Monday, July 29, 2019

Separate cities for the addicted?

Scott begins today's podcast by referencing yesterday's mass shooting in Gilroy, California in which three people were killed and eleven more injured. Gilroy is a place near to where Scott lives, and he has been there many times. Scott went on Twitter to explain that he has an app that would allow witnesses to get the word out as to what they saw. Twitter trolls immediately attacked Scott, many calling him a ghoul, grifter, f-off, Dilbert was never funny, you're repulsive, you're vile.

Scott does not live in the 2D world, where things are exactly like they look on the surface. He thinks the pushback he is getting is all about the trolls' intense hatred of Trump and therefore about anybody who has ever said anything good about Trump. It's about gun control and about people feeling angry and helpless to be able to do something about it. Frank Lutz was one of the people exhibiting fake outrage and that he is better than Scott.

We think there is a homelessness problem, but that is largely a drug addiction/mental illness problem. The guy who opened fire in Gilroy had mental health issues and that would be a more productive way to look at it rather than a gun control issue.

People are volunteering to help with a variety of Baltimore's problems. How about we build a city for people who are failing because of mental illness or drug addiction? If you keep a drug addict in the same environment where he has been failing, the odds of him getting clean are pretty low.

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