Posted on 12/11/2024 9:11:03 AM PST by grundle
The New York Post, the Daily Mail, and many other websites have been reporting on a “Defund the Police” activist named Darcie Bell, who lives in San Francisco, and who recently complained that the police weren’t doing enough to help her after some evil scumbag stole her U-Haul.
From Bell’s original tweets:
On October 4, 2024, Jerque Cousteau@neo_antiquarian tweeted:
“Defunding the police is good actually. We pay them a whole lot to do less”
https://x.com/neo_antiquarian/status/1842302278272958917
https://x.com/neo_antiquarian/status/1842302278272958917
On December 7, 2024, Jerque Cousteau@neo_antiquarian tweeted:
“Hey guys. If you see a 26 foot uhaul truck with the Arizona plate AL50003- would you let me know because it had like everything I own on it.”
“It was stolen near Noe and Market and fun fact: @uhaul doesn’t put gps on their trucks and thieves apparently know this.”
https://x.com/neo_antiquarian/status/1865413835852861512
https://x.com/neo_antiquarian/status/1865413835852861512
Here’s my take on this:
I can totally relate to Darcie Bell changing her mind after going through this kind of experience. Yes, she is a hypocrite. But so is everyone, including me.
If Bell was an elected official who had enacted policies to defund the police, and then later had hypocritically had her own private security personnel, I’d be a lot tougher on her. And in fact, I have pointed out the hypocrisy of many “Defund the Police” elected officials, which you can read about here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
But Darcie Bell is not an elected official. She is a private citizen who expressed an opinion, and then later on, had a real life, traumatic experience that showed that the real world was a lot different than her original opinion.
And that’s OK.
It’s a learning experience.
A person has an opinion, then they get new information or a new experience that contradicts that opinion, and so they change their mind. That’s a learning experience. We all go through things like that. It’s part of being human.
I sincerely hope that Darcie Bell is able to get her possessions back.
You win the “Longest Title” award.
There was a similar incident with protesters/rioters who traveled to Ferguson, Missouri, from Arizona who returned home and discovered their homes were burglarized. The funniest was when they were on camera shouting about “abolishing private property!”
I hope she doesn’t get her stuff back.
Much like Barbara Boxer and Brittney Griner, too bad it takes getting bit on the ass personally to get these lefties to realize their little socialist utopia is a joke and criminals and other countries couldn’t give a shit less.
No sympathy from me. That dipshit knew there were and still are victims of more heinous crimes than she experienced. She thought it was fine to defund police while people were being murdered, robbed and raped and she had no compassion for them. Screw her.
“Yes, she is a hypocrite. But so is everyone, including me”.
Then this writer goes on to say “She is a private citizen who expressed an opinion, and then later on, had a real life, traumatic experience that showed that the real world was a lot different than her original opinion.
And that’s OK.
It’s a learning experienc”.
A learning experience and coming to a different conclusion is not a hypocrite. I’d say he got it right the first time. She’s a hypocrite. When it comes to her it’s suddenly she needs the police. Doesn’t care if others are protected only herself.
LOL!!! Bump
At least she's consistent. Small comfort that will be when she's lost all her stuff, but that's the bed in which she chose to lie.
I’ll shed no tears for this leftist but let’s not pretend fully funded SF police would have prevented this theft or done anything about stolen property unless it were for one of their democrat masters.
Well, someone might be pro-police, until they got tazed when reaching for their driver’s license, and then their dog was shot.
“And that’s OK.
It’s a learning experience.”
And I bet she learned NOTHING! She an “activist”, a true believer, and it takes more than a mugging to dissuade her.
The last I heard she had not changed her mind at all about getting rid of the police. This write up offers no evidence to the contrary.
That happens when you don't pay the exorcist...
There are also many instances of women complaining that no men help them when they are attacked by crazy subway riders.
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