It is somewhat surprising to see the latest voting records are from 2018 as I seem to recall there have been votes in 2020 and 2022 as well?
Federal election for Senator went between DEM - Dianne Feinstein and DEM - Kevin De Leon. The former won like she has done for the last two centuries. Representatives also all won by DEMs. State also went to DEMs for all electable positions.
It is also remarkable to see that Alameda County largely votes by mail - only about ¼ of the votes are cast on election day, the remaining ¾ are cast by mail.
That is how they vote in Oakland, CA and that is most likely how they will keep on voting even now that the chickens have come home to roost.
It's incredible that reporting on crime and poverty has been so captured as to sound delusional. The article even goes so far as to link this rise in piracy to an increase in homeless encampments, but somehow declares the latter a "catalyst" as though it just came from nowhere and caused the piracy, instead of even bothering with lip service to the obvious third variable causing both. Noting that the police have been more active in removing people who can't pay what is no doubt an ever-inflating rent just to anchor their boats, I can basically just model the "pirates" as an obvious consequence of this sort of approach, directly parallelling the dynamics of homelessness on land
We know where the homeless people came from: they were mostly displaced from homes in the area they now camp in by policy that has inflated cost of living while also harming renters and anyone working for a living's ability to remain in their home, as is true of most homeless people in the US, and the pirates are likely of similar origin
It is an incredible testament to how civil we have managed to make people in the last fifty or so years that the present situation the poor of the bay area are in has resulted in mostly property crime so far, and a testament to the absurd, fearful, propagandized bubbles the wealthy live in that the small but locally-unprecedented rise in actual violent crime isn't serving as a long-needed wakeup call to more of them
Who do you think is being organized? Office workers with free time? No, they are using the vast untapped labor pools located nearby, who already have incentive and little to lose.
That's good news for the climate given that there is a negative correlation between the number of pirates on the high seas and the global average temperature [1]. That is, as long as these are the right types of pirates of course which remains to be seen. Do they sport wooden legs? Parrots on their shoulders? Do they speak the right language? It now being only 17 days - a prime number, clearly this has some deeper meaning - to International Talk Like a Pirate Day I sense a convergence of the forces of good coming up.
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Therefore I'm glad they function as a magnet for people who are up to no good. Keeps the rest of us safer.
Once they vote to rejoin and participate in our law abiding civilisation, I'll be concerned with their plight.
It is somewhat surprising to see the latest voting records are from 2018 as I seem to recall there have been votes in 2020 and 2022 as well?
Federal election for Senator went between DEM - Dianne Feinstein and DEM - Kevin De Leon. The former won like she has done for the last two centuries. Representatives also all won by DEMs. State also went to DEMs for all electable positions.
It is also remarkable to see that Alameda County largely votes by mail - only about ¼ of the votes are cast on election day, the remaining ¾ are cast by mail.
That is how they vote in Oakland, CA and that is most likely how they will keep on voting even now that the chickens have come home to roost.
We know where the homeless people came from: they were mostly displaced from homes in the area they now camp in by policy that has inflated cost of living while also harming renters and anyone working for a living's ability to remain in their home, as is true of most homeless people in the US, and the pirates are likely of similar origin
It is an incredible testament to how civil we have managed to make people in the last fifty or so years that the present situation the poor of the bay area are in has resulted in mostly property crime so far, and a testament to the absurd, fearful, propagandized bubbles the wealthy live in that the small but locally-unprecedented rise in actual violent crime isn't serving as a long-needed wakeup call to more of them
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster#Pirat...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Talk_Like_a_Pira...
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