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The peasants should learn their place and just be quiet and die silently as is their birthright.
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Bip Roberts posted:The fact that San Fransisco is a not-at-all safe city is much more worrisome than the visible homelessness. Two weeks ago my sister's friend got stabbed in the heart by some crazy rear end in a top hat outside a bar and died after 9 days in the ICU. SF has major problems with public safety.
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Feb 19, 2016 10:04
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I'm sorry people do bad things sometimes. But don't extrapolate that meaning that it's a trend exclusive to San Francisco.
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Feb 19, 2016 10:21
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Popular Thug Drink posted:this is homeless people everywhere, turns out when you live in a city sometimes you have to deal with folks who have significant Problems. if you don't like it there's a place where you dont have to deal with all that, it's called the suburbs, good luck and god bless homeless people are very nice in scandinavia. certainly much nicer than me.
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Feb 19, 2016 10:21
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At least the cops in SF won't shoot a baby 14 times in the face because he looked at them funny.
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Feb 19, 2016 10:22
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Sounds like we need to disrupt bar culture. (that's awful tho dude)
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Feb 19, 2016 10:37
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last time I visited the old country, a homeless man came up to me while I waited for a friend. I didn't have any cash, so I offered him a smoke. he was obviously unstable and very drunk, kind of going on stream of consciousness style, but besides being incoherent, he seemed like a nice guy. after ten minutes of that, he suddenly told me he loved me. out of nowhere. so I just said I loved him too, he kept talking, then he got up and left and my friend showed up. thirty minutes later, we saw him again; he didn't recognize me. nice guy though, wasn't bothering anyone. I hope he's doing okay. well, that's one of many moderate-to-happy scandinavian homeless guy stories. most homeless people are fine most of the time, just like regular people, and suffering from schizophrenia doesn't make you 24/7 batshit. insufferable techbros can go gently caress themselves, though. e: a person who implicitly believes they are entitled to exercise control over what enters their perceptual space is hosed in the head on a far more fundamental and insidious level than even Hollywood level schizophrenia could conceivably make them Zodium fucked around with this message at 11:18 on Feb 19, 2016 |
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straight up brolic posted:in my experience (probably only spent a cumulative year in SF, so i could be off base) the homeless population is much more aggressive in san francisco than in other large cities (where i've lived for the majority of my life) A homeless person in Austin, Texas sat down next to me while I was reading a book at a cafe, latched on to my arm and then begin to describe in vivid detail how they had been sexually assaulted. In that same city I had to chase down a homeless person who snatched my friend's purse. In D.C. I saw a homeless person walk right out in front of a moving bus, lie down, then crawl under it and refuse to move until the police dragged them out. I live in NYC now and there's not a week that goes by where some mostly harmless homeless person isn't on the train scaring the gently caress out of people simply by existing and smelling bad (I know we've got a face slasher running around right now, but rarely are those people actually homeless). The takeaway from those stories isn't that homeless people are inherently more dangerous than anyone else, it's that society doesn't give a gently caress about them until they're in your face, and that goes doubly for anyone who has probably been sheltered their entire lives, makes way too much money, and has an overblown sense of self-importance. If you read the letter that prompted this thread, you'll see that the tech bro in question commends SF for cleaning up the city during the Super Bowl. The millions that SF spent temporarily disappearing the problem could've been spent on providing long-term support and services to the homeless, but most cities are too busy catering to the [insert X industry here] to actually fix the goddamn problem, so we get this endless cycle of out-of-touch idiots complaining about the symptoms that disrupt their cushy lives. Same problems in Austin now where, as of 2014, we couldn't even get a resolution passed to fund long-term housing for the homeless, but plenty of money to revitalize the piss-ant creek that runs through downtown so the incoming tech bro wave can have somewhere scenic to walk after brunch. As that example in Utah demonstrates, this isn't some intractable problem. We could fix homelessness tomorrow if we as a nation actually gave a poo poo, and as someone who has been homeless before (it's not fun!) I wish people would stop scapegoating the homeless as the cause of every social ill or disturbance and maybe do something about it.
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Yes, but that would involve utilizing compassion; and as the Jrode thread demonstrates, compassion is a limited resource. There's only so much of the stuff to go around, you know! Furthermore, *faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaart* Teriyaki Koinku fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Feb 19, 2016 |
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Feb 19, 2016 15:38
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So I guess the homeless are America's stand-in for the Roma.
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Feb 19, 2016 17:14
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Rexicon1 posted:The peasants should learn their place and just be quiet and die silently as is their birthright.
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Feb 19, 2016 17:30
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I wonder if human beings taste good
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Feb 19, 2016 17:31
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Like pork, supposedly. Probably some good crackling on those doughy startup nerds. E: I am looking for some investment for my new startup, buying other, failed startups and repurposing their staff into the food production industry.
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Feb 19, 2016 17:36
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straight up brolic posted:in my experience (probably only spent a cumulative year in SF, so i could be off base) the homeless population is much more aggressive in san francisco than in other large cities (where i've lived for the majority of my life) Well, yeah. If a homeless guy aggressively harasses someone on the East Coast they'll probably get punched rather than being made the subject of passive-aggressive tweets
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Feb 19, 2016 17:37
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kliksf posted:It's happened again, a hardworking educated white man has posted his grievances with the City of San Francisco for all the world to see. It's really worth reading but the gist of it is If that individual does not wish to see homeless individuals, they are free to volunteer their time forming a non-profit start-up which provisions transitional services. Why does techbro demand government intervention in a sector which is much better handled by the invisible hand of the free market?
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Feb 19, 2016 17:39
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OwlFancier posted:Like pork, supposedly. Probably some good crackling on those doughy startup nerds. Depends. Their rich diet gives a good marbling, but long hours in the office will make the meat tough.
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Feb 19, 2016 17:40
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Actually on second thought they'd just taste exactly like starbucks syrup.
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Feb 19, 2016 17:41
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SF should legalize concealed carry. We'll see how long people keep banking on risk free assaults on the upper class.
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This poster loves police brutality, but only when its against minorities!
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Feb 19, 2016 18:27
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that's just what this thread needed, more impotent fantasies about doing violence to poor minorities
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Feb 19, 2016 18:27
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Popular Thug Drink posted:that's just what this thread needed, more impotent fantasies about doing violence to poor minorities checkbox your privilege
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Feb 19, 2016 19:28
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DeusExMachinima posted:SF should legalize concealed carry. We'll see how long people keep banking on risk free assaults on the upper class. Being smelly near someone or even pushing them doesn't and shouldn't give you license to draw your firearm. As a responsible gun owner, you should know this.
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People complain about the homeless in west coast cities like SF, LA, Seattle etc. but those cities have such intractable problems with homelessness because other cities push the homeless out. Also, it rarely gets below freezing in the winter out here, which is desirable if you have to be outside.
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Why don't these ludicrously wealthy folks just do what they're good at and spend money to help the community - build day-care and pay for free day-care for low-income people, build some schools, build - spend - give back to the community. I guarantee they sit in $800 office chairs - they can't consider using funds for other purposes? If they see a problem why don't they loving offer to fix it?
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Feb 19, 2016 22:21
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Because some people buy into capitalism so thoroughly that they believe that having more money is evidence that they have the mandate of heaven, and it's simply their place to be on top and everyone else's place to please them as the superior beings they are.
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Feb 19, 2016 22:29
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Cracker King posted:Why don't these ludicrously wealthy folks just do what they're good at and spend money to help the community - build day-care and pay for free day-care for low-income people, build some schools, build - spend - give back to the community. they do. they think the problem is the particular location of homeless people rather than the fact there are people who have nowhere to live, though.
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Feb 19, 2016 22:31
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Cracker King posted:Why don't these ludicrously wealthy folks just do what they're good at and spend money to help the community - build day-care and pay for free day-care for low-income people, build some schools, build - spend - give back to the community. Because the wealthy people have worked hard and earned their way into San Francisco, poor people need to recess into the corners. Not helped and treated like they belong in this city that only hard working wealthy people should be allowed to call home.
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Feb 19, 2016 22:36
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Cracker King posted:Why don't these ludicrously wealthy folks just do what they're good at and spend money to help the community - build day-care and pay for free day-care for low-income people, build some schools, build - spend - give back to the community. Because it's almost impossible to build anything new in San Francisco unless you, are, like, Donald Trump rich.
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For what it's worth - I'm unfamiliar with SF so please excuse my ignorance. But even if all these ultra-wealthy tech-bros pitched in and but!--grah! They make me so upset!
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Feb 19, 2016 22:46
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the homeless in SF aren't a problem as long as you treat them properly, ie refuse to acknowledge them in any way, the techies are probably making eye contact or some poo poo
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OwlFancier posted:Because some people buy into capitalism so thoroughly that they believe that having more money is evidence that they have the mandate of heaven, and it's simply their place to be on top and everyone else's place to please them as the superior beings they are. So they're "Nu Calvinists" - maybe "Neo Calvinists" Please don't hurt me if that catches on.
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Feb 19, 2016 23:18
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Cracker King posted:Why don't these ludicrously wealthy folks just do what they're good at and spend money to help the community - build day-care and pay for free day-care for low-income people, build some schools, build - spend - give back to the community. Trying to fix it themselves is gonna end up with them building Groverhaus out of poor people.
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Feb 19, 2016 23:20
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Rockopolis posted:Isn't that what taxes are for? To pay someone else to fix it? Someone who has the time to take care of it? This is a demographic that's extremely opposed to taxes working for companies that get tax breaks and preferential treatment. On top of outright tax dodging. They're also the ones voting against new development and for policies that would actually help people that are not them. Really they're a major component of the problem but are too socially myopic to realize it.
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Feb 19, 2016 23:27
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Rockopolis posted:Isn't that what taxes are for? To pay someone else to fix it? Someone who has the time to take care of it? Tax money is not actually the problem, it's construction and zoning regulations and also NIMBYism.
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Feb 19, 2016 23:47
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semper wifi posted:the homeless in SF aren't a problem as long as you treat them properly, ie refuse to acknowledge them in any way, the techies are probably making eye contact or some poo poo Hahaha yes yes, when I think of total non-weirdos who make eye contact and talk to other human beings face to face, techies are the first demographic that springs to mind. Brilliant.
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-Troika- posted:Tax money is not actually the problem, it's construction and zoning regulations and also NIMBYism. high housing prices in san francisco is a completely different problem from entitled wealthy people being suprised that they have to deal with urban annoyances in a city
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PhazonLink posted:Speaking of that, Is the soylent sperg dead yet? The latest thing I heard of him os him wearing a jumpsuit and living in a moving truck. Moving truck guy is a different guy who works for google or something. Last I checked, soylent guy had reasoned that because his slurry is "perfectly formulated" to only contain what the body can absorb and use, making GBS threads is redundant. So in order to test this theory, he poured antibiotics down his rear end in a top hat with a funnel to sterilize the intestinal flora.
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Captain_Maclaine posted:Hahaha yes yes, when I think of total non-weirdos who make eye contact and talk to other human beings face to face, techies are the first demographic that springs to mind. Brilliant. No it's that little furtive glance because they're so anxious but they just gotta "look into the abyss".
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HorseLord posted:Moving truck guy is a different guy who works for google or something. It's telling that I can't tell whether this is a joke or not.
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I thought the gut sterilization was part of a different thing where he bet that he could go a week without making GBS threads so he shut down his intestine or something.
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