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2020-05-25 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Not Bee-- it's The New Yorker's unintentionally hilarious dispatch from Kakistan (newspeak alert:

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Posted by Lex 2020-05-25 09:17|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 New York City has shelter beds for nearly every homeless person. San Francisco has beds for approximately forty per cent.

Next paragraph:

San Francisco spends more per capita on homelessness solutions than nearly any other U.S. city—three hundred and thirty million dollars a year.

Is anybody 'following the money'?

Posted by Bobby 2020-05-25 12:08|| 2020-05-25 12:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Read the first part but then my compassion fatigue kicked in. I've never had much time for self destructive people.

Posted by AlanC 2020-05-25 12:11|| 2020-05-25 12:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Like a hiker crossing from France into Italy,
So are the days of our lives.

And by punctilious, we mean meth'd out her damn mind.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-05-25 13:32|| 2020-05-25 13:32|| Front Page Top

#4 "Unhoused" - LOL

Posted by Lex 2020-05-25 14:10|| 2020-05-25 14:10|| Front Page Top

#5 ... perhaps a typo? Meant to type "unhosed"?

Posted by Lex 2020-05-25 14:11|| 2020-05-25 14:11|| Front Page Top

#6
#2 - But he's brilliant! Just ask him, if he's awake.

Posted by Fred 2020-05-25 14:36|| 2020-05-25 14:36|| Front Page Top

#7 And we keep hearing "street cred" will get you anywhere...

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-25 15:23|| 2020-05-25 15:23|| Front Page Top

#8 And, of course, all of this is Trump voters' faults.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-25 15:28|| 2020-05-25 15:28|| Front Page Top

#9 TL;DR:

"Here's some people who made shitty choices."

"It's up to you normies to bail them out. Oh, and don't go thinking that you should have any say in what they do. Fuck you, pay them."

Posted by charger 2020-05-25 15:31|| 2020-05-25 15:31|| Front Page Top

#10 ^ You said it all, man.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-25 19:51|| 2020-05-25 19:51|| Front Page Top

#11 FIFTY-FOUR BILLION, SUCKERS!

Posted by Lex 2020-05-25 20:09|| 2020-05-25 20:09|| Front Page Top

#12 A 2020 remake of that '80s punk film whose main characters you were keen, from the very first scene, to see overdose and rid the screen of their presence, Sid and Nancy

Posted by Lex 2020-05-25 20:16|| 2020-05-25 20:16|| Front Page Top

#13 The author and the editors all actually believe these people are the real Americans.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-25 21:22|| 2020-05-25 21:22|| Front Page Top

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