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Old Mar 21st 2019 | 6:06 am
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An awesome video that explains so much, you can replace Seattle with so many other Cities names.

I am unconvinced anything will be done.
 
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Originally Posted by Boiler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpAi70WWBlw

An awesome video that explains so much, you can replace Seattle with so many other Cities names.

I am unconvinced anything will be done.

Yes it's sad. Seattle was always one of my places to visit now and again. If they were all to be relocated to camps, de-toxed and kept there (for however long) until capable of supporting themselves this would be condemned as being Fascist and a violation of the principles of democracy. In this particular matter we are prisoners of our own ideals.
 
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You elect crazy people and this is what you get.
 
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Yep same issue in Vancouver, BC and surrounding areas.

San Diego is getting pretty bad as well with homelessness.

Google Vancouver DTES.

We live on the eastern edge of the DTES and I don't even have to walk a block to spot needles, night is especially interesting around here.
 
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Always think of San Fran as being ground zero but Denver is going that way, in the Mountains it is just too cold, so we have that. Will be interesting to see what happens in the summer.
 
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That's why my step-daughter moved last month from Seattle to Oregon.
 
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Originally Posted by Boiler
You elect crazy people and this is what you get.
People then leave blue places, turn red places purple, and then wonder what's happening.
 
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That's why my step-daughter moved last month from Seattle to Oregon.
I assume not Portland? Portland has many if not all the same issues Seattle, San Francisco, Vancouver etc have. Its a major issue up and down the coast.
 
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Originally Posted by tom169
People then leave blue places, turn red places purple, and then wonder what's happening.
I have not been to Seattle, I always wonder if this stuff is over egged, sounds like it is not.

I have been to San Fran but that was when all this was just starting.

I have Dem friends, I have Repub friends but probably more who do not like either. I can not imagine one of them thinking this is acceptable.How do the Politicians get away with it?
 
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Was walking with the missus in downtown Portland a few years ago. Very, very pleasant city with a green belt park with trees running through the main part of town and next to the Columbia river. It was Sunday, shops closed. Saw this woman in a shop doorway, aged about forty pull down her underwear and start to urinate . There was a ladies toilet about 100 yards up the street.
 
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Yeah, thanks for that - we're moving there soon.
 
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I assume not Portland? Portland has many if not all the same issues Seattle, San Francisco, Vancouver etc have. Its a major issue up and down the coast.
Nope, not Portland. A small town actually. She works from home electronically and enjoys the outdoors, camping, boating, fishing and hunting.
 
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Yesterday was always a golden age, you know, when cities were places you grab a bit of Cholera on the way home after a night out, or where living standards for all were amazing until the Slums were cleared, when you could send your kids off under the age of 10 to get some coal or fix some machinery instead of sponging off of the state. Great times, the world has gone to pot!

Big cities have inherent problems, we don't live in Utopia. It wouldn't matter if the lights were Blue or Red, or Green for that matter. Humans inhabit these places, "bad" things will happen.
 
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Originally Posted by robtuck
Yesterday was always a golden age, you know, when cities were places you grab a bit of Cholera on the way home after a night out, or where living standards for all were amazing until the Slums were cleared, when you could send your kids off under the age of 10 to get some coal or fix some machinery instead of sponging off of the state. Great times, the world has gone to pot!

Big cities have inherent problems, we don't live in Utopia. It wouldn't matter if the lights were Blue or Red, or Green for that matter. Humans inhabit these places, "bad" things will happen.
You need to watch the video, of course cities have had issues to deal with but this shows what happens when you do nothing, well worse than nothing.
 
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Every morning I light ten candles to Mary for the rich people who have to suffer seeing the poor people. It breaks my heart listening to them as they search for someone to pay to make it all go away.
 


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