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Originally Posted by Locke
And you're telling me to grow up?  |
Yes. Your snark is completely unearned.
Misrepresenting something as simple as "let's take more lessons from a successful example" as "Oh! We need to be Portugal, huh?? Let's just COPY Portugal? OK! Just round up some Portuguese people!" comes off petulant and isn't interesting. You didn't even attempt to engage with it honestly.
"Learn from somewhere else" is far from a revolutionary thought and, as Corsi said, some lessons probably
have been learned and applied. That's a fair thing to say. But I think it's also fair to question if it's been enough or what, if any, learnings have been implemented and whether they are the right combination for our problem. What isn't really fair, though, is to mock something for being simplistic while pretending the even less intellectual position of "We're not Portugal" is somehow above the same sarcastic mockery. We could just go back and forth like that, if you want? "Wow, cool Locke, we're not Portugal? Really? Thanks, nobody knew that. Please take more time out of your day if that's the kind of knowledge you're dropping on us! OMG Did you guys hear we're NOT Portugal??? Gotta get my passport checked!!!" Fun stuff, right?
I know you're the expert on everything Vancouver has tried to deal with the addiction/homelessness issue and more knowledgeable than actual residents about San Francisco, but maybe you could just share that knowledge instead of doing the reductive sarcasm mockery thing? If you're sitting on this wealth of knowledge, share it.