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Enough Musk Spam

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[–] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 days 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

Compulsive lying and Ketamine abuse are the only things Elon knows anything about.

[–] Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

take it from him

[–] Tempus_Fugit@midwest.social 7 points 6 days ago

He's just getting ahead of all that homelessness he and his orange friend are about to institute.

[–] LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Respect to Kyle. Dude started off in the Atheist channel days of YouTube and didn't fall down the gamer gate MRA pipeline like most of them did. That was such a right wing cash grab that so many channels grifted towards.

Then he continued with good left adjacent commentary on most issues and stayed true to his moral compass. Didn't fall for the right wing narratives that TYT and other similar channels had during post COVID. He stayed consistent and didn't grift to the right for a bigger audience.

I disagree with a bit of what he has said over the years. I disagree with him on a lot of "big picture" stuff. But absolute respect to his consistency. I'm pretty sure he's still entirely user funded still (no sponsors etc).

It's refreshing to have watched him on and off for a decade and hes been consistently on the correct side of issues. Its rare to see out of a political commentator.

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[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

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

Bro will do it just to prove you wrong

[–] d00phy@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

In most cases, the word “genius” is a lie. It’s usually a propaganda word for egomaniacal, ketamine-addicted sociopaths.

[–] Kompressor@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

'but if they aren't hungry and homeless where will their motivation to become professionals and have children come from?' they are actually this fucking stupid.

[–] DemBoSain@midwest.social 6 points 6 days ago

Remind me: why do we want mentally-ill drug addicts on our streets again?

[–] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I have noticed a trend of people who think working with the homeless is gonna look like a hallmark card and are shocked and appalled when they get called slurs by a homeless diabetic amputee. Its easy for them to come to the conclusion that these people are homeless because they're assholes. They're right in the sense that most of the more pleasant people never really wind up completely homeless, they can usually find a couch to crash on and a friend's shower to use until they find a new or better job.

But it's also this cycle where having your head shoved back under repeatedly eventually makes you unpleasant so yeah eventually once you start factoring all that trauma you do wind up with somebody who's paranoid, possibly even psychotic related to drug use (tf else are they gonna do with their time? It's not like they're gonna join a pickleball league, and nobody is gonna hire somebody who never showers or has clean clothes, and you need a shitton of calories going into your body to work labor and you can't work labor at all if being unable to afford your metformin got your legs amputated).

So I meet people who volunteer or even come to do paid work in human services and they're like wow I'm helping these people and they cuss me out and yell racial and gendered slurs at me when we're out of turkey sandwiches and I'm just like first of all, learn to appreciate ✨️The Art of The Roast✨️; half the shit these people say is a) true and b) funny asF. And second of all, I know damn well nobody told you to come work in this field for high pay and low stress so we can tell people all we want that we deserve more pay and more staffing and more resources but we all know that ain't coming any time soon so until then if your plan is to sit around complaining then do us all a favor and just leave because you're stressing the rest of us out and we have work to do.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Coming from someone who has never experienced it, nor has anyone in his family history. That is what needs to change in every billionaires life. Make them homeless foa few years and see how they handle it

[–] LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Sadly they can't experience it. Not really.

I remember awhile ago there was some grifter YouTube channel that was posting "Homeless to $100k" videos.

Like even in their made up scenario the first thing they do is ask a friend for a place to stay and some cash.

Like, that's literally the hardest step and they just act like it's so simple to the point of not even addressing it.

Most of the difference between people that end up in the final stage of homelessness and people that got back on their feet is the support systems that are available to them.

Which is why people that work to end homelessness do a lot of work focusing on keeping people from even getting to that last stage of homelessness in the first place. It's much easier for our society to provide safetynets long before anyone ends up on the street addicted to drugs.

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[–] bitofarambler@crazypeople.online 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

his post is factually incorrect, of course.

https://adcare.com/addiction-demographics/homeless-population/

"homeless" is a term used to describe someone who does not live inside a domicile, 40-60% of all homeless people have and hold down jobs.

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[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago

Says the homeless illegal.immigrant from a apartheid

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 2 points 5 days 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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