That tastes like urine apparently.
Should have been limp bizkit.
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Elon has gone from donating enough money to end the unhoused to calling them zombies in one year. Quite the evolution.
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Sure but that’s not really data either I imagine, just unchallenged false narratives.
We’re at a point where both sides agree that downtown areas are lawless hellscapes overrun by homeless people, we just disagree on why it happened.
Was just on a surf trip with all Australians and they were like yeah what’s the deal with homeless people? No I mean why do you have them? People aren’t homeless where we are from.
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The Australian government says there’s 120,000+ homeless people in Australia.
That’s about 0.5% of the population. In the US the homeless population is something like 0.2% of the population,
My guess is that in Australia there are some basic social safety nets that make the homeless population less catastrophically destitute and on the streets literally starving to death, so they think they don’t have them.
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Has heroin and fentanyl hit Australia as bad as the US? I’m curious if the high housing costs in the US pushes people to be homeless and then the drug epidemic means the homeless congregate more than they used to creating a more visible and chaotic homeless than otherwise.
My guess is a large portion of these are indigenous who live in dusty towns that most white Aussies never see.
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https://twitter.com/StoolGreenie/status/1643000335710179328?s=20
https://twitter.com/HPbasketball/status/1643000486281482240?s=20
You could buy the Yankees, Jets, Knicks, Rangers and still have probably 20 billion left over.
And then you could have someone pay you to take the Mets
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@microbet posted recently about homeless UK stats, and how the UK would call our homless “rough sleepers” and what they call homeless, we call housed
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WTF lol. We have a huge housing crisis. Curious as to whether these people have ever been to an inner city in any Australian large city.
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I am often in downtown San Francisco or Los Angeles. This just isn’t true. Maybe we need a third side.
The numbers seem off though and probably because different countries define homeless in a different way. Plenty of people living on the streets in Sydney and it is clearly increasing again after covid but I haven’t seen them in the same numbers as I saw them in the big cities in the US. Sydney has quite a lot of shelters though so even if homeless you don’t have to sleep on the street.
Having reasonably available healthcare probably helps (idk what the specifics of Australia’s system are, I just assume it’s better than America’s which seems like a safe assumption)