Warriors Owner Chamath: “ Nobody cares about what’s happening to the Uyghurs”

genocide. it is below my line.

 

it's below my line

 

they spent a lot of money giving them needles and cleaning up their poop and allowing them to continue to be homeless
but does the state media tell you that?
@Os Trigonum

 

Yes I'm glad he cares about domestic issues such as

when will Klay Thompson be back
@Os Trigonum
should we make a trade for Bol Bol
I got a lot of Tesla stock, should I buy more
Need to book that table at the French Laundry tonight
I'm a billionaire too, why do people love Elon more than me?

 

How Progressives Ruined San Francisco: Michael Shellenberger
The author of the new book "San Fransicko", says the homelessness crisis is an addiction and mental health crisis enabled by policies that permit open-air drug scenes on public property and prevent police from enforcing laws

https://reason.com/video/2022/01/19/how-progressives-ruined-san-francisco-michael-shellenberger/

 

Chamath really cares more about domestic problems than world problems and that's truth
I totally believe him based on what he's done.

I mean he helped Klay, Draymond and Steph move out of that dump they called Oakland California
and moved to a billion dollar stadium in San Francisco

He's helped move people move out of a poor housing situation right there!

@Os Trigonum
@Sweet Lou 4 2
@Reeko
@basso
@Ubiquitin

 

there’s a lot of fake activism going on…people out here sending cheap tweets while taking their morning dump hoping for likes and retweets

people will give no fcks about what’s happening to people in this country, but they care so much about China…yeah right…

 

The internet has made it much easier for people to express hope, concern, outrage about a lot of things without really caring or more importantly doing anything about it.

 

It's easy to blame major cities which are underfunded but the reality is that big cities have always borne the brunt of homelessness for multiple reasons...the biggest ones are that they have the highest cost of living which means any kind of economic shock is far more likely to drive someone to homelessness, and secondly they have the smallest budget per capita as our tax system redistributes tax dollars disproportionately to rural areas and states.

So I think it would be nice to have an author be a bit more honest about homelessness instead of playing politics and trying to scapegoat to score political points. Here's a critical response to his book I found in wikipedia,


"Wes Enzinna, writing in The New York Times, charged that Shellenberger "does exactly what he accuses his left-wing enemies of doing: ignoring facts, best practices and complicated and heterodox approaches in favor of dogma."

 

now you're being honest

 

where's the link to the review? I'd like to read it

 

sure thing: https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/california-housing-crisis-homelessness-

 

thanks

 

I hope you do. Heck, I hope you actually read the opinion pieces you so dearly love to post here, especially the ones in BOLD TYPE. Sometimes I read these things you post and they are so absurd, and I'm not talking about the ones from The Babylon Bee, absurdity being their stock in trade, that I assume you didn't read it. That you posted it because of the headline.

 

lol.

"Wes Enzinna, a contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine, is writing a book about the Bay Area’s housing crisis."

so he faults Shellenberger for not writing the interview-based piece of sociology that he himself is working on.

there, did I do it right???

here are editorial review snippets lifted from amazon. I'll trust that you'll read them all and get back to me with YOUR august opinion of Shellenberger's book.

Editorial Reviews
Review
“San Fransicko is outstanding. Michael Shellenberger pries loose the truth about homelessness and housing in America in this myth-shattering book — and proposes tested, humane alternatives that work.” -- Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb

"San Fransicko is a lucid lesson in how self-serving ideological fads yank progressivism into a ditch, creating misery in the name of enlightenment. Shellenberger shows us one of the keys to running a city: knowing the difference between virtue signaling and getting results." -- John McWhorter, linguist, writer for The Atlantic and The New York Times, and associate professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University

"Civilized urban life is a precious accomplishment — difficult to achieve and easy to squander. In this humane and reasoned book, Michael Shellenberger diagnoses the mistakes progressives made and maps out a practical, evidence-based path to improvement.” -- Steven Pinker, author, Enlightenment Now, and Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University

"In his compassionate, pragmatic, and truly indispensable book, Michael Shellenberger takes on the devastation of the urban environment. The sprawl of chaotic tent encampments populated by psychotic and addicted people is a daunting problem — one that too many progressive authorities don’t know how to solve. Or, worse, don’t really want to. Shellenberger lays out a humane blueprint to help the suffering, revive the cities, and restore civic order.” -- Sally Satel, M.D., Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute, and Lecturer, Yale University School of Medicine.

“In this compelling and well-written book, Shellenberger challenges many long-held shibboleths about how we think about cities and social policy. Required reading for us liberals as we try to reimagine what cities should do, look like and whose interests they should serve.” -- Dalton Conley, Henry Putnam University Professor of Sociology, Princeton University

“What explains the shocking breakdown of public order in many of America’s leading cities? Michael Shellenberger, with the erudition and iconoclasm he is known for, shows how catastrophe can result when good intentions are combined with bad ideas. San Fransicko is devastating.” -- Michael Lind, author of The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite

“San Fransicko peels back layers of “progressive” rhetoric with peer reviewed science and data to show that the vast majority of California’s unsheltered residents suffer from drug and alcohol addiction, and complex medical conditions, that cannot be solved by a key to a hotel room or higher cash stipends. Fierce bullies who make a living “protecting” the homeless status quo are the villains of this catastrophe, enabled by the feckless electeds and hippie nostalgia of Baby Boomers. Enough.” -- Jennifer Hernandez, civil rights lawyer
​

 

I thought that was the whole point of the D&D
@Os Trigonum

 

you know what people who have jobs who can't afford to live in new york and san francisco do?

they move.

so if someone who can't afford to live in ANY CITY, why do they stay?

1. drugs
2. social services that allow them to do drugs

Think about this. How are these people paying for their heroin and meth if they don't have jobs and are homeless?
1. steal for organized crime, get paid
2. get drugs from drug dealers
3. don't pay any rent
4. city will give you free and clean new needles, clean up the poop on you pooped on the sidewalk and give you food when you are hungry


here's the former mayor saying it's worse than before

 

here's how dumb Art History dropouts are

last year there's a park in LA called Echo Park, a great park for kids and families
The homeless took over

The city and cops decide to remove them from the public park and let the residents use it as a park again

but these dumb ass gringos are protesting to KEEP THE HOMELESS, HOMELESS


But good news, they cleaned out all of that and the park was the park again.

these fools believe it's 100% responsibility for the city to fix the homeless. It's not.
the people who are homeless must WANT TO BE CLEAN and WANT TO WORK .

Make it 25% city, 75% person, not 100% city

 

@basso

The difference between the Uyghrs and homeless people in America
is that

nobody forced the homeless people in America to be homeless. Also, the Uyghrs who have jobs and are good citizens are screwed over cause of their race/religion

you can be any race or religion in America and be homeless