Doesn’t mean I admire them, or hold more weight to their opinions.
But people worship famous gamblers Why not someone who looks like they belong in middle stage of an Animorphs cover?
Reread the comment.
Musk just went from giant douche to pure evil.
The man is literally insane now.I suppose it’s good he moved to USA, he is fitting in nicely.
Homelessness couldn’t possibly be the result of late stage capitalism though, right?
It’s a result of any stage of capitalism
Excellent point.
Artificial Scarcity
I’mIt’s also interesting to think about the level of artificial unemployment. In theory everyone could work… and a lot less hours, and we would have no scarcity.
We would never do it but I have a theory that we could set aside 20T (less than 1 year of GDP) and it would be enough money to build everyone in the U.S. a house and provide free housing for everyone in America, without ever touching the initial investment, and setting aside 3% to assure if we keep inflation below 3% a year if would cover housing indefinitely. That’s based off the 2.5 people per household average, and building a new house every 30 years at a base price of $250,000. Which at mass production, would be the equivalent of a much more costly house. Could repurpose what we have to house people until everyone got moved in over a generation.
What that does is free up ~$1400-$1900 dollars a month for the average household, and instead of having to stash money in savings over the worries of losing a job and becoming homeless (which stunts the economy), it incentivises people to go eat at a restaurant more often, have a kid they were worried about having, buy nicer things. All of which is spending money and boosting the economy. More kids… Less/near 0 homeless… and booming economy that will offset the original investment. Stress levels down, happiness levels up… which should also mean health issues should decrease.
Who knows…
(That’s over 2T a year being added back into the economy, also we don’t have to build all new, refurbish/keep older homes that people want works as well, figure out solutions that have less impact on the environment, and can plan more walkable, heathier towns when building them)
“Have they no refuge or resource?” cried Scrooge.
“Are there no prisons?” said the Spirit, turning on him for the last time with his own words. “Are there no workhouses?”“If they would rather die, they better do it and decrease the surplus population.”
Fuckin’ hell, fiction is a warning not a guide, you filthy-rich absolute cockwombles.
I seem to recall seeing a Christmas Carol story with Trump when he was last president in which the spirits tried warning him and he didn’t get any of it, thinking that everything was just showing that he’s the greatest. Accurate.
Is there going to be room in the detention camps for the homeless?
Instead of Jews, it’s Hispanics. Instead of gypsies, it’s the homeless. And instead of trans people…well that one is the same.
Lolbruh, plenty of room on the cattle cars for all of the above. Maybe I’ll run into you.
What makes you think that Trump intends to spare the gypsies?
We don’t really have Roma people in the US.
But we do have people who can be accused of being Roma, followed by an explanation of why that is somehow bad.
Objective truth no longer has a horse in this race.
Yeah but I don’t think most people in the US know what that is. It wouldn’t be useful to them. If they wanted to demonize someone, they’d call them addicts or illegal immigrants or something.
Bro america has Travelers. They are Roma people. You didn’t know this?
They have to put that concentration of people somewhere.
It’s so easy to imagine camps where they implant the homeless with a neuralink chip, dress them up in an Optimus suit and put them to work in a mega factory.
I think you would like the movie “Sorry to Bother You”.
Aren’t you listening? There are no homeless and there definitely aren’t any detention camps.
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Those camps will be the answer to homelessness if these ghouls have their way.
They are having their way, there’s no “if” anymore.
Fuck you, I kinda rely on that shit to feed my family because my employer doesnt give out any annual increases or anything. I also use the state health insurance and my wife uses other government assistance programs. Dudes really just want me to protest outside of the White House.
I’m afraid that Americans are about to find out that the right to protest isn’t one that fascist dictatorships are too keen on. They really enjoy killing and jailing dissidents, though.
Dudes really just want me to protest outside of the White House.
Dudes want you to die.
You going to try to get a better job or just keep taking pay decreases year after year?
Apparently no one wants me. Never stopped applying.
