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I used to believe that these safe injection sites were an okay idea, but now I'm vehemently against them. These people need help, and should be FORCED into addi

I used to believe that these safe injection sites were an okay idea, but now I'm vehemently against them. These people need help, and should be FORCED into addiction relief programs. They shouldn't be left to continue their addictions unabated. That isn't freedom, it's slavery to drugs and drug dealers. After seeing the absolute mess that SF has become, what I've come to realize is that these "supporters" of drug addicts are doing NOTHING to help them break their addiction. They are letting them accelerate their addiction, and they are doing nothing to help them get rid of their addiction. If you look at all of these "progressive" programs, they look like insidious plots to hurt those they claim to want to help. "Safe injection" sites actually keep addicts addicted for longer and don't help them conquer their addiction. Education activists that want to drop education requirements because they are too hard to achieve for Black and Brown students don't help them learn, in fact they leave them uneducated by the time they graduate high school. Mental health/homeless activists don't help homeless people solve the problems that lead to homelessness (usually mental health or drug addiction), instead they give band aid solutions that keep them homeless in perpetuity. The number of homeless people passed out on SF sidewalks and using the streets as their bathrooms have skyrocketed even though homeless funding is $600 million a year. "Restorative justice" programs cause crime to skyrocket because criminals take advantage of these laws and commit crimes with no fear. Alameda County DA Pamela Price cares more about freeing criminals than helping her constituents get any modicum of justice or to keep their streets safe. She is doing the opposite of what she should be doing. Everything that was promised by these far-left progressive policies have failed in the real world, and the fact they continue pushing them in the face of their failures is indication that they don't care about science or data, all their care about is dogma.

clnq 4y ago
Your point has merit, but for a stronger argument, refrain from over-generalizing and combining unrelated issues.
- blindriver 4y ago
  I disagree completely. I'm seeing a common thread among all of these neo-progressive efforts. They defy reality and have a feeling of insidiousness to them. They are hurting the people that they purport to want to help, and they are all destroying the communities that implement them. SF is a perfect example, because there has been decades of left wing politics in charge and there's no Republican boogeyman to blame. And it's been nothing but failure and failure, and things are getting worse and worse. Education is the thing that really makes me the most angry, because the fact that 50% of Black and Brown students are "graduating" from high school barely able to read [1] is 100% the fault of the progressives. They claim to care about equity, yet all they are producing is generations of students unable to compete in the real world. Lowell is/was a top 100 high school in the US, and the progressives gutted the admissions because too many Asians got in, so they changed it to a lottery system. All that did was admit kids who were unprepared and flunked classes. The number of flunks classes tripled in a single year after merit-based admissions was cut [2]. All of these things are related. The progressive policies since the 60s have produced fantastic policies that are important for freedom. Gays and trans deserve the right to live in safety and be treated like everyone else. Drug addicts should not be criminalized, they are addicts that need help. Mental health problems should not be stigmatized. Racism against any group should never be tolerated. Lower-income neighborhoods need to be lifted up, and yes at the expense of richer neighborhoods. But the policies we are seeing these days go too far and are damaging the people that they purport to help. [1] https://darrellowens.substack.com/p/half-of-black-students-can-hardly https://darrellowens.substack.com/p/half-of-black-students-c... [2] https://www.yahoo.com/video/top-sf-high-school-sees-192303605.html https://www.yahoo.com/video/top-sf-high-school-sees-19230360...
  - w3454 4y ago
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imtringued 4y ago
When you introduce safe injection sites more people end up surviving their addiction which makes it look like the addiction problem is getting worse when it is getting better.
- blindriver 4y ago
  This is a lie. It only proliferates addiction and does nothing to help those addicts out of addiction. If you look at SF, people are dying of drug overdoses at an epic rate. More people died from drug overdoses in SF than did from COVID. Think about that.

clnq 4y ago

Your point has merit, but for a stronger argument, refrain from over-generalizing and combining unrelated issues.

blindriver 4y ago
I disagree completely. I'm seeing a common thread among all of these neo-progressive efforts. They defy reality and have a feeling of insidiousness to them. They are hurting the people that they purport to want to help, and they are all destroying the communities that implement them. SF is a perfect example, because there has been decades of left wing politics in charge and there's no Republican boogeyman to blame. And it's been nothing but failure and failure, and things are getting worse and worse. Education is the thing that really makes me the most angry, because the fact that 50% of Black and Brown students are "graduating" from high school barely able to read [1] is 100% the fault of the progressives. They claim to care about equity, yet all they are producing is generations of students unable to compete in the real world. Lowell is/was a top 100 high school in the US, and the progressives gutted the admissions because too many Asians got in, so they changed it to a lottery system. All that did was admit kids who were unprepared and flunked classes. The number of flunks classes tripled in a single year after merit-based admissions was cut [2]. All of these things are related. The progressive policies since the 60s have produced fantastic policies that are important for freedom. Gays and trans deserve the right to live in safety and be treated like everyone else. Drug addicts should not be criminalized, they are addicts that need help. Mental health problems should not be stigmatized. Racism against any group should never be tolerated. Lower-income neighborhoods need to be lifted up, and yes at the expense of richer neighborhoods. But the policies we are seeing these days go too far and are damaging the people that they purport to help. [1] https://darrellowens.substack.com/p/half-of-black-students-can-hardly https://darrellowens.substack.com/p/half-of-black-students-c... [2] https://www.yahoo.com/video/top-sf-high-school-sees-192303605.html https://www.yahoo.com/video/top-sf-high-school-sees-19230360...
- w3454 4y ago
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imtringued 4y ago

When you introduce safe injection sites more people end up surviving their addiction which makes it look like the addiction problem is getting worse when it is getting better.

blindriver 4y ago
This is a lie. It only proliferates addiction and does nothing to help those addicts out of addiction. If you look at SF, people are dying of drug overdoses at an epic rate. More people died from drug overdoses in SF than did from COVID. Think about that.