Seattle Socialists Strangle Golden Goose

[JohnDonne]

Number of homeless off the street and into homes has always been my metric for success. You've confused that metric with a simple statistic of whether homelessness has increased or decreased in a given area.

But even if you convinced God himself that those two things are the same...










...They still wouldn't be.

[Okeefenokee]

That's stupid.

It's like a doctor putting in an IV and saying that's more important than stopping the arterial bleeding.

[DBTrek]

Number of homeless off the street and into homes has always been my metric for success.

Then you should join me in condemning failure instead of spending your energy desperately trying to justify it.
/shrug

[Okeefenokee]

Rachel Dolezal busted in Washington State for welfare fraud.

[Fife]

It turns out Vox is on top of this bizarre shit for us:

[PartyOf5]

Number of homeless off the street and into homes has always been my metric for success.

So ultimate success would be everyone becoming homeless and getting homes from the government?

[Haumana]

Number of homeless off the street and into homes has always been my metric for success.

So ultimate success would be everyone becoming homeless and getting homes from the government?

Winning!

[JohnDonne]

Number of homeless off the street and into homes has always been my metric for success.

Then you should join me in condemning failure instead of spending your energy desperately trying to justify it.
/shrug

False dilemma.

[JohnDonne]

Number of homeless off the street and into homes has always been my metric for success.

So ultimate success would be everyone becoming homeless and getting homes from the government?

Not even a little bit.

Here’s another bad faith straw man, for example:

“If Seattle decreasing their homeless populations is ultimate success would nuking Seattle be a good thing?”

[Fife]

Number of homeless off the street and into homes has always been my metric for success.

Then you should join me in condemning failure instead of spending your energy desperately trying to justify it.
/shrug

False dilemma.

Heh. Brilliant. Condemning failure vs. justifying failure. Sounds legit.

What's the true choice?