{"id":71179,"date":"2019-04-30T05:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T10:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71179"},"modified":"2019-04-28T09:12:57","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T14:12:57","slug":"a-civilization-that-drowns-in-crap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71179","title":{"rendered":"A Civilization That Drowns In Crap&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>A city that\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/california-chronicles\/trumps-potty-obsession-and-the-streets-of-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\">can\u2019t stop its own residents from pooping in the streets<\/a> is uncivilized, regardless of how many cool apps they develop to track the city\u2019s decline. <br>Lack of affordable housing is caused entirely by liberal policies: rent vouchers, zoning and subdivision regulations, public housing subsidies, housing inspectors.\u00a0<br>The author has absolutely no idea how the real world works.\u00a0 It\u2019s telling that her editor approved this piece, and the magazine published it, and subscribers didn\u2019t burn down the offices in derision.\u00a0 None of them have a clue, either.\u00a0 They only know Trump is obsessed with poop.\u00a0 He\u2019s a Big Poopie Head.\u00a0 He\u2019s the reason San Francisco is sliding toward catastrophe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>There are a lot of &#8220;hallmarks of civilization&#8221; &#8211; but one of the things that makes advanced, healthy civilization possible is the orderly removal of, um, waste.  A society that forgets that might not realize exactly why civilization is becoming less&#8230;civil in so many vital ways.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A city that\u00a0can\u2019t stop its own residents from pooping in the streets is uncivilized, regardless of how many cool apps they develop to track the city\u2019s decline. Lack of affordable housing is caused entirely by liberal policies: rent vouchers, zoning and subdivision regulations, public housing subsidies, housing inspectors.\u00a0The author has absolutely no idea how the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71182,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71179\/revisions\/71182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}