I ' m glad to see other countries coming to the fore to make up for America ' s lack of leadership , though I ' m concerned that the foremost among those countries is an authoritarian state . Also I appreciate the irony of a communist country poised to take a leadership role in free trade while the US withdraws from the global economy . 2016 is a strange place . <| sep |> They personally repulse me . I repulse myself . <| sep |> Damn , the TFV 8 in blue is sexy as hell . <| sep |> Oh , it unquestionably IS punching down . It unquestionably is a metaphor . It ' s sometimes hard to make the case for those , though , because being just a metaphor , there ' s no actual punch . Reasonable people can disagree as to whether it is an apt metaphor . If you can show how the people littering are being impacted as if they were hit with something unforeseen , or knocked backward in their efforts to help themselves , etc . , then it could go over well . Otherwise it seems like . hyperbole . Without making that case , it can seem a little sanctimonious to rebuke someone with a metaphor like that . It sounds like just because they are in a better up position , they can ' t be impacted by the sad down situation the homeless find themselves in . But they are impacted , because when someone is sadly in a negative spiral , they can drag others down as well . And those others the community are really the only ones who can throw them a lifeline , so to speak . So it ' s better for everyone for the rules to be enforced , and it ' s really wrong of Hales to have allowed this mess . Jmo .