The Liberal Agenda and Unanticipated Consequences

[AMC]

Are they commuter criminals like most of the dope slingers ?

It's a mixed bag. We definitely have the bridge and tunnel crowd (BART is huge for the East Bay crooks), but a lot of the local 'yutes that would've been slinging dope on the corner have discovered that car break ins are a high yield, low risk activity....actually virtually no risk.

[Drang]

At least they'll be able to cultivate a bumper crop of roses for next year's Rose Bowl game.

Pasadena's a little south of there...

[Yung]

When two judges of the King County Superior Court in Seattle urged the city government to clean up “the unsanitary and potentially frightening” condition of the sidewalks around the courthouse, sidewalks “that reek of urine and excrement,” Mr. Gossett leaped to action.

Not to clean up the sidewalks, but to warn that power-washing the sidewalks would be “racially insensitive” because it might remind civil-rights activists of the water hoses used by Bull Connor and his cops in faraway Birmingham, Ala., a half-century ago to disperse civil-rights demonstrators. Cleaning up the sidewalks “might be a form of microaggression.”

"And I went through with this new knowledge, because people think of conservatives as of, like are fascists, as afraid of those who are different. They're not afraid, they're disgusted. And that's not the same thing, because you burn things you're disgusted by."

[the Schwartz]

From 2017 but on point here:

https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2...ce-in-seattle/

Yep, so the situation in SF, at least so far as I can see, is

single use plastic bottles: BAD

human feces/urine (and God knows what else) on their sidewalks: OK

[HCM]

Yep, so the situation in SF, at least so far as I can see, is

single use plastic bottles: BAD

human feces/urine (and God knows what else) on their sidewalks: OK

What about single use plastic needles?

It’s not like SF has a diabetes epidemic...

[RevolverRob]

From 2017 but on point here:

https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2...ce-in-seattle/

I gotta get my rant on:

<Rant>

I am so fucking tired of hearing/reading/seeing the word "microaggression".

People need to put on their fucking big boy/girl/trans pants/skirts/assless chaps/whatever and get their fucking shit together.

This isn't a microagression aimed at anyone in particular, it is a straight up AGGRESSION aimed at the mentally weak. The slacktivists, the triggered, the butthurt, the people that think doing nothing is doing something and who don't know the difference between words and actions. They come from all political stripes, all gender spectrums, all sexual identities - and if this shit offends you - you're the person it's aimed at.

Get your shit together, HUMAN UP, and stop being a fucking wimp about stuff. If a pressure washer offends your sensibilities, kill yourself. If that previous line offends you, kill yourself. If you live on outrage porn and offense, kill yourself. Do us all a favor and die. We have a surplus population and you know it. If you wanted to solve the problem, you'd drop out of life and ask that your body be donated to science to help teach the next generation of people doing how to do what they want (i.e., to help train medical students).

I need an offense litmus test, so I can start weeding out the weak willed for the cattle they are.

</Rant>

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[the Schwartz]

What about single use plastic needles?

It’s not like SF has a diabetes epidemic...

Of course. Clearly you get it, HCM.

California's legislative bureaucracy is all about doing nothing (really) while trying to create the appearance that they are making great strides towards the public good. So, they go after the "small ball" stuff like reducing landfill volume while leaving the serious health threats alone (poopy sidewalks are a fantastic disease vector) because it might "offend" (yeah, it's the stupid ''microaggression'' thing again) the offenders.

It is exactly this mindset that, I believe, pisses off most of the (mostly rational) electorate. I used to think that Trump was gonna have a hard time being re-elected, but the Democrats/Liberals and the assorted "crazies" are sure doing their best to help him retain the office.

[the Schwartz]

Preach it, brother! That ain't a rant; it's the truth.

I gotta get my rant on:

<Rant>

I am so fucking tired of hearing/reading/seeing the word "microaggression".

People need to put on their fucking big boy/girl/trans pants/skirts/assless chaps/whatever and get their fucking shit together.

This isn't a microagression aimed at anyone in particular, it is a straight up AGGRESSION aimed at the mentally weak. The slacktivists, the triggered, the butthurt, the people that think doing nothing is doing something and who don't know the difference between words and actions. They come from all political stripes, all gender spectrums, all sexual identities - and if this shit offends you - you're the person it's aimed at.

Get your shit together, HUMAN UP, and stop being a fucking wimp about stuff. If a pressure washer offends your sensibilities, kill yourself. If that previous line offends you, kill yourself. If you live on outrage porn and offense, kill yourself. Do us all a favor and die. We have a surplus population and you know it. If you wanted to solve the problem, you'd drop out of life and ask that your body be donated to science to help teach the next generation of people doing how to do what they want (i.e., to help train medical students).

I need an offense litmus test, so I can start weeding out the weak willed for the cattle they are.

</Rant>

This rant brought to you by Rick and Morty:

[farscott]

Perhaps I am cynical, but experience has shown me that people will have to learn, the hard way by having many others die, the lessons our ancestors learned about the dangers of sewage in public. What is happening today in SF and LA would have been familiar to the residents of London during the reign of Elizabeth, Charles I, and Charles II. 1665 was the year of the Great Plague, and when London was rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1666, open sewers were abolished. When you have rats, sewage, and fleas, you have the basics for plague.

"Sanitation is what fixes plague" is the lesson that needs to be relearned by many in SF and LA.

[txdpd]

Perhaps I am cynical, but experience has shown me that people will have to learn, the hard way by having many others die, the lessons our ancestors learned about the dangers of sewage in public. What is happening today in SF and LA would have been familiar to the residents of London during the reign of Elizabeth, Charles I, and Charles II. 1665 was the year of the Great Plague, and when London was rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1666, open sewers were abolished. When you have rats, sewage, and fleas, you have the basics for plague.

"Sanitation is what fixes plague" is the lesson that needs to be relearned by many in SF and LA.

But we have to go through the complete cycle of history first. We’re just entering the blame phase. They used to burn witches at the stake for spreading the plague, and now they burn anti-vaxers with clever memes on Facebook. We are a solid 300 years away from sanitation and pest control.

I meet an American doctor in Djibouti that once made a profound statement “you know what makes America great, plumbers and trash men.”