The San Francisco district didn’t change in the redistricting, and remains one of the few coherent house districts these days. There is a progressive using the mamdani playbook challenging her in the 26 primaries, so maybe she just wants to quit while she’s ahead and keep her undefeated record.

They can do limited equity programs to mitigate this and other speculation. Ie. When you buy the house you agree to sell it at the inflation adjusted price you bought it at, maybe with a percent or two of appreciation as well.

San francisco has around 50,000 vacant residencies and around 8,000 unhoused people. There is supply in these “desirable” locations, it’s just that under the logic of capitalism this supply isn’t made available to those who need it.

Para baseballum

Don’t they know, trump did CLEAN COAL , all the coal is clean because of CLEAN COAL and you can’t get black lung from CLEAN COAL

Speaking for san francisco:

No

No

Yes, in March last year we passed a proposition exempting them from real estate transfer taxes

Yes, there’s a vacancy tax, but there’s a decent amount of exemptions so it only effects large multi unit buildings

No, but there aren’t really any strip malls in the city

He’s so used to being the boss and having everyone always laugh at his shitty jokes that he thinks he’s funny.

He’s not a politician and has no charisma or any way of getting people to do what he wants outside of ordering them to, which is why he’ll never do well in politics where building and maintaining relationships in your coalition is one of your main jobs.

do you know what “from the river to the sea” means?

Yeah, it means the same thing as a song I was taught in elementary school:

From sea to shining sea,

Let freedom ring

It means let everyone in this land enjoy freedom. I suppose if your a cynical bastard you could say it means free of natives, but I don’t think that’s what the elementary schoolers, and everyone else who sings the song means.

Yeah, cause in a nazis belief system I should be enslaved or killed. There belief system is an existential threat to me, so yeah I’m not gonna cry if they’re further away from me.

Mahmouds belief system is only an existential threat to the apartheid Israeli state.

Or molly, all of these fucks could stand to learn some empathy.

Listened to a podcast with a person who lived in the ussr when it fell and was comparing it to current day America. Basically they were saying that people are becoming more cynical and don’t really believe in the project any more and are waiting for something to come along and fundamentally change things.

With gorbachev it was a turn to democratic liberal capitalism, with trump its a turn to autocratic neo-mercantalism.

Both could bring down the great empires of the twentieth century.

Don’t worry, won’t be working there much longer once the tarrifs cause staglfation and trump fires you for not cutting rates and replaces you with elons master of coin.

More like the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Yes, keep blaming the voters and not the democratic party and candidate who repeatedly refused to give them a reason to vote for them. Blaming the voters will definitely win us the next election.

Here we go again blaming the green party for the dems running a shitty candidate and a shitty campaign. The green party doesn’t exist to siphon dem votes and help Republicans win, it exists to act as a check on the democrats and make sure they don’t abandon there left wing.

You know what stops the green party? Giving the left someone to vote for on the dems. Obama runs on hope and change and health care reform in 08, greens only get 0.12% . The dems give us Clinton who ignores and ostracized Bernie, greens go up to 1%. Biden campaigns on building back better, student loan forgiveness, stimmy etc. And brings Bernie into help build the platform, greens go back down to 0.26% . The dems give us kamala and ignore the left to pick up Cheney supporters, greens go back up to 0.5% .

If dems are gonna abandon the left then they shouldn’t expect left votes. And if the left continues to vote dem even when they gove them nothing then they’ve lost all there power.

And do what, canvas when there’s no election and get even more doors slammed in your face.

Yeah the green party isn’t campaigning in the off season, but neither are Republicans or democrats because nobody cares. Half the people only pay attention to politics the week before the election.

Were at brezhnev levels of gerentocracy in the u.s. so maybe the leader just keeling over could be something to look forward to in these coming 4 years. I’ll take mitch McConnell if that doesn’t pan out though.

American brown people, who in his caste system are higher than foreign brown people.

You keep assuming the Arab states were going to attack when there is no evidence of that. It’s just the fact that Israel felt threatened, when every country feels threatened. The way nations form is the basic narrative that there is an enemy out there threatening you and you have to band together to take on that enemy. Even countries as secure as the u.s. will contrive threats from China or the cartels to point to an enemy.

Again I’m not going to argue which party fealt more threatened because that’s a subjective experience. There are countries that are just as threatened as Israel was and they don’t attack.

All the points you just made could be made for enemies of the u.s. like Iran, north Korea and Cuba. North Korea also suffered a horrific bombing campaign by a country on there border and suffers far more from economic sanctions then Israel ever did when the straits were closed. The embargo on Cuba has repeatedly been called out as against international law. If Cuba or north Korea demanded an end to sanctions or it would be war, and then the u.s. poured troops in to surround them on there borders would it be right for them to launch a first strike against Seoul or Florida?

No you’d probably say they made a threat to the u.s. with that ultimatum and the u.s. deploying troops was a valid response to that threat. Any sort of ultimatum that involves war should be considered a threat and an escalation. You don’t get a pass because you were treated horribly before.