keccers
@keccers.eth
The scene outside my gym has always been a little sketch due to proximity to noted party street Dirty Sixth. When I got back to Texas after the holidays it became REALLY sketch I asked the receptionist if she knew what happened. The city of Austin told my gym their private security (because yes you NEED that at this point) wasnât allowed to intervene. âWe donât own the sidewalkâ. The only acceptable instances for intervention are someone threatening a patron or straight up dying on the street. And so the crowd grows. Very Cool I pay for 2 sets of cops that canât or wonât do the job. We are a very rich society that spends almost unimaginable sums of money on making life worse (on some axes)
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keccers
@keccers.eth
Not enough of this disorder touches techbros ⌠YET. They are still operating under the delusion they live in 2029 Austin What I have depressingly realized is that people from San Francisco etc have mind blowingly high tolerance for disorder too. I hazard this all is just going to get worse, and worse, and worse, until Austin has San Francisco-like blight and crime and it no longer can be swept under the rug by boomtown promoters and there is a full run back of political engagement of the tech class like you saw in CA. The DA who is upstream of all this, just got his job for another 4 years so It is ironic to me the author of âSan FranSICKOâ Shellenberger lives here now
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Max Miner
@mxmnr
You mustâve moved here after they cleared out the downtown encampments, yeah? â what we have now down there is def not good, but it is much better than it used to be in Austin.
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keccers
@keccers.eth
There are plenty of downtown encampments but no tent cities đŹ At a minimum public police shouldnât be able to interfere with private police. That is insane
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keccers
@keccers.eth
Also honestly if these people were just camping TBH not a problem. While the city may have improved the blight the CRIME is up and to the right. Every type!!!!
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