San Francisco is imploding
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Anonymous
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Whole Foods in downtown has decided to close because of crime and vagrancy, and because the company can no longer guarantee the safety of its workers:
https://sfstandard.com/business/downtown-san-francisco-whole-foods-market-closing/ Starbucks has had to remove seats now because the homeless invading its stores: https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/sf-castro-starbucks-seating-removed-17854447.php?IPID=SFGate-HP-CP-Spotlight WFH is adding another whammy to the city, which is now expected to be in trouble with an $800M budget deficits: https://sfstandard.com/politics/city-hall/san-franciscos-deficit-swells-to-780m-in-latest-sign-of-budget-distress/ Really said to see how SF style leadership has destroyed a once beautiful city that is falling into the pits of lawlessness and financial disaster. Mind-blowing how they can keep re-election the same over and over and over again when the results keep getting worse and worse and now and businesses are closing up shop and are fleeing. Why do so many other cities and voters continue to vote for politicians trying to run on a similar model like SF's politicians? It is scary how fast SF has declined. |
Anonymous
| And what do you suggest they do to fix it, PP? Lock up every man, woman, and child on the streets in a for-profit prison? |
Anonymous
Believe it or not, locking up criminals would be a good step forward. But it is not equitable or woke. |
Anonymous
Well, if you read the article, SF now clearly thinks hiring more cops is going to help. So amazing that now even SF is realizing what a stupid mistake kowtowing to the defund the police crowd was. Hire more cops. Make stealing over $100 a felony. Get rid of all of the tolerance for open drug use. Get rid of tent cities. Many more foot patrols by police. Get rid of lenient judges letting out one man crime waves over and over again. Why is it that all of the so called progress in SF looks like regression. Stealing, drug use, and violence is now so bad that community members now have lost a highly convenient place to shop for basic necessities like food because stupid voters there keep voting for more of the same, which is pro open drug use and leniency for crime and punishment. The predictable is happening, and now the city's coffers are in serious trouble. It will be hard to enact progress when you have no money. |
Anonymous
Totally. Everyone knows if you don’t fully embrace and encourage vagrancy in every single public space you are a heartless capitalist pig. Likewise if you remark on the uptick in crime, because some liberal places have raised the bar to over a thousand dollars for a shoplifting felony which has resulted in thieves walking in to CVSs nationwide and a big increase in coordinated smash and grabs, you are a piece of sht. You will shut your mouth and swallow the progressive criminal justice reforms quietly. Even if someone punches you in the face for your iPhone, you need to shut up and take it, because it’s just recompense for the suffering underdogs of society. If you don’t like it move to the suburbs, bra. |
Anonymous
| Meh... don't care. This is their city. Let them do what they want. I've never liked the place. |
Anonymous
Send the homeless and criminals back to the states that shipped them to California… |
Anonymous
| What a dump. Just extrapolate the fact Dems want these general policies in the entire country.... No wonder people are clinging to guns and ammo. |
Anonymous
| it’s like the movie Escape from New York in SF. Unbelievable. |
Anonymous
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SF never actually defunded the police, so there goes that talking point.
https://abc7news.com/sfpd-budget-defund-the-police-department-funding/12321818/ |
Anonymous
Why do you care if you don't live there? I seriously don't care about the rural hellhole that most of the Republicans live in. You should do the same. |
Anonymous
Don’t forget the poop on the streets and needles everyhwere. If you look at the poop map they set up, the entire city is covered In it!!!! What a disgrace liberal politics have done to this place. Allow rampant homelessness and public drug use. Not prosecute for theft under 1000$ and not even responding to car break ins allowing crime to go rampant. Not even responding to people being mugged in the street as was caseof co-worker last year. Told to go to police station and file a report. It used to be a beautiful city. This is what will happen if San Fran and California liberalism is allowed to spread. Basic issue is there are lots of bad people out there and if you don’t have police to arrest people and DA’s that prosecute, they are emboldened to commit crimes. |
Anonymous
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DH and I were in San Francisco last October and the homeless population scared the hell out of us. I say this with compassion and without any intention to blame the homeless population. It's the city's fault. We could not walk to dinner without being accosted or even followed.
Very sad situation. |
Anonymous
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It has NOTHING to do with liberal politics ffs. This is about not sufficiently taxing California's many billionaires, and not using that extra tax money for all the resources necessary to prevent vulnerable people from falling through the cracks.
"Liberal" is a cloak for greed in California, not an actual lived ideal. It's hypocrisy and abandonment of the vulnerable where it really counts. |
Anonymous
Its unsafe. They need to do something about safety to clean it up so businesses can still do business there and people can live in the homes. |