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.
You reap what you sow. I hope you will suffer for your stupidity.
He will be fine but others less fortunate will suffer.
Can’t he fuck off and die on Mars already?
Someone should tell him that we know more about the mountain and canyons of Mars than we do about the depths of the ocean… and tell him that carbon fiber actually IS the best material for a submarine… and tell him that the best shipwrecks to go to are WW1 military shipwrecks…
If these people really think that all it takes to get wealthy is hard work then they have the chance soon to prove it by going to Mars starting from scratch and see whether they can get themselves wealthy again through hard work. If they don’t I guess they don’t deserve these riches anyways.
Wow, that’s… Just wow.
“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?”I love it when the educated turn up to comment
“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.
Anyone have a link to this story?
What complete and utter morons. Just like the majority of American voters.
Is this a dead cat?
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
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?
Check the see also for a chuckle.
“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.”
He’s sadly got a bit of truth there.
I’ve heard it called the homeless industrial complex, groups get public sector funding to purchase necessities and camping equipment for distribution. Occasionally drop shipping it and paying themselves or some other double Irish maneuver.
Then the encampment gets bulldozed/ razed/ robbed/ flooded and its all destroyed along with any progress the unhoused have managed and all their belongings and reserves.
And they get handed new tents and socks and instant ramen etc.
Meanwhile the persons medical care from sleeping outside skyrockets occupying a large chunk of their discretionary time. As a huge obstacle to getting back on their feet.
So the government is paying someone to help them sleep outside, and paying for the consequences of them sleeping outside, and collecting no tax revenue.
Might as well just give them an apartment, if the cruelty wasn’t the point that is.
Social workers making literally tens of thousand of dollars a year off of this. That’s enough to be rich according to people who make that much while eating a french fry.
Oooo. “Tens of thousands” you say? It almost sounds like keeping people from dying in the street should be a full-time job.
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.
For someone with the means to reach infinite corners of the globe he’s so out of touch with the world
Is there going to be room in the detention camps for the homeless?
They have to put that concentration of people somewhere.
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.
Most people in the US don’t even know the Roma consider ‘Gypsy’ to be a slur.
They also don’t know that the same slur is used for Irish Travellers. Or that there are such a thing as Irish Travellers.
Bro america has Travelers. They are Roma people. You didn’t know this?
Those camps will be the answer to homelessness if these ghouls have their way.
They are having their way, there’s no “if” anymore.
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”.
I was thinking more of The Black Hole (1979). They used this concept in a way. And that was even a Disney movie.
I loved that movie growing up. Idk if you saw the one I mentioned, but it really has almost everything you talked about in it. Not Optimus suit so much, but the rest.
I’ve seen the Sorry to bother you. I recall the jail/sweat shop thing. Seems like conditions in many Asian places.
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trump already believes homeless people are richer than him because they don’t hold debt.
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.
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.
Sorry to hear that, I wish you the best.
Dudes really just want me to protest outside of the White House.
Dudes want you to die.
Yeah, he’s going to gas anyone outside the white house. That’s not a bad reason to protest, though, honestly.
Man, jus the absolute cruelty and heartlessness of this.
As always, it’s the point.
Such ignorance. Has he never been down the CA coast? Homeless along the highways, on the beaches, 40,000 in LA alone.
He has, he knows but fascists like Leon use language to attack people who believe words have meaning and convey meaning and aren’t just weapons.
He knows he’s wrong and despised but he doesn’t care because he’s convinced himself we are not people.
What if Luigi was acquitted and launched a startup that sold guillotines at cost…
