Sad or funny? "Tolerant San Francisco fed up with dirty, smelly streets"

[Martinjmpr]

If it weren't for the people in business clothes walking to work ignoring it all, you'd assume it was a thrid world country.

Gonna have to disagree with you there, based on personal experiences.

I spent 6 months in Haiti in 1995, 3 months in Zimbabwe and almost half a year in Afghanistan, all 3rd world countries.

Haiti was by far the worst. In the main streets of Gonaives they piled garbage into the middle of the street. It was like a garbage divider for traffic. The flies were - I kid you not - at least 1 1/2" long and formed a cloud over the garbage. The smell was indescribable.

Zimbabwe was much cleaner, more functional as a city. But still very poor in most of the city center.

Afghanistan - well, that was a war zone and fortunately located in temperate climes (and I was there in Winter and Spring when it was still cool.)

Not ONCE did I see human feces in the street. Even in Haiti, it seemed like most of the people did their best to stay clean. They might throw food garbage in the streets but they'd never shit there. As for needles, the poor people in Haiti were too poor for drugs, the poor people in Zimbabwe have too much of a passion for order (inherited from the British) to put up with that crap and while a significant portion of the world's opium may come from Afghanistan, shooting up in public is something I can't even imagine an Afghan doing - they'd likely get shot by the local equivalent of the Islamic Morality police or "disappeared" by the local warlords who don't put up with anyone's bad habits but their own.

So I'd have to say if people are shitting and shooting up in the streets, it's not like any 3rd world country that I've been to. Even Haitians can look down their noses at the filthy dirtbags in SF.

[hollohas]

So I'd have to say if people are shitting and shooting up in the streets, it's not like any 3rd world country that I've been to. Even Haitians can look down their noses at the filthy dirtbags in SF.

Funny. Right after I posted that I even thought to myself "nah, they probably don't even shoot up in 3rd world countries because they can't afford that shit."

[clodhopper]

No where in the article was there any concern or disagreement with spending more money on the problem or a suggestion that there are too many homeless. Just a desire that the city allocate more funds to managing the "side effects" of the homeless better. No suggestion about discouraging homeless people from coming there or evicting current homeless.

Not really much different than the complaints of Coloradoans bitching about potholes to CDOT and the local city entity.

Now, the discussion of whether the residents of SanFran understand financial implications of additional spending is a whole other conversation.

[JohnnyDrama]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/tolerant-...193935341.html



OK, I shouldn't indulge in the Schadenfruede, but damn, it's hard not to enjoy this.

Cause and effect? Chickens coming home to roost? You get what you subsidize?

My question would be: How many homeless camps and piles of feces in the street do there have to be before those astronomical home values start dropping?

To me that's the crazy thing: People still pay exorbitant prices to live there. Still. Even with all this.

You would think in a functioning economy with supply and demand, what would happen is people who have money to spend would choose to spend it elsewhere, lowering demand for housing and a corresponding drop in home values and rental prices.

But apparently that's not what's happening. It's bizarre, how much shit - both figurative and in this case literal - people are willing to put up with to live in a city like SF.

SMDH.

It's an interesting study in economics indeed. Have you checked out anything regarding the Calexit movement lately? It looks like all that shit on the sidewalks may soon hit the fan. Some of the hardcore cool aid drinkers seem to be calling their representatives on the issue while the progressive leadership thinks otherwise....

It's kinda like when economic reality and political philosophy collide....

[Bailey Guns]

Oh, please, God. I'll be good, I promise. I'll go to church. Please, oh, please let this happen.


CalExit

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times - Tuesday, April 24, 2018

The Calexit campaign has won approval to collect signatures again for a ballot initiative aimed at separating California from the union, marking the third such attempt for state secessionists.

Then "The Wall" can just close off CA, too.

[Rumline]

People in California get a steady diet of leftist thinking from the cradle to the grave. They don't even understand why they believe what they believe.

This is spot on. Before I got red-pilled I grew up believing all of the progressive BS without understanding why. Once I was exposed to different ways of thinking and started to question things the house of cards fell down pretty easily. And then being ostracized for failing to adhere to the liberal orthodoxy only accelerated the process.

Oh, please, God. I'll be good, I promise. I'll go to church. Please, oh, please let this happen.

This.

By putting up a gofundme and having their ticket cost covered by fed up red staters.

I got five on it.

[ben4372]

I watched based on hollohas' comment. Holy cow, what a shit show. My favorite was one of the comments about the strict smoking ban. How insulting is it for someone to get a speeding ticket? Or a parking ticket? Or code enforcement? I myself, would pretty much do what I wanted. Eff the law.

In the video I watched the mayor said they didn't have jurisdiction on BART property. Does SanFran have weird LE rules? I remember a Christian Slater movie where he inherited a cop beat or something? Surely they could legislate something. Cali is good like that.

[Ah Pook]

Hell, we are tired of it here! Transients shitting, shooting up, leaving trash and being a general nuisance is common place up here. Sadly, there are some that enable this but by and large most are done with it.

Boulder has a $2mil homeless shelter that shuts down in April. Guess where the problem goes? Up the hill.

[CoGirl303]

Hell, we are tired of it here! Transients shitting, shooting up, leaving trash and being a general nuisance is common place up here. Sadly, there are some that enable this but by and large most are done with it.

Boulder has a $2mil homeless shelter that shuts down in April. Guess where the problem goes? Up the hill.

the nice and clean way to deal with that is euthanasia by drug overdose of their choice, but no one has the stones to carry it out because it's "inhumane" and all the bleeding hearts don't like to talk about and discuss things like that or like it when others talk that way.


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[StagLefty]

the nice and clean way to deal with that is euthanasia by drug overdose of their choice, but no one has the stones to carry it out because it's "inhumane" and all the bleeding hearts don't like to talk about and discuss things like that or like it when others talk that way.


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I don't consider myself a "bleeding heart" but I don't consider euthanasia as a problem solver for humans.
Would you also consider this a solution to seniors who have a terminal disease ? If so I'd better be cautious about any contact with you !!!