Elon Musk calls homelessness a ‘lie’ and ‘propaganda’ — and Trump is listening

Homelessness couldn’t possibly be the result of late stage capitalism though, right?

Elon Musk is a certified piece of shit.

Is there going to be room in the detention camps for the homeless?

What an objectively evil thing to think, let alone say.

“What you actually have are violent drug zombies with dead eyes, and needles and human feces on the street.”

Yo this is the most cartoonish out-of-touch shit take I've see. In an election that accused a disenfranchised minority group of eating people's pets!

"Have they no refuge or resource?" cried Scrooge.
"Are there no prisons?" said the Spirit, turning on him for the last time with his own words. "Are there no workhouses?"

How far up the ivory tower do you need to be to ignore homelessness by denying its existence?

So... You think people who are homeless are just lying about not having a home?

Can we check this fuckstick for brain worms or just if his brain looks like swiss cheese?

Fuck you, I kinda rely on that shit to feed my family because my employer doesnt give out any annual increases or anything. I also use the state health insurance and my wife uses other government assistance programs. Dudes really just want me to protest outside of the White House.

Can't he fuck off and die on Mars already?

Where's a Luigi when you need 'em.

Musk just went from giant douche to pure evil.
The man is literally insane now.

I suppose it's good he moved to USA, he is fitting in nicely.

Homelessness is a lie and propaganda? That's news to all the homeless people I used to regularly interact with when I worked down town.

Market Capitalism needs homelessness.

If you will not make the owner's money through labor, You will help them make money as capitalist scarecrows. A warning to any laborer thinking of failing to comply.

You WILL serve the owner's greed disease, or else.

It would literally be cheaper to house them without conditions than all the conditioned programs and homeless encampment clean up costs.

But that doesn't send a message of fear.

Herp derp Freedom 🇺🇸

Kind of like the "self-made billionaire."

Depose Musk

"claiming advocacy groups profit from maintaining high homelessness rates."

Uhhh . . . how? "You there! Go be homeless! I need to profit from your utter lack of income."

Wow, I didn't think I could hate him more. But - here we are.

Elon Musk is actually bullet proof. Impervious to bullets. I guarantee it.

*Ymmv

Of course it's a lie. With his money, he could end it overnight.

Sir, you can't sleep here.

"Didn't you hear? I don't exist."

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

He says it’s a lie because he thinks those people are just NPCs

Forcing the homeless into privately run concentration camps. What a sick bastard.

Living on latitude 60 where being homeless can (and sometimes does) kill - I think the first step is giving a person who is homeless a place where they can set up a (semi)permanent home. That will go a long way towards solving the underlying issues which a shelter system cannot address.

A relevant paper from the EU Commission:

In February 2008, the Finnish government adopted a programme aimed at halving long-term homelessness by 2011. Referring to the “Housing First” principle, which considers that appropriate permanent accommodation is a prerequisite for solving other social and health problems, the programme seeks to reduce and gradually abandon the use of conventional shelters and change them into supported rented accommodation units.

Outcomes via OECD:

While there is no OECD-wide average against which to compare Finland’s homeless rate of 0.08%, other countries with similarly broad definitions of homelessness provide points of reference, such as neighbouring Sweden (0.33%) or the Netherlands (0.23%). [1]

Finland’s success is not a matter of luck or the outcome of “quick fixes.” Rather, it is the result of a sustained, well-resourced national strategy, driven by a “Housing First” approach, which provides people experiencing homelessness with immediate, independent, permanent housing, rather than temporary accommodation (OECD, 2020).

Getting better outcomes than neighbours is a reliable indicator that a policy does work.

P.S.

Regarding Musk:

"Downregulate Musk" will be my anwer to any mention of this election-buying oligarch, probably for a while. A kneejerking far rightist is no person to call any policies.

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

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.

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.

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

Man, jus the absolute cruelty and heartlessness of this.

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.

He's, like, been outside, right?

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.

He's completely detached from reality.

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.

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

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.

It is so disgusting. Print out this news article, stick it to your wall. Read it every day to remember why these people are a disease to society.

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

The good old Victorian approach

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

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

Is this a dead cat?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_cat_strategy

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

What happened to "make Orwell fiction again" Elon?

This is the danger of elite projection. What his life is like must be how other people's lives are like.

He was successful. If he wanted to get a job, he could. If he did work, he got paid.

If these people aren't doing that, it must be their fault, and they need "treatment" (via institutionalization) in his mind. It couldn't possibly be because to get a job, you often need existing housing, but to get housing, you need money from a job. Or the fact that people like him don't pay enough.

It's always their fault. Individual responsibility, meritocracy and all that jazz.

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

Clearly we can solve homelessness by simply terraforming Mars and moving all the homeless there, right?

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.

Boycott Tesla. Loss of money is all he understands.

The rest doesn't mean shit to him.

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

It was only a few months ago this tool was complain about how dangerous the homeless were @ the San Fran Twitter HQ.

Easy for a billionaire to say.

Such ignorance. Has he never been down the CA coast? Homeless along the highways, on the beaches, 40,000 in LA alone.

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

Likewise I call billionaires a lie and propaganda.

What complete and utter morons. Just like the majority of American voters.

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

For someone with the means to reach infinite corners of the globe he’s so out of touch with the world

Musk is pushing for drastic federal budget cuts targeting programs for vulnerable populations

Billionaire cuts services for the poor. Bears continue to shit in the woods. What next? The sun rises in the morning?

Isn't this just the exact opposite of the de-institutionization that happened during Kennedy back in the 1960's? Which Reagan then ruined in the 1980's by defunding the programs that supported the people who would previously be housed in a mental institution that were put forth by Carter?

Feels like it's just admitting Reagan fucked up. But trying to fix it by spending government money on rebuilding the mental institution system. Doesn't make any sense.

Let's just wait until Leon tells Trump the territory Russia occupies in Ukraine is worth more than Greenland in natural ressources. He'll even fight Putin to own this land.

In a wraparound evil way they are providing housing for homeless.

Now that cannabis gets legalized you need a new way to fill the jails...

Wow, that's... Just wow.

Elon Musk does not know the difference between homeless and rough sleeping.

Don't believe your eyes. Don't believe your experiences. Believe douche bag magee elon musk because he????????? For no reason.

We must make him a liar then

It is real.

in a world where private prisons are a thing, punitive measures mean business. Cut help for vulnerable populations, redirect funds to businesses, it's the same reverse-Robinhood shit; steal from the poor, give to the rich, with the added twist of "convince the poor this is good for them so they will vote you into power (until we figure out how to fix this "voting" nuisance for good)

Work camps are coming.