Today some of you are strongly praising Joe Biden. I wish I could agree because he did some great things domestically. Unfortunately, history will remember him for knowingly providing the bombs to commit a genocide in Gaza.
@EverydayMoggie That would be a fine way to talk about a politician who was a disappointment in terms of tax cuts or funding for trains or something like that. I do not think that committing genocide is simply a disagreeable policy decision that you can average out.
"It is Kafkaesque cruelty to legally prohibit people from simply existing outside when the same government has not taken sufficient action to ensure they have somewhere to go. More practically, it’s also not going to work."
goddammit i was just thinking how we may be stuck with invasive security theater in airports but at least it hasn't spread to other forms of transportation. and here comes Officer Adams to ruin that https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/112855390360131896
- 2 grocery stores and Church metro station within a block - Duboce bikeway across the street
Building parking here will allow wealthier car-brains who can live anywhere to displace potential car-free households that specifically want to live in this extremely walkable area.
@kingrat Yeah, that too! The roads need serious road diets.
Have you seen me post this? It's the dimensions of Harrison and Bryant streets showing how a block of them could be turned into a narrow street for people and a park.
In this article about Central SoMa, the visible presence of homeless people is repeatedly tossed out in a dehumanizing way as evidence of the neighborhood's failure.
"Homeless encampments come and go, sidewalks sometimes blocked by tents and shopping carts piled high with bicycle parts."
It doesn't seem to occur to anyone quoted, or to the authors, these are struggling human beings you could maybe help. It's only scenery to establish it's a loser neighborhood.
I was going to make comments on the development side of it but the dehumanizing treatment of homeless people stuck out to me more. (For the record: tripling-down on office over housing development was a bad idea in 2017/18 too, and many of us said so at the time. Also it's a symptom of Friedmanite austerity and Reagan/Trump/Bush tax cuts that we don't have money for parks and other public goods without tying it to pricey developments.)
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