Liberalism's 'cesspit'?: ... San Francisco a dystopian nightmare of addiction, homelessness and crim

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Liberalism's 'cesspit'?: IAN BIRRELL says tech giants have turned San Francisco into a dystopian nightmare of addiction, homelessness and criminality
By Ian Birrell for The Mail on Sunday
Published: 18:38 EST, 1 February 2020 | Updated: 21:23 EST, 1 February 2020

...   could grasp his despair. 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.

All cities have their seedy sides. But this is the very centre of San Francisco, by an upmarket Westfield shopping mall thronged with people in designer clothes perusing Rolex watches, Louis Vuitton handbags and Tiffany jewellery.  ...

As one prominent academic tells me, it seems a cruel irony that so much squalor and despair is found in the Californian base of all those billionaire technology titans seeking to reshape the world in their image. ...

He can reel off damning statistics to back his claim that San Francisco symbolises the Golden State’s descent into ‘high-tech feudalism’ including America’s highest poverty levels, its worst rates of property crime and its biggest gap between top and middle incomes.

But one statistic stands out: almost half of homeless people in the United States are in California, according to a recent White House study.

And San Francisco, a comparatively small city that is home to tech giants such as Twitter, Uber and Airbnb, has the highest rate of ‘unsheltered’ citizens – at ten times the national level. ...

Read entire article at the Daily Mail (U.K.)

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Offer free shit and they will come.

Duh...

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But one statistic stands out: almost half of homeless people in the United States are in California, according to a recent White House study.

YIKES! If true,that is genuinely shocking.

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YIKES! If true,that is genuinely shocking.

It isn't shocking. They invited them there and most the state has good weather year round. Free needles, crap/piss anywhere you want and pretty much no matter what you do including blatant theft won't get you bothered by the cops. A gypsy paradise...

What's not to like...

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It isn't shocking. They invited them there and most the state has good weather year round. Free needles, crap/piss anywhere you want and pretty much no matter what you do including blatant theft won't get you bothered by the cops. A gypsy paradise...

What's not to like...

Exactly.