A Mission Mission reader by the name of Concerned, in the comments section of a recent post about Mayor Newsom’s response to all the violence, says:
And why wouldn’t Hayward and Oakland thugs come to San Francisco and push around the local pussies? It is city policy to have an authenticity-maximizing, “Stuff White People Like” level of picturesque squalor. The complaints of the politicians (and “progressives”) who go out of their way to ensure this state of affairs are what the word “chutzpah” was intended to describe before it got adopted by baptists. What’s the worst that could happen to these guys anyway? This is a place where even dogs don’t respect their owners — “I feel like when you come to San Francisco and shoot up and leave syringes in planters, and have sex with $6 crackwhores in our beloved SROs, and pull guns on people, that you are not respecting me.” No shit, San Francisco is a senile heiress who writes the gardener thousand dollar checks twice a month, and also to his girlfriend. The likeliest response to street shitting is that Daly or some other self-styled “San Franciscan” will require cops to carry toilet paper (and in committee they will stipulate that the toilet paper should be hypoallergenic) for the needy bums. I was once in a New Mexico truck stop and gave some scraps to a local hobo for his dog, and when he asked where I was from I said San Francisco, and he said, Man! you guys have some fucking bums out there! This is what we have come to — our streets offend the sensibility of drifters. And all we have to do is stop sponsoring the fucking offensiveness, decline to pay for the SRO’s and fleabag deathtraps, maybe even try to cite the most appalling nuisances and let them evolve into student housing, or God Forfend, web-programmer housing (as opposed to Richmond drug dealer and pimp housing). That is what would happen naturally if the city stopped intervening on behalf of people who couldn’t give a fuck about it.
Link. Think we can get a “People Before Picturesque Squalor” measure on the ballot? Thanks, Concerned!
