Comments by "Mark Zuckergecko" (@markzuckergecko621) on "" video.

This is why I always discourage people from giving anything to panhandlers. I get that in their mind, they think they're doing a good thing, helping someone out when they're in need. But giving them money or even food doesn't help them long term, it just enables them to keep making bad decisions. And that's where that sense of entitlement comes from. WE entitle them.
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They have to want to help themselves first. I wouldn't have a problem with giving aid to people who have already taken the first few steps themselves, just give them some help along the way. But just giving money, housing, and food to people who are at rock bottom doesn't really solve anything in the long term.
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There's a subsidized apartment complex down the street from me, I had a friend who lived there several years ago, full time job, he was paying about $1,000 a month. His neighbor across the hallway was a single mom, exact same floor plan, paid $50 a month.
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Yea it really is amazing how they can consistently be so absolutely wrong about absolutely everything, absolutely all of the time. It really makes no sense. Logic and the law of averages would suggest that they would be accidentally right every once in a while. But they're not. Ever.
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@deckardcanine well you should stop, because you're not helping, you're hurting. Obviously you can do what you want, I'm sure I'm not the first person to tell you that what you're doing is immoral. But it is immoral. There really isn't an argument against it. Nobody would panhandle if nobody gave them anything.
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 @katie195 and that isn't a one-off, or just the worst case scenario. That's the most common scenario.
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@ac9559 yea I'm not buying that either. It's highly unlikely that one unfortunate event could make you homeless on the streets, no matter how big of a tragedy it is. It's a series of tragedies, and if that many bad things happen to the same person around the same time, they most likely brought it on themselves through poor decision making.
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@jayman2899 they have a point though, I guess you can thank God too, but she should really be thanking the people who pay taxes to support her and her kids. Ya know, living, breathing, flesh and blood human beings, that are all around her.
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@Whoishere2333 honestly I'm starting to wonder if a reasonable middle ground is even possible. Because I'm not against government subsidies all together, like you mentioned, disabled people, veterans, people who really need it. But it seems like every time we try to be kind and generous in that way as a society, the wrong kinds of people take advantage of it, and the people who really need it get left behind.
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@chrismiller100 yes, I'm aware. And I think it's ridiculous that people are charged different amounts for the same thing because of how much they have. Imagine if you got charged extra for a burger because you have a decent job, and all the unemployed people in line in front of you were getting the same burgers for free.
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Exactly, the people who are just down on their luck are usually at a shelter, not living on the streets, and it's usually just temporary.
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@chrismiller100 yea pretty much. But if it happened at the point of sale like that, more people would notice how ridiculous it is. Imagine the cashier at McDonald's asking to see a paycheck stub and your account balance so they know how much to charge you🤣
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@PatchworkAndNuance I think it's part of their puppet masters' strategy, a sort of "inking the water" thing, where they come up with the most absurd position imaginable just to draw a clear line between their followers and everyone else. If you can make someone believe that criminals are always the good guys, and cops are always the bad guys, then there's no limit to what you can make them believe.
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@PatchworkAndNuance their puppet masters deliberately push the most absurd position imaginable, they're "putting dye in the water" to see who's with them and who's against them. If you can convince someone that men can become women, you can convince them of anything.
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@mattjack3983 if you really break down progressivism to it's most basic components, it's the belief that "all the good things everyone likes are actually bad! And you're bad person unless you hate all the things I hate!"
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@TypewriterEvening depends on if you're talking about the entire homeless population, or just people who are homeless on the streets. Democrats deliberately conflate this for their convenience. There are homeless people who aren't addicts, they just made a lot of poor decisions. But most of those people are in shelters.
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@JellieJoShmo they mean that if there weren't so many easy ways to get things that humans used to have to work for, for almost the entirety of human history, then more people would get their shit together and manage their life better. The fact that so many people say "I can't" to basically every basic adult responsibility is only because they can.
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@JellieJoShmo they mean that many of these people would be able to reign in their "mental health issues" if there weren't so many safety nets in our society, that the fact that there are so many second chances and so many easy ways around difficult problems, it leads to a lot of people not trying as hard as they could.
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@clvrswineand those people are at a shelter where they have food and housing, and basic living amenities, not living on the streets.
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 @justinmuse7095 we're already doing that, there are shelters and rehab facilities in every major city.
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 @justinmuse7095 we're already doing that, we spend a tremendous amount of taxpayer money on free rehabs, clinics, and shelters.
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That's an excellent analogy, because that really is how silly the leftist mind is. They completely disregard the fact that most things in life require work. Because they don't want to work.
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@billyin4c514 that's the main reason the psychological side of communism is so evil. They know that a lot of people, if given the bare minimum to survive, will be completely content with just surviving. It destroys their humanity, and it's not a bug, it's a feature.
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Almost every homeless person living on the streets is a drug addict and/or mentally ill. Otherwise they would be in a shelter. Someone that's hit rock bottom can't be helped until they want to help themselves, no amount of money will ever fix that. That doesn't mean we can't improve the situation by addressing the roots of the problem, but you can't just throw money at it and expect it to go away, and we can never reduce homelessness to zero.
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There's this gypsy grifter lady that loiters around my area, I see her almost every day hanging around one of the gas stations, trying to sell crappy flowers to people walking in, and if anyone buys one, she'll follow them into the store and ask them to buy her some snacks and drinks. It's really sad how many people I've seen get suckered into it, usually a young person, teenage to early 20s. And she doesn't just take her loot and go home, she still keeps lingering outside trying to mooch whatever else she can off of anyone she can. She won't even look at me anymore, I don't just tell her no, I tell her to piss off and get a job😂
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