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The crazy unrealists, who are cool with anarchy and looting, and aren't liberals in either a Haight-Ashbury or academic sense. They're pushing SF down the road
by 1letterunixname 4y ago
The crazy unrealists, who are cool with anarchy and looting, and aren't liberals in either a Haight-Ashbury or academic sense. They're pushing SF down the road to a predictable backlash of what neither Nixon nor Roger Ailes (Fox News) could accomplish: sell out their own beliefs for neuvo beliefs. Like WTF, man? You don't have to billy club shampoo people or roll MRAPs to stop mass looting. Some of the coolest cops in the world walk the literal beat past Vesuvio Cafe.
When people are fucking starving, fucking feed them.
When people are fucking homeless, fucking house them.
When too many people are fucking broke, raise taxes on the rich and aid the less fortunate more.
Nowhere else besides the most unequal countries in the world have such desperate poverty. And the gross mismanagement and lack of funding in proportion to the scale of problem.
I can speak first-hand on this issue because I experienced a period of about 8 years of semi-homelessness in the SF Bay Area. Except for SF due to compactness, there is essentially no proactive aid to street people. Aid is paltry, requires stacks of paperwork, regular wasted time, and treatment like a presumed criminal. An individual has to be essentially disabled AND unemployed/unemployable in order to receive a tiny amount of cash and a slight bit more that can only be spent on food but only at certain shops.