Is Seattle This Bad Now?

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It’s weird, because didn’t Washington state legalize marijuana?
Doesn’t that solve everyone’s problems of every kind, including medical?!?!
 
Balto1 said:
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How would any individual dare approach these folks?
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It may surprise someone whose only exposure to Seattle is the Nazi-tier propaganda produced by the local conservative-owned TV station, but you just talk to them the same way you’d talk to anyone.
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I grew up in tacoma. This is certainly not my only exposure to Seattle. Thanks be to God I don’t live in that liberal place anymore.
I work in a large public library and am around the homeless every day. I still don’t want anyone to punch me in the head with no provocation.
 
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Some downtown public libraries in many cities have become practically adult daycare centers for the homeless to crash. But it’s not conducive to the comfort of library patrons.
 
It’s a difficult issue. Public libraries fill in a lot of cracks in social services.
To be honest, I think a lot of American downtowns are like open air mental hospitals. Only with no doctors. Or treatments.
So many people are quick to say “it’s not the 1950s anymore. We can’t go back to the 50s”.
But the one area where liberals try to go back to the fifties is downtown revitalization. Except back then, the mentally ill were institutionalized. I realize that the conditions might have been far from ideal, but what are we doing now? At least there was some attempt to look after people, and to keep the public safe. Now it’s like some dickensian bedlam without any supervision.
 
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I seem to recall some concern about non-voluntary institutionalization of the mentally ill. And the upshot was that a lot of institutions simply released their patients who said that they wanted to leave. But mostly that meant tat they had no adequate care or resources. Now we have those as well as so many addicted to a variety of drugs, but we can’t institutionalize them either unless they seek treatment. Probably legalizing marijuana just made things worse.
 
po18guy said:
Actually, it is much worse. Tents everywhere. Diseased addicts using the bathrooms of the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance causing them to be shut down until they can be decontaminated.

Was walking to the store after my stem cell transplant, using a hickory walking stick. Nearly had to use it to fend off a druggie panhandling. That was five years ago.
…Prostitution flourished and opium dens were not unknown.
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Homelessness: It’s the drugs. Those are not blue collar workers living in tents They are dopers. Heroin addicts. Meth heads. Burglars, robbers, rapists and even murderers.
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Does not sound like America is the shining example to the world that it claims to be. There are other countries that are doing much much better than the USA.
 
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You are looking down. Look up. And, we don’t get all the news from other countries. For example, what do you think the domestic violence rate is in certain middle eastern nations? The poverty rate? The suicide rate in Asia in general? The treatment of young girls in the Pearl River delta toy factories?

American NEVER claimed to be perfect. But as author and radio show host Ken Hamblin wrote in his book: “Find as better Country”

Cancer research. I know a bit about it. A very high percentage of research doctors in the US are from Asia, India and the EU. Why is that? My Ukrainian research hematologist explains that here is where the bulk of the research occurs. Is such research and the resulting drugs (and CoViD-19 vaccines expensive?

What price do you place on a human life?
 
Back on track, please - I am struggling with that myself. Seattle is failing due to decades of a liberal/progressive stranglehold on virtually everything. End of story, but not the end of nonsense.
 
I’m going to break the habit of 14 years and say something about America - 90% of the population stubbornly and recklessly hold on to 30% of the wealth of the country and it’s really, really holding things back.
 
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Balto1 said:
It may surprise someone whose only exposure to Seattle is the Nazi-tier propaganda produced by the local conservative-owned TV station, but you just talk to them the same way you’d talk to anyone.
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When you have lost an argument, always refer to your victor as a Nazi.
 
po18guy said:
. And they are thinking of decriminalizing theft if you claim poverty.
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THIS I do not believe. I suspect somebody has misread or misinterpreted something along the lines of reduced sentences for theft if the convicted can prove desparate straits.
 
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THIS I do not believe. I suspect somebody has misread or misinterpreted something along the lines of reduced sentences for theft if the convicted can prove desparate straits.
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Your characterization isn’t much different than what @po18guy said. But it is true. It is mentioned in the KOMO piece. You can find multiple stories. Here, from KUOW the local NPR affiliate:
Earlier this fall, Councilmember Lisa Herbold proposed changes that could allow people to be found not liable for misdemeanors like theft, trespass and assault if their offense could be linked to poverty or a behavioral health disorder.
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Funny how the children of enlightened reason are ummmmm…unable to reason.
This is what you get.
 
So surely the blame for rampant drug use and poverty in Appalachia is “conservative” policies?

Surely we aren’t just punching down on people who are already suffering because it’s fun to get upset at libs?
 
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Some things said in this video would apply to Seattle, would they not? (The video in question does contain some rough language.)
 
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RobertAdams said:
So surely the blame for rampant drug use and poverty in Appalachia is “conservative” policies?

Surely we aren’t just punching down on people who already suffering because it’s fun to get upset at libs?
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I believe there is a correlation between lack of fathers in the home, and all kinds of social ills that are currently rampant, such as drug use.
I believe that Democrat policies / mindsets are a good part of the reason for the skyrocketing rate of fatherlessness.
I remember magazine covers in the 1980s about the decline of the American family. Here’s what it looks like - forty years later.
 
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