[InvertedRhodium]

I'm not sure if you appreciate how utterly surreal that visage is to someone who is 3 hours off a flight from Sydney.

It honestly feels like a scaled down version of the slums you see in South Africa butting right up against typical suburban homes.

[DubiousPusher]

Sure I do. I'm from picturesque, rural Montana. My first visit to LA in the 90s was quite shocking. But a war zone implies a level of lawlessness that doesn't apply. Most of what is going on, people using drugs, using the bathroom on the street, etc, it isn't good but it doesn't really affect you. In a war zone, you have high odds of being maimed or killed any second for no good reason. It's a poor analogy. I think the homelessness is a problem we need to desperately to address but this kind of militant rhetoric doesn't help at all. In fact for several decades here it has made things worse.