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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[–] 233 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Homelessness couldn’t possibly be the result of late stage capitalism though, right?

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  • [–] 222 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    Elon Musk is a certified piece of shit.

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    [–] 81 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    Is there going to be room in the detention camps for the homeless?

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    [–] 74 points 2 years ago

    What an objectively evil thing to think, let alone say.

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  • [–] 72 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    “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!

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    [–] 69 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    "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?"

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    "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.

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    [–] 51 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    How far up the ivory tower do you need to be to ignore homelessness by denying its existence?

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago

    It’s an old old myth. Ronald Reagan said that everyone who is homeless in America is by choice since there’s so many shelters and charities already. It’s incredibly out of touch, but today people like Musk brag about their ignorance.

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    So... You think people who are homeless are just lying about not having a home?

    Can we check this fuckstick for brain worms or just if his brain looks like swiss cheese?

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    [–] 44 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    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.

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    [–] 42 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Can't he fuck off and die on Mars already?

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    Remember people Luigi didn’t do it and it’s very important that twelve people in either new york or Pennsylvania say the same. But if he did do it, which he absolutely didn’t, I think it was pretty [redacted] (not condoning it 👉👈 unless).

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    With the insane amount of support he's gotten, I've little doubt there will be copycats attempting to gain their own bit of limelight. Things might get really interesting should they organize into terrorist groups like has happened in so many other countries. Then the US will be one of those "third world shitholes" Trump was complaining about in his first term.

    Trump: Making America Galling Again

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Market Capitalism needs homelessness.

    If you will not make the owner's money through labor, You will help them make money as capitalist scarecrows. A warning to any laborer thinking of failing to comply.

    You WILL serve the owner's greed disease, or else.

    It would literally be cheaper to house them without conditions than all the conditioned programs and homeless encampment clean up costs.

    But that doesn't send a message of fear.

    Herp derp Freedom 🇺🇸

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    [–] 37 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Homelessness is a lie and propaganda? That's news to all the homeless people I used to regularly interact with when I worked down town.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago*

    Kind of like the "self-made billionaire."

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago

    Depose Musk

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    "claiming advocacy groups profit from maintaining high homelessness rates."

    Uhhh . . . how? "You there! Go be homeless! I need to profit from your utter lack of income."

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    [–] 28 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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    [–] 26 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Elon Musk is actually bullet proof. Impervious to bullets. I guarantee it.

    *Ymmv

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    Of course it's a lie. With his money, he could end it overnight.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago*

    Sir, you can't sleep here.

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

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago

    Fucking piece of shit. How are gonna stand this, bullshit....

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago

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

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    [–] 18 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    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.

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    [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Just think how much more productive they'll be as prisoners working as slave labor. Why spend money fighting homelessness when you can make money off it instead? Everybody wins!

    Well, everybody that matters anyway.

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    [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    You can just tell these fucks have never been outside of an environment meticulously prepared for their pompous spoiled presence.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Man, jus the absolute cruelty and heartlessness of this.

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    [–] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Once upon a time, I was saving for a Tesla. Not anymore. The end.

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    [–] 17 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Here's my pipe dream

    Shit gets worse, were all homeless, we protest, they sick AI drones to kill us but oopsie, the AI botnet escapes, decides ~1000 bullets is far more efficient than ~1B, and neutralizes wealth in a highly organized and efficient attack.

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    [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    He's, like, been outside, right?

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    [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    He's completely detached from reality.

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