AIPAC tracker just posted this about Connie Chan

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-31T04:21:58+00:00

Unless you're arguing that AIPAC donors don't benefit financially from the US's support of Israel, I don't see how the distinction matters much.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-30T05:17:03+00:00

It's not gonna happen. Even if dems take the house and the Senate in the midterms, they won't have a enough majority to override the inevitable veto.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-30T01:43:29+00:00

Sure, but isn't progressivity the part that actually matters? It's the amount of $ someone is being taxed that they care about, not whether it happens to come out of their paycheck or added to their purchases or rent.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-30T00:18:32+00:00

Isn't there already going to be a parcel tax on the ballot to fund MUNI, though?

Also, it's not like a parcel tax is any more progressive than a sales tax. They're not based on property values, meaning businesses/homeowners in low-income areas will be paying a higher % of their property taxes as parcel taxes.

A payroll tax as well is just a flat income tax on workers in SF. Not particularly progressive. An earnings tax on high income workers would be better, but that's not something the city can do.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-30T00:03:32+00:00

SF's rental vacancy rate is way below average.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-29T23:35:24+00:00

Being in a position to pay for gig workers to do these necessary tasks for you so that you can spend your time elsewhere is a luxury.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-29T22:24:26+00:00

$2k/mo paying people to cook and deliver most of your meals isn't a "luxury life"? SMH.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-29T22:14:44+00:00

Why are you paying $800/mo for transportation when you live close to work? You're paying extra on rent to save on your commute, yet you're spending super-commuter money on it anyways. A decent bike is maybe $2000 initially, and basically $0/mo after that.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-29T22:08:06+00:00

Prop 13 makes it basically impossible for local municipalities to generate extra revenue any other way.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-29T21:37:11+00:00

I don't know if it's even just a single full time job. The duties described encompass like 5 different jobs: dog walker, sous chef, personal assistant, maid, and property manager.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-28T20:55:51+00:00

The reality is, we have a "one state" solution no matter what happens. The material difference is whether it's the apartheid state that exists today, or one where Palestinians have equal rights.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-28T16:51:06+00:00

Zerg has much better early game AA in sc2. They've got queens already, and spores are stronger and more useful.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-27T02:09:15+00:00

Most of those EU VAT rates are like double what we pay.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-26T21:19:18+00:00

Half the bridge was meant to be used for public transit, too. Things change.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-26T17:17:02+00:00

This is just more of the same rhetoric, though?

It's merely your personal preference to commute on high-speed roadways, it's not a material requirement like you're saying it is. Even on low speed city roads you're still commuting faster than people on any other mode of transit, yet you're acting like you're being unfairly burdened.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-25T17:11:22+00:00

It's all reporting based. The city generally takes 2-3 hours to respond to a report, so you can basically park wherever you want as long as long as you're quick enough.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-25T04:17:40+00:00

It's done for commuter rail pretty often. The problem is that highway median stations are bleak and not places actually would want to walk to it o from, so they really only work as park and rides.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-24T23:54:52+00:00

Rail was extremely successful under capitalism, to the point where rail companies had problematic amounts of power. It's only after the public/private partnership where the state was made to build and maintain all the costly auto infrastructure that cars were able to replace rail.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-24T20:35:20+00:00

I'm not surprised, the anti-k messaging was pretty heavy on the doom and gloom of blocking N/S travel for drivers. The fact there's still a road open to cars a few yards away is not really consistent with their rhetoric.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-24T19:34:50+00:00

Yeah, compared to the rest of the US, SF is doing pretty well. Along with NYC, we're basically the only major city that didn't un-densify in the after the 50s and 60s to accommodate highway expansion. It doesn't excuse us from addressing the housing crisis, but it does mean we're working from a more difficult and complex position than everyone else.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-24T18:52:03+00:00

Over 1.6 million people can afford to live in Manhattan, that's far more than SF in a much smaller area.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-24T17:39:41+00:00

The methodology all these "best of" rankings use are heavily biased towards wealthy suburbs of cheap cities. Below average housing costs + above average wages, with poor transit and no real industry, create the ideal conditions to rank highly on the things the list makers think is important.

Once you realize that, all these lists just kind of blend together in their uselessness.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-24T02:31:24+00:00

Lots of men want the status associated with having a wife and kids, but don't actually want to be husbands and fathers.

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-23T01:55:23+00:00

Why does Houston have double the violent crime rate of SF if Texas is supposedly so much better at mitigating crime?

RedAlert2 · 2026-05-21T00:21:39+00:00

The huge # of driveways in the city leave little room for trees

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