The Oakland, California Homeless Problem is Beyond Belief

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The more picture & videos I see from the USA, the more I have to remember the FIlm “Snake” with Kurt Russel & how much US cities turn into this complete out of control anarchy!

As I said very often the governments of the last decades wanted exactly this “development”
Even under Trump this was already done, and now with the mad Biden administration this bad situations the decay of civilization & rules have accelerated tremendously.

Most people still discuss well this is clear incompetence by the government & the now BIden administration!
NO this is (in my opinion) complete BS! This is All done by intention! The destruction of families, society & the whole country.
I am already thinking about where to move to. Forget any country in the West, no matter USA, Canada, UK, Europe Australia, New Zealand, they are all completely doomed.
Southamerica is also complete in the hands of the West, USA CIA Nazi imperialistic psychopaths.
Btw now US is trying to fck up Ethiopia & Russia.
So at the end I guess there will be not much left.

Victor Davis Hanson: Third-Worldizing America | ZeroHedge

More and more districts in more and more American cities are looking like third world urban $hitholes…

In a recent online exchange, YouTuber Casey Neistat posted his fury after his car was broken into and the contents stolen. Los Angeles, he railed, was turning into a “3rd-world s-hole of a city.”

The multimillionaire actor Seth Rogen chastised Neistat for his anger.
Rogen claimed that a car’s contents were minor things to lose.

Btw Seth Rogen is a 100% psychopath SCUMBAG!

I live near Austin which has it’s Oakland elements lining I-35 and other major roadways, but I found this video somewhat uplifting in that the homeless were developing a plan, at least in that “neighborhood”. There has been a long history of breaking up families and strong communities here in the States. I am sure there are examples that precede the Detroit model, but after the riots were curtailed (circa 1969) HUD chose to go into Detroit and literally remove entire streets of historical buildings (early 1900’s as the car industry began to flourish) and tight communities were broken up and sent scattered to the periphery. We studied this in grad school and went to Hamtramck, the historic Polish neighborhood, where hand tatted lace curtains still hung in windows of what remained. Primarily a Black riot that started in a Blind Pig (illegal bar that was destroyed by local police), those neighborhoods were completely decimated.

What we see today in Detroit is TOTALLY attributable to HUD. The loss of community that had built up over 100 years leaving no chance for employment or neighbors helping neighbors, is devastating. That is why I found this group of survivors in Oakland a sign that there is a way for the homeless and together, they can form new communities and come away as people proud of their accomplishments.

As far as Austin, Oakland, and all the other leftist ruled places, there will be no peace until they wake up to the reality of communism. Even the Pilgrims realized that they would starve to death with the socialist structure. There will come a point where the workers will no longer support them, not bring them food nor the services they demand. The division is real, certainly strengthened by the CV19 insanity. Maybe we just wait until the majority of these fools simply die off from the jab. For me, I hope more of the homeless find a way to emulate that group in Oakland and rebuild their lives. There is a tiny home project here in the Austin area as a prototype to solve the homeless problem. Unless the people themselves are part of that community structure to begin with, it can not succeed. Again, why II found the video somewhat encouraging.

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I also found the Oakland video to be eye-opening and optimistic.
Yes, HUD’s “Urban Renewal” program, and was an epic failure.
I remember the excuses for the changes at that time, and it only enriched a select few.
Wal Mart became the new downtown in those once thriving communities.

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Oh yes, it is certainly done by intention and is literally Legislation in The U.S. now, but nobody wants to deal with, or even read USMCA.

IMO, no other way out unless, as others on here say, people wake-up, take-up their diddies and change it for themselves. Indeed, once the services stop, it should be a real eye-opener!

I made the mistake of trying to go to U.Penn (Filthidelfia) for grad school (1973) and lived about 2 blocks from where CAF grew up. Older houses in the neighborhood, like the one in which I rented a tiny top floor flat, were rich in detail indicating a once upscale community. Someone had erected an apartment building next door, but it was now condemned by the city. It was completely filled with homeless, many on drugs, all unemployed. It was not uncommon to hear yelling, loud music, or glass being broken out of windows (once flying into my open window). Given the height restrictions, all buildings were of similar height meaning that there was no air movement in a city with little air conditioning. Siifliing.

What I learned from that brief stay (I could not sleep and found myself throwing up regularly due to stress) was that while I could load up my dad’s station wagon and get out, these people were caught there indefinitely. No jobs, no help from the city. Big nothing burger. It definitely left a hole in my heart for these people but, honestly, I could see no way out until they had hope or faith in something.

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My experiences weren’t that dramatic - just wholesale slaughter of lovely old architecture.
I grew up near a small city in upstate NY that demolished all but a few buildings, with the hairbrained plan to move the center of downtown to another area - under the promise of Urban Renewal.
Naturally, phase 1 (demolition) transpired, but the rebuilding plan failed, having killed small businesses and turning the place into the bombed out and blighted ghetto that has only deteriorated since then.

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I grew up in Miiddletown, Ohio and the story is very similar to yours. In the 1970’s, someone came up with the bright idea of shutting down the main street, ruining all the historic facades and create a roof that would make the entire downtown a “mall”. Such stupidity. The cost of development was then added to the businesses that now had lost their “charm” such that the whole area became a vacant commercial district replaced by new malls on the periphery. I mention the name of the town as there was a book written about the collapse of this community that was also made into a movie: Hillbilly Elegy. Many people were upset about this movie but frankly, thanks to the loss of the local paper and steel mills along with the loss of historic downtown character, there was nothing left to save.

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The story of downtown pedestrian malls is also familiar. Other nearby cities also tried that, but no one wanted to go there because they had to park and walk. While I agree that too much of our world is centered around the automobile, the idea was a lousy solution for boosting downtown business.
In those days, even the tiniest of upstate NY towns had several manufacturing businesses, and only a few people had to drive out of town for employment.
Eventually and for a while, demolition companies were the only ones making money.

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… Soylent Green fodder possibly? Giza Merch. Slogan Idea — “Soylent - the TRUE color revolution”

… nothing new under the sun … this has been going on for a long time … see E. Michael Jones’ - The Slaughter of Cities: Urban Renewal as Ethnic Cleansing, St. Augustine’s Press, 2004.

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It’s Malthusian eugenics and “composting” of human beings. The monied elite think of it as “creative destruction.” It’s somewhere near the zenith of evil, IMHO.

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Good comments. Residents of the tent city where I reside in Salt Lake City are making an effort to police themselves and keep the area free of trash. I frequently consider the nearby closed / unused fairgrounds - a sprawling complex - an ideal location to provide a center for laundry, public showers, and facilities, for reasonable, minimal costs. Or free for those totally without funds. Was common thousands of years ago in Rome. Not so much in “modern” times. Highly cost effective as well considering the enormous expenses associated with Homeland Security, incarceration, and other forms of organized indifference (or worse).

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Eye opening book for someone like me from Cincinnati where I worked with many people from Appalachia.

Instead they’re proposing a panopticon style development in SLC.

Both my parents went to Medical School at UC (Cinci) and my dad remembered that many of his patients (as an intern so this would be in the 1930’s) still used Thee and Thou. The history of Appalachia is rich with unique populations, primarily from Great Britain in the mid 1800’s. The house that I grew up in was built in 1848 (by a carpet bagger from Alabama).

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… FiatLux - your mention of “creative destruction” suggests another INGSOC (the system we are living under, ING in our case being speakers of English) Newspeak (what all of this language stuff is really about anyway - the language of Epistemological Warfare and or WorldView Warfare)

Destruction is Creation!

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Keep it up, Scarmoge, and you’ll be pressed into service for the Ministry of Truth!

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… Gee Fiat I was under the impression that we, along with several other members, were already under such employ. :slight_smile:

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