Re: Awfully quiet in here...

On Fri, 8 Nov 2024, William Hyde wrote:

Why SF? I was there 8 years ago and found it dirty with many drug users on the street.

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Parts of it, yes.
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I arrived in SF from a small city with no obvious drug users or vagrants.
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This was because the local police grabbed those people, gave them a beating, and dumped them in the next county.  Somebody else's problem.

Sounds like heaven! Police acting, doing something, and solving the
problem! =)

The cities that are nice and clean absolutely everywhere fester with a deeper evil.  If "out of sight, out of mind" is your thing, then welcome to blandsville.  Just be aware of why it's so nice and clean.

Blandsville, here I come! ;) Jokes aside, would rural, republican and
bible thumping US in the form of Idaho, Montana or Wyoming be
categorized as blandsville? If so, that is definitely a place where I
would like to live my life.

Besides, as a wholehearted free market type, shouldn't you be OK with drug users on the street?  They're exercising their economic right to buy the product they want and use it unrestrained by those nasty government regulations you hate so much.

YES! But what we are seeing today is people crushed under a government
system that punishes victimless crimes severely. That makes it worse for
them.
In my world, anyone would be free to use any drugs he wants on his own
property. Anyone would also _not_ be free to act or do drugs on someone
elses private property. In my world, the tragedy of the commons would be
eliminated by eliminating the commons. Thereby the tragedy is eliminated
too.
So as long as I have to endure the government, I want them to arrest,
beat up, lock up, or dump elsewhere, since that is what I pay them for.
But, if I had the choice of no government, and more freedom, I'd take
the bad with the good. Your analysis of my preferences is correct here.

Next time you meet one, thank him or her  for helping to spread freedom.

Will do.

There was also a lot of homos in some areas which was not good.

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I don't understand why you care.

Because they are leftists and work hard to sexualize society and
children, and destroy family values. The worst kind display their vile
sexual preferences in public, which is not something I like to see.
The conservative ones don't wave it in my face and keep it to the
bedroom, which is exactly how I want it to be. In the privacy of your
bedroom, as long as it does not involve children or animals or dead
people who have not consented before they died, it's all fine by me.

It was not pleasant at all, although the city itself was nice and
fairly walkable.

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Walkable, and much worth walking to.
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William Hyde
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