Jim Aldrich🌱
Adrianna TanMost of the time, when people say ‘SF is a failed city’ and refer to homeless people, they’re not critiquing the circumstances (housing, gentrification, cost of living, lack of shelter). They’re saying the state has failed to sufficiently put away poor people, so they don’t have to see them.
Ian Rose@skinnylatte The same definitely goes for Portland, Seattle, and I'm sure other places. Homelessness is treated 100% as an aesthetic and business concern, rather than a humanitarian disaster.
Weyoun 6@ianrosewrites @skinnylatte it's every city, except maybe Houston.
Ciggy Bringer of SmokeI've taken to calling it all 'Aesthetic Sanitization' precisely because of that. Their stated concern really does not rise above 'this has to look nice to make money'
Mastodon MigrationPeople who say that generally do not live in SF. SF has issues, like any big city, but it is a great place. Way fewer assholes per capita, although the tech bros are trying to change that.
Brad Rosenheim@skinnylatte Yes, 99.9% of the time this is exactly what people mean. We have become a deeply uncritical nation.
kira :3@skinnylatte i'm never gonna understand how small of a mind someone has to have to not wonder for even a moment what kind of conditions create mass homelessness
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RhesusPieces@skinnylatte maybe they could dress them in designer clothes to be more in symch with the affluence vibe?
sOlOw-NHThe wealthy take advantage of the state
Collin Donnell@skinnylatte The people complaining never want to talk about helping the homeless, they just want them gone. I don’t know how they think that’s going to work. Throw them in the bay?
scott f@collin @skinnylatte My favorite is people in the Mission, my neighborhood, whining that the city has made us a "containment zone" because we have more visible homelessness than like Noe Valley/Marina. Subtext: make Bayview or Oakland the containment zone.
@scott @skinnylatte I don’t get it. The Mission seems about the same as ever. It just never bothered me.
a fading echo@skinnylatte
I read SF as science fiction, initially.
Interestingly, some American SF projects humans across interstellar space, then settles them in a planned society, and the city plan helpfully drawn in the book indicates the slum area.
Odd place, America.
MakanaBoy@skinnylatte I've seen some screwed up situations and large houseless communities in red states and cities like NOLA, Tampa, TX and so forth. How come those get a pass but blue states are constantly on 24/7 defense?
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Jima 
@skinnylatte @Kooplah But SF *is* a failed city.
Just...for other reasons (like tech).
CassandraVert@skinnylatte
Also this is nothing new. There were visibly homeless people when I lived there in the 80s and had been for years before that.
Also this is nothing new. There were visibly homeless people when I lived there in the 80s and had been for years before that.