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Raziel's avatar

I wouldnt say that "San Francisco Fell" but that San Francisco was failed by first its Elected Officials and then its Residents.

Situation in SF didn't materialize yesterday, but it was created by successive failed polices that were implemented by Politicians on behest of its Residents who elected them. But the blame is soly on Residents of SF . Nobody forced them to continue to vote for same failed polices that got them to this place. There are no Republicans to blame, election after election, more and more problems showed up. And each and every time they doubled down same catastrophic policies (definition of insanity).

I sorry by they alone are to blame.

Main issue here that population has been so used to this "sh*tshow" that SF has become, they continue to clame that this is normal, because you know, this is a big city. I am sorry but this is no true, there are much larger cities that are doing better, where living in Big City doesn't include jumping over human excrement, needles infested parks, and junkies fighting on the streets and open drug markets. Until local population, doesn't start to vote on only local issue, and not on woke ideology, there will be no progress in SF, which will continue to rot as many other cities run by Democrats.

To sum it up, I have 0 compassion for population in San Francisco. And how could I? Even after everything what happened in last 2 years there, 40% of voters wanted to keep Chessa Bodine. Dear Residents of San Francisco, elections have consequences, you wanted this, nobody else. Maybe insted of runing away from mess you created, change your voting habits for coupe elections, it will help. Giuliani managed to clean up mess that NY was, you need to find your Giuliani.

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KW NORTON's avatar

Of course it is the residents of San Francisco who did this but finding our inner Giuliani may not help us. An understanding of the larger historical and cultural trends may. Study the Davos-World Economic Forum-Bilderberg narratives for a top down perspective of how the San Francisco- Chicago- New York- London- Paris- Lanai based distortions are being mandated. The covidiots are now working on ruining Montana:

https://apple.news/A8cW_H9naSUmDUa-nl5Xq3g

This is planetary. An international Corporatocracy is attempting to rule the world.

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Naomi's avatar

People are easily propagandized.

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Jack Sant's avatar

Again the manipulation and bastardization of language.

SF didn't fall, it was knocked down by decades of progressive policies.

The twin towers didn't fall on 9/11/01, they were knocked down not by suicide bombers, but by homicide/genocide bombers. Their intent was not suicide (though that was one result of the day), but to murder as many as possible.

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Naomi's avatar

Yes, exactly. The bastardization of language. The language is always changed and corrupted first.

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KW NORTON's avatar

Yes it has been a long and clear progressive agenda that led us here to a facist kleptocracy. They have appropriated our language and it shows.

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LonesomePolecat's avatar

How can you say, " same failed polices"? These are the polices the residents wanted, not only wanted but embraced. SF is a Democrat triumph and if we keep electing Socialists, this a model of what this nation will become.

SF is a Socialist paradise not a failure. Keep it up Democrats/Socialists.

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The American electorate is a bunch of ill-informed dolts. If the Socialists dug up Charley Manson and put him in a suit, paraded around the nation, they would vote for him.

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Skeptical but Optimistic's avatar

I was speaking with a liberal friend yesterday. We pretty much avoid politics. The subject of Seattle and the university of W and other schools came up. Her eyes got bigger and bigger as I described what Seattle looks like now and how many companies have leased office parks in the suburbs because their employees don't feel safe being in the city. She literally did not know this was happening. At all. She didn't know about the homeless issues or crime in SF or LA either. She didn't know that one of those schools in Seattle is in Capitol Hill (remember CHAZ? She didn't.) How can anyone debate whether a policy is good or bad if they don't study ALL sides of it. It boggles the mind how blind and clueless some can be.

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Hulverhead's avatar

head in the sand , hard to see what is going down

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LonesomePolecat's avatar

Most people I know on the left don't know shit from Shinola but to be fair the bulk of the US is full of ignoramuses. Hardly anyone reads history or keeps up with current affairs. It is sad but that is the way it has always been.

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KW NORTON's avatar

As Hemingway once said “how pretty to think so.” The fault is not in the electorate it’s in the managed electorate of the TechnoCrats. It is worldwide and it will not stop until those who are initiating all this dystopia are stopped.

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KW NORTON's avatar

Safe to say the residents of San Francisco changed once San Francisco became Silicon Vslley. As the “elites” attempt to change society into their Hellish example of one we may expect more of the same. As our cities are merged into Big Tech/Davos/Bilderberg approved TechnoStates where we can all be “safe” we the people will never again be free wild humans but hunted animals.

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Kham's avatar

👍

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Naomi's avatar

I remember how bad it got in NYC under David Dinkins. The city was filthy and dangerous.

Giuliani came in and with the police chief Bratton and later Kelly, they cleaned things up by using the "broken window" analogy of policing.

The difference was night and day. NYC became a liveable city again, safe and clean.

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Bruce Miller's avatar

Showing, once again, that this stuff isn't difficult - except for liberals and proggies. Amazing how it has to get absolutely intolerable before they wake up. We laughed when Giuliani was elected that it finally took some vagrant threatening or taking a dump next to some UWS or West Village liberal's wife and little kids for them to finally get some sanity. And, yep, lo and behold, Rudy cleaned up the place in no time. All the squigee men, the cardboard sidewalk hotels, the turnstile jumpers and boom-box, pot smoking vagrants - poof, gone. A miracle? Nope. Just common sense. Something lacking in the left.

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NCMaureen's avatar

Not any more. And the new mayor is no Giuliani.

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Bruce Miller's avatar

People are already on to the fact that Adams is an incompetent poseur. He's done nothing to clean up the filth and control the criminals.

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Sea Sentry's avatar

So naturally he’s thinking of running for President.

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Bruce Miller's avatar

Say it ain't so.....

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Sea Sentry's avatar

I saw it on some news feed yesterday.

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NCMaureen's avatar

Family requires me to visit the upper east side—the “nice” part of NYC—occasionally. Even there the homeless are on the corners, the crazies in Central Park. I wouldn’t chance taking the subway anywhere. The cost of living is astounding but the quality of life is horrible. The Met is just not enough to compensate for everything else.

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Sea Sentry's avatar

The Met, or the Mets?

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MayaMia's avatar

The "nice" part of NYC is just as big a dump as everywhere else. I've lived in that neighborhood for 36 years and while it was frightening during the Dinkins years, at least we didn't have the revolving door bail policies that allow violent criminals back on the streets. The main street of 86th St. once housed small boutiques, cafes, diners and some remaining German Yorkville shops. There are now so many boarded up stores that give way to homeless hangouts and crazies. Speaking of crazies, as I'm writing this, one of our distinguished citizens is in the streets screaming something incoherent.

Developers are tearing down most of the corner apartment buildings on the avenues leaving behind vacant lots left empty for months and years because of construction loopholes.

Amidst all this mess, a young girl, a student at Bronx Science was shot in the leg this week while doing her homework in her own home. Mayor Adams decided to dance with Jennifer Lopez instead of visiting the family. Really makes me want to head out for brunch.

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Alison Bull's avatar

I think they’re going to have to get rid of the Manhattan DA. Adams is already a disappointment.

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Alison Bull's avatar

NYC was amazing under Giuliani and Bloomberg. Watching it go down under DeBlasio was terrible.

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Gordon Freeman's avatar

Yes, it was actually astounding. I got to know NYC as a teenager, around the late Sixties/early Seventies. It was authentically scary and dangerous, like Damascus. I didn’t go back until the late Eighties, and it was transformed, it had become normal. Really striking!

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