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I don't think I need to be "inside" to realize the crime and drug situation in san francisco is comic-book level lunacy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2CVMCZ6F2M

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Not really relevant to what I’m saying. You were asking “why aren’t the Democrats being voted out”, I’m saying a question like that demonstrates that you don't understand the situation.

I live in SF. He understands the situation. This city is an insane asylum whose outcomes are driven by a combination of apathy, NIMBY-ism, virtue signaling, and good old fashioned leftist lunacy. The city was airdropped billions of dollars thanks to its becoming a technology hub (through no efforts of its own), and it would probably be better off if the entire industry left, the tax base evaporated, and it had to fend for itself. But then again, at that point it'd just turn into Detroit with nicer weather.

> I live in SF

> the city is an insane asylum

I guess voters aren’t the only ones acting irrationally then! If I perceived the place I live in to be an insane asylum I’d probably look into moving.

The SF homicide rate is close to national average. Are there any comparably large cities that vote Republican in national politics?

Here's how homicide rates compare in the 11 largest US cities with a Republican mayor and San Francisco (sorted by population):

  13.4 Jacksonville, FL
  12.6 Fort Worth, TX
   6.9 San Francisco, CA
  11.9 Oklahoma City, OK
  13.0 Fresno, CA
   4.9 Mesa, AZ
   6.6 Omaha, NE
   7.9 Colorado Springs, CO
   3.1 Virginia Beach, VI
  10.7 Miami, FL
  14.3 Tulsa, OK
  14.7 Bakersfield, CA

For comparison here are 14 cities with a Democrat mayor from the top 50. I picked these cities by taking the 11 Republican cities and for each picking the next highest and next lowest population Democrat cities:

   3.2 San Jose, CA
   8.2 Austin, TX
  22.4 Columbus, OH
  31.8 Washington, DC
   4.4 El Paso, TX
  17.1 Tucson, AZ
  10.9 Sacramento, CA
  30.7 Kansas City, MO
  32.0 Atlanta, GA
   5.5 Raleigh, NC
   8.1 Long Beach, CA
  30.9 Oakland, CA
  22.1 Minneapolis, MN
   5.8 Wichita, CA

What's your source? Where are you getting these statistics?

Parties of mayors [1]. Homicide rates [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mayors_of_the_50_large...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_homicide_rat...

VI is postal abbrev for Virgin Islands, not Virginia and Wichita is in Kansas.

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