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Oh good, the people who brought you forest fires, rolling blackouts, and rampant looting will be sure to fix everything.

by imgabe 5y ago

alistairSH 5y ago
At least they're trying. The status quo isn't working. If you have a better suggestion, I'm sure they'd love to hear it.
- imgabe 5y ago
  They are the status quo. They are the ones that are not working.
- gruez 5y ago
  The implication is that those are caused/exacerbated by deliberate actions, rather than issues that came out of nowhere. Of the ones listed: - forest fires: newsom cut state wildfire prevention budgets - rolling blackouts: pg&e neglected to properly maintain electricity lines - rampant looting: prop 47, san francisco DA that refuses to prosecute minor crimes (like looting)
  - cardiffspaceman 5y ago
    The fact is that PG&E does not provide power to the entire state. LA's DWP (municipal), SCE, and SDG&E serve major areas.
- diogenescynic 5y ago
  They may be trying but everything they’ve done has put a California in a death spiral like a declining civilization. Driving the 5 is like Mad Max Fury Road. Every year the state gets more lawless and hellish and poverty increases. Democrats have a super majority and just put embarrassingly woke policies into place that do nothing to solve the opioid, meth, crime, or other problems ravaging the state. Last night I was in a parking lot with my 14 month old daughter and there were literally 3 screaming insane people in the parking lot within 40 feet… How are people supposed to feel safe with kids?
  - mrtranscendence 5y ago
    > Every year the state gets more lawless and hellish and poverty increases. This just isn't true. Poverty has been decreasing in California (https://www.statista.com/statistics/205434/poverty-rate-in-california/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/205434/poverty-rate-in-c...), as has crime (https://www.ppic.org/publication/crime-trends-in-california/ https://www.ppic.org/publication/crime-trends-in-california/). Numbers more recent than 2019 seem to show that poverty is about unchanged; property crime is down; and violent crime is up, but not up to "lawless hellscape" levels. > 3 screaming insane people in the parking lot We used to throw "crazy" people into institutions without a second thought, but that changed a long time ago and not just in California. If you want to bring that back I'm afraid you'll face an uphill battle, but more power to you.
    - coolspot 5y ago
      Property crime is “down” because CA now doesn’t consider anything below $1,000 damage a crime.
      - mrtranscendence 5y ago
        This isn't true; the law you're probably thinking of merely reclassified felonies as misdemeanors. And even if it were true that damages < $1000 weren't prosecuted they'd still show up in crime statistics. Even even if that weren't the case, you wouldn't see a steady decrease in property crime every year -- you'd see a sudden dropoff in 2014. Nice try, though!
    - diogenescynic 5y ago
      How does every developed country manage to be so much cleaner then? I find all your excuses inadequate. And we still have the highest poverty rate in the country—it probably only marginally declined due to stimulus and COVID relief. There are more tents and people camping on the street and openly using drugs and brazenly stealing than ever before. California looks like a failing civilization to people from Western Europe.
    - imgabe 5y ago
ct0 5y ago
Pretty sure OSHA already regulates warehouses.
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Oh good, the people who brought you forest fires, rolling blackouts, and rampant looting will be sure to fix everything.

by imgabe 5y ago

Oh good, the people who brought you forest fires, rolling blackouts, and rampant looting will be sure to fix everything.

alistairSH 5y ago

At least they're trying. The status quo isn't working. If you have a better suggestion, I'm sure they'd love to hear it.

imgabe 5y ago
They are the status quo. They are the ones that are not working.
gruez 5y ago
The implication is that those are caused/exacerbated by deliberate actions, rather than issues that came out of nowhere. Of the ones listed: - forest fires: newsom cut state wildfire prevention budgets - rolling blackouts: pg&e neglected to properly maintain electricity lines - rampant looting: prop 47, san francisco DA that refuses to prosecute minor crimes (like looting)
- cardiffspaceman 5y ago
  The fact is that PG&E does not provide power to the entire state. LA's DWP (municipal), SCE, and SDG&E serve major areas.
diogenescynic 5y ago
They may be trying but everything they’ve done has put a California in a death spiral like a declining civilization. Driving the 5 is like Mad Max Fury Road. Every year the state gets more lawless and hellish and poverty increases. Democrats have a super majority and just put embarrassingly woke policies into place that do nothing to solve the opioid, meth, crime, or other problems ravaging the state. Last night I was in a parking lot with my 14 month old daughter and there were literally 3 screaming insane people in the parking lot within 40 feet… How are people supposed to feel safe with kids?
- mrtranscendence 5y ago
  > Every year the state gets more lawless and hellish and poverty increases. This just isn't true. Poverty has been decreasing in California (https://www.statista.com/statistics/205434/poverty-rate-in-california/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/205434/poverty-rate-in-c...), as has crime (https://www.ppic.org/publication/crime-trends-in-california/ https://www.ppic.org/publication/crime-trends-in-california/). Numbers more recent than 2019 seem to show that poverty is about unchanged; property crime is down; and violent crime is up, but not up to "lawless hellscape" levels. > 3 screaming insane people in the parking lot We used to throw "crazy" people into institutions without a second thought, but that changed a long time ago and not just in California. If you want to bring that back I'm afraid you'll face an uphill battle, but more power to you.
  - coolspot 5y ago
    Property crime is “down” because CA now doesn’t consider anything below $1,000 damage a crime.
    - mrtranscendence 5y ago
      This isn't true; the law you're probably thinking of merely reclassified felonies as misdemeanors. And even if it were true that damages < $1000 weren't prosecuted they'd still show up in crime statistics. Even even if that weren't the case, you wouldn't see a steady decrease in property crime every year -- you'd see a sudden dropoff in 2014. Nice try, though!
  - diogenescynic 5y ago
    How does every developed country manage to be so much cleaner then? I find all your excuses inadequate. And we still have the highest poverty rate in the country—it probably only marginally declined due to stimulus and COVID relief. There are more tents and people camping on the street and openly using drugs and brazenly stealing than ever before. California looks like a failing civilization to people from Western Europe.
  - imgabe 5y ago

ct0 5y ago

Pretty sure OSHA already regulates warehouses.

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