I am a Ukrainian, but I also used to live in the US (working for Facebook 2009-2011 living in Palo Alto and regularly visiting San Francisco, and working at Google 2011-2015 living in NYC), I have now returned to Ukraine. A homeless person has thrown shit at me in San Francisco in 2011 around Powell Station. I have been waiting for corporate bus on Market street to take me to Palo Alto and have seen homeless people brazenly smoking weed across the street. I do not believe you guys are doing ANYTHING to fight drugs despite all the claims.

I am not against drugs, I have plenty of friends who are responsible users. I am not for death penalty (I think I know which comment you are referring to, that was a Devil's Advocate).

edit: as per wikipedia [1] there are ~7k homeless people living in San Francisco. As per the same article it is said that SF spends $241M on homeless people. This averages out to ~34.5k$/year ~= $2870/month. I will never believe that average homeless person is getting $2870 worth of goods and services per month. I'm saying that your homeless program is grossly inefficient. The same way as your drug war is an utter joke.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_San_Franci...

> Glancing through yznovak's post history, he's a Ukrainian

Hmm. Is that something you do often? Why not just say you disagree with him instead of the need to point out his nationality. That looks like xenophobia at first glance.

I'm pointing out that he shouldn't be expected to know the complete history of the American War on Some Drugs.

You can check my post history to see if I frequently reference someone's nationality in a context where it isn't directly relevant to the topic at hand. I await your report.

> You can check my post history to see if I frequently reference someone's nationality

See, I'll take your word for it, because I think it is a little creepy checking people's post history.

> because I think it is a little creepy checking people's post history.

It's not creepy. It's part of having a responsible and informed dialogue.

How is xenophobia part of having a responsible and informed dialogue. He dug through, found out the person is a different nationality and is not American. Then assumed they are not informed enough (in the best case) to make a valid argument. Which turned out to be wrong because they actually lived and worked in the area and other parts of the US.

I failed to see how this was an informed and responsible dialogue. I think we might have a different perception of those terms.

No no, I just meant reading someone's history, not xenophobia.

I also don't agree that, absent a pattern of conduct, that the remarks we see in this thread are tantamount to xenophobia.