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Enough Musk Spam

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 minutes ago

One of the talking points in South Africa goes like this:
The "homeless" black people that live in corrugated metal slums all have mansions that were stolen from white people and given to them by the government when apartheid ended.
They choose to live in slums to work in the cities, and go back to their mansions when they're not working. Alternatively, they don't live at their mansions because they are too lazy/dumb to actually take care of the property.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 27 minutes ago (1 children)

the US in total is a right-wing place that thinks that "hard work" is the way of life, and anybody who doesn't adhere to that is a "drug-addict" or a psychopath.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 minutes ago

Which is wildly ironic because billionaires don’t actually work.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 30 minutes ago

Bet Elon he can't beat homelessness with 19 billions.

Bro will do it just to prove you wrong

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

Homelessness is never a lie. Beggars, however, do sometimes game the system trying to get easy money. They are not nor ever have been homeless

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

Also half of all homeless people are foster kids who aged out of the system. They don't have a family to fall back on.

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

Not allowing billionaires to exist would end homelessness

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 minutes ago

tax the rich!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Wild claim, considering Musk is one of the most violent drug addicts who has ever lived.

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

He is so fucking incoherent from all the ketamine it isn't funny.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Says the homeless illegal.immigrant from a apartheid

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

take it from him

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

@Confidant6198
"secular talk" is wrong here.

Musk is an absolute psychopath without any empathy. He doesn't need any excuse to sleep at night knowing all the harm he did to the world.

By destroying USAID, this devil just threw millions of people into starvation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Read the rest of the comment. They weren't talking about the $20bn number being wrong.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour ago

Right, it was mostly irrelevant. Also a person who doesn’t understand the role of USAID.

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/02/08/742401/aiding-chaos-usaid-role-engineering-regime-change-social-unrest-worldwide

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 hours ago

TIL Elon Musk is homeless.

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

Elon spouts BS all the time, but $20 billion to end homelessness is some of the biggest bullshit I've ever heard.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

You should have some sympathy for Musk, since apparently you also like to talk out of your ass without looking into it.

https://aah-inc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/whomeless.pdf

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I work serving the homeless. We spent $10 billion for one year during COVID just to include all of the students who didn't already get free school meals to have it during that time. Unless you're only providing cots and Porto-johns, that number might work as an annual figure, until inflation hits, or the numbers go up because once you offer free housing, more people will try to become eligible.

Sounds to me like you're the one talking out your ass.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Then present your data. Hell, publish your data. If you know better than the experts at HUD, and can prove it, it should be quite the boon to your career.

But you’re not wrong that band-aids for systemic problems are much more expensive than solving them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 34 minutes ago

Most free housing doesnt allow drugs, which is the main problem homeless people have with living in them.

Then you have the general maintenance issues, fire risk, nimbyism. Is it really that simple?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

These numbers are extremely unsubstantiated. If you think giving someone $40k will permanently save them from homelessness I have a bridge to sell you.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour ago

If you can provide six months of housing, food and support then a person could start earning for themselves. You don't have to provide a lifetime of help for $40,000

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Let’s see your study. What do you know that HUD experts don’t?

People also said you can’t solve homelessness by giving them homes, and Finland did it with ease.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 38 minutes ago

For example, California spent over $24 billion over a period of five years and didn't even make a dent.

Homelessness is not a simple problem you can just throw money at. People will consistently fall through the societal cracks.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 hours ago

Liquidate Musk

[–] [email protected] 35 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

It's amazing that a man who does enough ket to bring down a racehorse even dares to use the phrase "drug addict" as an insult.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Not unusual for addicts to displace blame onto the people around them in order to justify their addictions.

The difference between Musk, Thiel, et al and your average American junkie is simply their line of credit. They can keep taking experimental intoxicants, safe in the knowledge their friends will loan them another $2M the next time they wrap their McLauren around a stop sign.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 14 hours ago

Whether someone is a drug addict with severe mental illness is irrelevant to whether they're homeless or not.

Do they have somewhere to live that has a permanent address? No? Then they're homeless and need help.

Obviously there's a bit of nuance with things like ProxyAddress where homeless people can have permanent addresses but still be homeless, but the gist of my point is the same! Do they have a home or not?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 17 hours ago

He's a violent drug addict, way more dangerous and destructive than any homeless person could be.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

The word Elon is a propaganda word it is a lie. It is actually Felon, which is a violent drug addict with mental illness.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (4 children)

where does he even get that idea? i never heard people refer to Elon as homeless.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Not sure about now, but there was a time period where he owned no properties and lived in the houses of friends. Staying in someone's fourth home is not a hardship, but technically he didn't have a home.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I don't believe it, and even if it's true it wasn't out of necessity. he probably found it convenient to mooch off people like he always does one way or another as a lifelong parasite. he was born into immense wealth. literally the only thing he's ever done is buy companies. that's his entire career.

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