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May 23, 2022 at 3:15 PM #23195May 23, 2022 at 4:00 PM #825666
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ParticipantOr maybe property was just insanely overvalued in SF, to the point that only the wealthy could afford it. Maybe it’s a good thing that pricing is reverting to mean.
Policing in this country was largely crap from the 1990s to 2010s — too many people in prison for victimless crimes and psych/medical issues. I’m GLAD there’s been a reckoning. If business owners and stockholders get slightly less rich because of it, so be it.
Bail and pre-trial remand should only be used in the most serious of crimes. Keeping people locked up for years awaiting trial is fucking inhumane and unconstitutional. The system should be set up not to force people into pleading out to crimes they may not even have committed in order to get out of jail. Possible prison time should (if anything) be reduced to levels similar to what’s seen in Europe.
Also, “bombed out wasteland” is a bit of hyperbole. The yellow press really has it in for NYC, calling it a crime-riddled wasteland. Yet life goes on, mostly normally, for people who actually live here and don’t read the Murdoch (pronounced Merde-dog) media.
Besides, shouldn’t you see this as an opportunity? If prices crash to early 2010s levels, you could buy and rent out to your heart’s content.
May 23, 2022 at 4:37 PM #825667an
Participant[quote=spdrun]Besides, shouldn’t you see this as an opportunity? If prices crash to early 2010s levels, you could buy and rent out to your heart’s content.[/quote]
Exactly! These shitty policy goes in cycle. Looking for more killings and SF becoming an even bigger wasteland. Give me an opportunity to get in, then the citizens will be sick of it and vote for someone who will bring law and order back to the city and RE price will go back up again.May 23, 2022 at 4:39 PM #825668spdrun
ParticipantThe shitty policy was mass incarceration and the War on Some Drugs. Cops and jailers got too fucking uppity in the US and needed to be told their proper place. Create an unemployable class with criminal records due to victimless crimes that never should have been crimes, and you get more poverty, more rage, and more crime. The US fucked itself starting with Reagan.
May 23, 2022 at 5:25 PM #825669sdrealtor
ParticipantUhhh this is about San Francisco not the US. San Francisco has long been liberal and looked the other way at drug offenses and been home of the counter culture for decades. The situation you’re describing is your own personal pity party and was not the state of affairs in that city. What happened in that city is what happens when you don’t control lawlessness for decades not because of aggressive policing
May 23, 2022 at 5:31 PM #825671spdrun
ParticipantGlad to see gentrification go in reverse for once.
May 23, 2022 at 5:51 PM #825672sdrealtor
ParticipantLol you’re probably the whitest dude here
May 23, 2022 at 6:07 PM #825674spdrun
ParticipantGentrification isn’t only about race. In many cases, it’s creating a monoculture that pushes everything else that’s interesting out.
May 23, 2022 at 6:17 PM #825675sdrealtor
Participant[quote=spdrun]Gentrification isn’t only about race. In many cases, it’s creating a monoculture that pushes everything else that’s interesting out.[/quote]
I actually listen to NWA, Dre, Kendrick, Cube, J Cole and others. Don’t pull out the rap card. You’ve probably never listened to any of it. You look silly
May 23, 2022 at 6:41 PM #825676spdrun
ParticipantWhat the fuck do you know about my musical tastes?
May 23, 2022 at 7:02 PM #825677sdrealtor
ParticipantClearly more than you think. Poser. If you actually listened to it you’d never use it the way you are. Now put on your headdress and start whining about stolen Indian lands
May 23, 2022 at 7:06 PM #825679spdrun
ParticipantHook. Line. Sinker.
May 23, 2022 at 7:14 PM #825681an
Participant[quote=spdrun]The shitty policy was mass incarceration and the War on Some Drugs. Cops and jailers got too fucking uppity in the US and needed to be told their proper place. Create an unemployable class with criminal records due to victimless crimes that never should have been crimes, and you get more poverty, more rage, and more crime. The US fucked itself starting with Reagan.[/quote]
That’s what you get for breaking the law… quit ya whining.May 23, 2022 at 7:16 PM #825682an
Participant[quote=spdrun]Gentrification isn’t only about race. In many cases, it’s creating a monoculture that pushes everything else that’s interesting out.[/quote]
What is this monoculture you’re referring to? And what’s this interesting thing you’re referring to?May 23, 2022 at 7:28 PM #825683spdrun
ParticipantThe law isn’t always right and certainly isn’t equal to morality. Why is it the state’s fucking business what people put into their own bodies or do in the bedroom? It wasn’t too long ago (within living memory, even) that same-sex and interracial relationships were illegal in many parts of the “land of the free.” Same-sex intercourse was illegal in CA until the 1970s. Pot was illegal even in California until the mid 2010s. Are you saying that the people arrested, jailed, fined, and forced into treatment for those heinous “crimes” got what they deserved?
To your other post: San Francisco used to have a vibrant art and music scene that was largely priced out of the city starting in the late 1990s. If the city ends up a bit more balanced vs being a bedroom community for 20-somethings working in Cupertino and San Jose, maybe it will be a better place for it.
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