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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] 14 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I suggest to remedy what must clearly be a misunderstanding, we give him a deep and personal insight: Cut him off from all of his assets, give him nothing but a set of cheap clothes and kick him to the curb.

Of course, we'd need to make sure his billionaire buddies don't help him, but maybe we can just enroll them in this experiment too.

Actually, they might just promise someone a reward once they get access to their funds again, so we need to make sure that this can't influence the experiment. Maybe we could just seize the assets without giving them back? With their hard work, surely they can get back to where they were, pulling bootstraps and all.

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[–] PedroMaldonado 22 points 5 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

He made his fortune the honest way, by profiting off of the slave labor in his father's Emerald mines.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago

Seems like a great place to start after virtually the entire country praised the actions of a man who killed a CEO for exploiting poor people.

[–] Makeitstop 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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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[–] alekwithak 18 points 5 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Trump’s plan includes forcing unhoused individuals into treatment or institutionalization.

The good old Victorian approach

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[–] FlyingSquid 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

He's, like, been outside, right?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Man, jus the absolute cruelty and heartlessness of this.

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[–] foggy 17 points 5 days 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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[–] Snapz 6 points 4 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Elon is just one $400 billion hospital bill away from being homeless like the rest of us.

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[–] diffusive 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Every action involves a reaction.

You cut taxes? What will be lost? This is not an exception.

Half million people that have literally nothing to lose (even a prison may be a safer place for them) is quite an army. Desperate people are famous for doing desperate things.

This will not end up well and not only for the homeless

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[–] Rapidcreek 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

He's completely detached from reality.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

trump already believes homeless people are richer than him because they don't hold debt.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You reap what you sow. I hope you will suffer for your stupidity.

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[–] WrenFeathers 8 points 5 days ago

It’s rather interesting to see trump falling for the same bullshit he feeds his devoted minions.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

Sounds like the kind of thing a tyrannical government would say.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

What happened to "make Orwell fiction again" Elon?

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