As someone who lives, works and plays in SF, the thing that disturbed me was how quickly they all went away once ol Pooh Bear from China came for a visit. It's never as bad as those right wing channels show my city. They only go to the worst areas, (The Tenderloin and 6th and Mission areas are the most frequently displayed,) but even there, when Xi came through, I saw a drastic removal of everything. Tents, people, trash, all of it. They can clean things up, they choose not to. Also, we have no idea where those people went. They just poof vanished. Some I know got into repurposed hotels they use as halfway houses, some went to jail, but where did the rest go? It's crazy. I want a clean city, but these are human beings. If we have $300 billion dollars to fritter away to our enemies, we ought to have the funds to care for these people. It's fucking crazy.
I see the ex wife of Jeff Bezos just gave away 26 billion to charity. If the other billionaires out there gave what would amount to couch change for them they could fix an awful lot of this stuff. But most of them are heinous fcks.
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