Life On The Dirties Block in San Francisco

[sid]

Excellent description of the scene.

https://www.wral.com/life-on-the-dirtiest-block-in-san-francisco/17900648/

[Vern Humphrey]

For many who live here it is difficult to reconcile San Francisco’s liberal politics with the misery that surrounds them.

It's simple -- the second is the consequence of the first. More liberal politics, more poop on the street.

[dogtag]

Talking of poop;
So the Poop deck on ships is where you went to poop ?

[Vern Humphrey]

Talking of poop;
So the Poop deck on ships is where you went to poop ?

Actually not. You pooped at the bows or head of the ship, which is why the crapper on a ship is called a head. You used the head, because the wind blew from the stern, blowing the smell away.

The stern was the sacred place on a ship, and the idol or god was located there -- the poopae, or doll.

[Allen]

Talking of poop;
So the Poop deck on ships is where you went to poop ?

And to sleep when you're pooped out.

[barretcreek]

San Diego- Hep A. L.A.-Typhus. San Francisco-Feces and needles.

Why stop K-fornia from seceding? Better yet, declare a public health emergency, set up a cordon sanitaire and put the Surgeon General in charge. As in martial law in command.

[Vern Humphrey]

I end my nightly prayers with, "Please, let California secede."

Then we put a customs and immigration post on every border crossing, and no one with a California driver's license gets into the US without a passport and visa. We also stop taking water from American farmers and sending it to a foreign country.

[dogtag]

The idea has already been shot down. Your wishes won't do any good.

[Allen]

If K-fornia could secede it would become another Puerto Rico. It would probably still be considered U.S. territory and become an even larger breeding ground for illegals, transvestites and crime all of which would infiltrate into the other 49 states. They would be exempt from all laws we are trying to enforce upon them now. The krap that would grow there wouldn't stay there. We would all end up paying the price for their lawlessness and irresponsibility.

[Bill D]

. . . .We would all end up paying the price for their lawlessness and irresponsibility.

You mean, like we are now?

[togor]

A lot of those people are nuts and belong in an institution, but we closed those I guess to save tax dollars? So they end up somewhere. Some of the locals argue that the cops push them out of other neighborhoods into one specific area as a containment strategy. One of those deals where nobody likes the situation but society considers it cheaper to stick the problem somewhere than to fix it. Basically the human equivalent of a toxic waste dump. They get sited in areas where people aren't organized enough to keep them out.

[Vern Humphrey]

Those who think we should reopen the nut houses, and incarcerate people involuntarily should be the first inmates of those nut houses.

[togor]

Those who think we should reopen the nut houses, and incarcerate people involuntarily should be the first inmates of those nut houses.

You know there are still some out there. People found "not guilty by reason of insanity" get committed somewhere. There are just fewer such facilities, not zero. And the people who might have been in one in days gone by are now on the streets. And yes they tend to migrate to cities because it is easier to find food and self-medicants there, as opposed to starving or getting shot at in the barren countryside.

[barretcreek]

My mother's recall is that JFK led the push to close asylums because his sister was shoved into one by his father who was embarrassed by having a mentally disabled child. Around 1970 I had a friend who was a fledgling lawyer and he was involved in a civil liberties project, the gist of which was involuntary confinement was a violation of someone's right to free association unless they could be proven to be a danger to themselves or others. That point is way far gone.

Right now anyone who disagrees with the media/RAT political jihad would be a certain candidate to move into one.

[Vern Humphrey]

My mother's recall is that JFK led the push to close asylums because his sister was shoved into one by his father who was embarrassed by having a mentally disabled child. Around 1970 I had a friend who was a fledgling lawyer and he was involved in a civil liberties project, the gist of which was involuntary confinement was a violation of someone's right to free association unless they could be proven to be a danger to themselves or others. That point is way far gone.

Right now anyone who disagrees with the media/RAT political jihad would be a certain candidate to move into one.

And that is a valid point. Stalin used mental institutions to house tens of thousands of his political critics. The same could happen here.

Think it couldn't happen here? When I was running for Congress in '04 I was approached by people who had been jailed or institutionalized by my opponent. He had people working his land using chemicals. He provided no training or protective gear, and people who complained or tried to sue wound up locked up.