I pretty much agree with that typically Atlantic-length article. * Archived Message
Posted by haighter  on June 8, 2022, 11:57:14, in reply to "Of interest to you: "How San Francisco Became a Failed City""
 Previous Message https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/06/how-san-francisco-became-failed-city/661199/ On a cold, sunny day not too long ago, I went to see the city’s new Tenderloin Center for drug addicts on Market Street. It’s downtown, an open-air chain-link enclosure in what used to be a public plaza. On the sidewalks all around it, people are lying on the ground, twitching. There’s a free mobile shower, laundry, and bathroom station emblazoned with the words dignity on wheels. A young man is lying next to it, stoned, his shirt riding up, his face puffy and sunburned. Inside the enclosure, services are doled out: food, medical care, clean syringes, referrals for housing. It’s basically a safe space to shoot up. The city government says it’s trying to help. But from the outside, what it looks like is young people being eased into death on the sidewalk, surrounded by half-eaten boxed lunches. Previous Message
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- Of interest to maybe only me...SF DA Chesa Boudin soundly tossed from office... - haighter June 8, 2022, 8:06:47
- Crazy that Sotomayor’s aid leaking a ruling might have killed Kavanaugh - bigbop85 June 8, 2022, 21:19:07
- No loss, really* - Stu June 9, 2022, 4:58:08
- Ooo - ATL June 8, 2022, 23:48:48
- Here: - ghost_of_clt June 8, 2022, 22:19:36
- That hasn’t been established at all has it? * - haighter June 8, 2022, 21:46:33
- Maybe if conservatives start getting iced, something will happen with guns. * - doubledown June 8, 2022, 21:46:09
- You spelled Thomas wrong* - WhitmansFolly June 8, 2022, 21:44:33
- I’ll give you credit. You may be stupid. But you troll hard. * - ATL June 8, 2022, 21:20:58
- May be?
 - Kajagoogoo June 8, 2022, 21:21:45
- Update, California man drove to DC to kill Kavanaugh - bigbop85 June 8, 2022, 14:46:05
- Has there been an explanation for how this how all went down? - OB25 June 8, 2022, 21:31:21
- maybe he was just a tourist exercising his constitutional right* - ECEIllinois June 8, 2022, 15:02:24
- Kavanaugh’s house should only have one door, I guess. But really nothing more we can do. * - doubledown June 8, 2022, 14:57:39
- Why is this worthy of 2 mentions in this thread? Who cares?* - gullit June 8, 2022, 14:56:53
- It was absurd the first time you said it in this thread, and it's still absurd* - Jackie June 8, 2022, 14:55:20
- as with virtually everything else with republicans, they want to hold dems to a different - suburbanmyth June 8, 2022, 14:55:17
- Trolling ...... On A Wednesday Afternoon .... - Chicago1995 June 8, 2022, 14:52:02
- Lost so much respect for Psaki when she wouldn’t condemn protests at judges houses* - JeffFrank June 8, 2022, 14:48:41
- Woke Aurora Pride lost their parade for demonizing police* - JeffFrank June 8, 2022, 14:18:10
- Tim Miller used to post on my Widespread Panic board: - JeffFrank June 8, 2022, 13:13:27
- I am a liberal. I believe this country badly needed Bail Reform. I thought the comple elimination - JacobRDaugherty June 8, 2022, 12:40:54
- same voters (and those in LA) voted for dem bonta for AG over republican challengers..... - suburbanmyth June 8, 2022, 11:21:35
- Seattle elected a Republican City Attorney in November - Sounder June 8, 2022, 11:12:19
- Don’t think it’ll matter much. Police here suck* - ECEIllinois June 8, 2022, 11:07:28
- Of interest to you: "How San Francisco Became a Failed City" - ATL June 8, 2022, 10:36:44
- Thune calls AR-15's varmint guns? - WhitmansFolly June 8, 2022, 10:32:11
- Biden now below Trump at the same time of presidency - bigbop85 June 8, 2022, 10:02:29
- Man with gun arrested outside Kavanaugh's house, informed police he intended to kill Brett - bigbop85 June 8, 2022, 9:39:26
- Mitch is on it - John Coctostan June 8, 2022, 11:07:29
- brett has special laws to protect him so i get why he is not concerned about expanding gun rights... - suburbanmyth June 8, 2022, 10:32:08
- Sounds unstable. Maybe should have been red flagged.* - SurfTheBoneyard June 8, 2022, 10:30:50
- The police caught a bad guy!* - HamptonSki June 8, 2022, 10:11:01
- Man with gun blasted 19 kids last week, man with gun murdered 10 people shopping for groceries - ijustkrushalot June 8, 2022, 9:58:45
- Oh, we are going to make it illegal to carry a gun in public now?* - gvibes June 8, 2022, 9:57:15
- The writer of that tweet is one of the worst people on the planet. She is vile - JacobRDaugherty June 8, 2022, 9:46:57
- maybe he meant to say he was there to do shots with Brett, not shoot him* - bbonb June 8, 2022, 9:45:07
- Another L for Soros, is Kim Foxx next? #RedTsuanmi22 - bigbop85 June 8, 2022, 9:31:08
- crime isn't down?* - Poldark June 8, 2022, 8:22:17
- and bigbop85* - timmer June 8, 2022, 8:10:33
- I can think of one other person it was of interest to* - Sammich June 8, 2022, 8:08:08
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