Yo, Babylon Bee guys, good luck trying to parody this one:
Yes, Democratic Socialist Dean Preston who sits on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors actually thinks San Fran's homelessness problem is due to capitalism.
The Democratic Socialist supervisor argued his district was particularly affected by homelessness because of the country's economic structure.
"I think what you're seeing in the Tenderloin is absolutely the result of capitalism and what happens in capitalism to the people at the bottom rungs," the local leader reportedly remarked in a new documentary by the UK outlet, UnHerd.
"The biggest driver of why folks are on the street is because they lost their jobs, income or were evicted from their homes, usually for not being able to pay the rent. So you have major landlords literally causing folks to lose their homes, and real estate speculation making it impossible for folks to find an affordable place to live," he reportedly said in the interview.
I'm sorry, but does capitalism spend trillions of public dollars bailing out businesses, inevitably causing the currency to devalue, and making things extra expensive? Does capitalism create publicly-funded schools which indoctrinate children in socialism and victimhood instead of educating them and preparing them for the real world? Does capitalism pay people to not have a job?
Cuz I'm pretty sure all of those things are what socialist systems do.
Mr. Preston also downplayed the dangers of homeless encampments around the city:
"I don't think every instance of poverty or addiction or behavioral health issue is a safety threat to someone walking by. I mean, there's a lot of people who are doing things that are very harmful to themselves on the streets, who aren't necessarily a safety threat," Preston remarked.
Yeah, just hook those "not necessarily a safety threat" people up with a safe smoking kit, maybe that'll help! Though I'm sure safe smoking kits are somehow capitalist too.
Alright, next topic, cuz this guy's an idiot.
Get your stuff together, San Francisco.
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