California

San Francisco’s Bay Area is transformed into Mad Max dystopia

Acrid smoke is greeting San Franciscans on their way into work this morning after another terrifying night of sideshows took Oakland and the waterfront.

Police refused to intervene and not a single arrest was made among the thousands who risked their lives as cars tore round their city centers in what has become a routine occurrence.

Onlookers were sent flying as cars plowed into them at one event in Oakland, and a torched Chevy provided a grisly centerpiece to the Embarcadero spectacle as tire smoke reduced visibility to near zero.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCalifornia, WTF?

How California became a warning to the world

A new dominant class of oligarchs and woke bureaucrats has bled the Golden State dry.

For generations, California has led the world in creating cutting-edge ideas and opportunities for newcomers. As actor-turned-governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger once said:

‘We are the modern equivalent of the ancient city-states of Athens and Sparta… Not only can we lead California into the future… we can show the nation and the world how to get there.’

Today, the Golden State once again foreshadows the future, but this time it should be read as a warning.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Progressive Paradise", California

California’s Looming Crime Catastrophe

Recent legislation makes it easier for felons to claim racial bias—potentially putting them back on the streets in large numbers.

On July 13, 2020, gunfire broke out between two cars in the Bay Area town of Antioch, California. One of the cars’ occupants, Daunzhay Young, was hit during the fusillade and was rushed to the hospital. Young survived—this time.

Oakland’s gang wars were radiating outward, including to this once-bucolic city northeast of Oakland. Young was a member of Oakland’s Case gang. A month later, another Case gangbanger was shot while sitting in a car in Oakland. He died the next day. On August 27, 2020, a third Case member was shot in Oakland; three guns were collected at the scene. Case’s archenemy, the ENT gang—named for three dead homies—was on a roll.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCalifornia, Crime

US migrant crisis shifts from Texas to California border

On a blustery morning last month, volunteer Adriana Jasso raised the flaps to a tent propped up against the massive steel bars of the fence that straddles this stretch of the US-Mexico border. On her side, plastic tables were piled with apples, packets of hot chocolate, mylar blankets and stacks of ponchos – supplies waiting for hungry and tired migrants who had travelled for weeks, or even months, to reach California.

On the other side, visible through the gaps in the towering barrier, a group of more than 100 people – from countries including Ecuador, Colombia, China and Rwanda – huddled together, waiting to be let through on to US soil. This border point south of San Diego is now one of the busiest along the entire US-Mexico frontier, which stretches around 1,950 miles (3,140km) from here to eastern Texas and the Gulf of Mexico.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", California, USA

Why are 15 times more Canadians than Californians choosing assisted death?

As a Calgary father’s legal battle to block his autistic daughter’s assisted death ignites debate over whether Canada’s euthanasia regime is expanding beyond what Canadians may be comfortable with, a new study suggests MAID deaths in Canada could continue to expand for another decade, until one in 10 deaths involve a doctor-administered lethal injection.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCalifornia, Canada, MAiD Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

‘Atlas Shrugged’ Comes To Life In California

The plot of Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged can be briefly summed up as follows: the productive leaders and innovators of the country go on strike by disappearing from society to protest the cronyism, corruption, and oppressive taxes that have made living a virtuous life unbearable.

The nation is then on the brink of an economic collapse as the remaining politicians, intellectuals, and mediocre businessmen are only able to take from others and have no capability to create or add value. Atlas Shrugged is very popular with those whose views lean toward libertarianism, while those who lean to the left react to it like a vampire does to a crucifix, despite never even reading a page.

h/t DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Progressive Paradise", California

Shots Fired at UC Berkeley as College Students Run and Take Shelter

Here is a screenshot of the gunman suspect that fired 3-4 shots at the UC Berkeley campus. White Supremacists will quietly send another oppressed black to prison.
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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCalifornia, shooting

California’s aristocracy of lunatics

The standard TV image of a district attorney — or, prosecuting attorney — in the US is of a tough government lawyer passionate about putting bad guys behind bars. Or maybe the “DA” is a cynical, striving politician willing to bend or break the law to get a high-profile conviction on a guy who isn’t bad at all. Either way, DAs on TV like to finish the process that begins with the police arresting someone by getting a conviction, setting bars between society and a guy, usually but not always bad. The reality is very different in the smaller details, but fairly similar in the larger ones. Reality has far fewer dramatic trials than TV, for example, and much more plea-bargaining, but on the main thing — prosecutors tending to prosecute people — TV and reality are in rough agreement.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak F*cked Up", "Peak Woke", California, WTF?

Los Angeles Police Department has declared a citywide tactical alert due to multiple incidents involving large groups of pro-Palestine protesters reportedly turning violent

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inAnti-Semitism and the Left, Batshit crazy lefties, California, Palestine and Palestinians

Inside fentanyl epidemic in California as deadly opioid abuse by young people hits crisis point

Rizzy Spoer began using drugs aged 12. Growing up in San Francisco’s Bay Area, she enjoyed experimenting with as many illicit substances as she could.

It got to a point, she said, where she was “probably going to die”.

In her experience, her story isn’t “uncommon”. Now aged 34, she has lost more than 30 friends to drugs in recent years.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCalifornia, Drug Legalization, Drugs

Exposing the Hoax Numbers Behind California’s Racial Reparations

When California’s reparations task force released its report recommending $1.2 million in total lifetime payments to every black person, it made headlines around the world.

California was not a slave state so what was the $1.2 million payout even based on? Even though the task force conveniently proposed limiting payments to the descendants of slaves (despite the lack of slaves in the state) it was mostly based on calculating the differences in life expectancy between black people and white people.

 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCalifornia, Slavery and Reparations

James Woods Warns America about Reality of Democrat ‘Utopia’: ‘California Is a Lawless Hellscape on the Verge of Anarchy’

Hollywood legend James Woods has warned the rest of America about the cold realities of living in a Democrat “utopia.”

Woods raised the alarm in response to mounting reports of soaring crimes in blue cities across the country.

Over the weekend, dozens of thieves looted a Nordstrom store in California, making headlines around the world.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Progressive Paradise", California