• ikiru@lemmy.ml
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      10 months ago

      I remember watching a news clip which had some woman from San Francisco explaining that while she is 'very liberal', every day that she leaves her home and sees shit from a homeless person left on the sidewalk in front of her home that she becomes 'less liberal' every day.

      Which says everything that needs to be known about her and most liberals. They won't question why a human being is left with no choice but to defacate on the sidewalk and why they don't have adequate housing or facilities and what should be done about it, but will quickly draw the conclusion that there should finally be some solution to the homeless question.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        10 months ago

        "I fully support the economic system that lead to these conditions, but when I see the results of the economic system I support I think we should enact overt fascism so I don't have to see the results of the economic system I support!"

        Love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal!

      • keepcarrot [she/her]
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        10 months ago

        "Wouldn't it be great if we could concentrate some of these undesirables into camps?"

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
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            10 months ago

            According to Mirror-Universe-born Lorca's worshipful praise of my-hero in Discovery canon, we're more like the timeline of the Mirror Universe, right now. doomer

              • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                10 months ago

                How do so many events have parallels with different outcomes that still have followup events that can also have different outcomes? what-the-hell

      • a_blanqui_slate [none/use name, any]
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        10 months ago

        I mean, the appropriate reaction to daily, intimate reminders of the failures of liberalism is to become less and less liberal.

  • buckykat [none/use name]
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    10 months ago

    says it's "inhumane" to prevent the cops from treating unhoused people like garbage to be cleaned up.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    San Francisco, the Bay Area in general, and the perimeter around it for quite a ways around is full of people claiming they are as progressive/tolerant as they come, BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT violently hate unhoused people.

    Try it if you're there. Ask what should be done for unhoused people and watch the hatred bubble up and they'll instead talk about what should be done to unhoused people.

    • GaveUp [she/her]
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      10 months ago

      They'll preach that homeless people need to be housed while wanting to be landlords

      They'll complain about wealth inequality while worshipping the tech overlord that they work for

      It's all self masturbatory moral signaling while secretly wanting to be the oppressor without having to face the reality of their consequences

    • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      If the government announced a plan to kill homeless people, over half of all Americans wouldn't object to it. Of those who wouldn't object, over half would cheer it on.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        10 months ago

        Of those that objected, over half would do "sure this is bad, but" wishy washy enabling arguments and let the slaughter happen outside of "have you no shame, sir? Sir?" speeches that usually work in their movies.

    • GarfieldYaoi [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      Literally the rest of the US, left and right alike: "Lol San Francisco's unaffordable and homelessness is rampant."

      San Francisco: "Heh, looks like someone's jealous of my good property values! What's the matter, my city too fancy for ya? Homelessness is worth it so I can feel fancy in my overpriced house btw." smuglord

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        10 months ago

        One of the weirdest real quirks of Bay Area liberals is they love performative generosity. A lot. By that I mean you could probably knock on their door if you look safe enough us-foreign-policy and if you play your cards right you'll get spontaneously treated to a wining and dining extravaganza at the price of hearing their life philosophy and their heroic Main Character Syndrome story of rising to greatness through adversity.

        As long as you don't at any point ask for any actual financial aid or a place to live. If you do, you're fucked.

        • VILenin [he/him]
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          10 months ago

          San Francisco delenda est

          And Palo Alto… Palo Alto must be carved out of the earth and ejected into the sun.

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
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            10 months ago

            Fuck everything around Napa Valley too. The fires didn't go far enough last time.

    • VILenin [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      Liberals would have a collective aneurysm over the subhuman undesirables “setting up crime headquarters”

  • robinn2
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    10 months ago

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    • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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      10 months ago

      "when I'm done there'll be no more homeless people..." unsus

      "oh cool. that's actually really relieving to he-" sweat

      frothingfash "... CAN YOU GUESS WHY?" hypersus