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You really do believe anything you read, don't you? :ROFLMAO:
Yep. Its amazing how far they've come with deep fake videos these days. I walked that same route about 3 weeks ago...clean as a whistle!!
The video isn't fake, but the adjoining commentary is a bunch of melodramatic nonsense mixed in with a few outright lies.

What were the outright lies?
You can see the video with your own eyes, the description of same in textual form is obviously inaccurate.
The video speaks for itself. It's a disaster area. One of many that plague cities in California.

Likewise, most of its political claims. That London Breed is pushing to reduce police funding is not correct, for instance, quite the contrary, she's pushing a massive crime bill on the 2024 ballot that includes targeted funding of multiple police efforts across the city.
Breed did order budget cuts, including cuts to the police budget.

The robbery statistic is technically correct but extremely deceptive, as what actually happened was that robberies declined to an all time low during the pandemic, and have only recently begun to climb again in the direction of their former average. We should absolutely be concerned about this, but deceptively framing statistics around in an attempt to blame the homeless for crimes they did not commit is not helping.
Oh ffs. :rolleyes:

The city is also not "an international symbol of squalor and despair, except to readers of the Daily Mail.
It is being reported this way in Gavin Newsom's communist friend's media outlets in China. But people's opinions of SF will depend on their own experiences. The DM does present things in a negative light but the fact is, there are serious problems and the problems are getting worse. Some parts of Los Angeles resemble a third world shithole, that's my experience of Los Angeles. I experience it every day on my commute to work. It is getting worse, not better. You choose to downplay these things for some reason, like this is a normal and acceptable state of affairs. That tents on the sidewalk, squalor and filth in the streets, people taking a dump in the road and people overdosing on drugs on the sidewalk is just part of the hustle and bustle of city life.
 
The city is also not "an international symbol of squalor and despair, except to readers of the Daily Mail.
It is being reported this way in Gavin Newsom's communist friend's media outlets in China. But people's opinions of SF will depend on their own experiences. The DM does present things in a negative light but the fact is, there are serious problems and the problems are getting worse. Some parts of Los Angeles resemble a third world shithole, that's my experience of Los Angeles. I experience it every day on my commute to work. It is getting worse, not better. You choose to downplay these things for some reason, like this is a normal and acceptable state of affairs. That tents on the sidewalk, squalor and filth in the streets, people taking a dump in the road and people overdosing on drugs on the sidewalk is just part of the hustle and bustle of city life.
Well, where is the free market and it's marvelous hands to manage the issues of skyrocketing housing costs, lessening employment opportunities that were shipped overseas?

You want to blame all this on Newsom, but the reality is that the American capitalistic system overdosed on Reaganomic austerity and apathy. California also great economy overall, despite Democrats being in charge of the Government. To the point that it is becoming so expensive to live there, that people were living in residential areas in the middle of wildfire hazards.

I'm sitting on pins and needles just waiting to know what Newsom should be doing instead to create affordable housing and manage the sociological pains that some have with the economic successes in California. But, you'll probably just include another Daily Mail hit piece that does nothing but complain. It is what the right-wing is good at. Whining and moaning, no fucking solutions to the problems caused in part by their economic apathy.
 
That's the issue. It costs nothing to whine. Solving social issues takes investment, and Republicans want no investments in anything but the carceral system and the military. Which are both a major part of what's causing the real problems San Francisco is facing.
 
The DM does present things in a negative light but the fact is, there are serious problems and the problems are getting worse.
No one denies that the city "has problems". All cities do. But lying about the scope, nature, and causes of those problems, then refusing to actually do anything tangible to solve any of the real or imagined problems, is worse than useless.
 
The DM does present things in a negative light but the fact is, there are serious problems and the problems are getting worse.
No one denies that the city "has problems".
And yet you object, downplay, handwave away or claim it is all lies when these problems are pointed out. And the problems are getting worse.
 
The DM does present things in a negative light but the fact is, there are serious problems and the problems are getting worse.
No one denies that the city "has problems". All cities do. But lying about the scope, nature, and causes of those problems, then refusing to actually do anything tangible to solve any of the real or imagined problems, is worse than useless.
That sounds very much like the right's definition of being a social justice warrior. Who'da thunk it? Tswizzle is a SJW!
 
You choose to downplay these things for some reason, like this is a normal and acceptable state of affairs. That tents on the sidewalk, squalor and filth in the streets, people taking a dump in the road and people overdosing on drugs on the sidewalk is just part of the hustle and bustle of city life.
I mean, they are. They obviously are.

But I have never advocated inaction in the face of those problems, quite the opposite. I don't live in San Francisco, but the city I do live in has constructed a massive re-housing and job training facility downtown - against fierce opposition from local Republicans and their wealthy "moderate" allies - that has helped more than 200 people start new lives on better footing in just the first four years of its operation, mostly in the middle of a pandemic. Nearly a sixth of the cities estimated unhomed population at the start of the project. In the Valley, where I work, I donate collectively more than seven hundred a month to the two homeless shelters, the food bank, the LGBTQ youth center, and the home for abused women that voters in that county, being mostly moronic conservatives, refuse to support in any other way than private donations and whatever aid the state forces them to allow. And several my students have been engaged in a groundbreaking study of uncanceled redlining and corrupt urban renewal practices in the county, the results of which study are starting to gain national attention and will almost certainly result in a lawsuit on massive scale and reparations to those whose homes were stolen. What will your party contribute to this project? You will whine and cry about partisan judges and reverse racism, and ultimately fail at achieving your own political goals, let alone at putting a roof over the head of anyone who hadn't already got one. Meanwhile, also this year, several of my fellow faculty including myself have been pushing hard to expand our course offerings within the prison system, so that inmates can leave said system with a full degree and, if our project leader gets her way, an offer of guaranteed employment, rather than just getting dumped out on the street with nothing. You get one guess which political party is fighting us tooth and nail on this, and you only need one guess. Because they are aggressively, not just passively, useless.

What are you doing about housing insecurity, TSwizzle? What is anyone in your entire pointless political party doing about housing insecurity? You're rehashing old myths and whining like you think you are the real victim somehow, while the few of us who actually care about shit roll up our sleeves, put on our adult boots and do something about the social challenges we face. The Republican Party has never been more useless than it is right now, and everyone can see it. That's the real reason why you lose urban voters. Not because of Marxism. Not because of atheism. Not because of pronouns. Not even because of Gavin Newsom's fascinating updo. But because people can see with their own eyes who does something and who does nothing about city problems.
 
You choose to downplay these things for some reason, like this is a normal and acceptable state of affairs. That tents on the sidewalk, squalor and filth in the streets, people taking a dump in the road and people overdosing on drugs on the sidewalk is just part of the hustle and bustle of city life.
I mean, they are. They obviously are.

They are NOW but it wasn't like this ten years ago! And no, it is not acceptable.

But I have never advocated inaction in the face of those problems, quite the opposite. I don't live in San Francisco, but the city I do live in has constructed a massive re-housing and job training facility downtown - against fierce opposition from local Republicans and their wealthy "moderate" allies - that has helped more than 200 people start new lives on better footing in just the first four years of its operation, mostly in the middle of a pandemic. {snip}
No doubt this virtue signaling gives you a warm fuzzy glow and a feeling of righteousness to look down your nose with scorn at the people who complain when their neighborhoods and lives are impacted by the "homeless" that have pitched tents on the sidewalks outside their homes, schools and businesses. In the grand scheme of things, you have achieved fuck all fella. You are pissing in the wind, farting against thunder.
 
No doubt this virtue signaling
So taking any concrete action to resolve any issue is "virtue signaling", while the most you are capable of is throwing a few insults around and rolling your emoticon eyes every time someone asks you a hard question? That says all you need to know about the modern Republican Party.

Thousands of people who did not have homes and jobs now do. Their lives may mean nothing to you, but they mean a lot to them. And to all decent people.

And even people who really are just "virtue signalling" are accomplishing more than the Republican Party ever does, as long as that signalling is partially with their check books and ballots. A two dollar donation at the Petsmart checkout stand is more of a benefit to society than the entire Republican Party, because at least that admittedly lazy donation isn't actively getting in the way of attempts to improve society.

In the grand scheme of things, you have achieved fuck all fella. You are pissing in the wind, farting against thunder.
At least my farts are well-aimed.
 
Uh, yes, they are.
It's not even making the slightest dent in the "homeless" population. "Homelessness" has INCREASED despite the vast amounts of money thrown at resolving the problem.
"Homeless" being shorthand for "I have never met a homeless person and have no idea what their lives are like, the factors that lead to their situation, or how to address any of those factors meaningfully"?
 
Meanwhile in Portland;

Donna Pinaula and her husband 'Utah' could be presenting a cookery TV show for all their breezy enthusiasm as they show me the ingredients and utensils they keep stashed away in the shopping trolley they push around town. Except, that is, what they're cooking up is fentanyl — a synthetic opioid 50 times more powerful than heroin and so devastating it has laid waste to towns and cities across the U.S.
The homeless addicts, their patient dog, Rock Star, and a human companion — who can barely stay upright, let alone speak — are standing on a corner of one of the busiest thoroughfares in downtown Portland, Oregon, but the endless stream of people on their way to work walk past them without comment. The couple show off their drugs: blue pills or 'blues' for her, which are a mix of fentanyl and some other ingredients they can't name; and a white 'rock' of pure fentanyl for him. They show me the pieces of silver foil on which they heat their drugs and the glass pipes they smoke it with — both provided, free of charge, by a local charity. It's been a good few hours since their last 'hit' and they're getting twitchy, so they're soon lighting up again. Donna and Utah make no attempt to hide their drug abuse, but, then, why should they? For this is Portland, a bastion of progressive values. Three years on, the policy, known as Measure 110, has proved to be disastrous. Even Utah, a 33-year-old former forklift truck driver who prefers to give the Mail only his 'street' name, freely admits he cannot understand what possessed his fellow Oregonians to support the move. Speaking of the policy's effect on drug use in the city, he says: 'It's made it worse. Don't get me wrong, it makes it better for me, but getting the police off our backs and giving us free pipes and foil to do our drugs is not going to get us off the streets.' And it appears that after nearly three years in which Portland's once attractive and vibrant downtown area has been turned into a tent-covered hellscape of soaring crime, endemic drug abuse and maniacal behaviour, the rest of the city has finally accepted that the decriminalisation experiment has spectacularly failed.

And the republicans whine;

Locals complain of having to step over used needles, shattered glass pipes and human faeces on the way to work, and say they've become inured even to blood- curdling screaming fits from disturbed addicts. 'The cry that I hear in downtown Portland over and over again is, 'There's this person who is using fentanyl in front of my child', or 'I'm at a park and this person is clearly struggling,' says police union leader Aaron Schmautz.

Daily Mail
 
Meanwhile in Portland;

Donna Pinaula and her husband 'Utah' could be presenting a cookery TV show for all their breezy enthusiasm as they show me the ingredients and utensils they keep stashed away in the shopping trolley they push around town. Except, that is, what they're cooking up is fentanyl — a synthetic opioid 50 times more powerful than heroin and so devastating it has laid waste to towns and cities across the U.S.
The homeless addicts, their patient dog, Rock Star, and a human companion — who can barely stay upright, let alone speak — are standing on a corner of one of the busiest thoroughfares in downtown Portland, Oregon, but the endless stream of people on their way to work walk past them without comment. The couple show off their drugs: blue pills or 'blues' for her, which are a mix of fentanyl and some other ingredients they can't name; and a white 'rock' of pure fentanyl for him. They show me the pieces of silver foil on which they heat their drugs and the glass pipes they smoke it with — both provided, free of charge, by a local charity. It's been a good few hours since their last 'hit' and they're getting twitchy, so they're soon lighting up again. Donna and Utah make no attempt to hide their drug abuse, but, then, why should they? For this is Portland, a bastion of progressive values. Three years on, the policy, known as Measure 110, has proved to be disastrous. Even Utah, a 33-year-old former forklift truck driver who prefers to give the Mail only his 'street' name, freely admits he cannot understand what possessed his fellow Oregonians to support the move. Speaking of the policy's effect on drug use in the city, he says: 'It's made it worse. Don't get me wrong, it makes it better for me, but getting the police off our backs and giving us free pipes and foil to do our drugs is not going to get us off the streets.' And it appears that after nearly three years in which Portland's once attractive and vibrant downtown area has been turned into a tent-covered hellscape of soaring crime, endemic drug abuse and maniacal behaviour, the rest of the city has finally accepted that the decriminalisation experiment has spectacularly failed.

And the republicans whine;

Locals complain of having to step over used needles, shattered glass pipes and human faeces on the way to work, and say they've become inured even to blood- curdling screaming fits from disturbed addicts. 'The cry that I hear in downtown Portland over and over again is, 'There's this person who is using fentanyl in front of my child', or 'I'm at a park and this person is clearly struggling,' says police union leader Aaron Schmautz.

Daily Mail
TSwizzle, last I checked, the DailyMail was not a "Republican" publication. It is a British paper, they have their own political parties over there.
 
TSwizzle, last I checked, the DailyMail was not a "Republican" publication. It is a British paper, they have their own political parties over there.
Am I not to assume that the locals the DM quoted were republicans? Surely only republicans whine about feces, needles and tents on the sidewalk.

The DM has operations in the USA.
 
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