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San Francisco's Brand Is in Trouble. Can a New Ad Campaign Fix It?
- mitchbob 3y agohttps://archive.ph/OT9ir https://archive.ph/OT9ir
- aurareturn 3y agoI lived in SF during the era when FB, Google were sending buses to SF to pick up tech workers and low-income protestors in SF would block the buses and throw stuff at them. All the while local government officials blamed tech for everything wrong with the city to get poor people votes while actively getting rich off the back of tech taxes. That was a wild era. I hate SF politicians. It turns out that not having tech in SF is way worse than having tech in SF. Yes, no one likes having so many know-it-all techies thinking they're the better than everyone else walking around the city but I'd much rather run into one of those than violent druggies any day.
- SavageBeast 3y agoThis is hilarious. Gaslighting to the rescue! "hundreds of billboards around the city, banners hanging from light poles, and bumper stickers and signs for business owners and residents to hang in their windows." Propaganda posters worked for the Soviets and they'll work here too dammit! Classic 'This is fine' meme stuff 100%. In my mind, this kind of thing only strengthens the whole Doom Loop narrative.