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Anonymous wrote:If big stores are leaving SF (whole foods/starbucks), there is a poop map of the city, needles everywhere, and acknowledgment that more police are needed, it tells me that there are significant issues there. In addition, there was the reparations discussion there that was approved by local legislative body which would concern me as well. So many competing priorities and what will they fund with the pot of money they have? It should be a priorities discussion, not raising taxes discussion.

People are leaving the city and for a good reason. I’m no republican but this stuff makes me weary of super liberal politics as well.

Yep.

Is there something wrong with being willing to change your priorities based on the effect of previous policy? Do you really not want more police?

I sure as hell do, but I never called for defunding the police.
She can't even admit that she has gone a full 180 on the subject.

You act like that is some huge scandal but it’s just how government works. We try popular ideas out because democracy and then change our minds if it doesn’t work out. That’s a good thing. If Republicans had a political solution to crime then there wouldn’t be similar trends in red districts, yet there are. Most local dems are now trying to increase police recruitment. Your outrage is misplaced.

We are NOT a democracy. Get that thru your thick head. Democracies are tyrannical and majority rule by nature.

That's not what we are. We are a republic. The word democracy does not appear in the Constitution once.

I’m thinking of becoming a substitute teacher in retirement just so I can correct the stupidity in history now. The fact you even have to correct someone and tell them this shows me how bad history is being taught in publics. In addition, we have a lot of people here who are not US citizens who don’t understand the history of the US or our Constitutional Republic, right down down to state and local law, and how it works. I had some HOA idiot from another country tell me that we could not build a home on our buildable lot. Excuse? HOAs get some say in it so a pink shack isn’t built, but telling me I can’t build? My reply is that I could take my four acres (including the land our current home is on - they are adjacent) and sell it to one of the companies building teen rehab centers and adult mental health short-term facilities, which can be done through a legal loophole in our county, thus tanking his property values. Would he like that better? Amazing how fast the control freak shut up. Oh, and I joined the HOA’s architectural committee as well, just so I can keep these idiots in check.

While the French person (for instance) seems like a very nice person, she is constantly dissing this country, holding up socialism as the beacon of freedom, but doesn’t seem in a hurry to get back to France anytime soon. My guess is he/she is here due to job and money, something that could not be achieved in his/her own nation.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

They HAVE done something: they defunded the SF police, like everyone should. Because of racism.

Yeah, let’s get rid of the police all together!!!!! Then let’s see what happens to crime!!!!! Do it San Fran.

Somalia happens.

Somalia is they way it is due to political corruption, something the Dems know a LOT about

Anonymous wrote:This thread reminds me of when Fox reported Paris had “no go zones” that were due to Muslim immigrants. SF Chronicle did a piece on how crime isn’t actually that bad, and compared crime rates with other cities. If you only read Fox, you’d think Chicago, NYC, Portland and SF are “no go zones.”

The only difference between Fox and DCUM is the size of the "no go zones" is slightly smaller here.

Anonymous wrote:This thread reminds me of when Fox reported Paris had “no go zones” that were due to Muslim immigrants. SF Chronicle did a piece on how crime isn’t actually that bad, and compared crime rates with other cities. If you only read Fox, you’d think Chicago, NYC, Portland and SF are “no go zones.”

I’m sure all of those cities are glad to not have the yokels piling in, clogging up the roads and acting like idiots in the restaurants and museums.

Hey Fox News - downtown DC and the Mall are completely overrun with crime! Immigrants and homeless everywhere! Stay away! Stay far, far away!

This thread reminds me of when Fox reported Paris had “no go zones” that were due to Muslim immigrants. SF Chronicle did a piece on how crime isn’t actually that bad, and compared crime rates with other cities. If you only read Fox, you’d think Chicago, NYC, Portland and SF are “no go zones.”

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe you should be posting in a San Fran forum so the people who actually live there can opine.

Do you post about Florida/DeSantis on a Florida forum, or do you post here on DCUM? Rhetorical question, btw.

Good point.

Anonymous wrote:Do you all blame Republicans for the rampant poverty and drug use (opioids and meth) in red rural America as much as you blame Democrats for the homeless and crime in blue cities?

No, but perhaps people should. It is a little more indirect- Republican policies favoring corporations lead to destruction of employment opportunities. In blue cities, and only some blue cities, Democrat policies are lax and encourage homelessness and crime.

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Anonymous wrote:The cash app murderer was a tech consultant so there goes the entire premise of the thread, I guess.

He was a cryptocurrency exec. Shady in the extreme, since last year a bunch of crypto execs got whacked and there's a valid theory that Bob Lee was no different. Crypto is unregulated and built on a sandcastle. Violence and lies and frauds at part of that world.

It's been rumored that Disney got rid of Bob Chapek as CEO on a Sunday night because they had invested heavily in FTX, and couldn't wait until Monday for Chapek to dig into the details.

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Anonymous wrote:If big stores are leaving SF (whole foods/starbucks), there is a poop map of the city, needles everywhere, and acknowledgment that more police are needed, it tells me that there are significant issues there. In addition, there was the reparations discussion there that was approved by local legislative body which would concern me as well. So many competing priorities and what will they fund with the pot of money they have? It should be a priorities discussion, not raising taxes discussion.

People are leaving the city and for a good reason. I’m no republican but this stuff makes me weary of super liberal politics as well.

Yep.

In 2020, crime was going down and at lows in most of the country. But with the pandemic, crime began to spike again.
#facts

I love it. She deleted her twitter. On Instagram she is being destroyed in the comment section for being a moron. Yes, wanted deep cuts and supported defunding the police, yes, defunding. And now cries that there are not enough police to protect her neighborhood.

She was instrumental in canceling 150 graduates from the police academy and was praised in the defund SFPD movement.

https://defundsfpdnow.com/

Here name is all over it.

Resign.

She is an absolute moron. Like so many of her peers.

Anonymous wrote:Maybe you should be posting in a San Fran forum so the people who actually live there can opine.

Do you post about Florida/DeSantis on a Florida forum, or do you post here on DCUM? Rhetorical question, btw.

Anonymous wrote:The cash app murderer was a tech consultant so there goes the entire premise of the thread, I guess.

Not at all.
SAn Francisco is a mess. The arrest changes nothing.

Do you all blame Republicans for the rampant poverty and drug use (opioids and meth) in red rural America as much as you blame Democrats for the homeless and crime in blue cities?

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Anonymous wrote:If big stores are leaving SF (whole foods/starbucks), there is a poop map of the city, needles everywhere, and acknowledgment that more police are needed, it tells me that there are significant issues there. In addition, there was the reparations discussion there that was approved by local legislative body which would concern me as well. So many competing priorities and what will they fund with the pot of money they have? It should be a priorities discussion, not raising taxes discussion.

People are leaving the city and for a good reason. I’m no republican but this stuff makes me weary of super liberal politics as well.

Yep.

In 2020, crime was going down and at lows in most of the country. But with the pandemic, crime began to spike again.
#facts

I love it. She deleted her twitter. On Instagram she is being destroyed in the comment section for being a moron. Yes, wanted deep cuts and supported defunding the police, yes, defunding. And now cries that there are not enough police to protect her neighborhood.

She was instrumental in canceling 150 graduates from the police academy and was praised in the defund SFPD movement.

https://defundsfpdnow.com/

Here name is all over it.

Resign.

Anonymous wrote:The cash app murderer was a tech consultant so there goes the entire premise of the thread, I guess.

He was a cryptocurrency exec. Shady in the extreme, since last year a bunch of crypto execs got whacked and there's a valid theory that Bob Lee was no different. Crypto is unregulated and built on a sandcastle. Violence and lies and frauds at part of that world.

Anonymous wrote:The cash app murderer was a tech consultant so there goes the entire premise of the thread, I guess.

I knew there was more to it.