This is another example of how community activists in California are wasting their time to destroy small businesses in their community all in the while trying to "preserve" their hometown from modernization and "corruption"
Imagine being a person who's only goal in life is to harass people with red tape. Jumping into others people's business for no other reason than to feel important.
Kevin Ortiz is a racist Nazi that hates White people who try to live in a neighborhood that Keven Ortiz views as a "hispanic" neighborhood. That's what really motivates Kevin Ortiz.
That's what about 1/3 of all humans would do ... we have seen this in socialist countries where up to 30% of the population were actively keeping records of the (private) lives of their neighbors because they felt that this would give them power over them...
@@jwfcp I bet you're one of those fuckin idiots who claim North Korea shooting at people trying to escape is also editing 😂 May I suggest you leave your basement for a while?
I can't believe that was the guy's argument, an arcade by a school sounds just fine to me, the kids hanging out playing arcade games is way better than them running around aimlessly getting into trouble
My life was ruined as a kid because of the toxic environment of skee-ball.... said nobody ever... the true toxic environment is the one created by people that dedicate their lives stick their nose in someone elses business. Sounds like the City is one big HOA..
Thank god for these comments... I legit thought I was taking crazy pills or some crucial piece of information slipped by. Nope, it just turns out skeeball is enough to trigger someone nowadays.
Same, I had tried and tried to get that ball in the highest score hole, but couldn't. It severely affected me mentally, hindering my ability to perform in my school classes. I was held back three grades, and was treated for advanced depression. I now live in a box on the street, and I'm using McDonald's internet to type this. Another homeless guy stole bag of cans yesterday. I will never forget what that demon game skeeball has done to my life, and I want to get the word out to prevent other people from falling down the same miserable path.
I literally thought this was a parody!! A family fun arcade is horrible for kids to pass by because it may get in the way of tents and human waste, LMAO!!! San Francisco literally is a psychotic wasteland
For real though, I'm 22. After school we had a place like this but it had computers for LAN games like COD 2. Had consoles and arcade. Was nice to have somewhere to go instead of going out and doing dumb shit kids would be doing otherwise.
if the arcade owner had the same cultural background as this clown, he would be ecstatic to have the arcade help the community thrive and uhhh diversity and blah blah blah
i live in a small town in alaska. there is still an ordinance on the books prohibiting coin op amusement devices from being within 1000 feet of a school. you know how many cell phone games are being played in the class room every day? how impossible it is to get the school board to draft a cellphone policy and to get the staff to enforce what the school board drafts as policy. it's crazy. kids won't even accept the coins in change now days. they throw it on the sidewalk after they leave the store and tuck the bills into their waste band of their pants or into a sock. my how times have changed. i miss going to the arcade. high score used to matter, and people knew your initials if you were good. memories.
@@gosnellktn great point, I agree its messed up parents wont dare let their kid play an arcade game but dont mind letting them play and pay for microtransactions.
I can see some points on complaints of gentrification. Like I'm not a rich guy, and I live in a nice little town, but if a bunch of yuppie hipster types moved in and started up a chai-latte place and got positions as town selectmen. Well, I'm sure the town would change in ways I wouldn't like. The big problem is that these activist types take it on themselves to speak for others without any regard to wether that's wanted or not. I'm pretty sure most people in this guys area don't mind skeeball or think its toxic, but that didn't stop Kevin from opening up his mouth.
@@guziman1963 I understand the importance of celebrating the historic and cultural relevance in certain areas (ie: chinatown, little italy, etc...) but it's just so off-putting how people feel so entitled like they discovered and colonized it themselves and no one had been there prior. And then you have the actual looney-tunes like that dude who *unironically* took time out of his life to air his grievances to the city's council about skee-ball "... and now climbing gyms?? IN MISSION?!?!" Man, what I wouldn't give for that kind of free time to have at my disposal.
@@IvanTre True, but we can't blame business for taking advantage of bureaucracy. The responsibility lies with the enabling government as they're the ones legally allowed to enforce.
@@watchdealer11 San Francisco housing shortage is because people, not corporations, owning property there have passed local laws that turn every change to real estate into a nightmare .
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C. S. Lewis
Joey the cat catered primarily to corporate clients and tech companies so you likely wouldn’t have been welcome. That was the actual reason why activists didn’t like it.
"We don't need young people walking by people playing skee-ball and drinking beer" Weird how they don't make that same argument for all the human shit and dirty needles all over the place.
@@pedropradacarciofi2517 I know what he's talking about. I'm just saying that bringing up children is not always some kind of shield. It's sometimes legitimate. Also, I don't doubt these people are genuine. They can be both genuine and wrong. When we presume they're "acting", that's a bad look for us. Assume the best motives in people.
Joey: "Hey I'm opening a bar/restaurant/ski ball/arcade down the street!" Normal people: "Oh that's awesome, I'll have to check it out!" San Fran: "We can't expose kids to these negative toxic images".
Careful, though. He ended up getting twice as many supporters as Ortiz got detractors. So i wouldn't wrap San Fran up into one collective voice like that, even as messed up as the place seems to be.
Kevin Ortiz is a racist Nazi that hates White people who try to live in a neighborhood that Keven Ortiz views as a "hispanic" neighborhood. That's what really motivates Kevin Ortiz.
It's so weird. San Francisco's streets are littered with bums, shit, and used drug needles despite being one of the wealthiest cities on the planet. And their "gay pride" parades are basically huge street orgies. A skee-ball arcade is antiquated and wholesome compared to what kids in that city are likely exposed to every day. At least Joey's place wont subject them to story hours featuring sex offenders in drag
David Wizowski , same here. So the Nathan’s hotdogs in Coney Island was famous for being the first an oldest an the second was in yonkers NY off of central ave, it was popular because it was also one of the biggest arcades in NY at the time. Sadly it closed down and was reopened as just a Nathan’s without the games.
You think people would rally to the idea of arcade near a school, a place for kids to hang out after school and socialize with friends and avoid shady places
I think it is more the alcohol/bar side of the business than the arcade side. You see plenty of kids running around in Dave and Busters though and I doubt they would try to block them if they wanted to come to the area, and I also doubt this is the area’s only bar. If anything an opposing bar might have been the one to try and stop him from opening.
You would think people would rally to the idea that you have a voice and can question anyone who wants to open something in your community and not be censored under corporate bullying and corruption, but here we are.
@@Leviathis_Krade Where did you get that the "activists" bullied anyone? Who said anything about bullying anywhere? Requesting a hearing is not bullying.
Story update! Joey the Cat Arcade is now permanently closed. Mr Ortiz won. Mr Ortiz criticized that security guards would be employed by the arcade because "bringing in more police into a community of color wasnt a good idea". He also voiced concerns that more ubers and lyfts would drive through the area (?). Before Mr Mucha bought and renovated the plot it was run as a cannabis farm, homeless town and popular with working girls. The arcade got rid of all that. Now that its closed all that has returned. Thank you Mr Ortiz and the anti gentrification activists! You got your slum back.
Gotta keep the property values down (and/or too high) so that illegals don't get priced out, and regular people can't move in (which will then price them out). You need those illegals so that when the seditious, treasonous democrats push to have illegals given the right to vote, they will overwhelmingly vote democrat and usurp the actual will of LEGAL citizens.... a soft coup of local governments, which then flows upstream to DC.... or that's the plan anyways. That's why we need a wall... physical and figurative. Not because we're xenophobic... but to prevent bad actors from literally and unironically taking over the country through social engineering and artificial demographicical shifts.
No bro. Telling you from an OG, ive lived here all my life an seen this place switch. Its all these newbies that moved in in the last 15 years are the ones that keep complaining. The gentrification be happening too, but i dont believe its right for someone to prevent someone to presue they're dreams. If these activists wanna do something they should raise money to buy a lot to house homeless if they cared so much.
A hallmark of totalitarian societies, especially those of the socialist variety... Lecturing your neighbors on the correct use of the recycling bin is what those people live for!
I would suggest that sane people leave Commiefornia, but they don't shed their demonrat voting tendencies when they leave and settle in RED states where sanity rules.
Chipotle should be shut down... they offer alcohol at (some) of their locations. Don't want the kids to be near "that stuff" do you? Actually just ban alcohol entirely. That worked last time, right?
@@excederal9092 it created the mafia,cuased more poeple to die of alcohol poisioning,cuased more poeple to drink,ECT. It was a massive failure that made things worse.
Someone, please explain to me how an Arcade is a "Negative Toxic Image". Seriously. I remember when I was a kid and going by an arcade was far from a negative experience for me. It's just baseless rhetoric. Zoning and land grievances happen all the time but you usually have to have tangible disputes to hold up processes like this. Ridiculous.
@@SteveSmith-fh6br True. But at least the conservatives didn't (mostly) push for removal or censorship, they just pushed for things like MPAA guidelines on video games, or pushing Southpark to a later time slot. We tend to value freedom of speech, while also recognizing propriety and moral virtue. They can coexist I think. SJWs just want their own moral virtues, and Libertarians only want the pure freedom unhindered. I think conservatives are the ones splitting the horns of this dilemma. Freedom for all, while also attempting to keep moral institutions in place (churches, clubs, etc.)
@@justinz9225 you present those policies and regulations as being a good thing. i don't see a difference between the authoritarian left and the authoritarian right, and the statistics seem to indicate that videogames and other forms of expression such as art or whatever do not in any way contribute to violence, or sexism or whatever bullshit they are saying nowadays. i am a libertarian, so that is to be expected, but even though you realize how important economic freedom is, you present regulations on social freedoms as a good thing, and that just doesn't make sense to me.
@@davidlewis6728 No, MPAA labels are a consumer-advocacy institution. It doesn't limit freedom in any way. It's meant to protect children from access. The same reason we card people for alcohol underage. And moving Southpark back in time slot wasn't a regulation at all, it was independent citizens petitioning a network. The government didn't do anything. Both of these "regulations" should be fully at home in the mind of a moral libertarian (ie. conservative). The only pure libertarian is an anarchist. Also known as crazy people. Every libertarian has their limits, and thankfully so. Being against government intervention does not mean being against consumer advocacy.
@@justinz9225 They really did though. They would boycott a lot of stuff trying to pressure companies to remove various products from their shelves and deny them to the population. They are also the reason that we can watch people getting their heads blown off on TV, but female nipples are forbidden. The bottom line is that whoever has the edge in the culture war will push their twisted agenda to extremes, be it left or right. Our only realistic hope is that the two side push against each other, so us moderates can live in relative peace.
The best part about these activists is that they consistently block any type of new housing on the grounds that it will be too expensive to live there. So this exasperates the housing shortage which in turn gets the activists even more riled up, eventually ending with no new housing and with rent controls.
Ah yes, price fixing, another wonderful communist ploy that destroys markets. Of course, communism is all about saving people from extreme poverty... can't have communism without poverty... so every communist tries to cause as much poverty as possible by fucking up the system, so they can then turn around and claim the system has failed, and justify thier destructive policy. It's not the activists fault, its these greedy land owners. They need to be controlled for the good of the people... says the representative who uses his power to control people thus being solely responsible for the situation he created. And the best part is, you stupid pinkos are so "open minded" you fall for it every time. Been the same song in dance since the 1920s. The dream of a socialist utopia is too beutiful for you idiots to give up. It doesn't matter how many people die, or starve, or are trampled by the mob in pursuit of this false promise: it'll all be worth it when it's done. 100 years later, there's not a single communist nation that has ever managed to do it, yet there are still people unironically calling themselves socialists. No coincidence this video is from San Francisco.
@@Fabrizio_Ruffo Being born and having lived a great deal of my Life in the GDR i can tell you its even worse than you describe. Because guess who the people were that could build their own houses? The big wig Party Members and Generals? Ofc .... no need t oexplai nthat. The Factory Worker? Not really. The Office Clerk? Nope try again. The Craftsmen? yes now you are on to something. Or to use the Words of Honecker himself: "Aus unseren Betrieben ist noch viel mehr rauszuholen!" "We can get out way more out of our Companys!" And so we did. We exchanged and helped each other out. We worked for the high ranking Generals at the Weekends. And for what? Because now you owe me a favor. Now you owe me a Truck Load of Bricks, Cement etc. Now you owe me a Weekend were you do my wring in the House because i worked quite alot to build your Balcony. You always need a skilled Worker to do something for you. And to get that somethign done you need to "exchange something" to ge tthe Material and the skilled Worker. There always was and will always be a class system in Communism and Socialism. The smart People who have a Car they shouldnt have. who have a Wooden Hot tub even though that sort of Wood wasn´t existent for Production. the Guys who bought the cheap land and put a huge house on it because they can. Because they can build a House and if it takes them 2 3 Years to do so alone. All the while "you" sit there in your Apartment and think about it. How come the state gave you an Office Job that "commands these People" and yet ... they dont wait 16 Years for their Trabant. They dont live in a small aprtment, they have a fucking House. How can that be? and that is how the "love/hate" Relationship began. I love you Craftsmen because you come around and fix my Problems ... but i hate you because your skill gives you an advantage i cant overcome. Because we are "equal" ......
@@Fabrizio_Ruffo Capitalism wouldn't have worked when we were in the distant past, things change. As technology increases we lose jobs... and eventually the need to work. Communism and Socialism are the end result of such things. We're on the cusp of AI becoming a major thing, even stores needing very little management. As we progress society will break leading to literally everyone being hurt badly. Either we stop producing technology and cures and hide such things... or we let them out and many jobs become worthless leading to complete economic collapse. We're in a terrible position... where the end result could spell complete economic collapse and possibly even flat out anarchy or killing others to get jobs. If we don't at least set up guidelines it doesn't matter what you believe. Capitalism, Communism, and Socialism will all end the same... death and mass violence over the new requirements.
@@Buglin_Burger7878 your argument isn’t based in reality. Sure AI will take a lot of jobs but by the time that AI takes over a good majority of the jobs we’ll have a system figured out to handle things and things will be aided by the fact we’ll have advanced technology and more resources. That’s the logical answer as opposed to people killing each other indiscriminately.
@@Fabrizio_Ruffo These stupid latte liberals think they are smarter and know more about the inner workings of communism than Mao, Pol Pot, Stalin, Kim Il Sung, Castro. They always say true communism has never been tried. Lmao
Activist = person who does not have to worry about repercussions. I'm convinced mafia members could make a good living in San Francisco taking pay offs from community members so the activists could be beaten to an inch of their lives. The mob would be rich. The community would thrive. The activists could take advantage of discounted medical services.
I love your plan Easy Eight and want to subscribe to your business proposal. I could do with a new job and I have been accused of being a people person in terms of reading between the line. If you can find the workers I am more than willing to work the books and keep an inventory of uniforms and working equipment.
Exactly. Vote for the "progressives" and you get a system where a "right to be left alone" does not exist. I've lived in the UK and in Scandinavia and seen it happening there ... and that's exactly where the US are heading now (full disclosure: I'm not a US citizen).
San Francisco: *makes it impossible for local small businesses to open* Also San Fran: "Why is everyone leaving and why is our local economy in absolute shambles"
Yeah, and the guy who owns the building is trying to turn the property into LOW COST housing, which would help the homeless. But the phony progressive NIMBYs in SFO hate the idea of change. They pretend to care but offer no solutions.
Right? If this is a legit story they're filming it wrong Edit: though the part where he said his next logical step was to put his skee-ball machine in a bar so he could buy another cracked me up
"Those dern degenerates with their video arcades and their rock n' roll music near our school!" I feel like the people opposed to this got their arguments from a villain in an 80s movie
Shade of The Music Man - Young men fritterin away their time, buckling their knickerbockers below the knee, using words like "swell". That activist can't find anything better to protest?
these are the politicians we need; those not drawn by the lust for power, but those who are drawn in by a cause theyre championing and have no desire to hold/maintain power.
@@Swolimandius exactly. When this country was started politicians were made up of people who would rather be doing anything else than holding office and many of them put their own lives on the line to do so because they saw what they were doing as necessary. These days its almost entirely made up of people who failed at regular life and made their riches from politics.
@cSym: "'I basically had to become a politician... ...and I don't want that for anyone.' I lol'd." I didn't. Nothing funny there to LOL at, if you're an adult.
Because maybe the people who live in that community weren't too sure about his intentions and knew nothing about a private citizen. Nothing they did was wrong but care about their community to the point that it cost them $600 to be able to voice concern and have their pleas heard. I can't wrap my head around all the people who think being censored is a good thing. Is society really this easy to manipulate with a one sided pro corporate anti government sappy bullshit story?
@@Sysaphys He isn't legally obligated to tell them ANYTHING about himself. That's the private in private citizen. The goofiness here is people worrying about someone's intentions with an arcade are. If they really care about their kids that much maybe they should leave such a shithole city. Just seems like people who don't want to solve problems so they can continue to be "activists"
So because someone wants to open a business in a community, that community should also have no right to question the integrity of said business owner and they should be punished to accept whatever Mr. businessman wants?
@Garrett McCullough That's all great and dandy, however I am not against his right to open his business nor the fact that he had many supporters. This has absolutely NOTHING to do with his business or the type of business he is attempting to open and everything to do with the community having the right to question any entity that wants to do business in their community. I don't understand how anyone and just about everyone here would oppose anyone's right to voice their opinion. People are too easily suckered when they watch a completely one sided video that paints some guy as a victim, to the point that it blinds the to the whole picture. At the end it proves the system works. Each side got to plead their case and reasonable people decided that the concerns of a few people were not merited. This video is trying to brainwash people in to thinking that you, a citizen should never have the ability to voice your opinion as to what private entities or local government can build or destroy in your community. How in the fuck is that not completely evident and obvious to everyone here?
@Garrett McCullough No i'm not and they are not harassing anyone. It is a system that allows people of the community to question what gets built in their community. If you have a park in your community that your children play and then tomorrow the local government decided they wanted to demolish the park so that they can build a small charter school which would bring in a shit ton of traffic into your community, wouldn't you want the opportunity to voice your opinion against it. How do you not get this? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Please just get man, fish sticks you know, gay fish. FML you people are completely brainwashed.
@Garrett McCullough And that is exactly what has happened here. A concerned citizen saw that someone wanted to open an arcade/bar in his community and requested a hearing. What exactly are you arguing against or are you someone of low intelligence? Also there was no harassment involved, I don't know where the fuck people are getting that Joey was harassed? Whatever, you either get it or you can continue to live in your blissfully ignorant bubble. Having a voice and being able to voice it if you feel like someone might want to open something that could affect you is just as important as the second amendment. If you think that people shouldn't have the right to free speech then your just a dumb fuck and you doesn't deserve the right to free speech. So are you a troll a teenager a dumb fuck or someone who really didn't think things through and now see the light?
Prison Mike Actually, for some of these people it’s probably a lucrative career to be an activist. “Pay me to go away, or I’ll ‘scuttle’ your dreams of an arcade.”
@@orionsghost9511 In Iowa, the only really sketchy place is eastern southeastern Des Moines. Other than that, maybe a few random neighborhoods in the state would be sketchy. I mean, half the state lives in communities of less than 10,000 people. My cousins love in a town so small, they can see from one end to the other from their window.
@@marshalljarnagin9370 Sketchy is one thing, but run down and lacking in opportunity is another. Sketchy is definitely more reserved for cities - though their are exceptions, like some trailer park areas and some areas in large towns. But run down and gutted is much more of a theme of the rural areas. I currently live in one of those areas.
Nobody goes to them anymore. People get as much entertainment out of their phones. Most arcade games are really bad game design, focused mostly on eating quarters. They're just not engaging and fun to play anymore, especially when you can get hours upon hours of better quality entertainment out of free game downloads.
Meh. Nothing beats the atmosphere of a good arcade though. Snack bar, juke box playing rush and beating some kids at street fighter. Maybe I'm just being nostalgic.
@@AaronCMounts I wholeheartedly disagree. Mobile games are just as much of a cash grab as arcades, but arguably more, because it's now streamlined and put in your pocket, versus going to an arcade in person and at least having the social environment.
I'm trying to think of that other guy's position in the best possible light, but I don't understand the opposition. Why would someone care if their children see a skee-ball place? I'm not even mad, just confused
He is against gentrification so I think the "problem" is this: The ski ball place will draw in customers and increase the prestige of the area with activities typically not representative of those ethic minorities. These ski ball activities will attract the white and maybe the rich Asians. When enough whites and rich Asians frequent his establishment someone will get the idea that a yoga studio and frozen yogurt shop could be opened. Soon after those customers will ask "why don't we just live here"? If the guy loses that battle then privileged ethnicities will outbid the ethic minorities in that community on rent. That's why they want to keep these streets frozen in time. If ski ball guy were opening up a barbershop with only the top button on his shirt buttoned then I think he would ha e an easier time.
A skeeball establishment hardly is the most dangerous entertainment venue. The only dangerous thing I see in this situation are Big Government bureaucrats ruining people's fun.
I grew up in a ghetto. My family purchased homes in that ghetto, and while its still a ghetto i hope to purchase a home myself. Thats how i as a resident will improve my neighborhood. I look forward to its impending gentrification. Im tired of drug dealers, and garbage everywhere. While gentrification always goes too far. This video being a perfect example. It has numerous benefits if everyone would participate like a sane human being, instead of either reacting when its too late, or being overly, and aggressively cautious. Its only those people that sit by in ignorance that get truely left behind. Argue if you want, Im currently watching it slowly pick up in my neighborhood. I have access to every piece of information i need to have to be informed. So when they tear down an abandoned house, evict someone, break ground, or do whatever, i know whats happening. Gentrification absolutely can be the worst, but only if the community lets it. Builders and companies wont build what wont make them money. Also, it would be great to not have to leave my community to go get everything. Seriously, the only thing i can buy in my rundown crap hole is processed junk, hair products, and deep fried food. I am however going to stay and hopefully by the end of 2020 I'll be purchasing a 35,000 dollar fiixer upper that will by the simple case of gentrification double, or even triple its value in less than 5 years. Im already prepared to deal with the taxes associated. Knowledge is power, and i dont need a fancy phone or fancy tv. My money can do better for me than that. For myself and my community. Besides, what kind of psycho rallies against ski ball?
Kevin Ortiz is a racist Nazi that hates White people who try to live in a neighborhood that Keven Ortiz views as a "hispanic" neighborhood. That's what really motivates Kevin Ortiz.
this guy is clearly well versed, educated and eloquently convincing.. imagine your ordinary small shop owner facing these.. only solution is small government!
I was thinking, "who the fuck would stop this dude I would love to have a place like that near me" And then they showed a 5 second clip of the guy and I'm not one bit suprised with hindsight
Average guy : Hey everybody I want to open an arcade. Everybody: I’m being repressed! I’m being repressed! I consider myself liberal but these people aren’t even living in reality.
U may be liberal in the classic sense but these people have hijacked your term and hidden behind it because they are authoritarian and don't have the guts to admit they have no control in their own lives so they must try and control someone else's...
Oh wait. This is in San Francisco! Homeless people are crapping on the sidewalks in front of businesses. There are poop squads that go around and hose the human excrement off the sidewalks. Junkies laying around with needles in their arms. People are fleeing the city. And these people harass this guy? Trying to start a business? WTF?
Well the Conservative party welcomes you if you change your mind. Not all of us are religious trigger happy nut cases, just me and a few other guys, most of the Conservative party are people like you who learned to tolerate our shenanigans.
Hell, I'm from a fairly progressive city in a fairly progressive country (Sweden) and I think I'm a liberal even by our standards (I think prostitution should be fully legalized and regulated for example) and even I can't comprehend how the hell people are offended by their kids having to walk past fucking Skee-Ball of all things.
"An Arcade 500 feet from a school.... oh no. It's almost like the kids will have a safe and fun space to hang out at after school... rather than running around on the streets getting in to trouble"
I dont understand how you can call these people activists and not burst out laughing. Just as politicians should have term limits maybe policies bills etc should have lifelines that have to be renewed every 20 30 or even 50 years
So basically censorship. You think that citizens should not have the ability to voice concern over what gets built in their community. Let me know where you live when that glorious policy you thought was so great to expire so that I can campaign to have a jail built right in the middle of your community and then you tell me how great censorship is.
Kevin Ortiz is a racist Nazi that hates White people who try to live in a neighborhood that Keven Ortiz views as a "hispanic" neighborhood. That's what really motivates Kevin Ortiz. Also "community activist" is just a polite term for a Nazi
Hmm, no videos, generic name, and hiding behind an outdated and sheep like avatar. Can definitely say that while I don’t agree with your straw man drag queen, I can definitely say that they have far more confidence and style than you do.
He's not lying. I know him through a sibling, and having played in the same national league (yes, it exists, or maybe "existed", due to the current state of the country - at the amateur level). He really lives the game. He's also quite a great player, a 3 time national singles champion and part of 3 national team champions. By all regards the best I've ever seen play, for what that's worth : )
There are lots of low-income immigrants living there and gentrification would eventually change the demographics as property values go up and low income people can't afford to live there any more. It's essentially thinly-veiled racism with a dash of classism. They don't want any more white people moving in. If the roles were reversed, it'd be illegal.
Basically, they want to keep neighborhoods crappy so the taxes stay low and poor people can continue to afford to live there. The problem is, the neighborhoods stay crappy. 🤷♀️
So like when my old neighborhood that was mostly polish and german.... Started putting up low income housing and drove out the homeowners due to lower property value. Is that gentrification?
My first thought is "it wouldn't bother me at all if San Francisco fails completely." My second thought is "I desperately want San Francisco to succeed so the whackos stay there rather than migrating to my town." Long Live Joey the Cat!
This is so true. I'm an civil engineer that's done development all over the world. Do you know how quickly you could get permits and start building this place in a state like Alabama? 1 month, 2 months tops.
@@Jwalker207 seems like everyone just wants their piece of the pie in the "permit" process. I know some of it is common sense safety but CA just seems like it's always excessive and just adds cost to everything not really caring if it hinders development or not.
And THIS is a perfect example of why 'government by committee' doesn't work. You can have 99 people who want to see something good happen and there's always that one asshat who doesn't have anything better to do with his time.
Texas is a lot better than California though it does have it's flaws for business freedom. For example it has a huge car dealership lobby that made it illegal to directly sell to customers for the most part at least. For example Tesla was trying sell cars directly but the dealership lobby was getting in the way.
@@Cacowninja are you surprised oil tycoon country had a problem with the competition? Not that it’s ethical or anything. I was talking more in general. Like if you formed an LLC today, your bags were packed, and you had to pick a state. Texas my dude
Actually Marxism and liberalism are very different things. One is economic and one is social. Socialism is not liberalism. SOVIET UNION never Allowed Gays and never Allowed FREEDOM OF RELIGION.
@tMatt come on, really? I guess everything short of full blown anarcho-capitalism qualifies as Marxism to libertarian circle-jerks now. Yes, San Francisco has a huge problem with NIMBYism and bureaucratic red tape. But unless the government makes private property completely illegal, it's not Marxism.
@@Stoned420Guru WTF are you trying to say? Not all states have the onerous and outrageously expensive regulations that California does. Texas, Nevada and several other states are booming because they don't have the regs California does, the country is doing the same because Trump got rid of a lot of useless and costly regulations on business. Several years ago the state legislature held hearing on why the state couldn't produce enough energy for all it's residents and the answer from a leader in power production told them, "Because with all the regulations and studies that must be done before construction, all the regulations, permits and fees during construction, it takes 6-7 years to build a new power plant in CA. I can do it in 12-18 months in any just about any other state".
It’s not about protecting San Francisco. It’s not about stopping the gentrification of the city. It’s about power and seeing how much they can get away with.
Activism or racism.... I'm going with racism on this one. When it comes down to it people would rather see nothing then someone from outside come in and do something good... it's pretty messed up... In most of these situations everyone loses... I really love how the guy was trying to say that they don't want people going past the arcade and seeing that imagery... that's cool just let him go on RU-vid they can see all the twerking that they need
They absolutely have strange priorities. Stranger than most of the rest of this country, which is really saying something considering how decadence rules and ruins our efforts.
Eldest Gruff So true ! Al Sharpton and "The MOST Reverend" Jessi Jackson have made a very nice living doing that. Donate ( payoff ) the amount that they Suggest and there's no protests and demonstrations. Otherwise, expect boycotts and violence from the useful idiots. Back in the day it was called Blackmail ...
They tie you up in THEIR communist CoUrT system, extorting as much money they possibly can from you in legal battles. They KNOW they're going to lose the argument, but they also know their power base is going to PROFIT from the working mans misery.
true fact: i used to save my lunch money to play street fighter ii and mortal kombat at the corner gas station. nothing is more progressive than keeping a city in decay.
I was linked to this video from another video detailing how Walgreens has closed 17 stores in San Francisco recently. The only thing I disagree with is the notion that San Francisco is only bad for small business. They spare no one.
Some of the misinformed activists are just misanthropes looking for a cause; a catalyst for their ire! It's a sad reality that with humans, success breeds such contempt.
Opposing a contemporary architecture extention in a victorian architecture area makes sense, but blocking that arcade or competitors is clearly bullshit.
