“Mr Giuliani’s bankruptcy creditors had previously filed a motion to compel him to sell his condo — the former mayor said he needs it to keep him off the streets and recording his podcast”
And…?
Maybe he will finally empathise with those dirty homeless people who should just get a job.
If I’d believe for a second that he might actually end up homeless I’d say “and making anyone homeless for any reason is a bad thing”. But I don’t. And it’s not empathy for him anyway, I just care about the principle of not throwing people into the streets.
Yes, that’s how things work: if you can’t pay your bills, you can be forced to sell stuff. I’m sure there are any number of homeless people who also felt it was unfair to lose their homes. And a lot of them lost their homes through medical debt or simple bad luck, not from deliberately trying to overthrow our system of government.
I genuinely truly hope this is the really message that gets picked up and repeated. It is their exact fucking logic for why they show no empathy for the less fortunate -’ they must have done something to put themselves there.’ Cuz it really doesn’t fucking matter that it is Rudy, literally ANY other politician and entitled wealthy jackals would say. The problem is their toxic hypocrisy that costs people their lives.
Phew sorry. Bit of a rant there on your comment.
There’s a disconnect here: you assume that merit is based upon actions… and it is, for the egalitarian outlook.
An authoritarian outlook assumes merit based on status. As in, ‘if you have status it is due to your intrinsic worth’. Rich people deserve it… because they are rich. It makes my eyes cross and is gut-wrenchingly frustrating, but about 25% of humans lean this way it seems.
Homeless Rudy? Well, its a good thing you’ve spent your entire life upholding and strengthening the social safety net for people that need help, like you do now, right? RIGHT?!
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I’m sure Giuliani knows a lot about empathy for the homeless given his time as mayor of New York City. Oh wait, he was actually criticized extensively for his heartless, draconian policies. Maybe I need to look into Buddhism because karma sure feels real right now.
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His best buddy Trump is a real estate genius. The best ever at doing real estate. Maybe he can find Rudy a corner in the totally real rooms that make his Manhattan penthouse 30,000 sq. feet instead of the actual 11,000. The extra space is imaginary, but then so is their friendship because Trump only loves Trump and Rudy is finding that out.
