Imagine being a person who's only goal in life is to harass people with red tape. Jumping into others people's business for no other reason than to feel important.
Kevin Ortiz is a racist Nazi that hates White people who try to live in a neighborhood that Keven Ortiz views as a "hispanic" neighborhood. That's what really motivates Kevin Ortiz.
That's what about 1/3 of all humans would do ... we have seen this in socialist countries where up to 30% of the population were actively keeping records of the (private) lives of their neighbors because they felt that this would give them power over them...
This is another example of how community activists in California are wasting their time to destroy small businesses in their community all in the while trying to "preserve" their hometown from modernization and "corruption"
@@jwfcp I bet you're one of those fuckin idiots who claim North Korea shooting at people trying to escape is also editing 😂 May I suggest you leave your basement for a while?
I can't believe that was the guy's argument, an arcade by a school sounds just fine to me, the kids hanging out playing arcade games is way better than them running around aimlessly getting into trouble
I literally thought this was a parody!! A family fun arcade is horrible for kids to pass by because it may get in the way of tents and human waste, LMAO!!! San Francisco literally is a psychotic wasteland
For real though, I'm 22. After school we had a place like this but it had computers for LAN games like COD 2. Had consoles and arcade. Was nice to have somewhere to go instead of going out and doing dumb shit kids would be doing otherwise.
if the arcade owner had the same cultural background as this clown, he would be ecstatic to have the arcade help the community thrive and uhhh diversity and blah blah blah
i live in a small town in alaska. there is still an ordinance on the books prohibiting coin op amusement devices from being within 1000 feet of a school. you know how many cell phone games are being played in the class room every day? how impossible it is to get the school board to draft a cellphone policy and to get the staff to enforce what the school board drafts as policy. it's crazy. kids won't even accept the coins in change now days. they throw it on the sidewalk after they leave the store and tuck the bills into their waste band of their pants or into a sock. my how times have changed. i miss going to the arcade. high score used to matter, and people knew your initials if you were good. memories.
@@gosnellktn great point, I agree its messed up parents wont dare let their kid play an arcade game but dont mind letting them play and pay for microtransactions.
My life was ruined as a kid because of the toxic environment of skee-ball.... said nobody ever... the true toxic environment is the one created by people that dedicate their lives stick their nose in someone elses business. Sounds like the City is one big HOA..
Thank god for these comments... I legit thought I was taking crazy pills or some crucial piece of information slipped by. Nope, it just turns out skeeball is enough to trigger someone nowadays.
Same, I had tried and tried to get that ball in the highest score hole, but couldn't. It severely affected me mentally, hindering my ability to perform in my school classes. I was held back three grades, and was treated for advanced depression. I now live in a box on the street, and I'm using McDonald's internet to type this. Another homeless guy stole bag of cans yesterday. I will never forget what that demon game skeeball has done to my life, and I want to get the word out to prevent other people from falling down the same miserable path.
@@IvanTre True, but we can't blame business for taking advantage of bureaucracy. The responsibility lies with the enabling government as they're the ones legally allowed to enforce.
@@watchdealer11 San Francisco housing shortage is because people, not corporations, owning property there have passed local laws that turn every change to real estate into a nightmare .
I can see some points on complaints of gentrification. Like I'm not a rich guy, and I live in a nice little town, but if a bunch of yuppie hipster types moved in and started up a chai-latte place and got positions as town selectmen. Well, I'm sure the town would change in ways I wouldn't like. The big problem is that these activist types take it on themselves to speak for others without any regard to wether that's wanted or not. I'm pretty sure most people in this guys area don't mind skeeball or think its toxic, but that didn't stop Kevin from opening up his mouth.
@@guziman1963 I understand the importance of celebrating the historic and cultural relevance in certain areas (ie: chinatown, little italy, etc...) but it's just so off-putting how people feel so entitled like they discovered and colonized it themselves and no one had been there prior. And then you have the actual looney-tunes like that dude who *unironically* took time out of his life to air his grievances to the city's council about skee-ball "... and now climbing gyms?? IN MISSION?!?!" Man, what I wouldn't give for that kind of free time to have at my disposal.
Joey: "Hey I'm opening a bar/restaurant/ski ball/arcade down the street!" Normal people: "Oh that's awesome, I'll have to check it out!" San Fran: "We can't expose kids to these negative toxic images".
Careful, though. He ended up getting twice as many supporters as Ortiz got detractors. So i wouldn't wrap San Fran up into one collective voice like that, even as messed up as the place seems to be.
Kevin Ortiz is a racist Nazi that hates White people who try to live in a neighborhood that Keven Ortiz views as a "hispanic" neighborhood. That's what really motivates Kevin Ortiz.
Joey the cat catered primarily to corporate clients and tech companies so you likely wouldn’t have been welcome. That was the actual reason why activists didn’t like it.
@@pedropradacarciofi2517 I know what he's talking about. I'm just saying that bringing up children is not always some kind of shield. It's sometimes legitimate. Also, I don't doubt these people are genuine. They can be both genuine and wrong. When we presume they're "acting", that's a bad look for us. Assume the best motives in people.
"We don't need young people walking by people playing skee-ball and drinking beer" Weird how they don't make that same argument for all the human shit and dirty needles all over the place.
It's so weird. San Francisco's streets are littered with bums, shit, and used drug needles despite being one of the wealthiest cities on the planet. And their "gay pride" parades are basically huge street orgies. A skee-ball arcade is antiquated and wholesome compared to what kids in that city are likely exposed to every day. At least Joey's place wont subject them to story hours featuring sex offenders in drag
David Wizowski , same here. So the Nathan’s hotdogs in Coney Island was famous for being the first an oldest an the second was in yonkers NY off of central ave, it was popular because it was also one of the biggest arcades in NY at the time. Sadly it closed down and was reopened as just a Nathan’s without the games.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C. S. Lewis
You think people would rally to the idea of arcade near a school, a place for kids to hang out after school and socialize with friends and avoid shady places
I think it is more the alcohol/bar side of the business than the arcade side. You see plenty of kids running around in Dave and Busters though and I doubt they would try to block them if they wanted to come to the area, and I also doubt this is the area’s only bar. If anything an opposing bar might have been the one to try and stop him from opening.
You would think people would rally to the idea that you have a voice and can question anyone who wants to open something in your community and not be censored under corporate bullying and corruption, but here we are.
@@Leviathis_Krade Where did you get that the "activists" bullied anyone? Who said anything about bullying anywhere? Requesting a hearing is not bullying.
No bro. Telling you from an OG, ive lived here all my life an seen this place switch. Its all these newbies that moved in in the last 15 years are the ones that keep complaining. The gentrification be happening too, but i dont believe its right for someone to prevent someone to presue they're dreams. If these activists wanna do something they should raise money to buy a lot to house homeless if they cared so much.
A hallmark of totalitarian societies, especially those of the socialist variety... Lecturing your neighbors on the correct use of the recycling bin is what those people live for!
Gotta keep the property values down (and/or too high) so that illegals don't get priced out, and regular people can't move in (which will then price them out). You need those illegals so that when the seditious, treasonous democrats push to have illegals given the right to vote, they will overwhelmingly vote democrat and usurp the actual will of LEGAL citizens.... a soft coup of local governments, which then flows upstream to DC.... or that's the plan anyways. That's why we need a wall... physical and figurative. Not because we're xenophobic... but to prevent bad actors from literally and unironically taking over the country through social engineering and artificial demographicical shifts.
I would suggest that sane people leave Commiefornia, but they don't shed their demonrat voting tendencies when they leave and settle in RED states where sanity rules.
Someone, please explain to me how an Arcade is a "Negative Toxic Image". Seriously. I remember when I was a kid and going by an arcade was far from a negative experience for me. It's just baseless rhetoric. Zoning and land grievances happen all the time but you usually have to have tangible disputes to hold up processes like this. Ridiculous.
@@SteveSmith-fh6br True. But at least the conservatives didn't (mostly) push for removal or censorship, they just pushed for things like MPAA guidelines on video games, or pushing Southpark to a later time slot. We tend to value freedom of speech, while also recognizing propriety and moral virtue. They can coexist I think. SJWs just want their own moral virtues, and Libertarians only want the pure freedom unhindered. I think conservatives are the ones splitting the horns of this dilemma. Freedom for all, while also attempting to keep moral institutions in place (churches, clubs, etc.)
@@justinz9225 you present those policies and regulations as being a good thing. i don't see a difference between the authoritarian left and the authoritarian right, and the statistics seem to indicate that videogames and other forms of expression such as art or whatever do not in any way contribute to violence, or sexism or whatever bullshit they are saying nowadays. i am a libertarian, so that is to be expected, but even though you realize how important economic freedom is, you present regulations on social freedoms as a good thing, and that just doesn't make sense to me.
@@davidlewis6728 No, MPAA labels are a consumer-advocacy institution. It doesn't limit freedom in any way. It's meant to protect children from access. The same reason we card people for alcohol underage. And moving Southpark back in time slot wasn't a regulation at all, it was independent citizens petitioning a network. The government didn't do anything. Both of these "regulations" should be fully at home in the mind of a moral libertarian (ie. conservative). The only pure libertarian is an anarchist. Also known as crazy people. Every libertarian has their limits, and thankfully so. Being against government intervention does not mean being against consumer advocacy.
@@justinz9225 They really did though. They would boycott a lot of stuff trying to pressure companies to remove various products from their shelves and deny them to the population. They are also the reason that we can watch people getting their heads blown off on TV, but female nipples are forbidden. The bottom line is that whoever has the edge in the culture war will push their twisted agenda to extremes, be it left or right. Our only realistic hope is that the two side push against each other, so us moderates can live in relative peace.
Story update! Joey the Cat Arcade is now permanently closed. Mr Ortiz won. Mr Ortiz criticized that security guards would be employed by the arcade because "bringing in more police into a community of color wasnt a good idea". He also voiced concerns that more ubers and lyfts would drive through the area (?). Before Mr Mucha bought and renovated the plot it was run as a cannabis farm, homeless town and popular with working girls. The arcade got rid of all that. Now that its closed all that has returned. Thank you Mr Ortiz and the anti gentrification activists! You got your slum back.
Activist = person who does not have to worry about repercussions. I'm convinced mafia members could make a good living in San Francisco taking pay offs from community members so the activists could be beaten to an inch of their lives. The mob would be rich. The community would thrive. The activists could take advantage of discounted medical services.
I love your plan Easy Eight and want to subscribe to your business proposal. I could do with a new job and I have been accused of being a people person in terms of reading between the line. If you can find the workers I am more than willing to work the books and keep an inventory of uniforms and working equipment.
Chipotle should be shut down... they offer alcohol at (some) of their locations. Don't want the kids to be near "that stuff" do you? Actually just ban alcohol entirely. That worked last time, right?
@@excederal9092 it created the mafia,cuased more poeple to die of alcohol poisioning,cuased more poeple to drink,ECT. It was a massive failure that made things worse.
The best part about these activists is that they consistently block any type of new housing on the grounds that it will be too expensive to live there. So this exasperates the housing shortage which in turn gets the activists even more riled up, eventually ending with no new housing and with rent controls.
Ah yes, price fixing, another wonderful communist ploy that destroys markets. Of course, communism is all about saving people from extreme poverty... can't have communism without poverty... so every communist tries to cause as much poverty as possible by fucking up the system, so they can then turn around and claim the system has failed, and justify thier destructive policy. It's not the activists fault, its these greedy land owners. They need to be controlled for the good of the people... says the representative who uses his power to control people thus being solely responsible for the situation he created. And the best part is, you stupid pinkos are so "open minded" you fall for it every time. Been the same song in dance since the 1920s. The dream of a socialist utopia is too beutiful for you idiots to give up. It doesn't matter how many people die, or starve, or are trampled by the mob in pursuit of this false promise: it'll all be worth it when it's done. 100 years later, there's not a single communist nation that has ever managed to do it, yet there are still people unironically calling themselves socialists. No coincidence this video is from San Francisco.
@@Fabrizio_Ruffo Being born and having lived a great deal of my Life in the GDR i can tell you its even worse than you describe. Because guess who the people were that could build their own houses? The big wig Party Members and Generals? Ofc .... no need t oexplai nthat. The Factory Worker? Not really. The Office Clerk? Nope try again. The Craftsmen? yes now you are on to something. Or to use the Words of Honecker himself: "Aus unseren Betrieben ist noch viel mehr rauszuholen!" "We can get out way more out of our Companys!" And so we did. We exchanged and helped each other out. We worked for the high ranking Generals at the Weekends. And for what? Because now you owe me a favor. Now you owe me a Truck Load of Bricks, Cement etc. Now you owe me a Weekend were you do my wring in the House because i worked quite alot to build your Balcony. You always need a skilled Worker to do something for you. And to get that somethign done you need to "exchange something" to ge tthe Material and the skilled Worker. There always was and will always be a class system in Communism and Socialism. The smart People who have a Car they shouldnt have. who have a Wooden Hot tub even though that sort of Wood wasn´t existent for Production. the Guys who bought the cheap land and put a huge house on it because they can. Because they can build a House and if it takes them 2 3 Years to do so alone. All the while "you" sit there in your Apartment and think about it. How come the state gave you an Office Job that "commands these People" and yet ... they dont wait 16 Years for their Trabant. They dont live in a small aprtment, they have a fucking House. How can that be? and that is how the "love/hate" Relationship began. I love you Craftsmen because you come around and fix my Problems ... but i hate you because your skill gives you an advantage i cant overcome. Because we are "equal" ......
@@Fabrizio_Ruffo Capitalism wouldn't have worked when we were in the distant past, things change. As technology increases we lose jobs... and eventually the need to work. Communism and Socialism are the end result of such things. We're on the cusp of AI becoming a major thing, even stores needing very little management. As we progress society will break leading to literally everyone being hurt badly. Either we stop producing technology and cures and hide such things... or we let them out and many jobs become worthless leading to complete economic collapse. We're in a terrible position... where the end result could spell complete economic collapse and possibly even flat out anarchy or killing others to get jobs. If we don't at least set up guidelines it doesn't matter what you believe. Capitalism, Communism, and Socialism will all end the same... death and mass violence over the new requirements.
@@Buglin_Burger7878 your argument isn’t based in reality. Sure AI will take a lot of jobs but by the time that AI takes over a good majority of the jobs we’ll have a system figured out to handle things and things will be aided by the fact we’ll have advanced technology and more resources. That’s the logical answer as opposed to people killing each other indiscriminately.
@@Fabrizio_Ruffo These stupid latte liberals think they are smarter and know more about the inner workings of communism than Mao, Pol Pot, Stalin, Kim Il Sung, Castro. They always say true communism has never been tried. Lmao
these are the politicians we need; those not drawn by the lust for power, but those who are drawn in by a cause theyre championing and have no desire to hold/maintain power.
@@Swolimandius exactly. When this country was started politicians were made up of people who would rather be doing anything else than holding office and many of them put their own lives on the line to do so because they saw what they were doing as necessary. These days its almost entirely made up of people who failed at regular life and made their riches from politics.
@cSym: "'I basically had to become a politician... ...and I don't want that for anyone.' I lol'd." I didn't. Nothing funny there to LOL at, if you're an adult.
Exactly. Vote for the "progressives" and you get a system where a "right to be left alone" does not exist. I've lived in the UK and in Scandinavia and seen it happening there ... and that's exactly where the US are heading now (full disclosure: I'm not a US citizen).
Right? If this is a legit story they're filming it wrong Edit: though the part where he said his next logical step was to put his skee-ball machine in a bar so he could buy another cracked me up
Yeah, and the guy who owns the building is trying to turn the property into LOW COST housing, which would help the homeless. But the phony progressive NIMBYs in SFO hate the idea of change. They pretend to care but offer no solutions.
Because maybe the people who live in that community weren't too sure about his intentions and knew nothing about a private citizen. Nothing they did was wrong but care about their community to the point that it cost them $600 to be able to voice concern and have their pleas heard. I can't wrap my head around all the people who think being censored is a good thing. Is society really this easy to manipulate with a one sided pro corporate anti government sappy bullshit story?
@@Sysaphys He isn't legally obligated to tell them ANYTHING about himself. That's the private in private citizen. The goofiness here is people worrying about someone's intentions with an arcade are. If they really care about their kids that much maybe they should leave such a shithole city. Just seems like people who don't want to solve problems so they can continue to be "activists"
Prison Mike Actually, for some of these people it’s probably a lucrative career to be an activist. “Pay me to go away, or I’ll ‘scuttle’ your dreams of an arcade.”
"Those dern degenerates with their video arcades and their rock n' roll music near our school!" I feel like the people opposed to this got their arguments from a villain in an 80s movie
Shade of The Music Man - Young men fritterin away their time, buckling their knickerbockers below the knee, using words like "swell". That activist can't find anything better to protest?
San Francisco: *makes it impossible for local small businesses to open* Also San Fran: "Why is everyone leaving and why is our local economy in absolute shambles"
So because someone wants to open a business in a community, that community should also have no right to question the integrity of said business owner and they should be punished to accept whatever Mr. businessman wants?
@Garrett McCullough That's all great and dandy, however I am not against his right to open his business nor the fact that he had many supporters. This has absolutely NOTHING to do with his business or the type of business he is attempting to open and everything to do with the community having the right to question any entity that wants to do business in their community. I don't understand how anyone and just about everyone here would oppose anyone's right to voice their opinion. People are too easily suckered when they watch a completely one sided video that paints some guy as a victim, to the point that it blinds the to the whole picture. At the end it proves the system works. Each side got to plead their case and reasonable people decided that the concerns of a few people were not merited. This video is trying to brainwash people in to thinking that you, a citizen should never have the ability to voice your opinion as to what private entities or local government can build or destroy in your community. How in the fuck is that not completely evident and obvious to everyone here?
@Garrett McCullough No i'm not and they are not harassing anyone. It is a system that allows people of the community to question what gets built in their community. If you have a park in your community that your children play and then tomorrow the local government decided they wanted to demolish the park so that they can build a small charter school which would bring in a shit ton of traffic into your community, wouldn't you want the opportunity to voice your opinion against it. How do you not get this? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Please just get man, fish sticks you know, gay fish. FML you people are completely brainwashed.
@Garrett McCullough And that is exactly what has happened here. A concerned citizen saw that someone wanted to open an arcade/bar in his community and requested a hearing. What exactly are you arguing against or are you someone of low intelligence? Also there was no harassment involved, I don't know where the fuck people are getting that Joey was harassed? Whatever, you either get it or you can continue to live in your blissfully ignorant bubble. Having a voice and being able to voice it if you feel like someone might want to open something that could affect you is just as important as the second amendment. If you think that people shouldn't have the right to free speech then your just a dumb fuck and you doesn't deserve the right to free speech. So are you a troll a teenager a dumb fuck or someone who really didn't think things through and now see the light?
I was thinking, "who the fuck would stop this dude I would love to have a place like that near me" And then they showed a 5 second clip of the guy and I'm not one bit suprised with hindsight
Kevin Ortiz is a racist Nazi that hates White people who try to live in a neighborhood that Keven Ortiz views as a "hispanic" neighborhood. That's what really motivates Kevin Ortiz.
@@orionsghost9511 In Iowa, the only really sketchy place is eastern southeastern Des Moines. Other than that, maybe a few random neighborhoods in the state would be sketchy. I mean, half the state lives in communities of less than 10,000 people. My cousins love in a town so small, they can see from one end to the other from their window.
@@marshalljarnagin9370 Sketchy is one thing, but run down and lacking in opportunity is another. Sketchy is definitely more reserved for cities - though their are exceptions, like some trailer park areas and some areas in large towns. But run down and gutted is much more of a theme of the rural areas. I currently live in one of those areas.
Nobody goes to them anymore. People get as much entertainment out of their phones. Most arcade games are really bad game design, focused mostly on eating quarters. They're just not engaging and fun to play anymore, especially when you can get hours upon hours of better quality entertainment out of free game downloads.
Meh. Nothing beats the atmosphere of a good arcade though. Snack bar, juke box playing rush and beating some kids at street fighter. Maybe I'm just being nostalgic.
@@AaronCMounts I wholeheartedly disagree. Mobile games are just as much of a cash grab as arcades, but arguably more, because it's now streamlined and put in your pocket, versus going to an arcade in person and at least having the social environment.
I grew up in a ghetto. My family purchased homes in that ghetto, and while its still a ghetto i hope to purchase a home myself. Thats how i as a resident will improve my neighborhood. I look forward to its impending gentrification. Im tired of drug dealers, and garbage everywhere. While gentrification always goes too far. This video being a perfect example. It has numerous benefits if everyone would participate like a sane human being, instead of either reacting when its too late, or being overly, and aggressively cautious. Its only those people that sit by in ignorance that get truely left behind. Argue if you want, Im currently watching it slowly pick up in my neighborhood. I have access to every piece of information i need to have to be informed. So when they tear down an abandoned house, evict someone, break ground, or do whatever, i know whats happening. Gentrification absolutely can be the worst, but only if the community lets it. Builders and companies wont build what wont make them money. Also, it would be great to not have to leave my community to go get everything. Seriously, the only thing i can buy in my rundown crap hole is processed junk, hair products, and deep fried food. I am however going to stay and hopefully by the end of 2020 I'll be purchasing a 35,000 dollar fiixer upper that will by the simple case of gentrification double, or even triple its value in less than 5 years. Im already prepared to deal with the taxes associated. Knowledge is power, and i dont need a fancy phone or fancy tv. My money can do better for me than that. For myself and my community. Besides, what kind of psycho rallies against ski ball?
I'm trying to think of that other guy's position in the best possible light, but I don't understand the opposition. Why would someone care if their children see a skee-ball place? I'm not even mad, just confused
He is against gentrification so I think the "problem" is this: The ski ball place will draw in customers and increase the prestige of the area with activities typically not representative of those ethic minorities. These ski ball activities will attract the white and maybe the rich Asians. When enough whites and rich Asians frequent his establishment someone will get the idea that a yoga studio and frozen yogurt shop could be opened. Soon after those customers will ask "why don't we just live here"? If the guy loses that battle then privileged ethnicities will outbid the ethic minorities in that community on rent. That's why they want to keep these streets frozen in time. If ski ball guy were opening up a barbershop with only the top button on his shirt buttoned then I think he would ha e an easier time.
A skeeball establishment hardly is the most dangerous entertainment venue. The only dangerous thing I see in this situation are Big Government bureaucrats ruining people's fun.
this guy is clearly well versed, educated and eloquently convincing.. imagine your ordinary small shop owner facing these.. only solution is small government!
He's not lying. I know him through a sibling, and having played in the same national league (yes, it exists, or maybe "existed", due to the current state of the country - at the amateur level). He really lives the game. He's also quite a great player, a 3 time national singles champion and part of 3 national team champions. By all regards the best I've ever seen play, for what that's worth : )
Average guy : Hey everybody I want to open an arcade. Everybody: I’m being repressed! I’m being repressed! I consider myself liberal but these people aren’t even living in reality.
U may be liberal in the classic sense but these people have hijacked your term and hidden behind it because they are authoritarian and don't have the guts to admit they have no control in their own lives so they must try and control someone else's...
Oh wait. This is in San Francisco! Homeless people are crapping on the sidewalks in front of businesses. There are poop squads that go around and hose the human excrement off the sidewalks. Junkies laying around with needles in their arms. People are fleeing the city. And these people harass this guy? Trying to start a business? WTF?
Well the Conservative party welcomes you if you change your mind. Not all of us are religious trigger happy nut cases, just me and a few other guys, most of the Conservative party are people like you who learned to tolerate our shenanigans.
Hell, I'm from a fairly progressive city in a fairly progressive country (Sweden) and I think I'm a liberal even by our standards (I think prostitution should be fully legalized and regulated for example) and even I can't comprehend how the hell people are offended by their kids having to walk past fucking Skee-Ball of all things.
I dont understand how you can call these people activists and not burst out laughing. Just as politicians should have term limits maybe policies bills etc should have lifelines that have to be renewed every 20 30 or even 50 years
So basically censorship. You think that citizens should not have the ability to voice concern over what gets built in their community. Let me know where you live when that glorious policy you thought was so great to expire so that I can campaign to have a jail built right in the middle of your community and then you tell me how great censorship is.
Kevin Ortiz is a racist Nazi that hates White people who try to live in a neighborhood that Keven Ortiz views as a "hispanic" neighborhood. That's what really motivates Kevin Ortiz. Also "community activist" is just a polite term for a Nazi
Hmm, no videos, generic name, and hiding behind an outdated and sheep like avatar. Can definitely say that while I don’t agree with your straw man drag queen, I can definitely say that they have far more confidence and style than you do.
And THIS is a perfect example of why 'government by committee' doesn't work. You can have 99 people who want to see something good happen and there's always that one asshat who doesn't have anything better to do with his time.
Actually Marxism and liberalism are very different things. One is economic and one is social. Socialism is not liberalism. SOVIET UNION never Allowed Gays and never Allowed FREEDOM OF RELIGION.
@tMatt come on, really? I guess everything short of full blown anarcho-capitalism qualifies as Marxism to libertarian circle-jerks now. Yes, San Francisco has a huge problem with NIMBYism and bureaucratic red tape. But unless the government makes private property completely illegal, it's not Marxism.
There are lots of low-income immigrants living there and gentrification would eventually change the demographics as property values go up and low income people can't afford to live there any more. It's essentially thinly-veiled racism with a dash of classism. They don't want any more white people moving in. If the roles were reversed, it'd be illegal.
Basically, they want to keep neighborhoods crappy so the taxes stay low and poor people can continue to afford to live there. The problem is, the neighborhoods stay crappy. 🤷♀️
So like when my old neighborhood that was mostly polish and german.... Started putting up low income housing and drove out the homeowners due to lower property value. Is that gentrification?
"An Arcade 500 feet from a school.... oh no. It's almost like the kids will have a safe and fun space to hang out at after school... rather than running around on the streets getting in to trouble"
This is so true. I'm an civil engineer that's done development all over the world. Do you know how quickly you could get permits and start building this place in a state like Alabama? 1 month, 2 months tops.
@@Jwalker207 seems like everyone just wants their piece of the pie in the "permit" process. I know some of it is common sense safety but CA just seems like it's always excessive and just adds cost to everything not really caring if it hinders development or not.
They absolutely have strange priorities. Stranger than most of the rest of this country, which is really saying something considering how decadence rules and ruins our efforts.
Texas is a lot better than California though it does have it's flaws for business freedom. For example it has a huge car dealership lobby that made it illegal to directly sell to customers for the most part at least. For example Tesla was trying sell cars directly but the dealership lobby was getting in the way.
@@Cacowninja are you surprised oil tycoon country had a problem with the competition? Not that it’s ethical or anything. I was talking more in general. Like if you formed an LLC today, your bags were packed, and you had to pick a state. Texas my dude
It’s not about protecting San Francisco. It’s not about stopping the gentrification of the city. It’s about power and seeing how much they can get away with.
@@Stoned420Guru WTF are you trying to say? Not all states have the onerous and outrageously expensive regulations that California does. Texas, Nevada and several other states are booming because they don't have the regs California does, the country is doing the same because Trump got rid of a lot of useless and costly regulations on business. Several years ago the state legislature held hearing on why the state couldn't produce enough energy for all it's residents and the answer from a leader in power production told them, "Because with all the regulations and studies that must be done before construction, all the regulations, permits and fees during construction, it takes 6-7 years to build a new power plant in CA. I can do it in 12-18 months in any just about any other state".
My first thought is "it wouldn't bother me at all if San Francisco fails completely." My second thought is "I desperately want San Francisco to succeed so the whackos stay there rather than migrating to my town." Long Live Joey the Cat!
I was linked to this video from another video detailing how Walgreens has closed 17 stores in San Francisco recently. The only thing I disagree with is the notion that San Francisco is only bad for small business. They spare no one.
Some of the misinformed activists are just misanthropes looking for a cause; a catalyst for their ire! It's a sad reality that with humans, success breeds such contempt.
Opposing a contemporary architecture extention in a victorian architecture area makes sense, but blocking that arcade or competitors is clearly bullshit.
true fact: i used to save my lunch money to play street fighter ii and mortal kombat at the corner gas station. nothing is more progressive than keeping a city in decay.
I live in a small town. These are the same as the volunteer town board members from the communities here who simply like to dictate and decide what others do.
@@blucipher83 I was just wanted to know the name of your town to know what place I should either help or avoid. If you don't want to tell me your choice.
San Francisco has gone from a place of dreamers and amazement To a place of Karens, Homelessness, and Taxes Pretty sad - hope there's a few lessons learned here and that things turn around for the better.
"Activist" is not a mere hobby, nowadays is a LUCRATIVE CAREER.
they're probably getting backhand deals with the local lawyers
Any stupid nowadays is an activist.
Some for good some for I'll and some for being a total pain in the ass
Activist is a lobbiest.
They should be regulated like any other business.
> anti gentrification activist
> against small local business owners
ok then
Hey if that small business opens where is the acitvist going to get that venti blonde decaf whole milksoy latte from starbucks
It's anti white lets be real
@@hikdingle2210 "Anti-gentrification" typically is.
@@hikdingle2210 lol ohh poor white people , so oppressed
@@nagollnosegrobbb2165 dumbass
Imagine being a person who's only goal in life is to harass people with red tape. Jumping into others people's business for no other reason than to feel important.
Kevin Ortiz is a racist Nazi that hates White people who try to live in a neighborhood that Keven Ortiz views as a "hispanic" neighborhood. That's what really motivates Kevin Ortiz.
That's what about 1/3 of all humans would do ... we have seen this in socialist countries where up to 30% of the population were actively keeping records of the (private) lives of their neighbors because they felt that this would give them power over them...
You're kind of describing half of everything a city does - municipal bylaws are usually a bane of existence.
@@f.d.6667 Please god link me the source of that, thats incredible
@@SamBrickell that's an improper use of the term Nazi, but racist can stay if what you claim is true.
It’s an arcade and restaurant. It’s the most wholesome place to have fun. People can find any reason to screw up someone’s life.
Owner was the wrong race and gender, more likely. White male? Big mistake!
@Paul Martin sir, they're called adult video stores, you don't want to upset the adult entertainers who fuck for money to feed their drug addictions.
“People can find any reason to screw up someone’s life.”
Sounds like Twitter.
This is another example of how community activists in California are wasting their time to destroy small businesses in their community all in the while trying to "preserve" their hometown from modernization and "corruption"
Moral of the Story: Don't start a business in San Francisco.
Or don't ever move there.
Jerzey Boy1995 that should be a given
This is Democrats in action. They want the State to own everything.
@@pittmanfh / Not Democrats... Liberal Activists (and there's a difference)
@@pittmanfh it may be worth a call flood to that activist organization. They hate when their tactics are used against them.
"Negative toxic images" -shows picture of the graphic design of skee ball. Okay then san franshitsco
Yes, there is such a thing as editing, they do bring up a good point- drop the bar aspect and now you have a killer afterschool hangout for kids.
It is a skee ball. It has balls so it's a male graphic design and therefore it is toxic.
@@jwfcp I bet you're one of those fuckin idiots who claim North Korea shooting at people trying to escape is also editing 😂 May I suggest you leave your basement for a while?
@@jwfcp LOL yeah that's the ticket, turn a cool bar-restaurant into a hangout for children.
@@punstress What's wrong with that? You don't serve children. Bowling alleys, sorry "family fun centers" are bars with children's games.
I think I solved his problem:
Step 1: Don’t live in California
Step 2: Refer to step 1
I wish it were that easy unfortunately I will be in California until I retire then me and my wife are out of here lol.
Doodle Pop what does that mean?
@@Royal3Z1 it means I have to deal with the bs in California because I have a decent job but when I'm 55 I can split from here
Doodle Pop Why wait to retire when you can thrive today?
@@LVNVSmash don’t come to Idaho please. Too many former Californians who don’t contribute here....
"This arcade is going to be only 500 feet away from a school!" Oh dear god the humanity!
Better kids there then on the streets
Timmy, show me on this doll where the pinball machine touched you.
I can't believe that was the guy's argument, an arcade by a school sounds just fine to me, the kids hanging out playing arcade games is way better than them running around aimlessly getting into trouble
God forbid if kids can have fun and not be afraid all the time
Seriously. Negative images of an arcade? Remind me to never talk to anybody from San Francisco. This idiot just gave all of them a bad name
I literally thought this was a parody!! A family fun arcade is horrible for kids to pass by because it may get in the way of tents and human waste, LMAO!!! San Francisco literally is a psychotic wasteland
At this point, San Francisco is a parody.
Shits crazy.
Burn it burn the whole filthy fuckin city. The lack of sanitary work is god aweful.
I did too then I visited his website and its not for families its an event space, Rental only.
darthtortugas And?
Funny how being close to a school is seen as being bad. When I was a kid I loved going to places like this. They were exciting, bright and fun.
For real though, I'm 22. After school we had a place like this but it had computers for LAN games like COD 2. Had consoles and arcade. Was nice to have somewhere to go instead of going out and doing dumb shit kids would be doing otherwise.
if the arcade owner had the same cultural background as this clown, he would be ecstatic to have the arcade help the community thrive and uhhh diversity and blah blah blah
i live in a small town in alaska. there is still an ordinance on the books prohibiting coin op amusement devices from being within 1000 feet of a school. you know how many cell phone games are being played in the class room every day? how impossible it is to get the school board to draft a cellphone policy and to get the staff to enforce what the school board drafts as policy. it's crazy. kids won't even accept the coins in change now days. they throw it on the sidewalk after they leave the store and tuck the bills into their waste band of their pants or into a sock. my how times have changed. i miss going to the arcade. high score used to matter, and people knew your initials if you were good. memories.
@@gosnellktn great point, I agree its messed up parents wont dare let their kid play an arcade game but dont mind letting them play and pay for microtransactions.
Yet it seems ok to build an Islamic mosque next to a school..
Arcade and fun bad
Religious grooming good...
... pffft the world is going backwards
Who tf hates on arcades, what is this world coming to....
classic San Francisco :/
@@Ultrox007 woah nelly
Anti white minority types....
@@ml-ws5bz you know Latin populations are more likely to discriminate their neighbors?
Arcades were outlawed across the country in the 80s and 90s by dummy boomers and that idea persists
My life was ruined as a kid because of the toxic environment of skee-ball.... said nobody ever... the true toxic environment is the one created by people that dedicate their lives stick their nose in someone elses business. Sounds like the City is one big HOA..
HOAs should be illegal
@@adambowman8543 yeah, i can't park my car on the property I bought why
Thank god for these comments... I legit thought I was taking crazy pills or some crucial piece of information slipped by. Nope, it just turns out skeeball is enough to trigger someone nowadays.
Same, I had tried and tried to get that ball in the highest score hole, but couldn't. It severely affected me mentally, hindering my ability to perform in my school classes. I was held back three grades, and was treated for advanced depression. I now live in a box on the street, and I'm using McDonald's internet to type this. Another homeless guy stole bag of cans yesterday.
I will never forget what that demon game skeeball has done to my life, and I want to get the word out to prevent other people from falling down the same miserable path.
California, especially San Francisco, is a bunch of communists
Busy bodies who can't do anything productive themselves.
Trust fund kids
Commies always out to crush our hopes and dreams and shit.
It's mostly about protecting their property values and enhancing them. The more housing shortage there is, the more wealth the property owners have..
@@IvanTre True, but we can't blame business for taking advantage of bureaucracy. The responsibility lies with the enabling government as they're the ones legally allowed to enforce.
@@watchdealer11
San Francisco housing shortage is because people, not corporations, owning property there have passed local laws that turn every change to real estate into a nightmare .
San Francisco would rather have children see wholesome, safe images like human shit and used needles all over the place.
dont forget all of those used condoms and hookers.
Don't forget the giants...terrible
@@FutureSuture1 Especially The Giants
This guy is probably gay and doesn't like children, or see them anywhere in the city. Look around, you don't see children in SF.
I was in SF for a week 2 years ago and didn't see any of that. Saw some homeless like other big cities. Bay Area has beautiful scenery.
Overall message from the so-called activists is thus; "don't you dare try to clean up slums or gentrify our crumbling buildings."
They are racist for assuming all ethnic minorities are ghetto trash
they think being white is not alright
I love how they believe nothing existed until they were there, and from that point on it's considered "gentrification" lol.
I can see some points on complaints of gentrification. Like I'm not a rich guy, and I live in a nice little town, but if a bunch of yuppie hipster types moved in and started up a chai-latte place and got positions as town selectmen. Well, I'm sure the town would change in ways I wouldn't like. The big problem is that these activist types take it on themselves to speak for others without any regard to wether that's wanted or not. I'm pretty sure most people in this guys area don't mind skeeball or think its toxic, but that didn't stop Kevin from opening up his mouth.
@@guziman1963 I understand the importance of celebrating the historic and cultural relevance in certain areas (ie: chinatown, little italy, etc...) but it's just so off-putting how people feel so entitled like they discovered and colonized it themselves and no one had been there prior. And then you have the actual looney-tunes like that dude who *unironically* took time out of his life to air his grievances to the city's council about skee-ball "... and now climbing gyms?? IN MISSION?!?!" Man, what I wouldn't give for that kind of free time to have at my disposal.
Joey: "Hey I'm opening a bar/restaurant/ski ball/arcade down the street!"
Normal people: "Oh that's awesome, I'll have to check it out!"
San Fran: "We can't expose kids to these negative toxic images".
Kevin Kostyk: but it’s ok for gamers to create some realistic war games hahaha
Not sure how ski wall creates bad images
@WORST CHANNEL EVER oy vey!
Careful, though. He ended up getting twice as many supporters as Ortiz got detractors. So i wouldn't wrap San Fran up into one collective voice like that, even as messed up as the place seems to be.
Kevin Ortiz is a racist Nazi that hates White people who try to live in a neighborhood that Keven Ortiz views as a "hispanic" neighborhood. That's what really motivates Kevin Ortiz.
I would have KILLED to have Joey the Cat near my elementary school. Looks fun
Start with the Activists. We can go from there
Joey the cat catered primarily to corporate clients and tech companies so you likely wouldn’t have been welcome. That was the actual reason why activists didn’t like it.
@@V-grandraccoon Joey literally said the arcade was open to everyone, you bot
Ian what they said and what they had done the previous few years aren’t the same.
@@ian291 check the website, its a bookable private event space, not an arcade.
Whenever they bring up the children and act as if they're fighting on behalf of the children, they are generally in the wrong.
They never fought for me when I was a child.
@@Tragicide They just _said_ they would.
What about child labor laws?
@@pedropradacarciofi2517 I know what he's talking about. I'm just saying that bringing up children is not always some kind of shield. It's sometimes legitimate.
Also, I don't doubt these people are genuine. They can be both genuine and wrong. When we presume they're "acting", that's a bad look for us. Assume the best motives in people.
@Justin Z a child cannot work in a factory, but can strip and dance for adults and even be filmed while doing so. How good are those laws then?
"We don't need young people walking by people playing skee-ball and drinking beer"
Weird how they don't make that same argument for all the human shit and dirty needles all over the place.
Lol the bums drink an shoot dope on the sidewalk but a few chads slammin millers playin whack a mole will scar these kids for life
@@kingjellybean9795 lmao
Everyone loves Mr. Hankey
This is stupid and down right insane.
No, this is California. Glad I don't live there.
Insanity...
Must be california
What a dumpster fire of a state and people
loopedmess what on earth have you that idea????!!!
There's enough disturbing images walking around SF. These opponents act like Joey would be making SF worse than it is.
TayLybb lmao true. Business nooooo / open needle use yayyyy
EXACTLY.
More disturbing than seeing people shit and shoot up in the trash-strewn street?
It's so weird. San Francisco's streets are littered with bums, shit, and used drug needles despite being one of the wealthiest cities on the planet. And their "gay pride" parades are basically huge street orgies. A skee-ball arcade is antiquated and wholesome compared to what kids in that city are likely exposed to every day. At least Joey's place wont subject them to story hours featuring sex offenders in drag
@@MsBrendalina If I was running that place I would definitely have "boys nights".
As a born and raised San Franciscan, I want to see his business thrive.
P.Z. Arnott The world needs more arcades
FR I dont wanna keep going to Dave and Buster's independent arcades are usually better pricing wise in entertainment and food.
Yeah man, I miss arcades like crazy. And I'm not talking about Dave and busters.
@@Karniveron
Amen to that, I was excited to see a new one open in a mall.
David Wizowski , same here. So the Nathan’s hotdogs in Coney Island was famous for being the first an oldest an the second was in yonkers NY off of central ave, it was popular because it was also one of the biggest arcades in NY at the time. Sadly it closed down and was reopened as just a Nathan’s without the games.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C. S. Lewis
Damn, that’s actually unironically deep.
Dear God
100% agree. Thats an amazing quote!
One of my fav quotes and it's legit terrifying when you look at political language today.
Wrong, by the way.
“This is what people do when it is too easy to get water..” - Joe Rogan
Amen to that
What do you mean?
@@Cacowninja if I had to guess, that without more serious problems in life people find benign things to occupy their time.
@@peaceman805 bingo. We really have it far easier in life now than previous generations in America. Too much downtime and twiddling of fingers.
@@Cacowninja it's the levels of necessity look it up
You think people would rally to the idea of arcade near a school, a place for kids to hang out after school and socialize with friends and avoid shady places
I think it is more the alcohol/bar side of the business than the arcade side. You see plenty of kids running around in Dave and Busters though and I doubt they would try to block them if they wanted to come to the area, and I also doubt this is the area’s only bar. If anything an opposing bar might have been the one to try and stop him from opening.
He should have called it rainbow 🌈 they would have passed that shit in a second....
You would think people would rally to the idea that you have a voice and can question anyone who wants to open something in your community and not be censored under corporate bullying and corruption, but here we are.
@@Sysaphys yeah, but when "activists" bully the owners of venues forcing them to become yet another empty warehouse, thats a no no.
@@Leviathis_Krade Where did you get that the "activists" bullied anyone? Who said anything about bullying anywhere? Requesting a hearing is not bullying.
Is San Francisco the birth place of neighbors that can’t mind their own
No, but for some reason they are empowering them.
No bro. Telling you from an OG, ive lived here all my life an seen this place switch. Its all these newbies that moved in in the last 15 years are the ones that keep complaining. The gentrification be happening too, but i dont believe its right for someone to prevent someone to presue they're dreams. If these activists wanna do something they should raise money to buy a lot to house homeless if they cared so much.
Everyone is a Karen...
Karen Central..
A hallmark of totalitarian societies, especially those of the socialist variety... Lecturing your neighbors on the correct use of the recycling bin is what those people live for!
No slot of Karen's moved there, Frisco used to be a fun city to visit long long long time ago .
And people get confused when businesses leave, taking their jobs with them.
Gotta keep the property values down (and/or too high) so that illegals don't get priced out, and regular people can't move in (which will then price them out). You need those illegals so that when the seditious, treasonous democrats push to have illegals given the right to vote, they will overwhelmingly vote democrat and usurp the actual will of LEGAL citizens.... a soft coup of local governments, which then flows upstream to DC.... or that's the plan anyways. That's why we need a wall... physical and figurative. Not because we're xenophobic... but to prevent bad actors from literally and unironically taking over the country through social engineering and artificial demographicical shifts.
People playing SKEE-BALL is a 'negative and toxig image?! These people are insane and dangerous
"opening a business in san Francisco"
well there's your problem!
I would suggest that sane people leave Commiefornia, but they don't shed their demonrat voting tendencies when they leave and settle in RED states where sanity rules.
Someone, please explain to me how an Arcade is a "Negative Toxic Image". Seriously. I remember when I was a kid and going by an arcade was far from a negative experience for me.
It's just baseless rhetoric. Zoning and land grievances happen all the time but you usually have to have tangible disputes to hold up processes like this.
Ridiculous.
Leftist SJW's have become the pearl clutching conservatives of the 1980's.
@@SteveSmith-fh6br True. But at least the conservatives didn't (mostly) push for removal or censorship, they just pushed for things like MPAA guidelines on video games, or pushing Southpark to a later time slot.
We tend to value freedom of speech, while also recognizing propriety and moral virtue. They can coexist I think. SJWs just want their own moral virtues, and Libertarians only want the pure freedom unhindered. I think conservatives are the ones splitting the horns of this dilemma. Freedom for all, while also attempting to keep moral institutions in place (churches, clubs, etc.)
@@justinz9225 you present those policies and regulations as being a good thing. i don't see a difference between the authoritarian left and the authoritarian right, and the statistics seem to indicate that videogames and other forms of expression such as art or whatever do not in any way contribute to violence, or sexism or whatever bullshit they are saying nowadays. i am a libertarian, so that is to be expected, but even though you realize how important economic freedom is, you present regulations on social freedoms as a good thing, and that just doesn't make sense to me.
@@davidlewis6728 No, MPAA labels are a consumer-advocacy institution. It doesn't limit freedom in any way. It's meant to protect children from access. The same reason we card people for alcohol underage.
And moving Southpark back in time slot wasn't a regulation at all, it was independent citizens petitioning a network. The government didn't do anything.
Both of these "regulations" should be fully at home in the mind of a moral libertarian (ie. conservative).
The only pure libertarian is an anarchist. Also known as crazy people. Every libertarian has their limits, and thankfully so.
Being against government intervention does not mean being against consumer advocacy.
@@justinz9225 They really did though. They would boycott a lot of stuff trying to pressure companies to remove various products from their shelves and deny them to the population. They are also the reason that we can watch people getting their heads blown off on TV, but female nipples are forbidden.
The bottom line is that whoever has the edge in the culture war will push their twisted agenda to extremes, be it left or right. Our only realistic hope is that the two side push against each other, so us moderates can live in relative peace.
Story update!
Joey the Cat Arcade is now permanently closed. Mr Ortiz won. Mr Ortiz criticized that security guards would be employed by the arcade because "bringing in more police into a community of color wasnt a good idea". He also voiced concerns that more ubers and lyfts would drive through the area (?).
Before Mr Mucha bought and renovated the plot it was run as a cannabis farm, homeless town and popular with working girls. The arcade got rid of all that. Now that its closed all that has returned.
Thank you Mr Ortiz and the anti gentrification activists! You got your slum back.
Activist= Busy body that enjoys telling other people what to do.
Activist = person who does not have to worry about repercussions. I'm convinced mafia members could make a good living in San Francisco taking pay offs from community members so the activists could be beaten to an inch of their lives. The mob would be rich. The community would thrive. The activists could take advantage of discounted medical services.
I love your plan Easy Eight and want to subscribe to your business proposal. I could do with a new job and I have been accused of being a people person in terms of reading between the line. If you can find the workers I am more than willing to work the books and keep an inventory of uniforms and working equipment.
@@andreapasqua8639 What you really want is out of towners.
@Bushrod Rust Johnson true this line of work is what we call out my way FIFO, fly in fly out. After all no one suspects a person that is a tourist.
Brandy B in other words just a commie
"I've basically become a politician which I dont want for anyone" I dont know why but this so funny
This "Activist" is acting like hes inviting kids in for Booze and skeeball.
Chipotle should be shut down... they offer alcohol at (some) of their locations. Don't want the kids to be near "that stuff" do you?
Actually just ban alcohol entirely. That worked last time, right?
Ben W technically the prohibition did work
@@excederal9092 If that were true it would still be an amendment
@@excederal9092 it created the mafia,cuased more poeple to die of alcohol poisioning,cuased more poeple to drink,ECT.
It was a massive failure that made things worse.
@@excederal9092 leave it to the OW fan to be dumb
The best part about these activists is that they consistently block any type of new housing on the grounds that it will be too expensive to live there. So this exasperates the housing shortage which in turn gets the activists even more riled up, eventually ending with no new housing and with rent controls.
Ah yes, price fixing, another wonderful communist ploy that destroys markets. Of course, communism is all about saving people from extreme poverty... can't have communism without poverty... so every communist tries to cause as much poverty as possible by fucking up the system, so they can then turn around and claim the system has failed, and justify thier destructive policy.
It's not the activists fault, its these greedy land owners. They need to be controlled for the good of the people... says the representative who uses his power to control people thus being solely responsible for the situation he created.
And the best part is, you stupid pinkos are so "open minded" you fall for it every time. Been the same song in dance since the 1920s. The dream of a socialist utopia is too beutiful for you idiots to give up. It doesn't matter how many people die, or starve, or are trampled by the mob in pursuit of this false promise: it'll all be worth it when it's done. 100 years later, there's not a single communist nation that has ever managed to do it, yet there are still people unironically calling themselves socialists.
No coincidence this video is from San Francisco.
@@Fabrizio_Ruffo Being born and having lived a great deal of my Life in the GDR i can tell you its even worse than you describe.
Because guess who the people were that could build their own houses?
The big wig Party Members and Generals? Ofc .... no need t oexplai nthat.
The Factory Worker? Not really. The Office Clerk? Nope try again.
The Craftsmen? yes now you are on to something.
Or to use the Words of Honecker himself:
"Aus unseren Betrieben ist noch viel mehr rauszuholen!"
"We can get out way more out of our Companys!"
And so we did. We exchanged and helped each other out. We worked for the high ranking Generals at the Weekends. And for what? Because now you owe me a favor. Now you owe me a Truck Load of Bricks, Cement etc.
Now you owe me a Weekend were you do my wring in the House because i worked quite alot to build your Balcony.
You always need a skilled Worker to do something for you. And to get that somethign done you need to "exchange something" to ge tthe Material and the skilled Worker.
There always was and will always be a class system in Communism and Socialism.
The smart People who have a Car they shouldnt have. who have a Wooden Hot tub even though that sort of Wood wasn´t existent for Production.
the Guys who bought the cheap land and put a huge house on it because they can. Because they can build a House and if it takes them 2 3 Years to do so alone.
All the while "you" sit there in your Apartment and think about it. How come the state gave you an Office Job that "commands these People" and yet ... they dont wait 16 Years for their Trabant. They dont live in a small aprtment, they have a fucking House.
How can that be?
and that is how the "love/hate" Relationship began. I love you Craftsmen because you come around and fix my Problems ... but i hate you because your skill gives you an advantage i cant overcome. Because we are "equal" ......
@@Fabrizio_Ruffo Capitalism wouldn't have worked when we were in the distant past, things change. As technology increases we lose jobs... and eventually the need to work.
Communism and Socialism are the end result of such things.
We're on the cusp of AI becoming a major thing, even stores needing very little management. As we progress society will break leading to literally everyone being hurt badly.
Either we stop producing technology and cures and hide such things... or we let them out and many jobs become worthless leading to complete economic collapse.
We're in a terrible position... where the end result could spell complete economic collapse and possibly even flat out anarchy or killing others to get jobs. If we don't at least set up guidelines it doesn't matter what you believe.
Capitalism, Communism, and Socialism will all end the same... death and mass violence over the new requirements.
@@Buglin_Burger7878 your argument isn’t based in reality. Sure AI will take a lot of jobs but by the time that AI takes over a good majority of the jobs we’ll have a system figured out to handle things and things will be aided by the fact we’ll have advanced technology and more resources. That’s the logical answer as opposed to people killing each other indiscriminately.
@@Fabrizio_Ruffo These stupid latte liberals think they are smarter and know more about the inner workings of communism than Mao, Pol Pot, Stalin, Kim Il Sung, Castro. They always say true communism has never been tried. Lmao
"I basically had to become a politician...
...and I don't want that for anyone."
I lol'd.
+
these are the politicians we need; those not drawn by the lust for power, but those who are drawn in by a cause theyre championing and have no desire to hold/maintain power.
@@Swolimandius exactly. When this country was started politicians were made up of people who would rather be doing anything else than holding office and many of them put their own lives on the line to do so because they saw what they were doing as necessary. These days its almost entirely made up of people who failed at regular life and made their riches from politics.
@cSym: "'I basically had to become a politician...
...and I don't want that for anyone.' I lol'd."
I didn't. Nothing funny there to LOL at, if you're an adult.
When you're so fragile that an arcade offends you...
Two kinds of people, ones that want to be left alone, and ones that can't leave others alone.
Can we just slit the country already?
Karenstan and The Independent Republic of Mind Your Own Business.
@@1978garfield this comment is gold my friend.
Exactly. Vote for the "progressives" and you get a system where a "right to be left alone" does not exist. I've lived in the UK and in Scandinavia and seen it happening there ... and that's exactly where the US are heading now (full disclosure: I'm not a US citizen).
These “Onion” satires used to be funny, now they’re just plain dark.
Right? If this is a legit story they're filming it wrong
Edit: though the part where he said his next logical step was to put his skee-ball machine in a bar so he could buy another cracked me up
It's real, or atleast Joey the cat is.
The day the tech companies finally leave, this city will die from lack of investment at the community level.
This is a prime example of why you never never NEVER move, live or spend money in California.
"Casting a shadow on an already shaded school area"? Ffs no wonder California is bleeding.
Yeah, and the guy who owns the building is trying to turn the property into LOW COST housing, which would help the homeless.
But the phony progressive NIMBYs in SFO hate the idea of change. They pretend to care but offer no solutions.
They probably thought the shade would get stronger. Kind of like how it gets brighter if you turn on more lamps in a room.
Air rights are a thing in real estate.
Too much shade will make the kids have conservative tendencies
All he wanted to do was open a small arcade. Why can't people just leave him alone and let him do his thing?
He is not polishing the dudes knob
Because commiefornia
Because maybe the people who live in that community weren't too sure about his intentions and knew nothing about a private citizen. Nothing they did was wrong but care about their community to the point that it cost them $600 to be able to voice concern and have their pleas heard. I can't wrap my head around all the people who think being censored is a good thing. Is society really this easy to manipulate with a one sided pro corporate anti government sappy bullshit story?
@@Sysaphys He isn't legally obligated to tell them ANYTHING about himself. That's the private in private citizen. The goofiness here is people worrying about someone's intentions with an arcade are. If they really care about their kids that much maybe they should leave such a shithole city. Just seems like people who don't want to solve problems so they can continue to be "activists"
@@Sysaphyslmao censorship? You mean like the exact thing that these people tried to do with this arcade owner? GTFO of here.
I remember when activists actually did something for a real cause. Now they just complain about nonsense
For rreal.
What real cause do you remember in particular?
Prison Mike Actually, for some of these people it’s probably a lucrative career to be an activist. “Pay me to go away, or I’ll ‘scuttle’ your dreams of an arcade.”
Fuoriclasse people against the Vietnam war.
@@ShredCo Interracial marriage, equality under the law for all.
"Those dern degenerates with their video arcades and their rock n' roll music near our school!"
I feel like the people opposed to this got their arguments from a villain in an 80s movie
Shade of The Music Man - Young men fritterin away their time, buckling their knickerbockers below the knee, using words like "swell". That activist can't find anything better to protest?
Activist = Someone who doesn't want to work for a living!
Agreed. BHO was an activist first, then went to the WH.
Activists DO work for a living, UNFORTUNATELY they WORK to destroy, impede, & control others, rather than doing something beneficial!!
Or they want to act superior to everyone while taking up some boutique non-issue.
@@DaveTex2375 majoring in the minors
He's no activist more like a social justice warrior.
Activists fight for freedom, social justice warriors fight for tyranny.
These activists need to be personally liable.
Liable for what?
@@zacharyhenderson2902 wasting tax payer money by initiating these requests.
@@zacharyhenderson2902 causing months of lost revenue
@@evilken00 you can't punish people for engaging in the legal process
@@darc22005 there's no evidence to support that he'd be producing profit
San Francisco: *makes it impossible for local small businesses to open*
Also San Fran: "Why is everyone leaving and why is our local economy in absolute shambles"
Honestly I don’t think it’s going badly for them. The people are leaving and then turning the states they go to into California. It’s bad.
Oh wow a man that made his own company. We should punish him for following his dreams. I mean it is 2019 so no one is allowed to rights anymore.
SNEAKY CAMPERS Well we aren't--leftism has taken over.
So because someone wants to open a business in a community, that community should also have no right to question the integrity of said business owner and they should be punished to accept whatever Mr. businessman wants?
@Garrett McCullough That's all great and dandy, however I am not against his right to open his business nor the fact that he had many supporters. This has absolutely NOTHING to do with his business or the type of business he is attempting to open and everything to do with the community having the right to question any entity that wants to do business in their community. I don't understand how anyone and just about everyone here would oppose anyone's right to voice their opinion. People are too easily suckered when they watch a completely one sided video that paints some guy as a victim, to the point that it blinds the to the whole picture. At the end it proves the system works. Each side got to plead their case and reasonable people decided that the concerns of a few people were not merited. This video is trying to brainwash people in to thinking that you, a citizen should never have the ability to voice your opinion as to what private entities or local government can build or destroy in your community. How in the fuck is that not completely evident and obvious to everyone here?
@Garrett McCullough No i'm not and they are not harassing anyone. It is a system that allows people of the community to question what gets built in their community. If you have a park in your community that your children play and then tomorrow the local government decided they wanted to demolish the park so that they can build a small charter school which would bring in a shit ton of traffic into your community, wouldn't you want the opportunity to voice your opinion against it. How do you not get this? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Please just get man, fish sticks you know, gay fish. FML you people are completely brainwashed.
@Garrett McCullough And that is exactly what has happened here. A concerned citizen saw that someone wanted to open an arcade/bar in his community and requested a hearing. What exactly are you arguing against or are you someone of low intelligence? Also there was no harassment involved, I don't know where the fuck people are getting that Joey was harassed? Whatever, you either get it or you can continue to live in your blissfully ignorant bubble. Having a voice and being able to voice it if you feel like someone might want to open something that could affect you is just as important as the second amendment. If you think that people shouldn't have the right to free speech then your just a dumb fuck and you doesn't deserve the right to free speech. So are you a troll a teenager a dumb fuck or someone who really didn't think things through and now see the light?
Next time I'm in San Fran, I'm checking his place out!
Nice sentiment. Just one problem. It requires actually being in SF. No thanks.
I was genuinely in tears when I found out this videos upload date wasn't April 1st.
They are just cowards who need to complain about things. People like him are ruining the world.
@Alberto Franz b8
@Alberto Franz He pointed something out, you called him a name like a 5 year old, then He's the snowflake????? Ah, irony....
Alberto Franz that’s bait
I was thinking, "who the fuck would stop this dude I would love to have a place like that near me"
And then they showed a 5 second clip of the guy and I'm not one bit suprised with hindsight
yeah, there's at least one reason they don't want that guy doing business we aren't hearing about
Definition of activist: Someone who needs to get a useful job.
Kevin Ortiz is a racist Nazi that hates White people who try to live in a neighborhood that Keven Ortiz views as a "hispanic" neighborhood. That's what really motivates Kevin Ortiz.
When you don't respond to an interview request then you absolutely are the bad guy in the story.
So glad I’m from the Midwest I couldn’t imagine living in that hell hole
The midwest has a ton of it's own problems. San Fran's may be worse, in some regards, but they are also just different than yours.
Be careful. I'm sure the citizens of minneapolis felt the same before they imported the 3rd world and destroyed their community.
@@SamBrickell ...uhhh...?
@@orionsghost9511 In Iowa, the only really sketchy place is eastern southeastern Des Moines. Other than that, maybe a few random neighborhoods in the state would be sketchy. I mean, half the state lives in communities of less than 10,000 people. My cousins love in a town so small, they can see from one end to the other from their window.
@@marshalljarnagin9370 Sketchy is one thing, but run down and lacking in opportunity is another. Sketchy is definitely more reserved for cities - though their are exceptions, like some trailer park areas and some areas in large towns. But run down and gutted is much more of a theme of the rural areas. I currently live in one of those areas.
As someone born in the 80's, who grew up with arcades, it depresses me that there aren't more left.
Nobody goes to them anymore. People get as much entertainment out of their phones. Most arcade games are really bad game design, focused mostly on eating quarters. They're just not engaging and fun to play anymore, especially when you can get hours upon hours of better quality entertainment out of free game downloads.
Meh. Nothing beats the atmosphere of a good arcade though. Snack bar, juke box playing rush and beating some kids at street fighter. Maybe I'm just being nostalgic.
@@AaronCMounts I wholeheartedly disagree. Mobile games are just as much of a cash grab as arcades, but arguably more, because it's now streamlined and put in your pocket, versus going to an arcade in person and at least having the social environment.
Isn't Ortiz one of the guys who was trying to screw over the laundry owner who was trying to build apartments?
Yes
that guy sounds like a total tool
Makes me wonder who's funding ortiz?
I grew up in a ghetto. My family purchased homes in that ghetto, and while its still a ghetto i hope to purchase a home myself. Thats how i as a resident will improve my neighborhood. I look forward to its impending gentrification. Im tired of drug dealers, and garbage everywhere. While gentrification always goes too far. This video being a perfect example. It has numerous benefits if everyone would participate like a sane human being, instead of either reacting when its too late, or being overly, and aggressively cautious. Its only those people that sit by in ignorance that get truely left behind. Argue if you want, Im currently watching it slowly pick up in my neighborhood. I have access to every piece of information i need to have to be informed. So when they tear down an abandoned house, evict someone, break ground, or do whatever, i know whats happening. Gentrification absolutely can be the worst, but only if the community lets it. Builders and companies wont build what wont make them money. Also, it would be great to not have to leave my community to go get everything. Seriously, the only thing i can buy in my rundown crap hole is processed junk, hair products, and deep fried food. I am however going to stay and hopefully by the end of 2020 I'll be purchasing a 35,000 dollar fiixer upper that will by the simple case of gentrification double, or even triple its value in less than 5 years. Im already prepared to deal with the taxes associated. Knowledge is power, and i dont need a fancy phone or fancy tv. My money can do better for me than that. For myself and my community.
Besides, what kind of psycho rallies against ski ball?
I'm trying to think of that other guy's position in the best possible light, but I don't understand the opposition. Why would someone care if their children see a skee-ball place? I'm not even mad, just confused
It's because some crazy can get angry and throw balls at another guest!
He is against gentrification so I think the "problem" is this:
The ski ball place will draw in customers and increase the prestige of the area with activities typically not representative of those ethic minorities. These ski ball activities will attract the white and maybe the rich Asians. When enough whites and rich Asians frequent his establishment someone will get the idea that a yoga studio and frozen yogurt shop could be opened. Soon after those customers will ask "why don't we just live here"? If the guy loses that battle then privileged ethnicities will outbid the ethic minorities in that community on rent. That's why they want to keep these streets frozen in time. If ski ball guy were opening up a barbershop with only the top button on his shirt buttoned then I think he would ha e an easier time.
A skeeball establishment hardly is the most dangerous entertainment venue. The only dangerous thing I see in this situation are Big Government bureaucrats ruining people's fun.
Sounds like somebody’s got beaf with Chuck and Cheese.
The owner is a huwite male
this guy is clearly well versed, educated and eloquently convincing.. imagine your ordinary small shop owner facing these.. only solution is small government!
Claims “Gentrification” yet does nothing like this to help the community
Gentrification is a plus to the community
"Skee ball is my LIFE" caught me off guard lol
He's not lying. I know him through a sibling, and having played in the same national league (yes, it exists, or maybe "existed", due to the current state of the country - at the amateur level). He really lives the game. He's also quite a great player, a 3 time national singles champion and part of 3 national team champions. By all regards the best I've ever seen play, for what that's worth : )
I don’t think he’s being targeted for his race, but a POC in his position wouldn’t face nearly as much scrutiny. I’m willing to put money on that.
All he had to do was say he identifies as a woman.....problem solved
Average guy : Hey everybody I want to open an arcade.
Everybody: I’m being repressed! I’m being repressed!
I consider myself liberal but these people aren’t even living in reality.
U may be liberal in the classic sense but these people have hijacked your term and hidden behind it because they are authoritarian and don't have the guts to admit they have no control in their own lives so they must try and control someone else's...
Oh wait. This is in San Francisco! Homeless people are crapping on the sidewalks in front of businesses. There are poop squads that go around and hose the human excrement off the sidewalks. Junkies laying around with needles in their arms. People are fleeing the city. And these people harass this guy? Trying to start a business? WTF?
Being liberal is a slippery slope
Well the Conservative party welcomes you if you change your mind. Not all of us are religious trigger happy nut cases, just me and a few other guys, most of the Conservative party are people like you who learned to tolerate our shenanigans.
Hell, I'm from a fairly progressive city in a fairly progressive country (Sweden) and I think I'm a liberal even by our standards (I think prostitution should be fully legalized and regulated for example) and even I can't comprehend how the hell people are offended by their kids having to walk past fucking Skee-Ball of all things.
I dont understand how you can call these people activists and not burst out laughing.
Just as politicians should have term limits maybe policies bills etc should have lifelines that have to be renewed every 20 30 or even 50 years
LOTS of practice, and many blooper takes....
So basically censorship. You think that citizens should not have the ability to voice concern over what gets built in their community. Let me know where you live when that glorious policy you thought was so great to expire so that I can campaign to have a jail built right in the middle of your community and then you tell me how great censorship is.
@@Sysaphys Don't think you know what Censorship means...
Kevin Ortiz is a racist Nazi that hates White people who try to live in a neighborhood that Keven Ortiz views as a "hispanic" neighborhood. That's what really motivates Kevin Ortiz.
Also "community activist" is just a polite term for a Nazi
Those hockey arcade tables are incredibly rare nowadays because of how often they need to be repaired and how difficult they are to maintain.
“One of the drag queens we hired to give a talk at that elementary school was disgusted that children could be exposed to such ideas and images”
That was the most disgusting shit I've ever read.
Wtf.
Hmm, no videos, generic name, and hiding behind an outdated and sheep like avatar. Can definitely say that while I don’t agree with your straw man drag queen, I can definitely say that they have far more confidence and style than you do.
You guys really need to understand sarcasm before you jump on someone lol.
@@jcfra420 NPCs don't understand jokes.
Ha ha! San Francisco has it's own Red Guard.
Red star above its sky as well mate
And THIS is a perfect example of why 'government by committee' doesn't work. You can have 99 people who want to see something good happen and there's always that one asshat who doesn't have anything better to do with his time.
Lives in a marxist city.
Frustrated by Marxism.
*Pikachu meme*
Actually Marxism and liberalism are very different things. One is economic and one is social. Socialism is not liberalism. SOVIET UNION never Allowed Gays and never Allowed FREEDOM OF RELIGION.
@@allpoliticsenslaves2331 they both drain to the same totalitarian sewer.
Exactly.
Yeah, a Marxist city with a massive homeless and feces problem!
@tMatt come on, really? I guess everything short of full blown anarcho-capitalism qualifies as Marxism to libertarian circle-jerks now.
Yes, San Francisco has a huge problem with NIMBYism and bureaucratic red tape. But unless the government makes private property completely illegal, it's not Marxism.
WTF is “anti-gentrification”?! As in “ANTI-making things better”?!?
There are lots of low-income immigrants living there and gentrification would eventually change the demographics as property values go up and low income people can't afford to live there any more. It's essentially thinly-veiled racism with a dash of classism. They don't want any more white people moving in. If the roles were reversed, it'd be illegal.
Basically, they want to keep neighborhoods crappy so the taxes stay low and poor people can continue to afford to live there. The problem is, the neighborhoods stay crappy. 🤷♀️
So like when my old neighborhood that was mostly polish and german.... Started putting up low income housing and drove out the homeowners due to lower property value. Is that gentrification?
"An Arcade 500 feet from a school.... oh no. It's almost like the kids will have a safe and fun space to hang out at after school... rather than running around on the streets getting in to trouble"
This should say that the red tape is ruining California, not just San Fran.
This is so true. I'm an civil engineer that's done development all over the world. Do you know how quickly you could get permits and start building this place in a state like Alabama? 1 month, 2 months tops.
@@Jwalker207 seems like everyone just wants their piece of the pie in the "permit" process. I know some of it is common sense safety but CA just seems like it's always excessive and just adds cost to everything not really caring if it hinders development or not.
It’s ruining everywhere.
Having visited San Fran a couple of times now, if an arcade bar is their biggest worry then they have some strange priorities
They absolutely have strange priorities. Stranger than most of the rest of this country, which is really saying something considering how decadence rules and ruins our efforts.
Don't do business in California. From clients I've spoken with, Texas is a good place to do business. They value the family centric things like this.
Texas is a lot better than California though it does have it's flaws for business freedom. For example it has a huge car dealership lobby that made it illegal to directly sell to customers for the most part at least. For example Tesla was trying sell cars directly but the dealership lobby was getting in the way.
@@Cacowninja are you surprised oil tycoon country had a problem with the competition?
Not that it’s ethical or anything.
I was talking more in general. Like if you formed an LLC today, your bags were packed, and you had to pick a state.
Texas my dude
@@lordofgingers Well if it's better it's better.
@@Cacowninja yup. California hits you with an $800 franchise tax minimum just for existing.
No thanks
A year later and a ton of businesses like Tesla are relocating to Texas. And no one is surprised.
It’s not about protecting San Francisco. It’s not about stopping the gentrification of the city. It’s about power and seeing how much they can get away with.
This is the most California thing I’ve ever seen.
California? you mean America. it's all of your states. Alaska and Hawaii doing just fine.
@@Stoned420Guru WTF are you trying to say? Not all states have the onerous and outrageously expensive regulations that California does. Texas, Nevada and several other states are booming because they don't have the regs California does, the country is doing the same because Trump got rid of a lot of useless and costly regulations on business. Several years ago the state legislature held hearing on why the state couldn't produce enough energy for all it's residents and the answer from a leader in power production told them, "Because with all the regulations and studies that must be done before construction, all the regulations, permits and fees during construction, it takes 6-7 years to build a new power plant in CA. I can do it in 12-18 months in any just about any other state".
At this point I'm starting to think that San Francisco should just be wiped off the map.
My first thought is "it wouldn't bother me at all if San Francisco fails completely."
My second thought is "I desperately want San Francisco to succeed so the whackos stay there rather than migrating to my town."
Long Live Joey the Cat!
As soon as I heard "toxic images" I knew the activist was a loser with nothing better to do. Then I saw the anti gentrification banner and laughed.
If it was a transgender rainbow arcade it would have been opened long ago...
Family arcade bad image...
I’m so confused. What is the problem? This dude built an arcade. Like, I’m so confused. Why are they stopping this guy from building his arcade?
Dude's white. And probably Christian.
That's basically enough to be labeled as "problematic" nowadays
@@fnors2 that's so terrible bro. Whites truly are the most oppressed minority. I'm crying for you dude
Forget it Jake, it's San Francisco.
"Should have been a straighforward process", then they said San Francisco ...
A city that has an app for spotting human shit is literally ruining its self? I'm shook
Should be a South Park episode.
@@thedoc8876 All of the progressive "adults" are still getting high off their farts. They can't see the real problems through the smug.
Its shocking that people are leaving California...I just cant imagine why🤕
weirdshibainu if this isn’t sarcasm, then I would go with fires, morons, and housing costs
@@JoshKeithsInformationalVideos oh..its sarcasm all right.
An ‘activist’ making San Fran worse.... huh no way!!! I don’t understand why anyone would try to start a business in that city, what a nightmare.
I want to go to San Francisco now just to play skee ball at this place
When we started asking permission instead of just stating what we're doing with our own property, is when we lost.
But, but, think of the children!
@Joshua N. Ajang like they can have any
I was linked to this video from another video detailing how Walgreens has closed 17 stores in San Francisco recently. The only thing I disagree with is the notion that San Francisco is only bad for small business. They spare no one.
If Chris D'elia and Kyle Mooney had a kid..
Chris Hedger more like dj atrak n Uriah faber
@@calibomber209 i dont know who they are so i looked them up and holy shit, spot fucking on 😂😂😂
Some of the misinformed activists are just misanthropes looking for a cause; a catalyst for their ire! It's a sad reality that with humans, success breeds such contempt.
Opposing a contemporary architecture extention in a victorian architecture area makes sense, but blocking that arcade or competitors is clearly bullshit.
true fact: i used to save my lunch money to play street fighter ii and mortal kombat at the corner gas station.
nothing is more progressive than keeping a city in decay.
"Activists". Such a benign word for such a malicious group of people.
I'm guessing this is why people are shiting in the streets. Way to go city council keep up the good work
We need to organize a group to directly oppose the activists.
They are called militias. You should join one.
I live in a small town. These are the same as the volunteer town board members from the communities here who simply like to dictate and decide what others do.
Is it okay if you tell me what town?
I imagine these types of people are everywhere
@@blucipher83 I was just wanted to know the name of your town to know what place I should either help or avoid.
If you don't want to tell me your choice.
San Francisco has gone from a place of dreamers and amazement
To a place of Karens, Homelessness, and Taxes
Pretty sad - hope there's a few lessons learned here and that things turn around for the better.
*I'm thinking the "Community Activist" just wanted to get paid off.*
Best comment.