San Francisco born 🌉 Fathering two boys, context engineering, and writing political poetry to inspire my neighbors.
San Francisco (my land)
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San Francisco: Connie Chan has many flaws, but she recognizes things that normal everyday working-class people want.
Normal people, most of all, don't want to be harmed. She recognizes how the things YIMBYs want, such as tearing down infrastructure WHILE adding population density, will harm most people, so she simply refuses to go along with them.
Not harming most people is a good way to get most people on your side.
Therefore, I predict she'll win handily in parts of San Francisco where YIMBYs are most intent on causing harm.
Connie Chan basically opposes all the same things that the tiny group of Republicans in San Francisco do.
She doesn't want new housing built. She doesn't want urban freeways removed to reconnect neighborhoods. She doesn't want anything done that might even temporarily inconvenience a suburban car commuter or an incumbent homeowner.
It's not a surprise she'd be leading with Republicans.
Most YIMBYs in San Francisco are transplants.
That's why they don't care about what locals want; they share no connection with us. They have no family here. Nobody they love lives here.
And since they've already uprooted themselves, they're unattached. So they might as well go where land is cheap, and they can build to their heart's desire!
California: Fresno has some world-class natural beauties within 2 hours.
Getting to Yosemite from SF takes several hours! What an upgrade!
YIMBYs: this looks like a huge opportunity to build something beyond your wildest dreams! Cheap housing galore!
San Francisco: the billionaire leftist, who wants to confiscate our assets, supports Scott Wiener, the man who wants to tax grandma out of her home.
Anyone surprised?
We have two good candidates for Congress in San Francisco, but I'm voting for @Scott_Wiener. He's been a tireless fighter for the city, first as a supervisor and then in the State Senate. He takes climate change and clean energy seriously, and he's focused on bringing down costs for Californians.
California: Looking for affordable housing?
Check out these 4+ bedroom homes on large lots, all for under 400k.
Homes this large in San Francisco's foggy Sunset would cost millions.
But in Fresno, you'd get 300 days of sunshine a year and live close to the mountains!
Contrary to what YIMBYs tell you, nobody has to pay a lot for housing. It's a choice!
San Francisco: this is the typical YIMBY bro mindset.
When working-class people speak out about how their lives were made worse by road closures, he calls them "cranky boomers".
If they dare to defend their quality of life, they're dismissed as "conservatives".
To the YIMBO bros, if you're looking out for your community and family in a way that doesn't fit their agenda, you're less than human.
If you live in the Sunset, and your home burned down, they'd celebrate it as an opportunity to maximize the economic utility of your land.
These are the Scott Wiener supporters.
They hate the working class.
They hate small business owners.
They hate families.
They see you as nothing but an obstacle.
Vote accordingly!
Vital Professions that rely on driving: Plumbers, electricians, locksmiths, appliance repair technicians, gardeners, house cleaners, delivery people, first responders, garbage collection, and countless others.
So if you're one of these YIMBY Urbanist Abundance bros trying to do away with roads, you're forgetting that even if you don't drive, your entire cushy lifestyle relies on people who drive.
Without these working-class drivers, your life would totally suck!
California: I find the "wealth tax" terrifying.
Why?
I am building a small business. Imagine the state decides to expand the wealth tax, so I owe the state 5 percent of the estimated value of my business.
But my business is not liquid; I can't just sell shares. So I'd have a huge tax bill and have to pay out of my savings, making it significantly harder to prepare for the future and emergencies.
The wealth tax, assuming it's eventually expanded to everyone (historically that always happens), seems aimed at punishing people for doing the one thing that allows the working class to rise: starting your own business.
It's the one way out of the rat race, and they're closing in to take it away.
California: Should we ban public employee unions?
Seems like it should be illegal to use strikes to extract more money from taxpayers.
California braces for chaos as tens of thousands of DMV, state workers walk off the job trib.al/s8PdI7C
San Francisco: This YIMBY bro suddenly changes his tune.
Previously, he said that generations have been "locked out of prosperity" because SF lacks housing density.
But when a developer proposes a 5000 unit residential complex near jobs and transportation, he says "hard pass" because he wants "quiet, safe streets".
Sounds like he wants EXACTLY what "NIMBYs" (ordinary people) want!
He's getting it now!
San Francisco: this is the kind of development I can get behind.
And I suspect every so-called "NIMBY" is cool with putting density where it belongs: near the office towers.
And this project proves what I've been saying: we have plenty of space to build dense housing near downtown, so YIMBYs can have more of what they want (luxury shoebox apartments) and leave family-oriented neighborhoods alone.
High-density neighborhoods AND beautiful single-family-home neighborhoods can exist in harmony!
Reject the premise that "we don't have affordable housing".
All over the US, homes sell for 100k or less. Some can be purchased for 10k!
The people who claim housing is "unaffordable" are actually saying, "I want cheap housing on the most expensive real estate!"
That's like going to the Mercedes dealership and saying, "I want a Mercedes, but at the price of a Honda Civic!"
That is a childish form of entitlement!
If you want the most expensive stuff, increase your value to the world and earn more money.
San Francisco: Bilal represents the Tenderloin, which is actively under assault by foreign cartels.
Yet he rejects help from ICE, a vital resource to fight the invasion.
So it's hard not to ask this question:
Is he getting a piece of the cartel profits?
Why else would he side with the violent gangsters over his constituents?
San Francisco Abundance bro: “I can’t possibly be prosperous unless I live near you, and you MUST live how I want you to live!”
No bro, you can live a prosperous life without living near me.
My backyard has no magic soil; it’s just regular dirt!
California: Instead of property tax, we should pay directly for services, as we do for water, garbage, and power.
The value of your home does not correlate with the amount of services you consume. If your home's value increases by 5x, it does NOT mean you're consuming 5x the services.
And if you rent, you're still consuming services, so you should pay the same amount for those services as homeowners.
Some renters are very rich; why should they get a pass?
I believe in equality: everyone pays the same amount for what they consume.
I wish there was a more comprehensive discussion about tax policy in CA than the one off items. A 6% income tax + a 1% wealth tax on any amount over 10M would be revenue nuetral. Prop 13’s 2% annual increase limit should be CPI so it doesn’t artificially limit the supply of homes in the nice areas for the younger generations. That change would be revenue neutral with eliminating the gas tax or 1% of sales tax, both highly regressive. The policy is clearly broken right now.
Finally! Someone in my replies understands induced demand!
The same is true for adding density to San Francisco: if moving to the city were cheap and easy, there would be more people, traffic, crowds, and crime.
And if we avoid attracting a million new people, everything in life becomes easier and less stressful, including driving, parking, finding a school slot, shopping, getting in and out of town, getting to the airport... everything!
