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03-07-2021, 10:20 AM #1
$61,000 tents
$61k per tent. For one year.
Who wants to go glamping in San Francisco?
https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/ar...e-16001074.php
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https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/20...less-in-tents/
It does include food, so I guess it’s a deal!. . .
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03-07-2021, 11:13 AM #2
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03-07-2021, 11:17 AM #3
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03-07-2021, 11:17 AM #4
on the faux news outrage meter, where does this fall compared to Dr Seuss, trans kids playing sports and imaginary voting conspiracies?
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03-07-2021, 11:36 AM #5
the hidden costs of income inequality.
I have been in this State for 30 years and I am willing to admit that I am part of the problem.
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03-07-2021, 02:28 PM #6
Please return to the programming faculty to have your sense of humor chip recalibrated.
Dr Seuss is laughable, but a barometer of our current zeitgeist.
Trans girls kicking the snot out of cis girls is a travesty. I feel bad for cis girls and women in sports. Title 9 was good while it lasted.
Voting? My vote hasn’t counted in decades.
I’m a protest voter. Green or libertarian. Like them both.
Back to the op.
$200 a day. In a tent. What the bloated fuck is that?
Even if they spent $365 on the tent, that leaves $199 a day for food and portable toilets.
Yes, homelessness sucks. And they need help. But that’s some serious coin.. . .
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03-07-2021, 03:11 PM #7
Yeah, but what about all the trans-men getting their butts kicked in sports and otherwise by cis-men? I'd call it a break even situation.
Of all the things this country has to worry about, trans-sports are very very low on the list. But higher than trans bathrooms.
There's another word for protest voter. Idiot. A protest only matters if someone is paying attention. Nobody is paying attention--until Green votes elect a GWB or DJT, so thanks for that. The families of 7000+ dead American soldiers thank you as well.
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03-07-2021, 04:33 PM #8
Take it to Gear Swap.
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03-07-2021, 06:31 PM #9Registered User
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These come with hookers and blow, yes?
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03-07-2021, 06:47 PM #10Registered User
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what is cis?
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03-07-2021, 07:15 PM #11www.apriliaforum.com
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03-07-2021, 07:51 PM #12
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03-07-2021, 11:46 PM #13
I wouldn't so much call myself a protest voter, I would actually prefer a green party candidate over any of the republicans or democrats running for president the past 20 years. If you're voting for the lesser of two evils, you're still voting for evil. But as coreshot mentioned, his vote doesn't count. You and I both live in CA, so neither of ours count, either.
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03-08-2021, 10:16 AM #14
I'd prefer Bernie, and I'd prefer a Green Party candidate if the Greens ran someone who could actually run a country. But I don't buy the argument that if my 3rd party vote lets the worse candidate win it will hasten the collapse of the 2 party system, or the system in general or that both parties are equally bad and it doesn't matter which wins. If the system does collapse progressives may not like what happens next. What we need is ranked preference voting but of course neither major party is going to let that happen. BTW protest voting is my heritage--my grandfather was a communist (starting under the Czar) and he voted Socialist Labor.
The way to show your displeasure with the party status quo is to change the party. The Republican Tea Party movement has dramatically changed the Republican party and people like Bernie and AOC are certainly pushing the Democratic party to the left.
Getting back to those $61,000 tents--in Sacramento a lot of people have been camping under the W-X freeway and they're all being evicted for construction. Prior to that a ton of people camping along and under Bus 80 in East Sac were rousted--with no provision for where they go next. Evicting homeless people doesn't make them go away. The failure to deal with the homeless problem is a disgrace and the blame is on all of us who don't demand solutions--I include myself.
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03-08-2021, 10:20 AM #15
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03-08-2021, 10:27 AM #16
Bezos eats pheasant. You pickup the tab and eat cake.
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03-08-2021, 11:12 AM #17glocal
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03-09-2021, 01:06 AM #18click here
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Doesn't say what they spent the money on. To get started though, you'd need some land. Poking around at SF land values, somewhere around $10 million buys an acre - not that you can get a whole acre, or that it is flat and suitable for tents, but play along and assume it is. If we allocate a 20 foot square to each tent (mostly for space, but some of that used for common facilities and paths, etc), that's 400 sq. ft. per tent. That's about 1% of an acre, or $100k. Just for the empty space.
Then add for the tent, restrooms, and any other services. And politics... endless politics before you can do anything for homeless. Living in cities is expensive.
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03-09-2021, 07:06 AM #19
This should piss of the R's more, but prisons are "for profit" now, 'merica fuck ya!
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