Since this is already a repost ( https://lemmy.world/post/8619860 ), I’ll repost my reply:
For those who weren’t keeping score, we’ve got:
- a YouTube star fresh out of self-imposed exile after admitting to multiple instances of sexual misconduct
- an endless array of clips from Fox News
- extended interviews with a Fox News contributor and creator of shock content for licensing
- access to the president of the San Francisco cop union (SFPOA)
- awkward name-dropping and China and large tech companies characterized as boogeymen
- demonization of harm reduction strategies
- no effort to interview professionals with experience, interest or training in helping people in need (ie: social workers, or healthcare professionals)
- a subscription pitch baited with more shock content
This looks a lot like Andrew and Channel 5 making a flip to cater to specially bonkers alt-right audiences.
He didn't show fox news in a good light at all. The contributor was only on the show because he happened to be right near Andrew when that car was stolen. He didn't show the contributor in a good or bad light, he just let him speak.
He didn't demonize harm reduction problems. He showed the state of the program, talked to a homeless guy about it.
Have you ever watched the show before? He doesn't typically interview professionals or experts. He finds people on the street and talks to them.
Andrew is a (light) leftist. One video where he shows the state of San Francisco and it's not painted as a golden utopia and people like you start claiming he's playing to the "bonkers alt-right".
He's done many more videos showing people on the right being unhinged nut jobs.
San Francisco native here. Still work there. Inside the modern high tech liberal dynamo of San Francisco, some institutions have been the slowest to change: the police, the city government. In such a city of opportunity, public service is, sadly, a poor job comparatively and it tends to attract the worst and they tend to spend their time on exploitation, not real work. We have allowed this to happen and we’re all to blame. It says little about liberal politics, because those are not actually exercised in the way San Francisco is governed, except in a few cases like the DA typically refusing to prosecute sex workers and the homeless. They go unprosecuted, and yet they aren’t officially sanctioned and supported either. So what you get is street prostitution run rampant and street vagrancy galore.
Conservatives love to show how San Francisco means liberal politics don’t work. But liberal politics are not in fact in effect. The liberals are too busy getting rich and building homes in the hills. If you want to see actual liberal politics in effect, you have to go to Amsterdam or other places in Europe where deep liberal politics are actually the basis of public policy including taxation. SF, sorry to tell you, Fox News, ain’t that.
One other thing that comes to mind as a native - a lot of the shady stuff used to be more spread out across the city. SoMa, the Dogpatch, Bayview, etc have gentrified, but the poverty and crime in those areas didn’t disappear, it just moved and became more concentrated in specific parts of town.
When I used to work in South Park in the 90’s, that park was mostly people smoking crack and drinking 40s. That stuff didn’t go away, it’s happening somewhere else now.
They always do as if it's something outrageous or special, it isn't. Northern german city here, not even big, we have a blooming cocaine scene here, pills in the last years, same dance. Something fundamental had to change on the way every body treats these human beings. Never forget, it's a symptom.
