AgOutsideAustin said:
Complete Idiot said:
AgOutsideAustin said:
Really is a shame how the "environmentalists " don't say anything anymore as long as drugs are available and corporations bow down for Pride.
What does this even mean?
Environmentalists used a fake environmental platform but their real goal was to "make drugs available" and force companies to enact DEI? Once achieved they dropped the environmental front?
I have no idea how you were able to link the 3 topics.
This is a really weird thread in general but I can't even make sense of that one.
What it means is that Austin lefties used to be hard core environmentalist wackos that cared about salamanders and cave beetles more than paving a new road to relieve traffic. It was truly keep Austin weird but there was still law and order. No way the lefties back then would have allowed their precious green belts to be destroyed like that and drug use everywhere. It didn't happen.
Now the new Austin lefties don't really give a **** about the environment even though they say they do.
You didn't address my question about your sentence that included "as long as drugs are available" and "corporations bow down for Pride". All your thoughts seem very politically driven, with the assumption that all people involved with environmentalism or cleaning up the homelessness issue identify themselves as "left" or "right".
I can somewhat get the point that people who fought to keep open natural areas, for environmental reasons, should care that homeless are polluting at least some of those areas. However, it is also true to say the green belt areas actually impacted by the homeless - maybe a thousand people total camping in green areas? - is tiny compared to what urban development for hundreds of thousands of new residents can do. But way, way more people are accessing the greenbelts for recreation - and leaving trash and doing drugs (but not threatening our safety) - than for camping. Any homeless encampment is a hideous problem, with the amount of trash generated by a small number of people staggering, and ruins the area for anyone who would want to use it for recreation, but it's actually a micro problem relative to the total greenbelt space in Austin. A huge macro problem if you live next door and regularly used the area before the homeless moved in, no doubt.
The main issues is NO ONE - people who identify as liberal, or people who identify as conservative, or people who identify as independent (the largest chunk of people) - know what to do about homelessness in large cities. I do agree that cities with leaders that lean left have way worse visible homeless issues than cities with leaders that lean right. At least Austin voters voted to ban public camping, and many many homeless sites got razed, but they keep moving around.
