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2020-02-03 Home Front: Culture Wars

Liberalism's 'cesspit'?: IAN BIRRELL says tech giants have turned San Francisco into a dystopian nightmare of addiction, homelessness and criminality

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Posted by Skidmark 2020-02-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Kakistan.

With billionaires. Dystopian indeed.

Posted by Lex 2020-02-03 01:15|| 2020-02-03 01:15|| Front Page Top

#2 "But we meant well"

...should go down right next to "I was just obeying orders".

GIGO

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-02-03 06:13|| 2020-02-03 06:13|| Front Page Top

#3 To steal an idea from Insty:
Clockwork Orange + Blade Runner = Soylent Green

Posted by Mercutio 2020-02-03 08:39|| 2020-02-03 08:39|| Front Page Top

#4 "But we meant well"

No, they did not mean well. If they had they would have had to admit by now that the experiment has failed and a new approach should be taken.

But no. Somebody is making money from all the drugs being sold and I would bet that the money trail leads back to city hall, Sacramento and Washington DC.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-02-03 12:59|| 2020-02-03 12:59|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm an expat San Franciscan. I lived there from 1988 to 2007; so nearly 20 years. And I'm here to tell you all that SF has always been a dystopian nightmare of addiction, homelessness and criminality. That's its natural state.

Oh, there was a brief window from the mid 90's to around the mid "zeros" or so where yuppies poured in from the Northeast, completely altered the place, and it became cleanish for a while. But I knew it wouldn't last. And it hasn't.

Nothing to do with tech giants. Just the city going back to being the weird cross between Berkeley and Detroit it was before.

Posted by Secret Master 2020-02-03 15:32|| 2020-02-03 15:32|| Front Page Top

#6 I had just passed dealers selling drugs beside a police car parked outside government offices, and seen their customers openly smoke fentanyl, an opioid 50 times stronger than heroin, then collapse on the street.

Okay: a cross between Berkeley, Detroit, and New Orleans then!

Posted by Secret Master 2020-02-03 15:35|| 2020-02-03 15:35|| Front Page Top

#7 You have to develop a thick skin,’ says Sonya Lee, 24, supervisor in a Starbucks branch surrounded by bustling boutiques, expensive hotels and smart restaurants. ‘Every day, people come in and take stuff. It’s dreadful but we don’t know what to do.’

Here's some free advice from the ol' Secret Master kid. Move.

Posted by Secret Master 2020-02-03 15:42|| 2020-02-03 15:42|| Front Page Top

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