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.
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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.
He's completely detached from reality.
Always has been.
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.
Yeah, it's not the homeless people that are victims of a cruel society that has not only abandoned but also ostracized them. It's the wealthy that have to share an imperceptible amount of their wealth so that they have somewhere to sleep.
Trump’s plan includes forcing unhoused individuals into treatment or institutionalization.
The good old Victorian approach
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
You reap what you sow. I hope you will suffer for your stupidity.
What happened to "make Orwell fiction again" Elon?
Clearly we can solve homelessness by simply terraforming Mars and moving all the homeless there, right?
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
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.
It was only a few months ago this tool was complain about how dangerous the homeless were @ the San Fran Twitter HQ.
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.
Boycott Tesla. Loss of money is all he understands.
The rest doesn't mean shit to him.
Likewise I call billionaires a lie and propaganda.
Sounds like the kind of thing a tyrannical government would say.
What if Luigi was acquitted and launched a startup that sold guillotines at cost...