What we need is UNITY as American citizens. We need to resurrect and promote our shared origin stories: Columbus, the Mayflower, the American Revolution.
San Francisco really went downhill after the woke idiots removed the statue of Columbus from the top of Telegraph Hill, a direct assault on our unifying stories.
Nothing will get better until Columbus is back on top of Telegraph Hill and those who removed him are shamed out of public life forever.
Patrick has a point here. We need our myths. It is less about diversity of race and more about diversity of spirit. Every nation needs its myths. We have let the crazies out, and they have used racism as a weapon to destroy our unification. If we let that happen, we are done as a nation. Black people understand this, but not the sadistic rich white ladies who have been causing all the trouble. I wish Malcolm X had survived longer. We needed that kind of voice. Instead we have this sorry revolutionary schtick that passes for discourse, and the comedians think that they are public intellectuals. I though Obama would save us from this, but the Republicans were having too good of a time so they stopped him.
At some point everyone will wise up and realize how absurd modern "progressivism" is, but I fear that the liberals will be too beaten down to return. We need some old school liberal magic in order to rebuild our industry and stand tall again.
I used to live in Taipei. Here is what I would say about this. In some ways it is great how Singapore especially has done, but those places still have sky-high suicide rates and terrifyingly low birth rates. Furthermore, as a plain Jane white man, I got way more female attention over there than I deserved.
Back to the point, American cities SHOULD have some grit, but now we tolerate too much. We are a violent society, and that is part of the American DNA. I never want to see an American as castrated as say a mainland Chinese man who is extremely tough with small women then obsequious with a muscled young American punk like I was. That not backing down part of our culture is good stuff.
That said, progressive hell holes like San Francisco could use some Asian assistance in zoning laws. We need to build more and protest less. Furthermore, we absolutely need to bring back mental health facilities and the ability for police to commit homeless people who are clearly mentally ill. A huge percentage of our prison inmates belong in mental health facilities, just like we used to have in the 1950's. If cities like San Francisco built some of these and put the homeless inside of them, along with mass construction of dense multifamily housing FULL of studio and one-bedroom apartments, then our cities could take a breath.
Now, that only gets us back to the 1950's, but having affordable housing and basic street safety would be a huge improvement. It would also do nothing to stop the urine smell because half of that comes from drunk @sswholes out on the town. But at least if will be safe. We will need to do something with the over-educated, under-stimulated rich housewives though. My primary plan is to convince more rich men to marry Latina and Asian immigrants. They can help civilize the next generation of elites. We need it. This is especially true given that Asian Americans seem to be on a reproduction strike.
No, it is different. The two big changes are that with all the new people coming into cities, the ridiculous zoning corruption has resulted in unreasonable rents AND the mental health crisis shows up on the most generous streets, ad those are in our big cities.
San Francisco did this to itself, and I'm ashamed I was born there. Likewise, LA, Chicago, New York and elsewhere, did it to themselves.
Too many WOKE, White Leftists and Progressives turning beautiful cities into 4th world cities.
Singapore is a nice place. Problem is most of its citizens are the "worker bees." Foreign companies employing them, and their foreign elite employees, working in Singapore, paid in taxes, for the affordable public housing, and healthcare for worker bees. When modern high-rise housing was built 25 years ago, elevators and lobbies, had piss-detectors. Unlike SF drug addict's, they wouldn't crap in the street.
During the late 1950s when Singapore became an independent city state, wasn't a good place to live.
I love Taiwan, but it has its own issues. Because of Taiwan's relationship with the US.
Taiwan doesn't distinguish, US SSI, Pensions, or annuities of dual national's and their spouse. Neither will local branches of health insurance companies, recognize US insurance.
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All income overseas, is .taxable if either remain in Taiwan over 181 days. Should this change, we'd consider buying a small condo.
US Citizens, on every level of government, deserve the government they elect. In SF East Bay, recently for over a year, my wife and her sister weren't safe walking outside our subdivision because they were Asian.
That's why we purchased a second house in a different state, in the most diverse county in Mainland US. In general, everyone respects themself and others.
So far, reparing and updating one house to sell and another to move into; majority of expense has been parts, paint, and fixtures; not labor.
How about we make a rule, until we get certified as part of the Zeroth World, only people of Asian descent are allowed to vote in San Francisco.
Concur 100%
Diane Yap for President — of the universe!
Our fundamental impediment to having clean, safe, functional cities is diversity. Diversity divides us and destroys civic engagement:
http://archive.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/08/05/the_downside_of_diversity/
What we need is UNITY as American citizens. We need to resurrect and promote our shared origin stories: Columbus, the Mayflower, the American Revolution.
San Francisco really went downhill after the woke idiots removed the statue of Columbus from the top of Telegraph Hill, a direct assault on our unifying stories.
Nothing will get better until Columbus is back on top of Telegraph Hill and those who removed him are shamed out of public life forever.
The Singapore example kind of destroys the theory that diversity leads to dirty, unsafe, dysfunctional cities though, doesn't it?
No, not at all. Singapore is 76% ethnic Chinese and so most people are on the same page about everything.
Patrick has a point here. We need our myths. It is less about diversity of race and more about diversity of spirit. Every nation needs its myths. We have let the crazies out, and they have used racism as a weapon to destroy our unification. If we let that happen, we are done as a nation. Black people understand this, but not the sadistic rich white ladies who have been causing all the trouble. I wish Malcolm X had survived longer. We needed that kind of voice. Instead we have this sorry revolutionary schtick that passes for discourse, and the comedians think that they are public intellectuals. I though Obama would save us from this, but the Republicans were having too good of a time so they stopped him.
At some point everyone will wise up and realize how absurd modern "progressivism" is, but I fear that the liberals will be too beaten down to return. We need some old school liberal magic in order to rebuild our industry and stand tall again.
I used to live in Taipei. Here is what I would say about this. In some ways it is great how Singapore especially has done, but those places still have sky-high suicide rates and terrifyingly low birth rates. Furthermore, as a plain Jane white man, I got way more female attention over there than I deserved.
Back to the point, American cities SHOULD have some grit, but now we tolerate too much. We are a violent society, and that is part of the American DNA. I never want to see an American as castrated as say a mainland Chinese man who is extremely tough with small women then obsequious with a muscled young American punk like I was. That not backing down part of our culture is good stuff.
That said, progressive hell holes like San Francisco could use some Asian assistance in zoning laws. We need to build more and protest less. Furthermore, we absolutely need to bring back mental health facilities and the ability for police to commit homeless people who are clearly mentally ill. A huge percentage of our prison inmates belong in mental health facilities, just like we used to have in the 1950's. If cities like San Francisco built some of these and put the homeless inside of them, along with mass construction of dense multifamily housing FULL of studio and one-bedroom apartments, then our cities could take a breath.
Now, that only gets us back to the 1950's, but having affordable housing and basic street safety would be a huge improvement. It would also do nothing to stop the urine smell because half of that comes from drunk @sswholes out on the town. But at least if will be safe. We will need to do something with the over-educated, under-stimulated rich housewives though. My primary plan is to convince more rich men to marry Latina and Asian immigrants. They can help civilize the next generation of elites. We need it. This is especially true given that Asian Americans seem to be on a reproduction strike.
This kind of urban decay has been going on for decades in inner cities, but it’s only a concern to many now that it’s in their back yard.
No, it is different. The two big changes are that with all the new people coming into cities, the ridiculous zoning corruption has resulted in unreasonable rents AND the mental health crisis shows up on the most generous streets, ad those are in our big cities.
Have all the police and laws you want, can’t fix crime if a culture promotes individual over family.
San Francisco did this to itself, and I'm ashamed I was born there. Likewise, LA, Chicago, New York and elsewhere, did it to themselves.
Too many WOKE, White Leftists and Progressives turning beautiful cities into 4th world cities.
Singapore is a nice place. Problem is most of its citizens are the "worker bees." Foreign companies employing them, and their foreign elite employees, working in Singapore, paid in taxes, for the affordable public housing, and healthcare for worker bees. When modern high-rise housing was built 25 years ago, elevators and lobbies, had piss-detectors. Unlike SF drug addict's, they wouldn't crap in the street.
During the late 1950s when Singapore became an independent city state, wasn't a good place to live.
I love Taiwan, but it has its own issues. Because of Taiwan's relationship with the US.
Taiwan doesn't distinguish, US SSI, Pensions, or annuities of dual national's and their spouse. Neither will local branches of health insurance companies, recognize US insurance.
.
All income overseas, is .taxable if either remain in Taiwan over 181 days. Should this change, we'd consider buying a small condo.
US Citizens, on every level of government, deserve the government they elect. In SF East Bay, recently for over a year, my wife and her sister weren't safe walking outside our subdivision because they were Asian.
That's why we purchased a second house in a different state, in the most diverse county in Mainland US. In general, everyone respects themself and others.
So far, reparing and updating one house to sell and another to move into; majority of expense has been parts, paint, and fixtures; not labor.