The Atlantic on SF: is DC too a failed city or about to be one?

[Anonymous]

People should not be allowed to live in tents on public sidewalks.
People who threaten or harm others with dangerous weapons should be locked up.
People who walk into stores and grab things off the shelves without paying for them should be prosecuted.
Holding these opinions does not make one a racist or a republican.
So, so, sick of the sanctimonious progressives destroying the quality of life in DC.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC is nothing like SF

It doesn’t have as much to recommend it.

Life in the District has been plummeting down hill since The Big Hunt closed.

Wrong. They key metric for when DC started to suck and quality of life began to decline was when the Common Share closed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC is nothing like SF

Hard disagree. It doesn’t have as much to recommend it. So it’s in a greater danger.

You either have a political agenda or just don't know what you are talking about. I'm guessing the former.[/quote

I don’t, I’m really just appalled by the deterioration of the quality of life, especially for those most vulnerable and yet with most to lose. Where are the girls who study and go to school and try to sweep while ATVs and dirt bikes rip through the streets back and forth for hours on end every single night? Who cares for them? My political agenda is to make a healthy, happy, hopeful and unafraid city. This place could be Monaco given its size and strategic importance. Why isn’t it?

[Anonymous]

“Sleep”

[Anonymous]

This is a bit like a commune utopia -- good in theory, but doesn't really work. Why? Humans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC is nothing like SF

Hard disagree. It doesn’t have as much to recommend it. So it’s in a greater danger.

You either have a political agenda or just don't know what you are talking about. I'm guessing the former.

I don’t, I’m really just appalled by the deterioration of the quality of life, especially for those most vulnerable and yet with most to lose. Where are the girls who study and go to school and try to sweep while ATVs and dirt bikes rip through the streets back and forth for hours on end every single night? Who cares for them? My political agenda is to make a healthy, happy, hopeful and unafraid city. This place could be Monaco given its size and strategic importance. Why isn’t it?

Did you say that without the ATVs DC could be Monaco? Huh?

[Anonymous]

The petty crime was frustrating, but it wasn’t what lit the city up for revolution. The housing crush is miserable, but it’s been that way for more than a decade now. The spark that lit this all on fire was the school board. And the population ready to rage was San Francisco’s parents.

The city’s schools were shut for most of the 2020–21 academic year—longer than schools in most other cities, and much longer than San Francisco’s private schools. In the middle of the pandemic, with no real reopening plan in sight, school-board meetings became major events, with audiences on Zoom of more than 1,000. The board didn’t have unilateral power to reopen schools even if it wanted to—that depended on negotiations between the district, the city, and the teachers’ union—but many parents were appalled to find that the board members didn’t even seem to want to talk much about getting kids back into classrooms. They didn’t want to talk about learning loss or issues with attendance and functionality. It seemed they couldn’t be bothered with topics like ventilation. Instead they wanted to talk about white supremacy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC is nothing like SF

Hard disagree. It doesn’t have as much to recommend it. So it’s in a greater danger.

You either have a political agenda or just don't know what you are talking about. I'm guessing the former.

I don’t, I’m really just appalled by the deterioration of the quality of life, especially for those most vulnerable and yet with most to lose. Where are the girls who study and go to school and try to sweep while ATVs and dirt bikes rip through the streets back and forth for hours on end every single night? Who cares for them? My political agenda is to make a healthy, happy, hopeful and unafraid city. This place could be Monaco given its size and strategic importance. Why isn’t it?

Did you say that without the ATVs DC could be Monaco? Huh?

And you pick up on Monaco? Not the little girls? Exactly. And that’s how it all unravels

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The petty crime was frustrating, but it wasn’t what lit the city up for revolution. The housing crush is miserable, but it’s been that way for more than a decade now. The spark that lit this all on fire was the school board. And the population ready to rage was San Francisco’s parents.

The city’s schools were shut for most of the 2020–21 academic year—longer than schools in most other cities, and much longer than San Francisco’s private schools. In the middle of the pandemic, with no real reopening plan in sight, school-board meetings became major events, with audiences on Zoom of more than 1,000. The board didn’t have unilateral power to reopen schools even if it wanted to—that depended on negotiations between the district, the city, and the teachers’ union—but many parents were appalled to find that the board members didn’t even seem to want to talk much about getting kids back into classrooms. They didn’t want to talk about learning loss or issues with attendance and functionality. It seemed they couldn’t be bothered with topics like ventilation. Instead they wanted to talk about white supremacy.

Sounds very similar to DC. Instead of putting every effort into reopening schools, DC had a project underway to rename its schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC is nothing like SF

Hard disagree. It doesn’t have as much to recommend it. So it’s in a greater danger.

You either have a political agenda or just don't know what you are talking about. I'm guessing the former.

I don’t, I’m really just appalled by the deterioration of the quality of life, especially for those most vulnerable and yet with most to lose. Where are the girls who study and go to school and try to sweep while ATVs and dirt bikes rip through the streets back and forth for hours on end every single night? Who cares for them? My political agenda is to make a healthy, happy, hopeful and unafraid city. This place could be Monaco given its size and strategic importance. Why isn’t it?

Did you say that without the ATVs DC could be Monaco? Huh?

And you pick up on Monaco? Not the little girls? Exactly. And that’s how it all unravels

Are you the PP? What’s this Monaco business about? It makes zero sense on any level. I hope you can explain?

[Anonymous]

Michelle Tandler told me. “I think for the first time people are like, ‘Wait, what is a progressive? … Am I responsible? Is this my fault?’”

San Franciscans are now saying: We can want a fairer justice system and also want to keep our car windows from getting smashed. And: It’s not white supremacy to hope that the schools stay open, that teachers teach children, and, yes, that they test to see what those kids have learned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/06/how-san-francisco-became-failed-city/661199/

This article is written by Bari Weiss’s partner who is SF old money and family is worth over a billion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC is nothing like SF

Hard disagree. It doesn’t have as much to recommend it. So it’s in a greater danger.

You either have a political agenda or just don't know what you are talking about. I'm guessing the former.

I don’t, I’m really just appalled by the deterioration of the quality of life, especially for those most vulnerable and yet with most to lose. Where are the girls who study and go to school and try to sweep while ATVs and dirt bikes rip through the streets back and forth for hours on end every single night? Who cares for them? My political agenda is to make a healthy, happy, hopeful and unafraid city. This place could be Monaco given its size and strategic importance. Why isn’t it?

Did you say that without the ATVs DC could be Monaco? Huh?

And you pick up on Monaco? Not the little girls? Exactly. And that’s how it all unravels

Are you the PP? What’s this Monaco business about? It makes zero sense on any level. I hope you can explain?

I think it’s just a similar size and with a similar strategic importance yet a balancing act in between more powerful states.
The idea being that frankly one is a massive failure if they can’t keep a scant half mil living in the seat of the leading world government in a well organized, served, orderly city

[Anonymous]

Besides the point. The point is when do we get fed up and what’s the turning point?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/06/how-san-francisco-became-failed-city/661199/

This article is written by Bari Weiss’s partner who is SF old money and family is worth over a billion.

And? Is it untrue?