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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface
This has for some reason become a left vs. right political thing.
The right tries to paint SF as a zombie apocalypse as proof that their progressive policies have failed. The left points to all the hyperbole in those arguments to prove it's not bad.
I'm a card carrying socialist hippie that has also spent about a month per year in SF over the bulk of the past decade.
It's gone to ####. It's not a political thing. It's a human tragedy.
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I don’t have any clue about the right vs left angle.
But as someone who has actually lived in the Bay Area and still has a bunch of family and friends there I speak to regularly, I’m not talking out of my ass. It’s cool you visited, it’s cool people read articles, but it’s hardly a whole picture.
People want to pin it on one thing, it’s not. Yeah, there are issues, as I said, but it’s also overblown in a lot of senses and the constant doom and gloom put out by the media is actually making some of the problems worse.
You tell people something is dangerous and they’ll stop doing that thing, even if the level of actual danger doesn’t warrant that reaction. Perception outweighs reality in this case.