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> The funds raised go exactly to fight the type of cronyism and insanity that makes SF so ossified and housing impossible to build. I am a San Francisco reside
by socalledyimby 4y ago
> The funds raised go exactly to fight the type of cronyism and insanity that makes SF so ossified and housing impossible to build.
I am a San Francisco resident and living near the Mission laundromat in the article.
I am skeptical your cringe thing will achieve much against problems from this article.
The people on your website have been in power for a few years. They haven't dealt with some problems that take an afternoon to solve, that don't seem to exist everywhere. A poll is cheap, and I'm sure they've conducted some to determine a popular and re-electable course of action.
Clearly the status quo is popular enough to win them office, so why the fuck should I give them money? That will achieve the opposite of what I want. It's completely bonkers dumb.
An intellectually honest approach would find an opposition candidate to run.
The real problem is votes. The right to do whatever the fuck you want with a piece of shit laundromat is, essentially, protecting the minority from a dumbfuck majority.
It's crazy because it's the same energy that mobilizes San Franciscans on many issues, like the minority rights to an abortion, gay marriage, minority religions, etc. For some reason minority rights are organized by how strongly the emotions are felt, instead of like, an objective criteria.
There are issues with strong emotions people can mobilize for. Let me give you a taste of what would motivate me:
> Likewise, the board cited CEQA in denying Tillman’s project in 2018, saying it could cast shadows over a nearby playground.
Alioto Park, which is not obscured by this site but is another playground of many in the Mission, is inhabited by literal heroin addicts, alcoholics and other bottle guys all day. Unusable by children. Dolores Park has people also drinking alcohol and doing drugs. And yet, the playground is eminently usable, clean and well maintained. What gives?
Some people just fucking suck dude. Bottle guys really suck way harder than hipsters. It's so fucking ridiculous that some pieces of shit care about this abstract shadow problem, and in the same breath tolerate their shitty bottle guys in Alioto.
They shit their obese chihuahuas on every street and don't pick up. Listen, some people just don't fucking ever litter. I don't ever litter.
They do a shit job maintaining their million dollar, crumbling homes. Their schools suck. They voted for a repeal of the law that would let them send their kids to better schools, because they're dumb. They pile kids and old relatives into apartments to maximize buyout costs. They pay property taxes stuck in the 80s. They park in the middle of Valencia street for church, and put up a sign that says "Church Parking Only." On a public street dude. They block people's driveways, renters' driveways.
The action I want is, "Everyone deserves a community, not the same community." Identify a politician brave enough to say these people suck, the people who tolerate them suck and should leave or let economic forces drive them out, and I'll come to your cringe thing. Until then, you'll keep shoveling over money to losers, putting pussyhats into dumpsters.
- twixfel 4y agoNot a very convincing argument on any level. All you're telling us is that you don't want people living near you, OK, but we already knew that.