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Enough Musk Spam

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Why does "violent drug addicts with severe mental illness" mean somehow they shouldn't be helped anyways?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Homeless: without a home.

Weird how he’s lying again. I’ve been there, and I can promise this fuckwit that not having a roof or food in the middle of winter in a city where the stoplights literally freeze is not some kind of illusion. That being prodded away from a public bench in sub-zero temperatures so you can shamble a few blocks whilst the sleep in your eyes freezes, over and over for weeks, so you can’t get more than an hour sleep at a time for months, isn’t the holiday he thinks it is.

Jesus christ, I bob my head to the surface for this? It’s like he’s not even trying to be relatable now.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Let's say, for sake of argument, that Elon is correct. Should we not be helping people with severe mental illness?

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

I can’t speak for Elon (and will not defend him) but Kyle (from Secular Talk) is dramatically underestimating the problem by tossing out the $20 billion figure. You can’t just throw a bunch of money at a person with severe mental illnesses and addictions and just expect them to be okay.

The state of California has spent over $24 billion on homelessness since 2019 yet the number of homeless people in the state has grown by 20%. Obviously they aren’t spending the money wisely in a manner that would maximize reduction of homelessness, but Kyle didn’t specify how the money should be spent either. Perhaps that’s actually the hard problem: how do you spend the money in the way that would be most effective?

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

He is a literal NAZI! So he wants mentaly ill to suffer for losing the gene lottery!

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

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

I wonder what we should call a violent drug addict, convicted of inciting insurrection, living in housing paid for by the public ?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

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

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

Remember, they are saying what would need to be true to justify what they plan to do. This should be read as Elon declaring intent to put homeless people in camps.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago

TIL Elon Musk is homeless.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not allowing billionaires to exist would end homelessness

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

tax the rich!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day 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] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

*working and grifting

where grifting essentially means forcing your subordinates to work harder

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

You know, even if what he's saying is half true. We HAD systems to help those mentally ill drug addicts and they got gutted. Making them, wait for it, Homeless! you prick.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days 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] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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] 2 points 1 day ago

Several times in the US I've been told that people flying a sign are actually rich from all the money they are given. Totally absurd but people believe it. Mansions they don't live in is on another level though

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

Hahaha that's gold. It's kind of hard for me to accept anybody really believes that. Feels like some disingenuous conviction there or deliberately not examining the statement because they know on at least one level it's too completely illogical to be true but then again there are some people who've had such serious distortions to their reasoning over time that they're not even lying anymore when they claim to believe this stuff.

[–] [email protected] 112 points 2 days ago (2 children)

having been homeless…

the fuck is he talking about and who the fuck does he think he's fooling

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Himself and his other techbro friends that couch surfed for a while, aka violent drug addicts with severe mental health issues.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (6 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.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days 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.

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

A billionaire is the equivalent of a person sitting in a cafeteria who bought every piece of food in the restaurant kitchen and doesn't want to share any of it with the thousand people sitting around him even though he'll never be able to eat all the food they bought.

Owning and controlling so much wealth that you'll never be able to enjoy everything you have in a lifetime isn't a success or a sign of intelligence .... it's a mental illness. Especially when all that wealth and control could mean the life or death of thousands or millions of people everywhere.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Depressing fact: Most of the homeless people you see acting all crazy and talking to themselves all the time behaved normally when they started being homeless. It's spending years in complete isolation, being constantly ignored by everyone around you and having no one to talk to that makes you act like this.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I'm surprised he chose to express his point in this manner. Unless this is an expression of humanity from Mr Musk that we're so otherwise unaccustomed to that it's hard to recognise, then I assume he wants to persuade people to have less empathy or sympathy for homeless people, not more. This statement, taken at face value would seem to suggest that contrary to what some may think, homeless people are facing significant challenges not of their own making that have contributed directly to their circumstances.

I'm going to guess that's not how he meant it

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days 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] 13 points 2 days ago

Liquidate Musk

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 days ago

Elon’s very familiar with the condition of homeless drug addicts.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 days ago (7 children)

So the mentally ill deserve to be left to rot in the streets? Why else have a social safety net, if not for them?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.

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