did you know that iowa has a homeless population of 2,315

did you know that if he wanted to he could give every homeless person in iowa a free apartment at an average cost of 80k per apartment

did you know that obliterating homelessness in an entire state would probably make you win that entire state because you could just say 'lol i eradicated homelessness in iowa what did these other nerds do'

  • fed [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    i'll take the possibility of helping 300 million people over a few thousand lol

    • kristina [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      ok so if i ran for president with a small chance to win (e.g. 0.00000001%) youd send me cash? lol

      • fed [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        wow what a good hypothetical and totally not inane bs.

        But I would rather have someone tackle the systemic reasons homelessness occurs nation wide rather than elevate 2000 people out of homelessness in a single state while hundreds of thousands remain homeless in the other 49.

          • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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            4 years ago

            yeah i feel like it is wishful thinking because it runs counter to the material interests of the press. Bernie is not the perfect socialist but he has done some good looking out for average americans already in his career and they still slandered him. There were plenty of things along those lines, him getting arrested at the civil rights, him speaking up for womens rights, some of the grassroots stuff he did in his state that helped working class people with rent and stuff like that. They would have spun it in some way to make people think he was doing something nefarious just like they always do.

            either way the point is moot bc I can't imagine capital just sitting idly by while someone just goes outside and does something that materially beneficial to working class people, there's undoubtedly limits on what can be done with campaign money that leads to it being put in the hands of capitalists.

        • kristina [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          but you forget that if you lose, nothing happens. zero.

          id take the greater chance of something happening vs absolutely nothing and a bunch of rich people getting richer with that dough you spent.

    • ComradeMikey [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      lol bernie wouldn’t have won and if he did nothing would have changed except the movement he built.