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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.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Ah yes, it is a "life style" choice and all that jazz..... Not at all the inevitable result of decades plus of poor governance/systemic failures.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Likewise I call billionaires a lie and propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

This is the danger of elite projection. What his life is like must be how other people's lives are like.

He was successful. If he wanted to get a job, he could. If he did work, he got paid.

If these people aren't doing that, it must be their fault, and they need "treatment" (via institutionalization) in his mind. It couldn't possibly be because to get a job, you often need existing housing, but to get housing, you need money from a job. Or the fact that people like him don't pay enough.

It's always their fault. Individual responsibility, meritocracy and all that jazz.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Clearly we can solve homelessness by simply terraforming Mars and moving all the homeless there, right?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Why terraform before sending them there?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It is so disgusting. Print out this news article, stick it to your wall. Read it every day to remember why these people are a disease to society.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Better yet, stick on public walls

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Now that cannabis gets legalized you need a new way to fill the jails...

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wow, I didn't think I could hate him more. But - here we are.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Im almost convinced Trump is picking the worst people possible so he looks good in comparison...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you're picking shitty people it doesn't make you look good, it makes you look like a shitty person for picking shitty people.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Yeah, but you're thinking beyond a 5th grade level.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

Forcing the homeless into privately run concentration camps. What a sick bastard.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

What if Luigi was acquitted and launched a startup that sold guillotines at cost...

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Sir, you can't sleep here.

"Didn't you hear? I don't exist."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Check the see also for a chuckle.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm inclined to agree. The idea that a cabinet-to-be is able to make headlines during a lame duck session is... well, I don't think it's normal, but I may be misremembering.

Nothing earth shattering today (Dec 13) but a few noteworthy things on AP: https://apnews.com/hub/congress

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I've also been wondering that. Seems like news about the incoming trump admin is 10:1 against the outgoing administration. I don't think that happened in 2016?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For someone that claims to be so data-driven, I'd be curious what data he is looking at here when he calls it a lie. I will say that it is factual that the US spends a lot of money on homelessness and we still have homelessness, but the existence of homelessness is not something I would call a lie.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

If his data driven claims aren't just complete bullshit, the data he is talking about tells him that saying this type of shit will get him something he wants. Whether homelessness is real doesn't matter to him.

If his data driven claims are bullshit, he probably saw a homeless person who didn't look exactly like a Hollywood movie homeless person so, per his tiny, tiny idiot brain, they must be faking homelessness.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In a wraparound evil way they are providing housing for homeless.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Also known as concentration camps.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He says it’s a lie because he thinks those people are just NPCs

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He thinks everybody is a NPC, as do all sociopaths.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I think he is in a special group of sociopaths.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

If those nefarious groups are profiting from high level of homelessness, nothing is stopping them from finding sheltered for the unhoused...

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