This time it was 30 days on the bench for 'cultural shaming'. I responded
in a thread about L.A.'s vagrants to someone who posted the city's
official stats. I said this:
And how much of that alleged decrease is because
of deceptive numbers games by embarrassed
government officials?
For example, Karen Bass’s "Inside Safe" program
provides hotel rooms (at taxpayer expense, naturally)
for vagrants. Every vagrant who takes a hotel room is
counted in the official stats as 'housed' (no longer
homeless). Even if the vagrant only stays there for
24 hours and then goes back to the streets, Bass takes
a victory lap, claiming she housed a vagrant, even
though that vagrant is back to living under a bridge.
The official stats on which those news reports are
based are full of accounting shenanigans just like that.
I'd sooner trust a Ferengi than I would those numbers.
I assumed when I saw the suspension notice that it was because I was arguing >against the leftist Agenda or because I used the word 'vagrant', which is >apparently now the latest no-no slur according to the 'progressives'.
But no, the reason given for my suspension was for 'cultural shaming and >insensitivity' due to my Ferengi remark. I laughed my ass off, thinking some >bone-headed censor at NextDoor thought 'Ferengi' was a reference to Jews (or >some other ethnicity) so I wrote back and explained it was a STAR TREK >reference and that Ferengi are a fictional race of aliens on the TV show. >There is no actual culture to shame or be insensitive towards.
It turns out I was giving the NextDoor people too much credit for being >simply ignorant about STAR TREK. They responded and said they were aware
that it was a Trek reference but that it didn't matter. Their rules
regarding cultural insensitivity include fictional cultures in film, >television, and literature because such cultures are often allegories
for human cultures in real life.
My gob was smacked by my fully-gasted flabber.
As absurd and bizarre as the 'progressives' have become, being suspended from >a social media platform for insulting the Ferengi was not on my 2025 bingo >card.
This time it was 30 days on the bench for 'cultural shaming'. I responded in a >thread about L.A.'s vagrants to someone who posted the city's official stats. >I said this:
And how much of that alleged decrease is because
of deceptive numbers games by embarrassed
government officials?
For example, Karen Bass’s "Inside Safe" program
provides hotel rooms (at taxpayer expense, naturally)
for vagrants. Every vagrant who takes a hotel room is
counted in the official stats as 'housed' (no longer
homeless). Even if the vagrant only stays there for
24 hours and then goes back to the streets, Bass takes
a victory lap, claiming she housed a vagrant, even
though that vagrant is back to living under a bridge.
The official stats on which those news reports are
based are full of accounting shenanigans just like that.
I'd sooner trust a Ferengi than I would those numbers.
I assumed when I saw the suspension notice that it was because I was arguing >against the leftist Agenda or because I used the word 'vagrant', which is >apparently now the latest no-no slur according to the 'progressives'.
But no, the reason given for my suspension was for 'cultural shaming and >insensitivity' due to my Ferengi remark. I laughed my ass off, thinking some >bone-headed censor at NextDoor thought 'Ferengi' was a reference to Jews (or >some other ethnicity) so I wrote back and explained it was a STAR TREK >reference and that Ferengi are a fictional race of aliens on the TV show. >There is no actual culture to shame or be insensitive towards.
It turns out I was giving the NextDoor people too much credit for being simply >ignorant about STAR TREK. They responded and said they were aware that it was >a Trek reference but that it didn't matter. Their rules regarding cultural >insensitivity include fictional cultures in film, television, and literature >because such cultures are often allegories for human cultures in real life.
My gob was smacked by my fully-gasted flabber.
As absurd and bizarre as the 'progressives' have become, being suspended from >a social media platform for insulting the Ferengi was not on my 2025 bingo >card.
On Sat, 8 Mar 2025 20:54:51 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
wrote:
This time it's 30 days on the bench for 'cultural shaming'. I responded in a >> thread about L.A.'s vagrants to someone who posted the city's official stats.
I said this:
And how much of that alleged decrease is because
of deceptive numbers games by embarrassed
government officials?
For example, Karen Bass’s "Inside Safe" program
provides hotel rooms (at taxpayer expense, naturally)
for vagrants. Every vagrant who takes a hotel room is
counted in the official stats as 'housed' (no longer
homeless). Even if the vagrant only stays there for
24 hours and then goes back to the streets, Bass takes
a victory lap, claiming she housed a vagrant, even
though that vagrant is back to living under a bridge.
The official stats on which those news reports are
based are full of accounting shenanigans just like that.
I'd sooner trust a Ferengi than I would those numbers.
I assumed when I saw the suspension notice that it was because I was arguing >> against the leftist Agenda or because I used the word 'vagrant', which is
apparently now the latest no-no slur according to the 'progressives'.
I'm confused as to how they know what you wrote.
But no, the reason given for my suspension was for 'cultural shaming and
insensitivity' due to my Ferengi remark. I laughed my ass off, thinking some >> bone-headed censor at NextDoor thought 'Ferengi' was a reference to Jews (or >> some other ethnicity) so I wrote back and explained it was a STAR TREK
reference and that Ferengi are a fictional race of aliens on the TV show.
There is no actual culture to shame or be insensitive towards.
It turns out I was giving the NextDoor people too much credit for being
simply
ignorant about STAR TREK. They responded and said they were aware that it was
a Trek reference but that it didn't matter. Their rules regarding cultural >> insensitivity include fictional cultures in film, television, and literature >> because such cultures are often allegories for human cultures in real life. >>
My gob was smacked by my fully-gasted flabber.
I guess I shouldn't say anything against the clones in Star Wars.
As absurd and bizarre as the 'progressives' have become, being suspended from
a social media platform for insulting the Ferengi was not on my 2025 bingo >> card.
I'm sorry, but you are wrong to call these people "progressives". As
that is clearly a regressive behavior that is clearly uncalled for.
BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
This time it's 30 days on the bench for 'cultural shaming'. I responded
in a thread about L.A.'s vagrants to someone who posted the city's
official stats. I said this:
And how much of that alleged decrease is because
of deceptive numbers games by embarrassed
government officials?
For example, Karen Bass’s "Inside Safe" program
provides hotel rooms (at taxpayer expense, naturally)
for vagrants. Every vagrant who takes a hotel room is
counted in the official stats as 'housed' (no longer
homeless). Even if the vagrant only stays there for
24 hours and then goes back to the streets, Bass takes
a victory lap, claiming she housed a vagrant, even
though that vagrant is back to living under a bridge.
The official stats on which those news reports are
based are full of accounting shenanigans just like that.
I'd sooner trust a Ferengi than I would those numbers.
I assumed when I saw the suspension notice that it was because I was arguing >> against the leftist Agenda or because I used the word 'vagrant', which is
apparently now the latest no-no slur according to the 'progressives'.
But no, the reason given for my suspension was for 'cultural shaming and
insensitivity' due to my Ferengi remark. I laughed my ass off, thinking some >> bone-headed censor at NextDoor thought 'Ferengi' was a reference to Jews (or >> some other ethnicity) so I wrote back and explained it was a STAR TREK
reference and that Ferengi are a fictional race of aliens on the TV show.
There is no actual culture to shame or be insensitive towards.
It turns out I was giving the NextDoor people too much credit for being
simply ignorant about STAR TREK. They responded and said they were aware
that it was a Trek reference but that it didn't matter. Their rules
regarding cultural insensitivity include fictional cultures in film,
television, and literature because such cultures are often allegories
for human cultures in real life.
My gob was smacked by my fully-gasted flabber.
As absurd and bizarre as the 'progressives' have become, being suspended from
a social media platform for insulting the Ferengi was not on my 2025 bingo >> card.
Hey, if you are going to be receive the punch line in real life, how am
I supposed to provide it in followup?
How have you been enjoying the Ferengi re-education classes?
This time it was 30 days on the bench for 'cultural shaming'. I responded in a
thread about L.A.'s vagrants to someone who posted the city's official stats. I said this:
And how much of that alleged decrease is because
of deceptive numbers games by embarrassed
government officials?
For example, Karen Bass’s "Inside Safe" program
provides hotel rooms (at taxpayer expense, naturally)
for vagrants. Every vagrant who takes a hotel room is
counted in the official stats as 'housed' (no longer
homeless). Even if the vagrant only stays there for
24 hours and then goes back to the streets, Bass takes
a victory lap, claiming she housed a vagrant, even
though that vagrant is back to living under a bridge.
The official stats on which those news reports are
based are full of accounting shenanigans just like that.
I'd sooner trust a Ferengi than I would those numbers.
I assumed when I saw the suspension notice that it was because I was arguing against the leftist Agenda or because I used the word 'vagrant', which is apparently now the latest no-no slur according to the 'progressives'.
But no, the reason given for my suspension was for 'cultural shaming and insensitivity' due to my Ferengi remark. I laughed my ass off, thinking some bone-headed censor at NextDoor thought 'Ferengi' was a reference to Jews (or some other ethnicity) so I wrote back and explained it was a STAR TREK reference and that Ferengi are a fictional race of aliens on the TV show. There is no actual culture to shame or be insensitive towards.
It turns out I was giving the NextDoor people too much credit for being simply
ignorant about STAR TREK. They responded and said they were aware that it was a Trek reference but that it didn't matter. Their rules regarding cultural insensitivity include fictional cultures in film, television, and literature because such cultures are often allegories for human cultures in real life.
My gob was smacked by my fully-gasted flabber.
As absurd and bizarre as the 'progressives' have become, being suspended from a social media platform for insulting the Ferengi was not on my 2025 bingo card.
On Mar 8, 2025 at 2:08:42 PM PST, "shawn" <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> >wrote:
On Sat, 8 Mar 2025 20:54:51 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
wrote:
This time it's 30 days on the bench for 'cultural shaming'. I responded in a
thread about L.A.'s vagrants to someone who posted the city's official stats.
I said this:
And how much of that alleged decrease is because
of deceptive numbers games by embarrassed
government officials?
For example, Karen Bass’s "Inside Safe" program
provides hotel rooms (at taxpayer expense, naturally)
for vagrants. Every vagrant who takes a hotel room is
counted in the official stats as 'housed' (no longer
homeless). Even if the vagrant only stays there for
24 hours and then goes back to the streets, Bass takes
a victory lap, claiming she housed a vagrant, even
though that vagrant is back to living under a bridge.
The official stats on which those news reports are
based are full of accounting shenanigans just like that.
I'd sooner trust a Ferengi than I would those numbers.
I assumed when I saw the suspension notice that it was because I was arguing
against the leftist Agenda or because I used the word 'vagrant', which is >>> apparently now the latest no-no slur according to the 'progressives'.
I'm confused as to how they know what you wrote.
Because they run the platform. NextDoor is a social media platform and I >posted my comment there.
But no, the reason given for my suspension was for 'cultural shaming and >>> insensitivity' due to my Ferengi remark. I laughed my ass off, thinking some
bone-headed censor at NextDoor thought 'Ferengi' was a reference to Jews (or
some other ethnicity) so I wrote back and explained it was a STAR TREK
reference and that Ferengi are a fictional race of aliens on the TV show. >>> There is no actual culture to shame or be insensitive towards.
It turns out I was giving the NextDoor people too much credit for being
simply
ignorant about STAR TREK. They responded and said they were aware that it was
a Trek reference but that it didn't matter. Their rules regarding cultural >>> insensitivity include fictional cultures in film, television, and literature
because such cultures are often allegories for human cultures in real life. >>>
My gob was smacked by my fully-gasted flabber.
I guess I shouldn't say anything against the clones in Star Wars.
As absurd and bizarre as the 'progressives' have become, being suspended from
a social media platform for insulting the Ferengi was not on my 2025 bingo >>> card.
I'm sorry, but you are wrong to call these people "progressives". As
that is clearly a regressive behavior that is clearly uncalled for.
That's why I always put the word 'progressive' in quotes because most >everything they do and advocate for is the opposite of progress.
On Mar 8, 2025 at 1:22:34 PM PST, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
This time it's 30 days on the bench for 'cultural shaming'. I responded
in a thread about L.A.'s vagrants to someone who posted the city's
official stats. I said this:
And how much of that alleged decrease is because
of deceptive numbers games by embarrassed
government officials?
For example, Karen Bass’s "Inside Safe" program
provides hotel rooms (at taxpayer expense, naturally)
for vagrants. Every vagrant who takes a hotel room is
counted in the official stats as 'housed' (no longer
homeless). Even if the vagrant only stays there for
24 hours and then goes back to the streets, Bass takes
a victory lap, claiming she housed a vagrant, even
though that vagrant is back to living under a bridge.
The official stats on which those news reports are
based are full of accounting shenanigans just like that.
I'd sooner trust a Ferengi than I would those numbers.
I assumed when I saw the suspension notice that it was because I was arguing
against the leftist Agenda or because I used the word 'vagrant', which is >>> apparently now the latest no-no slur according to the 'progressives'.
But no, the reason given for my suspension was for 'cultural shaming and >>> insensitivity' due to my Ferengi remark. I laughed my ass off, thinking some
bone-headed censor at NextDoor thought 'Ferengi' was a reference to Jews (or
some other ethnicity) so I wrote back and explained it was a STAR TREK
reference and that Ferengi are a fictional race of aliens on the TV show. >>> There is no actual culture to shame or be insensitive towards.
It turns out I was giving the NextDoor people too much credit for being
simply ignorant about STAR TREK. They responded and said they were aware >>> that it was a Trek reference but that it didn't matter. Their rules
regarding cultural insensitivity include fictional cultures in film,
television, and literature because such cultures are often allegories
for human cultures in real life.
My gob was smacked by my fully-gasted flabber.
As absurd and bizarre as the 'progressives' have become, being suspended from
a social media platform for insulting the Ferengi was not on my 2025 bingo >>> card.
Hey, if you are going to be receive the punch line in real life, how am
I supposed to provide it in followup?
How have you been enjoying the Ferengi re-education classes?
Rule of Acquisition #223: He who sits in mandatory re-education class is not making any profit.
This time it was 30 days on the bench for 'cultural shaming'. I responded in a
thread about L.A.'s vagrants to someone who posted the city's official stats. I said this:
And how much of that alleged decrease is because
of deceptive numbers games by embarrassed
government officials?
For example, Karen Bass’s "Inside Safe" program
provides hotel rooms (at taxpayer expense, naturally)
for vagrants. Every vagrant who takes a hotel room is
counted in the official stats as 'housed' (no longer
homeless). Even if the vagrant only stays there for
24 hours and then goes back to the streets, Bass takes
a victory lap, claiming she housed a vagrant, even
though that vagrant is back to living under a bridge.
The official stats on which those news reports are
based are full of accounting shenanigans just like that.
I'd sooner trust a Ferengi than I would those numbers.
I assumed when I saw the suspension notice that it was because I was arguing against the leftist Agenda or because I used the word 'vagrant', which is apparently now the latest no-no slur according to the 'progressives'.
But no, the reason given for my suspension was for 'cultural shaming and insensitivity' due to my Ferengi remark. I laughed my ass off, thinking some bone-headed censor at NextDoor thought 'Ferengi' was a reference to Jews (or some other ethnicity) so I wrote back and explained it was a STAR TREK reference and that Ferengi are a fictional race of aliens on the TV show. There is no actual culture to shame or be insensitive towards.
It turns out I was giving the NextDoor people too much credit for being simply
ignorant about STAR TREK. They responded and said they were aware that it was a Trek reference but that it didn't matter. Their rules regarding cultural insensitivity include fictional cultures in film, television, and literature because such cultures are often allegories for human cultures in real life.
My gob was smacked by my fully-gasted flabber.
As absurd and bizarre as the 'progressives' have become, being suspended from a social media platform for insulting the Ferengi was not on my 2025 bingo card.
BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
This time it was 30 days on the bench for 'cultural shaming'. I responded in a
thread about L.A.'s vagrants to someone who posted the city's official stats.
I said this:
And how much of that alleged decrease is because
of deceptive numbers games by embarrassed
government officials?
For example, Karen Bass’s "Inside Safe" program
provides hotel rooms (at taxpayer expense, naturally)
for vagrants. Every vagrant who takes a hotel room is
counted in the official stats as 'housed' (no longer
homeless). Even if the vagrant only stays there for
24 hours and then goes back to the streets,
Serious question. Can they just stay in the hotel room for free forever? If they decide they’d rather live on the street than in a free hotel room forever can’t we just commit them?
Bass takes
a victory lap, claiming she housed a vagrant, even
though that vagrant is back to living under a bridge.
The official stats on which those news reports are
based are full of accounting shenanigans just like that.
I'd sooner trust a Ferengi than I would those numbers.
I assumed when I saw the suspension notice that it was because I was arguing >> against the leftist Agenda or because I used the word 'vagrant', which is
apparently now the latest no-no slur according to the 'progressives'.
But no, the reason given for my suspension was for 'cultural shaming and
insensitivity' due to my Ferengi remark. I laughed my ass off, thinking some >> bone-headed censor at NextDoor thought 'Ferengi' was a reference to Jews (or >> some other ethnicity) so I wrote back and explained it was a STAR TREK
reference and that Ferengi are a fictional race of aliens on the TV show.
There is no actual culture to shame or be insensitive towards.
It turns out I was giving the NextDoor people too much credit for being simply
ignorant about STAR TREK. They responded and said they were aware that it was
a Trek reference but that it didn't matter. Their rules regarding cultural >> insensitivity include fictional cultures in film, television, and literature >> because such cultures are often allegories for human cultures in real life. >>
OK, you clearly got the assistant from the West Wing who insisted on
wearing her Star Trek pin and made Josh Leman Lyman blow a brain views.
My gob was smacked by my fully-gasted flabber.
As absurd and bizarre as the 'progressives' have become, being suspended from
a social media platform for insulting the Ferengi was not on my 2025 bingo >> card.
On 2025-03-08 7:49 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:views? Was that supposed to be "fuse"?
This time it was 30 days on the bench for 'cultural shaming'. I responded in a
thread about L.A.'s vagrants to someone who posted the city's official stats.
I said this:
And how much of that alleged decrease is because
of deceptive numbers games by embarrassed
government officials?
For example, Karen Bass’s "Inside Safe" program
provides hotel rooms (at taxpayer expense, naturally)
for vagrants. Every vagrant who takes a hotel room is
counted in the official stats as 'housed' (no longer
homeless). Even if the vagrant only stays there for
24 hours and then goes back to the streets,
Serious question. Can they just stay in the hotel room for free forever? If >> they decide they’d rather live on the street than in a free hotel room
forever can’t we just commit them?
Bass takes
a victory lap, claiming she housed a vagrant, even
though that vagrant is back to living under a bridge.
The official stats on which those news reports are
based are full of accounting shenanigans just like that.
I'd sooner trust a Ferengi than I would those numbers.
I assumed when I saw the suspension notice that it was because I was arguing
against the leftist Agenda or because I used the word 'vagrant', which is >>> apparently now the latest no-no slur according to the 'progressives'.
But no, the reason given for my suspension was for 'cultural shaming and >>> insensitivity' due to my Ferengi remark. I laughed my ass off, thinking some
bone-headed censor at NextDoor thought 'Ferengi' was a reference to Jews (or
some other ethnicity) so I wrote back and explained it was a STAR TREK
reference and that Ferengi are a fictional race of aliens on the TV show. >>> There is no actual culture to shame or be insensitive towards.
It turns out I was giving the NextDoor people too much credit for being simply
ignorant about STAR TREK. They responded and said they were aware that it was
a Trek reference but that it didn't matter. Their rules regarding cultural >>> insensitivity include fictional cultures in film, television, and literature
because such cultures are often allegories for human cultures in real life. >>>
OK, you clearly got the assistant from the West Wing who insisted on
wearing her Star Trek pin and made Josh Leman Lyman blow a brain views.
My gob was smacked by my fully-gasted flabber.
As absurd and bizarre as the 'progressives' have become, being suspended from
a social media platform for insulting the Ferengi was not on my 2025 bingo >>> card.
BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
This time it was 30 days on the bench for 'cultural shaming'. I responded in a
thread about L.A.'s vagrants to someone who posted the city's official stats.
I said this:
And how much of that alleged decrease is because
of deceptive numbers games by embarrassed
government officials?
For example, Karen Bass’s "Inside Safe" program
provides hotel rooms (at taxpayer expense, naturally)
for vagrants. Every vagrant who takes a hotel room is
counted in the official stats as 'housed' (no longer
homeless). Even if the vagrant only stays there for
24 hours and then goes back to the streets,
Serious question. Can they just stay in the hotel room for free forever? If >they decide they’d rather live on the street than in a free hotel room >forever can’t we just commit them?
Bass takes
a victory lap, claiming she housed a vagrant, even
though that vagrant is back to living under a bridge.
The official stats on which those news reports are
based are full of accounting shenanigans just like that.
I'd sooner trust a Ferengi than I would those numbers.
I assumed when I saw the suspension notice that it was because I was arguing >> against the leftist Agenda or because I used the word 'vagrant', which is
apparently now the latest no-no slur according to the 'progressives'.
But no, the reason given for my suspension was for 'cultural shaming and
insensitivity' due to my Ferengi remark. I laughed my ass off, thinking some >> bone-headed censor at NextDoor thought 'Ferengi' was a reference to Jews (or >> some other ethnicity) so I wrote back and explained it was a STAR TREK
reference and that Ferengi are a fictional race of aliens on the TV show.
There is no actual culture to shame or be insensitive towards.
It turns out I was giving the NextDoor people too much credit for being simply
ignorant about STAR TREK. They responded and said they were aware that it was
a Trek reference but that it didn't matter. Their rules regarding cultural >> insensitivity include fictional cultures in film, television, and literature >> because such cultures are often allegories for human cultures in real life. >>
OK, you clearly got the assistant from the West Wing who insisted on
wearing her Star Trek pin and made Josh Leman Lyman blow a brain views.
My gob was smacked by my fully-gasted flabber.
As absurd and bizarre as the 'progressives' have become, being suspended from
a social media platform for insulting the Ferengi was not on my 2025 bingo >> card.
On Sat, 8 Mar 2025 17:49:18 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
wrote:
BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
This time it was 30 days on the bench for 'cultural shaming'. I responded in a
thread about L.A.'s vagrants to someone who posted the city's official stats.
I said this:
And how much of that alleged decrease is because
of deceptive numbers games by embarrassed
government officials?
For example, Karen Bass’s "Inside Safe" program
provides hotel rooms (at taxpayer expense, naturally)
for vagrants. Every vagrant who takes a hotel room is
counted in the official stats as 'housed' (no longer
homeless). Even if the vagrant only stays there for
24 hours and then goes back to the streets,
Serious question. Can they just stay in the hotel room for free forever? If >> they decide they’d rather live on the street than in a free hotel room
forever can’t we just commit them?
What if they nailed the door shut.
Bass takes
a victory lap, claiming she housed a vagrant, even
though that vagrant is back to living under a bridge.
The official stats on which those news reports are
based are full of accounting shenanigans just like that.
I'd sooner trust a Ferengi than I would those numbers.
I assumed when I saw the suspension notice that it was because I was arguing
against the leftist Agenda or because I used the word 'vagrant', which is >>> apparently now the latest no-no slur according to the 'progressives'.
But no, the reason given for my suspension was for 'cultural shaming and >>> insensitivity' due to my Ferengi remark. I laughed my ass off, thinking some
bone-headed censor at NextDoor thought 'Ferengi' was a reference to Jews (or
some other ethnicity) so I wrote back and explained it was a STAR TREK
reference and that Ferengi are a fictional race of aliens on the TV show. >>> There is no actual culture to shame or be insensitive towards.
It turns out I was giving the NextDoor people too much credit for being simply
ignorant about STAR TREK. They responded and said they were aware that it was
a Trek reference but that it didn't matter. Their rules regarding cultural >>> insensitivity include fictional cultures in film, television, and literature
because such cultures are often allegories for human cultures in real life. >>>
OK, you clearly got the assistant from the West Wing who insisted on
wearing her Star Trek pin and made Josh Leman Lyman blow a brain views.
You should have included the video clip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzRAmoKtrZg
My gob was smacked by my fully-gasted flabber.
As absurd and bizarre as the 'progressives' have become, being suspended from
a social media platform for insulting the Ferengi was not on my 2025 bingo >>> card.
BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
This time it was 30 days on the bench for 'cultural shaming'. I responded >> in a
thread about L.A.'s vagrants to someone who posted the city's official
stats.
I said this:
And how much of that alleged decrease is because
of deceptive numbers games by embarrassed
government officials?
For example, Karen Bass’s "Inside Safe" program
provides hotel rooms (at taxpayer expense, naturally)
for vagrants. Every vagrant who takes a hotel room is
counted in the official stats as 'housed' (no longer
homeless). Even if the vagrant only stays there for
24 hours and then goes back to the streets,
Serious question. Can they just stay in the hotel room for free forever?
If they decide they’d rather live on the street than in a free hotel room forever can’t we just commit them?
On Mar 8, 2025 at 4:49:18 PM PST, "anim8rfsk" <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
This time it was 30 days on the bench for 'cultural shaming'. I responded >>> in a
thread about L.A.'s vagrants to someone who posted the city's official
stats.
I said this:
And how much of that alleged decrease is because
of deceptive numbers games by embarrassed
government officials?
For example, Karen Bass’s "Inside Safe" program
provides hotel rooms (at taxpayer expense, naturally)
for vagrants. Every vagrant who takes a hotel room is
counted in the official stats as 'housed' (no longer
homeless). Even if the vagrant only stays there for
24 hours and then goes back to the streets,
Serious question. Can they just stay in the hotel room for free forever?
Until the city runs out of money, apparently.
And they're pulling money from the budgets of all the other city departments--
like the fire department-- to pay to house the vagrants and the illegals.
So your house might burn down in, say, a wildfire because the city doesn't have the manpower or the equipment to fight the fire (which has a 50% chance of being started by a vagrant) because it's too busy prioritizing vagrants and
illegals over you, the mere taxpayer.
If they decide they’d rather live on the street than in a free hotel room >> forever can’t we just commit them?
Last summer the Supreme Court cleared the way for cities to tell vagrants they
can't camp on public property or block rights-of-way, but the Los Angeles government refuses to use that power.
Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
On 2025-03-08 7:49 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:views? Was that supposed to be "fuse"?
This time it was 30 days on the bench for 'cultural shaming'. I responded in a
thread about L.A.'s vagrants to someone who posted the city's official stats.
I said this:
And how much of that alleged decrease is because
of deceptive numbers games by embarrassed
government officials?
For example, Karen Bass’s "Inside Safe" program
provides hotel rooms (at taxpayer expense, naturally)
for vagrants. Every vagrant who takes a hotel room is
counted in the official stats as 'housed' (no longer
homeless). Even if the vagrant only stays there for
24 hours and then goes back to the streets,
Serious question. Can they just stay in the hotel room for free forever? If >>> they decide they’d rather live on the street than in a free hotel room >>> forever can’t we just commit them?
Bass takes
a victory lap, claiming she housed a vagrant, even
though that vagrant is back to living under a bridge.
The official stats on which those news reports are
based are full of accounting shenanigans just like that.
I'd sooner trust a Ferengi than I would those numbers.
I assumed when I saw the suspension notice that it was because I was arguing
against the leftist Agenda or because I used the word 'vagrant', which is >>>> apparently now the latest no-no slur according to the 'progressives'.
But no, the reason given for my suspension was for 'cultural shaming and >>>> insensitivity' due to my Ferengi remark. I laughed my ass off, thinking some
bone-headed censor at NextDoor thought 'Ferengi' was a reference to Jews (or
some other ethnicity) so I wrote back and explained it was a STAR TREK >>>> reference and that Ferengi are a fictional race of aliens on the TV show. >>>> There is no actual culture to shame or be insensitive towards.
It turns out I was giving the NextDoor people too much credit for being simply
ignorant about STAR TREK. They responded and said they were aware that it was
a Trek reference but that it didn't matter. Their rules regarding cultural >>>> insensitivity include fictional cultures in film, television, and literature
because such cultures are often allegories for human cultures in real life.
OK, you clearly got the assistant from the West Wing who insisted on
wearing her Star Trek pin and made Josh Leman Lyman blow a brain views.
Sigh. Yes.
BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
On Mar 8, 2025 at 4:49:18 PM PST, "anim8rfsk" <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:So are these otherwise functional hotels and they’re just giving over say 10% of the rooms to the unhoused or are these closed scary abandoned vacant hotels?
BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:Until the city runs out of money, apparently.
This time it was 30 days on the bench for 'cultural shaming'. I responded >>>> in a
thread about L.A.'s vagrants to someone who posted the city's official >>>> stats.
I said this:
And how much of that alleged decrease is because
of deceptive numbers games by embarrassed
government officials?
For example, Karen Bass’s "Inside Safe" program
provides hotel rooms (at taxpayer expense, naturally)
for vagrants. Every vagrant who takes a hotel room is
counted in the official stats as 'housed' (no longer
homeless). Even if the vagrant only stays there for
24 hours and then goes back to the streets,
Serious question. Can they just stay in the hotel room for free forever? >>
And they're pulling money from the budgets of all the other city
departments--
like the fire department-- to pay to house the vagrants and the illegals.
So your house might burn down in, say, a wildfire because the city doesn't >> have the manpower or the equipment to fight the fire (which has a 50% chance >> of having been started by a vagrant in the first place) because it's too busy
prioritizing vagrants and illegals over you, the mere taxpayer.
If they decide they’d rather live on the street than in a free hotel room
forever can’t we just commit them?
Last summer the Supreme Court cleared the way for cities to tell vagrants
they
can't camp on public property or block rights-of-way and make arrests for
violators, but the Los Angeles government refuses to use that power.
If the former do they get maid and linen service?
On 3/8/2025 9:41 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
On 2025-03-08 7:49 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:views? Was that supposed to be "fuse"?
This time it was 30 days on the bench for 'cultural shaming'. I responded in a
thread about L.A.'s vagrants to someone who posted the city's official stats.
I said this:
And how much of that alleged decrease is because
of deceptive numbers games by embarrassed
government officials?
For example, Karen Bass’s "Inside Safe" program
provides hotel rooms (at taxpayer expense, naturally)
for vagrants. Every vagrant who takes a hotel room is
counted in the official stats as 'housed' (no longer
homeless). Even if the vagrant only stays there for
24 hours and then goes back to the streets,
Serious question. Can they just stay in the hotel room for free forever? If
they decide they’d rather live on the street than in a free hotel room >>>> forever can’t we just commit them?
Bass takes
a victory lap, claiming she housed a vagrant, even
though that vagrant is back to living under a bridge.
The official stats on which those news reports are
based are full of accounting shenanigans just like that.
I'd sooner trust a Ferengi than I would those numbers.
I assumed when I saw the suspension notice that it was because I was arguing
against the leftist Agenda or because I used the word 'vagrant', which is >>>>> apparently now the latest no-no slur according to the 'progressives'. >>>>>
But no, the reason given for my suspension was for 'cultural shaming and >>>>> insensitivity' due to my Ferengi remark. I laughed my ass off, thinking some
bone-headed censor at NextDoor thought 'Ferengi' was a reference to Jews (or
some other ethnicity) so I wrote back and explained it was a STAR TREK >>>>> reference and that Ferengi are a fictional race of aliens on the TV show. >>>>> There is no actual culture to shame or be insensitive towards.
It turns out I was giving the NextDoor people too much credit for being simply
ignorant about STAR TREK. They responded and said they were aware that it was
a Trek reference but that it didn't matter. Their rules regarding cultural
insensitivity include fictional cultures in film, television, and literature
because such cultures are often allegories for human cultures in real life.
OK, you clearly got the assistant from the West Wing who insisted on
wearing her Star Trek pin and made Josh Leman Lyman blow a brain views. >>>>
Sigh. Yes.
Speech-recognition: Trust, but verify.
moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
On 3/8/2025 9:41 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
On 2025-03-08 7:49 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:views? Was that supposed to be "fuse"?
This time it was 30 days on the bench for 'cultural shaming'. I responded in a
thread about L.A.'s vagrants to someone who posted the city's official stats.
I said this:
And how much of that alleged decrease is because
of deceptive numbers games by embarrassed
government officials?
For example, Karen Bass’s "Inside Safe" program
provides hotel rooms (at taxpayer expense, naturally)
for vagrants. Every vagrant who takes a hotel room is
counted in the official stats as 'housed' (no longer
homeless). Even if the vagrant only stays there for
24 hours and then goes back to the streets,
Serious question. Can they just stay in the hotel room for free forever? If
they decide they’d rather live on the street than in a free hotel room >>>>> forever can’t we just commit them?
Bass takes
a victory lap, claiming she housed a vagrant, even
though that vagrant is back to living under a bridge.
The official stats on which those news reports are
based are full of accounting shenanigans just like that.
I'd sooner trust a Ferengi than I would those numbers.
I assumed when I saw the suspension notice that it was because I was arguing
against the leftist Agenda or because I used the word 'vagrant', which is
apparently now the latest no-no slur according to the 'progressives'. >>>>>>
But no, the reason given for my suspension was for 'cultural shaming and >>>>>> insensitivity' due to my Ferengi remark. I laughed my ass off, thinking some
bone-headed censor at NextDoor thought 'Ferengi' was a reference to Jews (or
some other ethnicity) so I wrote back and explained it was a STAR TREK >>>>>> reference and that Ferengi are a fictional race of aliens on the TV show.
There is no actual culture to shame or be insensitive towards.
It turns out I was giving the NextDoor people too much credit for being simply
ignorant about STAR TREK. They responded and said they were aware that it was
a Trek reference but that it didn't matter. Their rules regarding cultural
insensitivity include fictional cultures in film, television, and literature
because such cultures are often allegories for human cultures in real life.
OK, you clearly got the assistant from the West Wing who insisted on >>>>> wearing her Star Trek pin and made Josh Leman Lyman blow a brain views. >>>>>
Sigh. Yes.
Speech-recognition: Trust, but verify.
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