Why don't the West Coast mayors clean up their towns/cities instead of letting things get worse?

From Komo 4 Seattle Is Dying www.youtube.com... (3 years ago) to www.youtube.com... (1 year ago) Fight For Seattle's Soul to Portland's 'Summer of Love' a 1 billion + dollar's worth of love which they were doing everything possible to undermine Trump to Los Angele's trash cities that are now spreading to even the 'rich' posh areas. It is VERY gross now and we have housing going thru the roof where homes that were and should be only worth 150,000 or less are now worth 300,000$ that still are fixer uppers.

Hell our 2014 100,000$ manufactured home is probably worth more I bet especially since we fixed some stuff up and are about to put a new roof on it which the company didn't do something right which we are seeing to take care of. Dad walked on it with a person estimating the cost and something went CRACK!!!. It's an inside thing so you cannot see anything visually wrong from the top. Nothing leaked at least and as soon as Dad was getting ready to do something about it the CMOS battery is dying so he had to order one and can't contact anybody till it comes on Wednesday.

Notice things come in three's when they go wrong? That seems 2 be the story of our life.

Anyways it seems Democratic ran cities or towns tend to suffer the most employment issues where businesses other then pot and smoke shops go under. Many of our towns used to be decent family towns then went under each time liberals passed stupid crap. Salem is literally Tijuana Oregon just pretty gross to go thru and most of Salem is actually trailers hidden behind the homes on the street there are all these trailer parks where most seem to not be cared for.

a reply to: SortingHat

Well at least it isn't like people are pooping on the sidewalks and dirty drug needles are everywhere in peoples lawns and playgrounds... oh wait

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That's exactly what I'm talking about. I think violent video games play a huge role in this however NOT because of the actual violence but more so the oversaturation so that's all the public is exposed too so they become the product around them slowly even if they don't 'shoot it out' they will take their aggression in other not healthy avenues.

So many focus whether or not they will make someone shoot up a place which is actually the least of our worries.

There are so many other effects that violent games have that are not being talked about, you have mentally ill people exposed to such violent imagery whom are not all right in the head to begin with getting wraped and twisted thinking.

I played Grand Theft Auto once somewhere don't remember how but didn't do what the missions said because I didn't like it and just dicked around a bit in the hills never touched it again. Too gross.

originally posted by: SortingHat
a reply to: Brotherman

That's exactly what I'm talking about. I think violent video games play a huge role in this however NOT because of the actual violence but more so the oversaturation so that's all the public is exposed too so they become the product around them slowly even if they don't 'shoot it out' they will take their aggression in other not healthy avenues.

So many focus whether or not they will make someone shoot up a place which is actually the least of our worries.

There are so many other effects that violent games have that are not being talked about, you have mentally ill people exposed to such violent imagery whom are not all right in the head to begin with getting wraped and twisted thinking.

I played Grand Theft Auto once somewhere don't remember how but didn't do what the missions said because I didn't like it and just dicked around a bit in the hills never touched it again. Too gross.

Lemme get this straight,
Your telling me that you believe that violent video games somehow in someway have something to do with people #ing on public sidewalks and streets as well as tossing dirty drug paraphernalia into the wild?

Is that what your saying to me here?

(ETA if there was poop on the sidewalk in grand theft auto and I stepped in it, I would make it my mission to clean the sidewalks with a rocket launcher everytime I saw dookie)

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I went in a Seattle IKEA last Fall and couldn't believe how MEAN everyone was, from shoppers to the employees.

And I thought attitudes were bad here in Chicago!

I bet people are killing each other and jumping off buildings out there now, with Biden inflation kickin azz.

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That came from so far out of nowhere that I'm not even sure how to react. Then again, with the general disorder of the op I guess it was to be expected that some weird, poorly thought out agenda was looming with the next post.

Just a prelude to what they want for the entire country. a reply to: SortingHat

a reply to: SortingHat

They're trying to clean things up but those are some pretty messed up places.

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LOL 😂

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I don't think they care about their city or people. I know they couldn't care less because they're only there to push whatever their higher-ups tell them to push while they pocket tax payers' dollars. That's why they get rich and their cities turn into third world cities. The elites find shmucks and give them all the funding they need to win, someone dumb enough to keep the agenda going.

originally posted by: Brotherman

originally posted by: SortingHat
a reply to: Brotherman

That's exactly what I'm talking about. I think violent video games play a huge role in this however NOT because of the actual violence but more so the oversaturation so that's all the public is exposed too so they become the product around them slowly even if they don't 'shoot it out' they will take their aggression in other not healthy avenues.

So many focus whether or not they will make someone shoot up a place which is actually the least of our worries.

There are so many other effects that violent games have that are not being talked about, you have mentally ill people exposed to such violent imagery whom are not all right in the head to begin with getting wraped and twisted thinking.

I played Grand Theft Auto once somewhere don't remember how but didn't do what the missions said because I didn't like it and just dicked around a bit in the hills never touched it again. Too gross.

Lemme get this straight,
Your telling me that you believe that violent video games somehow in someway have something to do with people #ing on public sidewalks and streets as well as tossing dirty drug paraphernalia into the wild?

Is that what your saying to me here?

(ETA if there was poop on the sidewalk in grand theft auto and I stepped in it, I would make it my mission to clean the sidewalks with a rocket launcher everytime I saw dookie)

Do you do those stupid Pursuit Races? We get into them sometimes and it's always a race to see who can run the chick over that says when to go. That game never made any of us run someone over in real life, but I'm the youngest of the 5 other guys I play with and I'm 43. None of us take a dump on the sidewalks either, lol.

With how rich all the liberals are over there in Cali and how much compassion and love they have for fellow humans there would be pristine state of the art homeless shelters with an abundance of food for the needy. Wonder why they don't take care of their own local people?

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Having never lived or been to Oregon I’ll attempt an answer for this. I have lived in Boston, AZ, been to LA 🤮, and a couple other places.

Yes GTA is a horrible game.

The problems in society imo are in no particular order:


Loss of religion
Poverty
Drugs
Housing costs
Neglectful/absent parents/abusive/selfish
Overpopulation contributing to not enough housing therefore driving up cost
Cost of Education
Education being hijacked by the weakest/most intolerant among us
More money spent on jails then training
Sending all our tax dollars overseas (wars we shouldn’t be involved in), Loss of manufacturing - self sufficiency
Over regulation on everything, you can’t be homeless, you can’t sleep in your car, you can’t get a job without an address

Taking on other countries problems before we have fixed our own just keeps adding to the problem.

originally posted by: AaarghZombies
a reply to: SortingHat

They're trying to clean things up but those are some pretty messed up places.

Doesn't look like it... How are they trying to clean things up? I'm not arguing, just doesn't look like they care about anything besides their rich neighborhoods and themselves.

I remember the violent protests working their way close to the rich neighborhoods and the people being stopped dead in their tracks while middle class and poor areas were being burned to the ground while the police were demanded to standby.

It almost seems like the strategy is to keep the problem around so they have an issue to campaign on.

If they solve the issue, then they have to find a new issue that they can campaign on. Which means new strategies, marketing, campaigning, etc. Politicians are lazy. Why go through the effort of creating a new campaign when they can just pull out the old play book and rehash it?

On top of that, voters, in general, are stupid. They have short memories and believe what the politicians say. So if they say they are going to solve the issue, many believe them (even though all the things they've tried in the past have failed, this NEW idea will succeed!)

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Star despite my firm belief that voting doesn't make one ounce of difference in the end. I do, however, agree that voters in general are stupid with goldfish-like memory (and the rest of what you posted).

I know you're a state over, but do you remember when Cuomo was elected over here? The guy running against him won all but one county upstate but all NYC area so that was that, screw the rest of us. All because he ran on a platform consisting of downstate pandering and easier welfare. I ask because it apparently made the news in surrounding states (a friend that still lives in Charlestown sent me an article and saw it on local news as well) but was suspiciously overlooked in all NY MSM. When it was pointed out, a lot of outrage followed... Then he was reelected by the people that voted against him (again, if he wasn't just guaranteed a predetermined win) the first time. Just... Ugh.

I live on the Washington coast. Around two hours from Olympia. I won't go out of the county I live in. I actually have a difficult time getting myself to leave the small town I live in. All along I-5 can burn as far as I care. Maybe Mt. Rainer will go off and clean up some of that mess out there. Not much out here has changed. It's rather pleasant out here.

originally posted by: Brotherman

originally posted by: SortingHat
a reply to: Brotherman

That's exactly what I'm talking about. I think violent video games play a huge role in this however NOT because of the actual violence but more so the oversaturation so that's all the public is exposed too so they become the product around them slowly even if they don't 'shoot it out' they will take their aggression in other not healthy avenues.

So many focus whether or not they will make someone shoot up a place which is actually the least of our worries.

There are so many other effects that violent games have that are not being talked about, you have mentally ill people exposed to such violent imagery whom are not all right in the head to begin with getting wraped and twisted thinking.

I played Grand Theft Auto once somewhere don't remember how but didn't do what the missions said because I didn't like it and just dicked around a bit in the hills never touched it again. Too gross.

Lemme get this straight,
Your telling me that you believe that violent video games somehow in someway have something to do with people #ing on public sidewalks and streets as well as tossing dirty drug paraphernalia into the wild?

Is that what your saying to me here?

(ETA if there was poop on the sidewalk in grand theft auto and I stepped in it, I would make it my mission to clean the sidewalks with a rocket launcher everytime I saw dookie)

You got virtual OCD, lol me too.

Isn't it ironic that cities can do all this other stuff but be clean safe cities, yet it's video games as if there aren't video games in every city and town in the country?

Now what's different in the cleaner cities vs the dirtier cities? The people the citizens and the government allow it.

So, which one of you actually lived, grew up on the west coast?

Which one of you lived, grew up in the west coast culture?

Every state/location has their "areas".

Not just west coast cities.. Seems to be Democrat cities:







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