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Total linkbait. Just google: SF homeless problem. And see how many articles come up, from so many people. Singling this guy out is completely arbitrary. It's al
by 001sky 13y ago
Total linkbait. Just google: SF homeless problem. And see how many articles come up, from so many people. Singling this guy out is completely arbitrary. It's also unoriginal, in the general sense.[1] [edit: also, this problem is 40-50 years old, so its not fundamentally new.]
The homeless problem? Spot on, again. Perhaps - just maybe - the city of San Francisco should dedicate some of that time it spends trying to pass inane legislation (circumcision ban, I'm looking at you!) to trying to REALISTICALLY address the homeless problem. This might blow most of your minds, I know - but I've lived in Chicago, DC, NYC, and LA - and there are more homeless people here than those cities combined.
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And about why there are so many homeless… first of all, who cares, because having such destitution in the streets only serves to bring down the mood of the place… but if you must, have you ever considered that the explosion of homeless in SF resulted to the city’s expansion of homeless programs and shelters? In other words, your getting the cause and effect confused. The city attracted, and created by way of its hippy drug happy culture, a slew of schizo drugged out homeless people… and all the soup kitchens are just a responsive measure to all that.
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San Francisco. If there were an official city scent, it would be hobo piss. That's because hobos are everywhere, and piss is what they do for a living. Well, not just piss, obviously. They also drop so much excrement on the escalators in the city's train stations that they're sometimes rendered inoperable from the sheer volume of poo gumming up the works. How bad can it be, you ask? Well, the city had to call in a hazmat team to clean up one recent mess. There was just that much poop. On the escalator. The public escalator.
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[1] EG, "Tech Founder Complains About the Shithole City He's Forced to Make His Millions In". I won't link to it out of principle, but google will send you there. That was a different person, though. Surprise surprise.
- bonemachine 13y agoTotally missing the point, of course. The comments in the original FB post that trigged this whole thread were of a rather different sort than you are quoting above: The difference is in other cosmopolitan cities, the lower part of society keep to themselves. They sell small trinkets, beg coyly, stay quiet, and generally stay out of your way. They realize it's a privilege to be in the civilized part of town and view themselves as guests. And that's okay. … You can preach compassion, equality, and be the biggest lover in the world, but there is an area of town for degenerates and an area of town for the working class. There is nothing positive gained from having them so close to us. It's a burden and a liability having them so close to us. Believe me, if they added the smallest iota of value I'd consider thinking different …
- 001sky 13y agoIf this was a random you-tube comment it would not be "news": Random guy posts unoriginal comment on intractable problem Just reads like a article from The Onion.
- bonemachine 13y ago'cept that it wasn't a random comment, it was a well thought-out tirade. And it wasn't posted on YT, but rather on his FB page (equivalent to tweet or a blogpost, more or less). Which is to say: who the speaker is, who he works for and what his position is matters, as does the venue in which his original rant was posted.