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Enough Musk Spam

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[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours 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.

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 12 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours 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

[–] adm@lemm.ee 7 points 6 hours 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.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 7 hours 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.

[–] Gowron_Howard@lemm.ee 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

*working and grifting

where grifting essentially means forcing your subordinates to work harder

[–] murmurations 7 points 7 hours ago (1 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.

[–] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours 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.

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 25 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 1 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 6 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 13 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Not allowing billionaires to exist would end homelessness

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 9 points 8 hours 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.

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

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

Bro will do it just to prove you wrong

[–] RaphJ@mamot.fr 8 points 10 hours ago (3 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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[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 32 points 14 hours ago

TIL Elon Musk is homeless.

[–] Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

take it from him

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 9 hours ago

Says the homeless illegal.immigrant from a apartheid

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 2 points 10 hours ago (11 children)

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

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