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It's time to give up on San Francisco


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2020 Jun 19, 8:48am   1,253 views  48 comments

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https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/Christopher-Columbus-statue-is-quietly-removed-15349845.php

Christopher Columbus statue is quietly removed from Pioneer Park

Christopher Columbus no longer stands below Coit Tower, soberly surveying the vehicles in Pioneer Park.

A crane plucked the bronze statue of the Italian explorer off its pedestal and hoisted it onto a flatbed truck Thursday morning. City workers removed it on Mayor London Breed's orders following reports that protesters might attempt to tear it down during demonstrations on Friday.

"It was removed because it doesn’t align with San Francisco’s values or our commitment to racial justice. Doing it quickly was also a matter of public safety, " Rachell Axel, the San Francisco Arts Commission's director of public and private partnerships, said in an email.



The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority

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1   Patrick   2020 Jun 19, 9:04am  

I have been completely cured of any desire to own a house in San Francisco.

The Inquisition is in full swing. The most intolerant are winning.
2   Al_Sharpton_for_President   2020 Jun 19, 9:16am  

Wow! SF still has a residual Italian-American population. Wonder how they feel? Even Cuomo wouldn't do that, in fact, he defended the NYC statue.

Breed tells everyone what the correct politik is. This is fascism in your face.
3   clambo   2020 Jun 19, 9:23am  

I’m glad my mother is not alive to witness the insults to our heritage and history made necessary by a bunch of idiots and losers. She would be so sad.
4   RWSGFY   2020 Jun 19, 9:25am  

Patrick says
I have been completely cured of any desire to own a house in San Francisco


You mean the fucked-up school "lottery" system wasn't a deterrent enough?
5   georgeliberte   2020 Jun 19, 9:25am  

If SF leaves they have to take Gavin Nuisance with them. Fair is fair.
6   rigidmember   2020 Jun 19, 9:46am  

Patrick says
I have been completely cured of any desire to own a house in San Francisco.

The Inquisition is in full swing. The most intolerant are winning.


Agree, but I'll take it a step further. For me this is the final reason to never cross the bridge into SF again. Total garbage dump and absolutely no reason to enter that shithole ever again.

Rachell Axel and her ilk get to make unopposed decisions for the rest of the population of SF. Look at this, another self loathing virtue signalling piece of garbage. Just kill yourself if you hate your whiteness so much.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelle-axel-788b104/
7   AD   2020 Jun 19, 9:54am  

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A statue of George Washington was removed in Portland, Oregon last night.

https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/06/george-washington-statue-toppled-during-22nd-consecutive-day-of-portland-protests.html

I hope the illusion of freedom in the West is not finally dropping. This frog would be getting boiled all too quickly to maintain a sane and stable civilization.

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8   Al_Sharpton_for_President   2020 Jun 19, 10:16am  

BREAKING: Seizing upon the Columbus statue removal junta, Comandante Newsom has banned the use of the word "Hispanic", due to the brutality of the Hispanic Spaniards towards the New World natives, who ironically identify as Hispanic. Henceforth, all official state documents and references to these people shall refer to them as PFKAH, or people formerly known as Hispanic.
9   Ceffer   2020 Jun 19, 10:58am  

How about replacing the statue with a bust of Newsom surrounded by bronze shit and bronze needles? Every liberal politician needs a legacy.
10   RWSGFY   2020 Jun 19, 11:00am  

Ceffer says
How about replacing the statue with a bust of Newsom surrounded by bronze shit and bronze needles? Every liberal politician needs a legacy.


Why settle for bronze shit and needles when they can use the real thing. And replentish it daily.
11   HeadSet   2020 Jun 19, 11:23am  

Why settle for bronze shit and needles when they can use the real thing. And replentish it daily.,/i>

I have a feeling the shit and needles will "auto-replenish" for blocks around the base of the former statue anyway.
12   Ceffer   2020 Jun 19, 11:26am  

FuckCCP89 says
Why settle for bronze shit and needles when they can use the real thing. And replentish it daily.


A good point, but they will wash away in the rainy season. Newsom deserves permanence, the medium is the message.
13   PeopleUnited   2020 Jun 19, 2:47pm  

FuckCCP89 says
Ceffer says
How about replacing the statue with a bust of Newsom surrounded by bronze shit and bronze needles? Every liberal politician needs a legacy.


Why settle for bronze shit and needles when they can use the real thing. And replentish it daily.
I’d like Great comebacks for $1000 Alex
14   Patrick   2020 Jun 19, 5:21pm  

rigidmember says
Agree, but I'll take it a step further. For me this is the final reason to never cross the bridge into SF again. Total garbage dump and absolutely no reason to enter that shithole ever again.

Rachell Axel and her ilk get to make unopposed decisions for the rest of the population of SF. Look at this, another self loathing virtue signalling piece of garbage. Just kill yourself if you hate your whiteness so much.


I agree. I don't even want to go into SF ever again.

I don't need to. Been working remotely and that's pretty good actually. Certainly saves on commute time.

I loved that Columbus statue. It's like San Francisco chopped off its own penis. Things have gone way too far, and almost no one in our government is standing up for decency in the face of the mob, who are in actual fact a small minority of very defective people.

Rachell Axel is a horrible person. There millions of clones of her out there. One comfort is that they will literally never be happy.

The city should have at least voted on the statue. But we don't have democracy anymore. We have mob rule by violent leftists who riot and loot and burn with impunity (and apparently immunity to Wuhan virus) while the police are told to do nothing.
15   Patrick   2020 Jun 19, 5:37pm  

One way San Francisco could return to sanity:

1. Put Columbus back.
2. Evict the haters from City Hall. They are all leftists.
3. Deport all illegals, pronto. They are breaking the law at the expense of poor US citizens.
4. Put the mentally ill homeless in mental hospitals.
5. Make the penalty for vagrancy (or shitting on the street or injecting drugs) be jail time in the remotest areas of California. Do not give them any transit back.
6. Make the penalty for repeated vagrancy double the jail time of the last offense, with the option to join the military instead.
7. Reform the elementary, middle, and high school curriculum to require the Greek and Roman classics.
8. Fire seditious teachers.
16   FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden   2020 Jun 19, 5:54pm  

None of that list will occur. Reparations and affirmative action are next.

It’s time to leave the state.
17   Patrick   2020 Jun 19, 5:56pm  

Glad I never bought property here.
18   FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden   2020 Jun 19, 7:56pm  

Patrick says
Glad I never bought property here.


I can’t say that. Will probably sell, have no interest in being absentee landlord.
19   Rin   2020 Jun 19, 8:12pm  

First of all, why would anyone want to live in SF, to begin with?

All my life, I was told that SF was Boston's sister city but upon visiting and spending time there, it looked more like Philadelphia by the bay.

The place has no history, no sense of community, and is filled with bums, gangs, and the dregs of society.
20   MisdemeanorRebel   2020 Jun 19, 8:20pm  

The DA of San Fran is literally the son of leftist terrorists who shot people while robbing a Brinks Truck at a Mall, and personally raised by Ayers and Dohrn.

How many right wing terrorists you know got full time tenured teaching jobs at State Universities?
21   mell   2020 Jun 19, 8:52pm  

As part Italian this only confirms my exit plan. Due to family it's not going to be a swift exit, but it's on the horizon. It was once a great city, I had my best decade here but since 2010/2011 or so for over 10 years the decline has been enormous. The last time this was a very enjoyable city was during the 2008 recession after everyone and the bums left for a few years. The leftoids will destroy this state and possibly the country if Trump doesn't get reelected and the Dems don't find their way back to a heartland type of moderate common sense.
22   NDrLoR   2020 Jun 19, 9:13pm  

NoCoupForYou says
How many right wing terrorists you know got full time tenured teaching jobs at State Universities?
Not nearly enough.
23   Patrick   2020 Jun 19, 9:25pm  

Rin says
why would anyone want to live in SF, to begin with?


It has just about the best physical setting of any city in the US. And there are (or used to be) tons of small restaurants, etc.

But the setting can't compensate enough to justify putting up with the homeless, the shit, the needles, the blue-haired man-hating shrikes, and now the sheer insanity of chopping down a great cultural marker to please the leftist mob.

I wish we could take it back, clean it up, and make it safe and civilized, a place families with children could live once again.
24   B.A.C.A.H.   2020 Jun 19, 9:37pm  

Blue haired man hating shrieks.

They are probably commuting in from the East Bay, especially Oak-Town. Oak-Town is their territory.

I didn't know why they hated me just because I was a straight male, and why they seem to be angry all the time.

It was explained to me. Don't take it personal. They hate straight women, too. They hate all men, gay and straight. They hate everyone who is not like them.
25   Rin   2020 Jun 19, 9:53pm  

Patrick says
It has just about the best physical setting of any city in the US.


Pat, everyone knows about the views of SF. This isn't some recent discovery like the fact that the turmeric spice limits inflammation.

All of our lives, it was preached that if you take the best of Boston's cultural heritage and place it in a temperate climate by the Pacific, you get SF. Unfortunately, many Boston transplants to the Bay Area have discovered it to be false and want to move back home after their SF or Silicon Valley gig is over. Weather & vistas can't make up for a region w/o culture and heritage.

If anything, the greater Silicon Valley is almost like South Jersey with its endless office parks and strip malls, but with only Philly and Atlantic City at its perimeters. Use that, cut out the summer humidity and add a year long temperate climate, and you get the Bay Area.
26   Ceffer   2020 Jun 19, 10:40pm  

I never heard anybody compare SF to Boston, it's really apples and oranges. SF does get credit for more than it is because of the beauty of the physical environment.

In spite of being around the Bay Area for a good part of my life, I never liked SF that much, even though I got laid there a few times (by females, for the snarks).

The drug culture has always created a cloud thicker than the fog, the tourist traps are pretty trivial and can be seen in a day etc. If you are into restaurant culture, I suppose it's great if you have the budget. The ultra rich really spend their time there swanning for the other ultra rich, as usual. It's always had screaming aggressive bums and danger. There is some culture there, but I wouldn't call it a cornucopia compared to other large cities, or even LA. In spite of LA's well deserved reputation for shallowness, I think it has SF beat on the culture and entertainment score by a long shot.

I always found SF kind of a depressing place in general, with big city crap but not enough big city goodies.
27   Rin   2020 Jun 19, 10:57pm  

Ceffer says
anybody compare SF to Boston


I don't know, but the sister city thing was quoted, for much of my life.

Perhaps it's just the east coasters looking for a more temperate climate w/o the extremes of a snowy winter and a humid summer. Unfortunately, as a New Englander, being able to deal with climate, wasn't a challenge and thus, SF needed more than its views of the Bay and the climate to sell itself to me.

Realize, seeing hoes is still illegal in SF, whereas it isn't illegal in Montreal, only 5 hours north of Boston and in a snow belt of a region which is colder and snowier than the entire Boston to Philly coastal area during Dec to Mar.
29   MrEd   2020 Jun 20, 6:31am  

Time to buy in to Statuemakers.com
When the libby wave subsides statue building will thrive.
Patrick says
"It was removed because it doesn’t align with San Francisco’s values or our commitment to racial justice. Doing it quickly was also a matter of public safety, " Rachell Axel, the San Francisco Arts Commission's director of public and private partnerships, said in an email.
30   Al_Sharpton_for_President   2020 Jun 20, 6:40am  

Rachelle Axel, Immense Hirsute Lesbian.

31   MrEd   2020 Jun 20, 6:43am  

Mustang ranch 3.5 hours from sfo.
With a better ride through the sierras.
Rin says
Realize, seeing hoes is still illegal in SF, whereas it isn't illegal in Montreal, only 5 hours north of Boston and in a snow belt of a region which is colder and snowier than the entire Boston to Philly coastal area during Dec to Mar.
32   Patrick   2020 Jun 20, 11:55am  

For a neighbor:

Any statute selects out and honors someone who is representative of one or more races or colors- this discriminates from all the others. Just like affirmative action.

Soon we will need take down all statues or have them removed by unhappy protestors.
33   Ceffer   2020 Jun 20, 1:23pm  

Any racist MLK statues being torn down?
34   Bd6r   2020 Jun 20, 1:40pm  

Ceffer says
Any racist MLK statues being torn down?


https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-college-where-martin-luther-king-is-problematic

Students at the University of Oregon debate whether the civil-rights icon was inclusive enough in his speeches.
35   Ceffer   2020 Jun 20, 2:25pm  

MLK's drug fueled sex orgies never included trannies of color. Down with his statues!
36   RWSGFY   2020 Jun 20, 2:55pm  

rd6B says
Ceffer says
Any racist MLK statues being torn down?


https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-college-where-martin-luther-king-is-problematic

Students at the University of Oregon debate whether the civil-rights icon was inclusive enough in his speeches.


Tear it down now, think later!
37   Bd6r   2020 Jun 20, 3:06pm  

FuckCCP89 says
Tear it down now, think later!

that was 2016, when population was not sufficiently progressive to see MLK for a literally NAZI! TRANSPHOBE! he was because he did not include trans-people in his speeches
38   Al_Sharpton_for_President   2020 Jun 20, 3:25pm  

It's basically an attempt to to hold white people thought history to a higher standard than other races. The Native Americans in North, Central and South America exhibited behavior that would be considered repulsively barbaric by today's standards, contemporaneous with the arrival of white explorers and colonists to the New World, whose behaviors are resulting in their banishment from historical memory. Black Africans were no less barbaric by today's standards.

Likewise, Black Lives Matter is not that black lives matter, just that white people are held to this same higher standard today. Else, BLM would be all over the killings of blacks in Chicago and Baltimore, which BLM is not.

And so this is a type of racism, where, once again, white people project their demon racist thoughts outward, and black people deny their behavior and shortcomings, and find a convenient out, the mighty white oppressors.
39   FuckTheMainstreamMedia   2020 Jun 20, 3:28pm  

Al_Sharpton_for_President says
Rachelle Axel, Immense Hirsute Lesbian.



She willingly put this forward as representative of herself
40   FuckTheMainstreamMedia   2020 Jun 20, 3:29pm  

Who the fuck are these assholes and why are they not constantly publicly ridiculed?

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