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Noice.

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That’s pretty fucking solid, good work
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I never run unless it's from the police, so I don't know about the times, but your ranking is great.
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Man, pretty beaches, and soooooooooo many homeless. Only one crazy dude followed us. Was about 15 seconds telling us how he was a soldier for God, but seemed harmless enough.
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Too many homeless to be a viable option.
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GORDON wrote: Tue May 17, 2022 12:02 am Too many homeless to be a viable option.
too freaking expensive
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For that many homeless, yeah

(Too expensive for there to be that many homeless)
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GORDON wrote: Tue May 17, 2022 11:18 am For that many homeless, yeah

(Too expensive for there to be that many homeless)
Well, it's expensive, imho, for the same reason there are so many homeless people.
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Because they haven't started making Soylent Green, yet.
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GORDON wrote: Tue May 17, 2022 1:15 pm Because they haven't started making Soylent Green, yet.
I was going to say the weather.
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That's gonna be fucked when the currents stop.
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TheCatt wrote: Mon May 16, 2022 11:59 pm Man, pretty beaches, and soooooooooo many homeless. Only one crazy dude followed us. Was about 15 seconds telling us how he was a soldier for God, but seemed harmless enough.
Nice! I heard it was a blast from my friend, he got some pretty up close pictures of the rockers.

Homeless are what they are, and everywhere. The weather is perfect, housing is scarce, and living outside here is easier than anywhere else in the country. It takes one crisis, like a medical bill or a drug addiction, and it's SO easy to bankrupt yourself and end up on the street.

I don't have a lot of solutions. A lot of people chasing the dream when it might have been better to stay where they are and establish themselves first.

When California is good though, it's GOOD. Boomtown in a state form. 50-70 degrees every day of the week. Native Hummingbirds in your backyard. If you make it, it's fucking amazing. Best we can do is hope our taxes help out the ones who don't and volunteer in various capacities.

In my time working this case, I didn't have a bad homeless experience in any of the rough parts of town. Instead, it was two blocks from the hotel in SOMA, carrying halal food back to the hotel because it was all dairy at dinner that night. Had to convince a guy who got in my face it was not worth it to try to take my food. Adrenaline pumping. But it didn't get physical, I imagine he was hoping I was a tourist from Idaho or something. I was not.
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Troy wrote: Tue May 17, 2022 5:57 pm I heard it was a blast from my friend, he got some pretty up close pictures of the rockers.
It was the best festival lineup I've been to since the original 1991 Lollapalooza.

The (English) Beat / General Public
Missing Persons
Blaqk Audio
PIL
The Church
Violent Femmes
Devo
Berlin
Psych Furs
Bauhaus
Blondie
Morrissey

(Leaving out all the bands I gave zero shits about), great music from 2:30 to 10:40pm (Morrissey ended a few minutes early, unsure why. We were very close to the stage, looked like he just wandered off to the back corner and left. The rest of the band looked a little confused, then left. They didn't turn up the house lights immediately, either.
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Troy wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 3:14 pm Fuck Chesa, and fuck Prop 47.
"This has been out of control," Safai said at the hearing. "People are scared to go into these stores: seniors, people with disabilities, children. And it's just happening brazenly. We can't just as a city throw up our hands and say this is OK."
The Elderly, particularly Asians, have been getting attacked. This is just one more place they can't feel safe. The same type of person that attacks them are the ones doing these type of thefts.
Got my wish. Chesa was recalled yesterday. I wish I could have voted in it.

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In removing ad-block elements, I accidentally removed the body of text. Can you copy/paste the contents of these pay-wall cocksuckers?
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SAN FRANCISCO — Voters in San Francisco on Tuesday put an end to one of the country’s most pioneering experiments in criminal justice reform, ousting a district attorney who eliminated cash bail, vowed to hold police accountable and worked to reduce the number of people sent to prison.

Chesa Boudin, the progressive district attorney, was removed after two and a half years in office, according to The Associated Press, in a vote that is set to reverberate through Democratic politics nationwide as the party fine-tunes its messaging on crime before midterm elections that threaten to strip Democratic control over Congress.

Early returns showed 60 percent of voters in the city approving of the recall.

Ultimately the election was a contest between progressive Democrats who saw Mr. Boudin as a key leader of a national movement to address mass incarceration and a backlash by more politically moderate San Franciscans — a coalition of Democrats, independents and Republicans — who grew agitated by persistent property crimes and open drug use during the pandemic. The backlash won.

Locally, the resounding recall suggested that many in San Francisco’s Democratic hierarchy are out of step with — and further left than — the city’s voters, one of the most liberal electorates in the country.

In February, the Democratic County Central Committee voted 20-2 to oppose the recall of Mr. Boudin, with the two contrary votes coming from candidates who had run against him for the job. In addition, only two members of the 11-member Board of Supervisors, the city’s top legislative body, publicly supported removing Mr. Boudin; one of them was a former spokesman for the police department and the other is rumored to want Mr. Boudin’s job.

In a legal system that cherishes the adversarial tension of prosecutors battling defense lawyers, Mr. Boudin is one of very few district attorneys in the country who crossed the courtroom. A former public defender, Mr. Boudin began his tenure as the city’s top prosecutor in 2020 by aggressively expanding diversion programs as an alternative to prison. He said public safety was his first priority but that along the way he would work to make the system more equitable and reverse the legacy of mass incarceration.

Mr. Boudin’s replacement will be chosen by Mayor London Breed, who has made public safety a cornerstone of her tenure, including her unusual move in December to declare a state of emergency in the city’s Tenderloin neighborhood, the center of the city’s illicit drug trade.

The city has been facing persistent property crimes, especially car break-ins and burglaries, but data from the police department showed that many other types of crime, including homicides, have been stable or declined during the pandemic. Both sides of the recall campaign traded barbs over the accuracy of the statistics, especially when many crimes go unreported.

Mr. Boudin himself acknowledged that he did not report his own car being broken into three years before he took office. A clear analysis of Mr. Boudin’s two-and-a-half-year tenure was also made difficult by the fact that it occurred during the pandemic, when a near total shutdown of the city influenced criminal behavior much more than the policies of a district attorney.

The vote was seen by many as an accumulation of frustration by city residents over squalid street conditions, including the illicit drug sales, homeless encampments and untreated mental illness. During the campaign, Mr. Boudin repeatedly pointed out that he was not responsible for many of the street conditions that San Francisco residents are decrying but he recognized that he had become a vessel for their anger.

Shortly after 9 p.m. on Tuesday, Mr. Boudin stood on a beer keg in an outdoor bar on the edge of the San Francisco Bay, facing down a cold, bracing breeze.

“We have two cities, we have two systems of justice,” he told the crowd that responded by chanting his name. “One for the wealthy and well-connected and one for everybody else. That’s exactly what we are fighting to change.”

He vowed to continue what he called a “movement, not a moment” and thanked his supporters, some of them young activists, he said, some of them “grizzled ancient hippies.”

“We’ve made mistakes, we’ve learned a lot,” Mr. Boudin said.

He led the crowd in a chant: “Justice! Justice! Is on our side! Is on our side!” After he finished speaking, a jazz band in a corner of the bar resumed discreetly.

Tuesday’s vote had echoes of another tectonic election in the city, the ouster of three school board members in February, a recall that reflected voters’ sour mood during the pandemic and an assertion of political power by the city’s Asian Americans.

Many of the volunteers in both recall elections were from the Chinese community, members of whom were stung by burglaries and shoplifting and who felt particularly vulnerable after a spate of attacks on Asian Americans in the city during the pandemic.

“In San Francisco, you don’t know anybody who hasn’t had their car broken into,” said Mary Jung, the former chair of the Democratic Party in San Francisco and the head of the campaign to recall Mr. Boudin.

In an interview after the recall was declared successful, Ms. Jung described the campaign, pitting Democrats against Democrats, as “very emotional.”

“We feel heard,” she said. “San Francisco needed a change and this is just really a validation of what a lot of us were feeling.”

Supporters of the recall gathered at a bar in the Marina district, packed tightly into an indoor space with thumping hits from the early 2010s. The crowd repeatedly broke into chants of “Recall! Recall!” and a woman crowd-surfed above the heads of supporters. Men outside celebrated with cigars.

Organizers of the recall say they drew much of their support from harried residents. But criticism of Mr. Boudin also came from those who worked with him. Shirin Oloumi, a lawyer who specialized in prosecuting car break-ins before leaving the district attorney’s office last August, described a workplace in turmoil with a stream of departures of experienced lawyers.

David Lee, a political science lecturer at San Francisco State University, said the two recall elections in San Francisco — the Board of Education members in February and Mr. Boudin on Tuesday — were a clarion call by an surly electorate.

“There is anger at the failure of government, the failure of City Hall, to address pressing problems,” Mr. Lee said. On the precipice of a generational changing of the guard in San Francisco — two iconic San Franciscans, Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker, and Senator Dianne Feinstein, are in the twilight of their careers — voters are sending a message of frustration and hankering for change, Mr. Lee said. This was especially true of Asian American voters, he believes.

“In San Francisco, a third of the population is Asian and they don’t feel like anyone is listening to them — City Hall or the Democratic establishment,” he said.

At the same time, many political analysts cautioned not to read too much into the result because it reflected the dynamics of a recall election: When Mr. Boudin was elected in 2019 he received only 36 percent of the vote in the first round of voting. In the third round of that election, under the city’s ranked choice system, he ultimately inched ahead of his main rival for the job, Suzy Loftus, by a few thousand votes.

“In a recall election, you are running against yourself,” said Willie Brown, the former mayor of San Francisco. Mr. Brown said he voted to keep Mr. Boudin in office as a protest against the recall process. But he was also critical of Mr. Boudin, whom he described as “a warrior for the downtrodden.”

“That’s what he is,” Mr. Brown said. “He’s certainly not a prosecutor.”
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Just read about his early life and education.

He had ZERO chance to have critical thinking skills. He's damaged goods.
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San Fran is booting a guy for being TOO liberal? Damn.
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I think he's so far left he calls progressives conservative fascists.
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I glanced at your link.... born into Weather Underground, raised by Bill Ayers.... yeah, guy was programmed from birth.

And rejected by the most liberal city in the country, possibly the world. Damn.

Time to blow shit up, make Daddy proud.
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