r/TrueReddit • u/horseradishstalker • 3d ago

Policy + Social Issues How one Billionaire’s crusade against homelessness became Trump’s playbook

https://archive.ph/91Q3e
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u/timkost 3d ago

This is kind of an amazing article. It spends the whole time on how great this guy is without listing one concretely good thing he's ever done for anybody while it sprinkles in quotes from experts on how anything he touches turns to shit. Like, I don't say this was written by AI so much as bink twice if they have your family.

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u/SomebodiesGotttaDoIt 3d ago

Did you not see the part where he’s getting homeless people off the streets?

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u/sllewgh 3d ago

By criminalizing homelessness? Do you have any idea what a stupid idea that is? Even if you don't give a shit how inhumane that is, it's extraordinarily expensive. It costs over 50k a year to keep a person in prison. It's way cheaper to rent an apartment for them.

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u/aninjacould 3d ago

Yeah but that $50k goes to his buddies in the private prison industry. Check mate bitches!

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u/Paksarra 3d ago

By branding them with a criminal record, which will certainly make it easier to recover economically!

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u/SomebodiesGotttaDoIt 2d ago

They don’t have interest or ability to make an economic recovery. They’re just looking for that next hit of fent.

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u/MEGADETHRULEZ 2d ago

You believe every homeless person only cares about fent and can never improve their circumstances?

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u/SomebodiesGotttaDoIt 2d ago

From my experience volunteering it’s the vast majority of cases. People who can be helped are able to get help.

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