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You're not going to find open-air downtown drug markets, public defecation and decriminalized theft in Mississippi or Arkansas. For that, you need to visit one
by idlewords 3y ago
You're not going to find open-air downtown drug markets, public defecation and decriminalized theft in Mississippi or Arkansas. For that, you need to visit one of our progressive West Coast cities.
- flangola7 3y agoThose are much smaller problems than those in the comment you're replying to
- RhodesianHunter 3y agoThat's because Mississippi And Arkansas are too damned poor to support the homeless. They've pushed them all out to the West coast where people actually have pocket change to give them.
- 0xy 3y agoCan you explain how the homeless people who defecate on the streets because of a lack of facilities and shoot up drugs in parks are better off on the West Coast? Drugs are taken and sold openly in San Francisco and LA.
- tptacek 3y agoThis is reasonably well studied and not true. California homeless are not, in fact, largely migrants from other states.
- RhodesianHunter 3y agoGot a source for that?
- tptacek 3y agoI do.
- jakeinspace 3y agoThat’s stuff you only find in cities anyway. Virtually all American cities vote Democrat. This is simply a correlation.
- tptacek 3y agoWhy don't all American cities look in these regards like San Francisco does? They don't, so something is going on. I think there's something broken about San Francisco, and people have been suggesting that for coming up on 3 decades now: https://www.salon.com/1999/11/03/sf/ https://www.salon.com/1999/11/03/sf/
- idlewords 3y agoThe problem post-pandemic is common to San Francisco, Portland, Los Angeles and Seattle.