Gaslighting alert: Anger at problems caused by the unhoused does not equate to hatred of the poor.

It's like saying that complaining about dog poop is hating dogs.

The dog is having an approach avoidance conflict. It wants to go in for a swim, but is afraid of being eaten by orcas.

It seems Seattle Weather Blog's reasoning power has entered the funhouse of a delirium. Ours is a hatred for the poor that's consistent with our enlightened values. SWB Can someone check on SWB to see how they are doing? We need to look out for each other in these trying (mind-frying) times. Ours is a hatred for the poor that's consistent with our enlightened values. ‘Discipline in the factories’ and ‘political stability’ are more appreciated than profits by business leaders. The rich countries refuse to make the needed changes to slow the liberation of carbon. And poor and developing ones can do nothing but enter the catastrophe that will, at this pace, end in our extinction.

And poor and developing countries can do nothing but enter the catastrophe that will, at this pace, end in our extinction.
--@Chas

Adios amigos
amiga et al

some Powerful Words
Mr. Mudede

@6: The dog owner, or lack thereof, is not assumed in the analogy hence I need not provide an answer to your distortion of the analogy.

"Anger
at problems
caused by the unhoused
does not equate to hatred of the poor."
--dewey

ok but it pencils out to
all that Money going
to oh so very Few's
gotta little Dispers-
al Problem I'd say

huge semi-Vacant Homes
and suites Hungry for
Homeless ass

they go
Unoccupied

on what
Planet does
This make Sense?

@8 -- it should be noted I (mostly)
cut/pasted the last sentence.

"Unhoused" drug addicts, who have been stealing, violently harassing and in some cases murdering people of all economic levels, harassing small businesses, that have been refusing treatment and refusing to live in free housing where rules are applied are the not same as the poor.

I have friends who classify as poor and live in subsidized housing in this city. They'd be insulted to be classified alongside homeless drug addicts.

Please stop with the theatrics and finally admit that Seattle seriously has a problem with homeless drug addicts reeking havoc. A problem that city council refuses to properly address by enabling the cops to do their jobs.

Portishead is good music. It's winter music. I always put them and Massive Attack on during our coldest darkest days.

Charles, that’s such a leap. I can’t equate not wanting campers and RVs parked on the street for weeks/months at a time with hatred of the poor. First of all, most poor people I know don’t have campers or RVs to park. Secondly, nobody wants anyone talking a dump in their front yard or on their walkway, and that is happening. Finally, I don’t think I’m alone in getting burned out on the “my life is in shambles, and it’s all your fault” attitude. Homeless families, yes, people down on their luck, yes, let’s find and build homes and safety for them, but no one makes anyone put that needle in his/her/their arm. Personal responsibility is still a thing.

I fear for all the old movie houses. What movies are now don’t require fine theaters and younger audiences, I don’t think, appreciate the ambiance. They want rides and comic book adventures at Disneyworld on the home screen or maybe at an 18-theater complex. Sign of the times, alas.

Funny you should mention Edie Brickell and the dog’s smile because I’m pretty sure you could fit three tennis balls in her mouth, too.

Seattlites will give up their plentiful parking to accommodate safe corridors for bikers and room for houseless folks in RVs over their cold dead bodies.

Let’s park a whole bunch of dirty, broken-down RVs, leaking sewage and festooned with stolen property, all around Charles’ house. It took only one RV, parked for one day in front of CM Herbold’s house, for her to call the cops and have it hauled away. I give Charles a week at most.

Apres_moi dear, Seattle does not have a homeless problem. The United States has a homeless problem, that fall disproportionately on the big cities - especially the big cities with temperate climates and generous social programs.

@19: A distinction without a difference.

Nowhere does the conflict between profit as motivation and meeting a need as motivation show itself more clearly than people simultaneously complaining about housing becoming cheaper and people living in RVs in the streets adjacent to said housing, describing all the symptoms of any human living without government aided disposal of all their waste and provision of all their heat and electricity as if they're personal moral failings and nothing more, and applying 'drug addict' the same way, instead of it being a medical condition made impossible to cure without healthcare access. Fascinating stuff.

Vulcan did release news on the Cinerama two months ago.

They announced on Facebook that they got rid of the cinerama.com domain and changed to seattlecinerama.com

They seemingly sold it to the LA Cinerama.

@21 except they do have healthcare access, they just repeatedly refuse to accept it and therein lies the chief complaint. If you continue to make people as comfortable as possible what is their impetus to ever change? How long do the rest of us have to victimized while we wait for them to accept the help that is being offered? Fix that, start there, then you'll see the everyone get on board.

Charles, have you been to Ballard lately? Used to be one of my favorite neighborhoods, but holy shit has it gone downhill with all the homeless camps and RVs. I don't hate the poor - far from it, but when you fuck with the livelihood of those around you, you deserve all the hate coming your way.

In what was once a hot real estate market, it took my friend 4 months to sell a 1-bed condo, and he ended up taking a loss on it just to get out.

@24 how rude of the homeless to sour your friend's condo sale...I pray such a hard turn on the road of life doesn't land him on the street, or he'll deserve all the hate that's coming his way.

thank
Gawd Bil-
Lionaires have
no Moral Failures

other than
Wealth Hoarding
which really Affects
NO ONE other than the
Rest of Us. is there a Cure
you may ask. not if you ask
Them: there's Nothing that can
or Should be Done: YOU People're
just gonna Hafta Figure It Out all on
Your own sans any Handouts from Above.

now stop Bothering them*
they're pretty Busy with
their God-like Lives.
better get Busy
Scapegoating
the Least of
Us.

oh and BE Careful:
YOU don't
wanna
End
up

there too.
btw -- how's your
Health Insurance Coverage?

*don't look up!

@19/Catalina - With a budget deficit looming over this city, I doubt we'll have a pipeline of funding for those programs. Honestly, we should pause them. We can't take people of other states' and communities problems.

@29: "we", along with every other city or town on 1-5, have been doing that for decades.

odds are we'll continue to do so because we have no choice. the drug-addicted homeless and schizophrenics are not going back to great falls, or pocatello, or yakima.

The Fed Pain will continue until the labor demands of the middle class are crushed.

Someone has to keep the top execs in their unwarranted 40 percent annual bonus payments ... and if it means crashing the economy, the Fed will oblige.

Thanks you for that non-sequiter, raindrop dear.