San Francisco: The reckoning is here
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San Francisco: The reckoning is here
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Re: San Francisco: The reckoning is here
#2In the minds of SF folks, covid policies came to represent resistance to Trump. Those asking for schools and businesses to be opened sounded like the MAGA crowd -- i.e. the Enemy. The policymakers, blind with agenda, doubled down on restrictive policies, with a faulty theory of "everything will come back". The result is a city that works for neither the rich nor poor. SF truly is a social experiment and more capable minds than me may some day cast these events into a coherent social theory.
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#3San Francisco has always been a boom and bust place, as anyone who was here during the 2008 crash, the dotcom bubble, or probably even the gold rush would tell you. The author of this seagull* article needs to take a deep breath, wait a couple of years, observe, and then realize that they could have saved themselves the effort.
*fly in, crap all over everything, fly out
Re: San Francisco: The reckoning is here
#4San Francisco has always been a boom and bust place, as anyone who was here during the 2008 crash, the dotcom bubble, or probably even the gold rush would tell you. The author of this seagull* article needs to take a deep breath, wait a couple of years, observe, and then realize that they could have saved themselves the effort. *fly in, crap all over everything, fly out
Mature cities like NYC* find ways to incorporate new industries and grow with them. SF doesn't want to grow up apparently. That's fine, but the seagulls aren't to blame. SF could have used their tax revenue to build something awesome.
[*] I guess the cities which successfully do this have a long history of being centres of trade and commerce. Those activities facilitate pro-tolerance and anti-zero-sum thinking.
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#5In the minds of SF folks, covid policies came to represent resistance to Trump. Those asking for schools and businesses to be opened sounded like the MAGA crowd -- i.e. the Enemy. The policymakers, blind with agenda, doubled down on restrictive policies, with a faulty theory of "everything will come back". The result is a city that works for neither the rich nor poor. SF truly is a social experiment and more capable…
How do you know what’s “in the minds of SF folks”? Do you live in SF, yourself, for example?
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#6>San Francisco has replaced its DA and now re-funded police
When was SF police de-funded? Budgets have only increased [1] each year, any rhetoric notwithstanding
1. https://abc7news.com/sfpd-budget-defund-the-police-departmen...
Re: San Francisco: The reckoning is here
#7It's felt like a 'emperor has no clothes' situation at least for the past few years, maybe longer. The only difference being that people are pointing it out, and others just sit with their fingers in their ear. Maybe more of a 'Don't Look Up' situation then, I guess.
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#8Just like the first dot-com crash in 2002. And the recession in 2008.
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#9San Francisco has always been a boom and bust place, as anyone who was here during the 2008 crash, the dotcom bubble, or probably even the gold rush would tell you. The author of this seagull* article needs to take a deep breath, wait a couple of years, observe, and then realize that they could have saved themselves the effort. *fly in, crap all over everything, fly out
Mature cities like NYC* find ways to incorporate new industries and grow with them. SF doesn't want to grow up apparently. That's fine, but the seagulls aren't to blame. SF could have used their tax revenue to build something awesome. [*] I guess the cities which successfully do this have a long history of being centres of trade and commerce. Those activities facilitate pro-tolerance and anti-zero-sum thinking.
So has SF.
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#10San Francisco has always been a boom and bust place, as anyone who was here during the 2008 crash, the dotcom bubble, or probably even the gold rush would tell you. The author of this seagull* article needs to take a deep breath, wait a couple of years, observe, and then realize that they could have saved themselves the effort. *fly in, crap all over everything, fly out
2001 even more than 2008 as it was a long slog with lots of bankruptcies.