This shit is in literally every city. Does it exist in every street? No. Not even remotely, but there’s absolutely an area or two where they tend to hang out at - outside of shelters, or in areas where police have “permitted” their existence there. Even in San Francisco, there’s like a couple areas that are “bad” but my god y’all act like the entirety of San Francisco is that way…it’s not.
The entire point of your posted article/video is manufactured rage. I would never walk with me and my daughter down one of these streets. They purposely recorded their “innocent, young” daughter to walk down that street so they could film something to manipulate gullible people like you into feeling anger over the state of things, like it’s some simple black and white issue. There’s never any nuance with conservative arguments, there never can be. The drug epidemic is bad due to the rise in Fentanyl in general and that shit is prevalent in many rural counties too, but you don’t see it reported, because there isn’t as big of a concentration of people…it’s not as noticeable. If there was an “easy fix” to the drug epidemic it would have been done decades ago…but it’s not. It’s an insanely complex issue.
DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today 1 week ago
Not only conservative news orgs have written about how bad San Francisco is. You yell at them too? lol
Alteon@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You’re missing the entire point. The article is just ragebait. I have no issues with people talking about the problem with the drug epidemic or the problem with homelessness in an attempt to bring to an issue to light. Your article is not intended to do that, and I really hope you realize that.
DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today 1 week ago
I didn’t write it. LOTS of news orgs write articles about it. Direct your rage to them. Also San Francisco is a shithole and lots of people go there on purpose because of how lax they are with drugs.
I live in a big city. And guess what? We aren’t cool with drugs here, and so we don’t have fucking zombie streets here.
So take up your “complicated issue” shit with the news orgs that report on shit cities like San Fran, and take up you issue with San Francisco for letting it happen.
I am not the cause of any of it.
Alteon@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I have been directing my “rage” at the article by saying it’s ragebait. I’m annoyed with you because your missing the fact that it’s manufactured rage bait and your feeding into it by spreading it.
Yeeaaaaahhh, you probably do. It’s just not on one of the streets you drive by or you’re just not aware of it. Not every city has a place like the Tenderloin in San Fran, but it’s prevalent in literally every city. Hell, if you check out the American Addiction Center website, San Francisco is actually ranked as one of the cities with the lowest drug use in the nation.