“Progressive Paradise”

Whole Foods, the hippie-friendly high-end grocery store owned by Amazon, is closing a new location on Market Street in downtown San Francisco due to high levels of crime that have plagued the city in recent months.

As delays go, it was a long way from leaves on the line. I’d been working in San Francisco for perhaps a year when a wild-looking man with a machete tried to board my bus. The driver objected, and we waited several tense minutes as he waved his blade and yelled things that made no sense before stalking off into the early evening crowds.

Encounters like this are, if not routine, unsurprising in what locals refer to as “the City”. When I first visited in 2016, I was stunned by the open squalor and sickness I saw all around me, beyond anything I’d known in Britain. Now, after nearly five years living in nearby Oakland, where tent villages sprawl for blocks through decrepit industrial districts, it is merely a grim but humdrum reminder of this region’s longstanding triple epidemic of homelessness, drug addiction and mental illness.

Looks like getting rid of leftist district attorney Chesa Boudin didn’t really get rid of the problem he represented for crime-battered San Francisco.

Silicon Valley has been rocked by the murder of a cryptocurrency start-up creator whose violent death has prompted Elon Musk to question police responses to street crime in San Francisco.

Bob Lee, founder of Cash App, on Tuesday died of multiple stab wounds sustained in an apparent attack outside a luxury apartment building in an area home to headquarters of major finance and tech companies including Google.

San Francisco is a progressive paradise, I don’t understand why they’re complaining about the very city they made.

Slain Cash App founder Bob Lee had just moved to Miami because San Francisco was ‘deteriorating’: pal

Not quite one-third of registered voters (33.2%) bothered to vote in Tuesday’s election for the next mayor of Chicago, and the non-voting two thirds may soon regret their electoral passivity. Brandon Johnson, a far-left radical, has won the race with a 2.8% margin at the latest count, and thanks to his anti-police stance, the crime wave driving businesses and residents out of the city will only get worse.

A high-profile Bay Area tech executive was killed in a stabbing in San Francisco.

Sources tell NBC Bay Area Bob Lee was attacked early Tuesday morning near Rincon Hill and the Bay Bridge.

Lee, 43, was the chief product officer of MobileCoin. He was also former chief technology officer of Square and one of the co-founders of Cash App.

The greatest risk is that all human reproduction will be put in the hands of technology—that would be the end of the human being.

In your book you talk about progressivism as a religion. How does this religion sell transhumanism?

It is sold as a material improvement, as an idea of progress in which the human being is improved, replaces God, and becomes God thanks to technology. The problem with this approach is that it is a false and empty promise. The sine qua non condition of this process is that the human being ceases to be human. You will progress, but the cost of that progress is that you cease to be what you are. So, homo sapiens can transition into a homo deus or any kind of form, what I call a neo-entity. Basically, technology is going to allow you to be whatever you want to be and that is one of the promises of progress.

This technological progress is accompanied by a postmodern moral progress, in which all the value categories that Judeo-Christianity established in the previous 2000 years become irrelevant. This progressive morality is completely anti-Christian. We are going to be better intellectually, cognitively, physically, and morally, but this morality is an amorality because it has no landmarks and no flag. It is a relativistic morality.

I arrived in San Francisco an agitating radical. Decades later I left an agitated conservative. With its variety pack of human types and myriad available life paths seemingly as fascinating as its meandering undulating roads, San Francisco presented itself as the irresistibly perfect escort to help usher a youth into adulthood. It had character. It had charm. It had beauty, man-made and natural. It had mood-altering views, man-made and natural. It had movies made in it. It had paintings painted of it. It had poems written about it. It had songs sung for it. And, it had hate.

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Full video of the female juvenile attacking and clobbering Asian elder guard from behind at Stonestown Mall in San Francisco. This is unconscionable and we shouldn’t accept this. In San Francisco, you cannot punish these perps. It’s ridiculous. pic.twitter.com/jTYxKi7zw9

— Asian Crime Report (@activeasian) March 21, 2023

At the end of my road last week the mayor of Washington was taking questions about a crime surge in the American capital that has become a national talking point.

Flanked by the city’s chief of police, Muriel Bowser spoke to residents of our neighbourhood, Adams Morgan, in an effort to ease the growing sense of alarm we have noticed since moving house just before Christmas.

Last week we learned that Walmart was closing its two remaining stores in Portland. We also learned that Mayor Ted Wheeler had turned down Nike’s request for help dealing with constant shoplifting at their currently closed store in northeast Portland. Nike had requested they be allowed to hire off duty officers to patrol the area and Wheeler said he couldn’t allow that because the city barely has enough officers to cover emergency calls as it is.

Walmart announced its plan to close its final two locations in Portland, Ore., at the end of March following underwhelming financial results.

“We have nearly 5,000 stores across the U.S. and unfortunately some do not meet our financial expectations,” the corporation said in a statement according to KPTV. “While our underlying business is strong, these specific stores haven’t performed as well as we hoped.”

Business owners are fleeing Portland in droves amid a pronounced rise in crime and homelessness, officials in the Democratic stronghold have revealed.

Public data shows that since the pandemic, more than 2,600 downtown businesses have filed changes of address with the U.S. Postal Service to leave their downtown ZIP codes.

Several big-name employers, from Unitus Community Credit Union to Umpqua Bank, have been among the mass exodus, carried out by owners who have taken issue with the rising crime levels and homelessness – and the city’s failure to address it.

CHICAGO — Mayor Lori Lightfoot of Chicago lost her bid for a second term on Tuesday, The Associated Press said, a resounding defeat that reflected widespread dissatisfaction from voters over her handling of crime and policing in the nation’s third-largest city.

Four years ago, Ms. Lightfoot made history as the first Black woman to be elected mayor of Chicago when she swept all 50 of the city’s wards. But she saw her popularity plunge during the coronavirus pandemic as Chicago suffered a spike in violent crime, with looting and destruction on its famed Magnificent Mile in 2020.

I’m gonna miss you.