Today 05:20 AM
(This post was last modified: Today 05:36 AM by Yazata.)
7th and Market, only a short distance from the old Twitter Headquarters. In my younger years I was in this area all the time. It was always low-end, full of low-lifes, but it was never like this. I'd be scared to go near there now. The druggies aren't the real problem, the problem is the violent street lunatics that just attack people at random.
The sad part is that it's right across the street from the main San Francisco public library and the Asian Art Museum, major cultural institutiona. I used to love the SF public library back when I lived in the city. It's far worse now that they "improved" it and it's almost unusable these days, since the librarians want it "open for everyone" which means that it functions as a defacto homeless shelter during the hours it's open. I've used the first floor men's restroom at the library, which is the lowest Ninth Circle of Dante's Inferno. An inch of water on the floor, huge lurking thugs standing by the walls glaring at everyone. (I'm still unsure if they were homosexuals, drug dealers or undercover police.) Definitely a scene from a horror movie. I remember a librarian actually boasting that it had been several months since the last person died in that restroom. (It isn't so much that people get shot or stabbed in there, though that happens. It's that men go in the toilet stalls to use drugs and die of overdoses.) The librarian thought it was an achievement.
The Asian Art Museum is better since you have to pay to get in and go through security, so it's extremely nice inside. But you take your life in your hands on the street outside, especially if you are well dressed or are female.
The city doesn't care nor do the police. If the cops bust anyone, the individual will be back on the street before the cop completes the paperwork, so cops don't even try. That's "criminal justice reform". The people who run things (this is Nancy Pelosi's and Kamala Harris' home base) would just rather see the surrealistic scenes of people dying in slow motion on the city's sidewalks.
https://x.com/RT_com/status/2049926453542732087
The sad part is that it's right across the street from the main San Francisco public library and the Asian Art Museum, major cultural institutiona. I used to love the SF public library back when I lived in the city. It's far worse now that they "improved" it and it's almost unusable these days, since the librarians want it "open for everyone" which means that it functions as a defacto homeless shelter during the hours it's open. I've used the first floor men's restroom at the library, which is the lowest Ninth Circle of Dante's Inferno. An inch of water on the floor, huge lurking thugs standing by the walls glaring at everyone. (I'm still unsure if they were homosexuals, drug dealers or undercover police.) Definitely a scene from a horror movie. I remember a librarian actually boasting that it had been several months since the last person died in that restroom. (It isn't so much that people get shot or stabbed in there, though that happens. It's that men go in the toilet stalls to use drugs and die of overdoses.) The librarian thought it was an achievement.
The Asian Art Museum is better since you have to pay to get in and go through security, so it's extremely nice inside. But you take your life in your hands on the street outside, especially if you are well dressed or are female.
The city doesn't care nor do the police. If the cops bust anyone, the individual will be back on the street before the cop completes the paperwork, so cops don't even try. That's "criminal justice reform". The people who run things (this is Nancy Pelosi's and Kamala Harris' home base) would just rather see the surrealistic scenes of people dying in slow motion on the city's sidewalks.
https://x.com/RT_com/status/2049926453542732087
