It’s shocking that people like this are actually voted into office. San Francisco budget for the homeless is $1.1 billion, for about 20,000 people. Its budget for policing is $760 million for 860,000 people.
Matt Hindman
5 months ago
Let it burn and serve as a warning to others.
Simon Neale
5 months ago
he blames capitalism for San Francisco’s woes, citing economic concerns rather than drug use and other social problems as the primary reason behind the number of residents living on the streets in the city’s Tenderloin neighbourhood.
“I think what you’re seeing in the Tenderloin is absolutely the result of capitalism and what happens in capitalism to the people at the bottom rungs,” Preston said
This from wikipedia:
Preston’s house is worth $2.7 million, the most of any supervisor, and he owns stock shares valued between $400,000 and $4 million in Apple, Microsoft, IBM and Cisco
A surfuit of soy
A shortage of joy
An overgrown boy
Cucked as to destroy.
R Wright
5 months ago
I can see why Stalin got rid of these true believer fools.
J Bryant
5 months ago
In the film, Flo said Preston rarely gives interviews and Unherd had worked to gain his trust. I wonder what Preston feels about Unherd’s coverage of their interview with him? Does he regret it now? What did Preston hope to gain from an interview from Unherd which is certainly not part of the left-leaning mainstream media?
The central question put to Preston (by Freddie Sayers) was: under his regime, what would ever change? He had no answer to that.
Presumably, he’s therefore awaiting the fall of capitalism rather than seeking to make a difference himself, other than walking past the ongoing blight.
If Preston has a problem with having questions put to him, he’s clearly in the wrong job, but it’s typical of an authoritarian mindset to resist questioning. Freddie & Flo were unerringly polite and seeking answers; at no point was there any suggestion that Preston was either disrespected or gainsaid, although he looked uncomfortable when asked that central question, unsurprisingly.
You are implying that Unherd took his words out of context or otherwise duped him. Do you have any evidence of it? To me it appears he is a proud marxist who huffs the smell of his own farts.
Konstantinos Stavropoulos
5 months ago
A stressful video editing..!
The recent Unherd’s method of publishing videos is a bit messy. At least to my experience. First you give out a small part at an interview or documentary (like in this case) and then you present the whole length video to subscribers only. It may be presented simultaneously, but until now in more then one cases, I watch the smaller video until I realize that it is a fragment of the whole. Somehow I may find the proper length video in somewhat of a strange location but usually it is too late. The editing of the fragmented editions contain a lot of what one may watch in the whole piece. Here comes the nasty one though. The small videos are edited in a manner of long trailers. So, if you are unlucky as I am and you have watched the short version beforehand, than you need to watch the whole thing again, in the effort to follow the full story of the longer length video. This has put me off of watching the whole thing more than once. I just quit when I realize I have to follow a “have seen – haven’t seen – have seen (maybe skip) – haven’t seen” video edition. Totally uncool folks..! I understand you need to work your subscriptions and sales but I’m sure you can fix this. If you read this, since you are biggies now, please do something..! Much obliged..!
ps. Important note. I read and watch most of Unherd on my smartphone.
Last edited 5 months ago by Konstantinos Stavropoulos
Yeah, I was having difficulty with it too. The originial video was 15 minutes but you could only see 10 minutes until you subscribed? Anyways, it hasn’t worked out that way.
UnHerd Reader
5 months ago
This is what the Marxist mind virus does to people.
It’s shocking that people like this are actually voted into office. San Francisco budget for the homeless is $1.1 billion, for about 20,000 people. Its budget for policing is $760 million for 860,000 people.
Let it burn and serve as a warning to others.
This from wikipedia:
They’re all the same, these people.
A surfuit of soy
A shortage of joy
An overgrown boy
Cucked as to destroy.
I can see why Stalin got rid of these true believer fools.
In the film, Flo said Preston rarely gives interviews and Unherd had worked to gain his trust. I wonder what Preston feels about Unherd’s coverage of their interview with him? Does he regret it now? What did Preston hope to gain from an interview from Unherd which is certainly not part of the left-leaning mainstream media?
The central question put to Preston (by Freddie Sayers) was: under his regime, what would ever change? He had no answer to that.
Presumably, he’s therefore awaiting the fall of capitalism rather than seeking to make a difference himself, other than walking past the ongoing blight.
If Preston has a problem with having questions put to him, he’s clearly in the wrong job, but it’s typical of an authoritarian mindset to resist questioning. Freddie & Flo were unerringly polite and seeking answers; at no point was there any suggestion that Preston was either disrespected or gainsaid, although he looked uncomfortable when asked that central question, unsurprisingly.
I suspect he wasn’t smart enough to actually visit the Unherd website and gauge the tenor of its political point of view.
Or he was too lazy to do so.
You are implying that Unherd took his words out of context or otherwise duped him. Do you have any evidence of it? To me it appears he is a proud marxist who huffs the smell of his own farts.
A stressful video editing..!
The recent Unherd’s method of publishing videos is a bit messy. At least to my experience. First you give out a small part at an interview or documentary (like in this case) and then you present the whole length video to subscribers only. It may be presented simultaneously, but until now in more then one cases, I watch the smaller video until I realize that it is a fragment of the whole. Somehow I may find the proper length video in somewhat of a strange location but usually it is too late. The editing of the fragmented editions contain a lot of what one may watch in the whole piece. Here comes the nasty one though. The small videos are edited in a manner of long trailers. So, if you are unlucky as I am and you have watched the short version beforehand, than you need to watch the whole thing again, in the effort to follow the full story of the longer length video. This has put me off of watching the whole thing more than once. I just quit when I realize I have to follow a “have seen – haven’t seen – have seen (maybe skip) – haven’t seen” video edition. Totally uncool folks..! I understand you need to work your subscriptions and sales but I’m sure you can fix this. If you read this, since you are biggies now, please do something..! Much obliged..!
ps. Important note. I read and watch most of Unherd on my smartphone.
Yeah, I was having difficulty with it too. The originial video was 15 minutes but you could only see 10 minutes until you subscribed? Anyways, it hasn’t worked out that way.
This is what the Marxist mind virus does to people.