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The reviews are in on Disney's Homeless Town theme park
invite response
2019 Feb 5, 5:22am 1,468 views 8 comments
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anonymous
2019 Feb 5, 5:51am
Welcome to the future of the United States - we are feverishly working to achieve 3rd world status as fast as possible.
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FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut
2019 Feb 5, 7:32am
FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut
2019 Feb 5, 7:32am
Did you notice how none of them have straws? Policies clearly working.
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cmdrda2leak
2019 Feb 5, 8:22am
cmdrda2leak
2019 Feb 5, 8:22am
Kakistocracy says
Import enough of the third world and you risk becoming third world. The West is not responsible for the Overshoot, and we should stop trying to absorb it and start taking care of our own.
This kind of degradation and squalor only happens when a society is too fractured or addled to have pride in itself.
San Francisco: When Anything Goes, Sometimes Everything Goes.
Welcome to the future of the United States - we are feverishly working to achieve 3rd world status as fast as possible.
Import enough of the third world and you risk becoming third world. The West is not responsible for the Overshoot, and we should stop trying to absorb it and start taking care of our own.
This kind of degradation and squalor only happens when a society is too fractured or addled to have pride in itself.
San Francisco: When Anything Goes, Sometimes Everything Goes.
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anonymous
2019 Feb 5, 8:25am
cmdrdataleak says
If we are not responsible for the mess in our own backyards, who is? China ? Can we pin this on the illegals somehow ?
The West is not responsible for the Overshoot
If we are not responsible for the mess in our own backyards, who is? China ? Can we pin this on the illegals somehow ?
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cmdrda2leak
2019 Feb 5, 9:05am
cmdrda2leak
2019 Feb 5, 9:05am
Kakistocracy says
Population in the West is stable/not growing. We're only short on housing because we're importing people.
Incidentally, I think bringing back something like this could bring benefit to some slice of the homeless population:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Conservation_Corps
That is, if America can still be bothered to give a toss about men.
(You've probably enjoyed CCC facilities, typically hiking trails, roadside rest areas, and other public facilities.)
cmdrdataleak saysThe West is not responsible for the Overshoot
If we are not responsible for the mess in our own backyards, who is? China ? Can we pin this on the illegals somehow ?
Population in the West is stable/not growing. We're only short on housing because we're importing people.
Incidentally, I think bringing back something like this could bring benefit to some slice of the homeless population:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Conservation_Corps
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men [...] that provided unskilled manual labor jobs related to the conservation and development of natural resources in rural lands owned by federal, state, and local governments.
That is, if America can still be bothered to give a toss about men.
(You've probably enjoyed CCC facilities, typically hiking trails, roadside rest areas, and other public facilities.)
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Bd6r
2019 Feb 5, 9:24am
Bd6r
2019 Feb 5, 9:24am
cmdrdataleak says
Rather small slice will benefit, although I like the idea. Men of 1930's wanted WORK. Nowadays so-called soy boys want electronic devices in their parent's basement, or drugs.
Incidentally, I think bringing back something like this could bring benefit to some slice of the homeless population:
Rather small slice will benefit, although I like the idea. Men of 1930's wanted WORK. Nowadays so-called soy boys want electronic devices in their parent's basement, or drugs.
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Patrick
2019 Feb 7, 8:30am
Patrick
2019 Feb 7, 8:30am
cmdrdataleak says
This. Without a sense of unity, of all being in the same boat, there is not much motivation for us to take care of each other.
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world"
What typically happens historically in dying empires is that some group from the sidelines with great unity and sense of purpose steps in with new rules and takes over. Eventually.
This kind of degradation and squalor only happens when a society is too fractured or addled to have pride in itself.
This. Without a sense of unity, of all being in the same boat, there is not much motivation for us to take care of each other.
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world"
What typically happens historically in dying empires is that some group from the sidelines with great unity and sense of purpose steps in with new rules and takes over. Eventually.
Turning the mood on its head - and no doubt attracting much comment for the hypocrisy of commenting about a luxury ski trip and then poverty – I have to comment on the contrast between the skiing and spending some time in San Francisco.
I hope my American hosts will forgive me for raising this, but the squalor we saw in The City was frightful. San Francisco has always been one of favourite US cities, but the degree of homelessness, mental illness and drug abuse we saw on this trip was truly shocking. Walking round SF on a Sunday Morning and we saw sights we couldn’t believe. This must be one of the richest cities in the world – home to 4 of the 10 richest people on the planet according to Wiki. I asked friends about it, and they shrugged it off.. “The City has always attracted the homeless because of the mild weather,”.. “It’s a drug thing”.. “its too difficult”… “you get used to it..”
Well, I didn’t.
I found it quite shocking the number of folk sleeping rough on the sidewalks, the smell of weed and drug impedimenta everywhere, the filth, mental illness and degradation on view just a few meters from the financial centre driving Silicon Valley. It’s a city where the destitute seem to have become invisible to the Uber hailing elites. We found ourselves hopping on one of the beautiful F-Route Trolley Buses to find nearly every seat occupied by someone lugging around their worldly possessions around in a plastic bag. It was desperately sad.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-05/bill-blain-what-we-saw-san-francisco-was-frightful