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nuhbin 28 points ago +28 / -0

city council last year: shitting on the street is not a problem at all

city council today: art is essential, pay the artists

city council tomorrow: shitting on the street is performance art, pay the homeless and make it illegal to hose off the sidewalk (because fire hoses are part of the legacy of slavery and racism)

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AnthraciteCracker 6 points ago +6 / -0

"It's not shit... it is a creative homage to the pyramids muh ancestors built."

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deleted 15 points ago +15 / -0
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Barbs 11 points ago +11 / -0

This is gonna fail spectacularly.

Which artists are “essential?” This will be a fun way to pit them against one another. I get what they’re saying though, because entertainment tends to be nonessential at times like this, so entertainers got hit pretty hard. However, dividing them based in who’s “essential” and who isn’t is just asking for trouble. Especially when there’s money involved.

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ProphetOfKek 7 points ago +7 / -0

1k/month in San Francisco won’t get them a cardboard box to live in.

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Formerlurker92 4 points ago +4 / -0

It could, if the split it with 4 other artists

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Grunt422 6 points ago +6 / -0

Watch all the homeless people suddenly become a "struggling artist".

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ProphetOfKek 3 points ago +3 / -0

A bunch of performance artists, emulating drug addicts.

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TheUpsetter 6 points ago +6 / -0

It’s even worse than the headline, they only give grants to artist who’s work is “rooted in a historically marginalized community.” Read: not white.

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Slugbert 5 points ago +5 / -0

Lemme guess: “Whites need not apply”

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20-guage 5 points ago +5 / -0

oooh ... guaranteed basic income for us meme-makers?

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mellestal 5 points ago +5 / -0

I could see this being appropriate for some artists but you'd have to be that guy that paints over gang artwork with food or something.

This is gonna 100% go wrong.

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Freshcope 5 points ago +5 / -0

As someone living in a red state I'm pretty livid that I am having to pay for this bullshit. Without the stimulus tax on us red states these blue clowns wouldnt be able to waste money on a useless art degree for an entire city.

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MAGACountryResident 2 points ago +2 / -0

Imagine paying taxes for this shit lmfao. I’ve been to San Francisco once and it was the greatest shithole I’d ever seen. Alcatraz was cool and the bridge was cool. Surrounding areas very nice the city itself absolute liberal infested shithole.

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MAGA_____bitches 2 points ago +2 / -0

Artists are about as "essential" as elected officials

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Hullohoomans 2 points ago +2 / -0

Art is the very definition of non-essential.

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ParticleCannon 2 points ago +2 / -0

Don't touch the street art, it has e.coli

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Juice 2 points ago +2 / -0

Does the guy who took a dump in NPs driveway qualify?

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MrStep 1 point ago +1 / -0

That man fired the shit heard round the world.

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Dabalabadingdong 2 points ago +2 / -0

gonna put googly eyes on my morning dump to cash in... art can be abstract.

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StrangeAnimal 2 points ago +2 / -0

If piles of shit are considered abstract art, everyone's essential.

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TrumpRules 2 points ago +2 / -0

Most artists dont typically make $1000.00 a month

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Johnfox13 2 points ago +2 / -0

Ha!

Good luck surviving on $1000/month in SF. That place requires $4k/month to be poor

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JPerkins84 3 points ago +3 / -0

4000 a month might cover rent for a small apartment. i hate when my jobsites are in San Francisco , it costs me 45 bucks to park my full size truck every day. and im a member of the NRA so in san Francisco im considered part of a terrorist organization, shit and im white , im screwed

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ZhaoBaiDeng 1 point ago +1 / -0

That grand is going to buy a nice spot on skid row and enough drugs to keep you so high they hope you don't notice.

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TonyTreehouse 2 points ago +2 / -0

People in SF are complaining about the constant car break ins and other property crime and they decide to use tax dollars on artists.

Baltimore and Detroit didn't happen overnight. SF is the early stages of the transition.

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Blaze_Bless 1 point ago +1 / -0

Artists that make human poo murals on the sidewalks yeah

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O_A_N 1 point ago +1 / -0

Wait just a second... There's a pandemic?

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pbarnett865 1 point ago +1 / -0

So free money for liberals? Sounds fair.

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Ligersrule1 1 point ago +1 / -0

Well I guess I'm both a poor Oakland black, as well as a San Fran artist. Undocumented as well for a bonus!

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Apersonofinterest 1 point ago +1 / -0

Graffiti in the city is about to spiral out of control.

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TheSniffingMenace 1 point ago +1 / -0

How about uses that money to pick up human shit

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crash7863 1 point ago +1 / -0

I visited a building in Minneapolis that serves as studios for various artists there. Not a single one of the tenants understand anything about rent, maintenance, heating/cooling, or engineering in general.

Artists are useless people if they're not given direction and purpose.

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TGNX 1 point ago +1 / -0

In San Fran? That $1k a month ain't shit to live.

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futuregodemperor 1 point ago +1 / -0

In other news, the city is 9 trillion dollars in debt now one week after this policy was implemented.......

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REDMARAUDER 1 point ago +1 / -0

Yeah this program will fail within 3 months.

My cousin works in San Francisco. Its city Government has the highest turnover of new laws in the entire country. A few years ago they spent $500k on "emergency phones" to report crimes. This was 2011 - cellphones were already everywhere. The homeless made the phones useless because they'd call for blankets & shit

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FireannDireach 1 point ago +1 / -0

It's the same city who used to give bums shopping carts, paid for by taxes.

SF City Council are one of the most evil and dumb at the same time political entities in the country, if not the world.

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TD_Covfefe_Crusader 1 point ago +1 / -0

Hell, I play in a band and actively engage with the community through music. I guess I'm "essential" now.

🤡 🌎

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Strib1 1 point ago +1 / -0

Visual Art as in Ticky Tocking, Only Fanning and Camera Girls? They are going to get paid again.

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Brulz_Lulz 1 point ago +1 / -0

If you need the government to bail you out then you're not "essential"

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coffee_grdr 1 point ago +1 / -0

so... put another way, the city council doesn't care about suffering waiters, beauty shop workers and barbers, gym workers, etc...

they can just get jobs for uber and postmates while the city council takes care of the artists...

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MAGAdadUSA 1 point ago +1 / -0

Does the article mention what this costs the avg San Franciscan?