“One expects a grownup to see the world from a wider perspective.”

Yes, yes they do, CHARLES.

Charles,I will tell you another similar story. There once was this child at school who got beat up by bullies every day. Every. Single. Day. He would have bruises on top of bruises and eventually one day the bullies tried beating him up and because he was beaten so many times,he eventually became used to the pain and beat up the bullies himself. This is the same situation with the city council. They can hit harder and harder and we only grow stronger due to their abuse.

Cows can't talk, and have no agency to deal with barbed wire. Humans can and also have agency. They have a choice, and if that choice is to be a useless parasite, then it's not on the rest of society to cuddle and coddle them.

But cute story, regardless of it's utter inapplicable status.

What the fuck is the "Permissive Environment" and why is it capitalized? Seems Orwellian.

And shot spotter will allow us to blame more cows that just happen to like to eat crunchy nuts that "explode", but not actually solve any real crimes.

This is a dumb analogy, but for the sake of argument, how does the prior city council fit into this? They failed to make any meaningful progress on homelessness, housing affordability, the overdose crisis, and public transportation. I guess they are the adults who didn't come out of the farmhouse to see what was going on?

@3 "Humans can and also have agency. They have a choice, and if that choice is to be a useless parasite, then it's not on the rest of society to cuddle and coddle them."

Right that's why we need to defund the police

@6 if you want to equate the story to the previous council then here you go. The boy is walking by the cow and the cow kicks him in the face and craps on him. The child is upset and asks the adult to help. The adult says, sorry child, you have a home while the cow sleeps in this barn so the cow is right to kick you in the face. If you give us money to build a nicer barn the cow will stop. So the child does but no barn is ever built and instead more cows show up and kick him in the face again and again. Each time he asks the adult for help the adult tells him it’s not the cows fault. It’s his fault for not doing more for the cow. Finally after years of being crapped on and kicked in the face on a daily basis the child asks a new adult for help who puts the cow in a corral. The previous adult curses the child and claims he is ungrateful and a horrible person because he got tired of being kicked in the face.

@9 where'd you go to school that had physics class in 6th grade and, having gone to such a school, how did you turn out to be such a sad loser?

The Stranger’s bitter petulance over having lost multiple elections in Seattle continues to amuse. More tears to drink, please!

Even Being run by “children” is better than being run by anyone the stranger would approve of.

Lol, this is almost comical. The Kia-Hyndai theft spike alone disproves the whole thesis. People were talking about lead exposure, economic cycles, racism, COVID unemployment, blah blah and their effects on crime. Sure, they probably have some effects on crime. However, when Kia and Hyundai thefts spiked out of nowhere - there was no rapid increase in lead, no rapidly increasing racism, economy is fine compared to many recent time periods, no new pandemic, etc.

The only thing that changed? People found out it's easy to steal (certain) cars again! Literally the only change.
That just goes to show that vermin was always there, deterred by improved anti-theft measures, and as soon as it was provided the opportunity it crawled out of the woodwork.

Deterrence works. A small fraction of people (I'd estimate 0.5-1%; as seen in crime stats everywhere, disproportionate amount of crime is committed by a small number of criminals, from murder in Scandinavia to retail theft in Seattle) simply suck and need to be locked up or put down.