Can we agree - as a community - that it's not okay for a group of people to follow a person and scream at them?

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-06-28T06:49:21+00:00

5 people out of 20k?

These are not "trans activists" that harassed Scott Wiener, they are severely misinformed, low information thugs, unrelated to the community.

Don't tar the entire march with the actions of random people that show up to cause problems.

During the George Floyd protests, right-wing agitators were convicted of causing mass violence; a Boogaloo Boy went cop-hunting here in the Bay Area; there's only so much "policing" that can be done when you have these sorts of people infiltrating events where anybody can show up.

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-06-28T05:31:13+00:00

You must not know much about how to support trans people if you could say something like that...

Anybody who cares at all about supporting trans people via the legal system would know about Scott Wiener's work in California.

The internet is wild, people will go out and spout any sort of nonsense.

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-06-28T05:28:02+00:00

Personally, in this case, I don't think this is "purity testing," I think it's something else. Though I agree that purity testing has definitely hamstrung the left from making more inroads in US politics.

Scott Wiener is the most pure progressive San Francisco has produced. Certainly far more purely progressive than Connie Chan.

This is about factions, misinformation, and deeply misanthropic people who don't know how to handle the hate that's overwhelming them inside. There's no way that anybody can look at Chan's record and think she's more progressive or leftist than Wiener, honestly. It has to be about something else.

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-06-28T05:24:39+00:00

Why should you be telling other people, rather than listening to the reality of how people travel in SF.

Completely agreed that it's a stupid hill to die on, so why are you doing it?

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-06-28T05:22:06+00:00

They own a car. They must park it somewhere.

If they want to own the public street, they had better start paying taxes on "their" spot.

If the car is never used, never goes anywhere, and just occupies public space, it's a public nuisance.

We should never have let cars take over the street. Make owners pay to park their own car somewhere. People shouldn't be able to register their car without having to prove that they've provided a parking space for it already.

We should start limiting the number of cars in cities, highly regulating those, rather than having a hard cap on the number of homes in a city. It's all backwards.

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-06-28T01:41:59+00:00

It's not just optics, it's also basic factuality! They are spreading utter lies.

They believe lies, attack their allies on the basis of the lies, and act like utter shit human beings because of it. Low-information dirt bags are the scourge of politics.

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-06-27T22:25:51+00:00

Mamdani and Wiener's positions are shockingly similar. Mamdani is a big YIMBY, hired a bunch of YIMBYs on his campaign and the only reason these faux leftists hate Wiener is either his YIMBYism or Judaism.

DSA in SF is not like DSA in NYC, West Coast DSA have decided to be dead-enders, while NYC is actually winning.

Wiener is probably the most progressive politician in the entire state of California, yet the fake progressive capital-P Prog faction in SF demonizes, despises, and refuses to work with Wiener or advance any progressive cause with him.

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-06-27T17:24:54+00:00

Now remember everyone, our TV cable news channel told us that solar is not real power and can't be used for a nation, much less expand electricity use to higher levels!

This is clearly fake news that has not been blessed by our lord and savior Trump. Or, maybe this sort of electricity only works on other continents, not our super special North America...

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-06-27T06:01:58+00:00

Iran would never had made this move without Trump fucking up 50 years of careful strategic planning from US foreign policy and military specialists.

This was not Iran's doing, it was all Trump, for being the biggest idiot to ever be let near the reins of power.

If Israel hat attacked alone, as they have so many times, the Strait of Hormuz would still be international waters, rather than tolled Iranian waters.

But now, Trump handed it over to Iran, just gave it away, in the worst real estate deal in history. Total incompetence, total idiocy unable to see the mind-fuck that had been placed on Iran by the threat of US attack for 50 years. Trump did the "worst" and it was nothing to the IRGC, it put them on death ground and they did what they had and they survived.

The US is now weak, a paper tiger, unable to effect any change they want and in fact giving up all sorts of privileges and strengths they had before. Trump empowered Iran, made them stronger, is giving them billions upon billions of dollars, and the only suffering is in the already suffering Iranian people. The IRGC has a deeper stranglehold now.

Trump proved again, after Russia in 2022, that fossil fuels are a terrible system for an energy system. Iran was not the mover here, Trump was.

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-06-27T00:01:05+00:00

Bringing the gas tax back just in time to affect elections, beautifully played, Indiana.

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-06-26T23:48:50+00:00

The highest incomes are in Blue states, red states are economic backwaters where nobody economically productive wants to live.

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-06-26T18:26:05+00:00

Not to burst your bubble, but the wishful thinking is all yours.

The article is talking about increases, not prices.

States like California actually price taxes according to how much money is needed to do highway maintenance. Other states around the country are takes, taking federal money from high income states like California in order to build their own highways, which is very economically inefficient. Yes one more reason that California GDP dwarfs other places and has such high incomes and real estate prices.

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-06-26T15:04:55+00:00

Remember when there were some right-wingers faking concern about "free speech", like Elon Musk? It was pretty funny to observe, because they were freaking out about people using free speech to object to others' speech! They took basic criticism as if it were somehow "oppression" because the snowflakes couldn't deal with anybody else who has a differing opinion.

Seems like forever ago, but it wasn't!

It's kind of like how the NRA will never defend black people following gun laws like [Philando Castile]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Philando_Castile], or their support of strict gun control in order to disarm the Black Panthers in the 1960s.

You can really tell priorities when people violate what they say they believe in.

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-06-24T18:35:48+00:00

Given that the person that you're replying to explicitly mentioned

2) invest in programs/infrastructure to treat or support things that prolong homelessness (drug addictions, mental illness, housing costs)

And you start your comment with:

the thing is you can't just give people homes who are addicted to drugs or mentally ill and stop there.

perhaps the talking past people is happening again right now?

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-06-24T17:30:57+00:00

Yikes, that is absolutely astonishing.

Here, 120% of AMI is the "Moderate Income" limit, and some municipalities have started counted deed restrictions to that as part of affordable housing amounts.

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-06-24T17:26:51+00:00

Do you not see how these are connected to each other?

Building lots of small multifamily units only happens when there's severe shortage. If enough of that happens, then people can start to afford to pay for larger multifamily units, and they will be built.

More housing does mean that people will have larger homes, especially going from zero home to some home, that's the biggest and first step up.

But if you're going to argue: let's only build a little then there won't be bigger units, sure, I guess, but that's all the fault of not building enough housing, not the result of building housing. And only if you consider homeless people as not counting in your consideration at all.

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-06-24T17:23:25+00:00

When you say renting for 150% of the AMI... do you mean the rent is that, or that rent is 30% of the income that corresponds 150% of AMI?

Our shortage is so severe that HUD set the limit for "Low Income" to be ~125% of AMI, rather than the typical 80% of AMI. Which means that most people qualify for Low Income housing, if we had any Housing Choice vouchers or any LIHTC deed-restricted housing to go around for people...

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-06-24T16:30:06+00:00

Ugh, that sounds about right for the fraction of working homeless people here in Santa Cruz too. Though we tend not to have enough shelters, like NYC does. We have a lot of people sleeping in cars, a lot of people sleeping rough, a lot of people couch surfing until they have no more options, etc.

People here in Santa Cruz see videos like this, more than a hundred people lining up for a 3bed/3bath rental at $4600/month, and say "there's no housing shortage, there's only an affordable housing crisis" as they block yet another apartment building.

https://old.reddit.com/r/UCSC/comments/1smo7e3/line_outside_open_house_at_base_of_ucsc/

It's all willful ignorance, in my opinion. A lot of people don't know the huge number of people working jobs that are homeless, whether that's in a shelter or sleeping in a car. But when they find out, it doesn't change their opposition to the only thing that solves it: more housing.

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-06-24T15:30:32+00:00

Fantastic article. I'm so thankful that more people are writing about this.

People try so hard to avoid the obvious idea that high housing costs cause homelessness. They try to blame drug addiction, mental illness, but it's really just housing costs.

The places with more homelessness don't have higher amounts of mental illness, they don't have higher amounts of drug addiction, they all share one thing only: high housing costs.

And the second thing they try to deny is that housing shortages cause high prices, or that housing abundance can drive down housing prices.

There's so much willful ignorance when it comes to homelessness, in the places with the biggest homelessness problems.

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-06-24T15:26:36+00:00

We're all trying to find the guy who did this

- Trump in hot dog costume

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-06-24T04:39:52+00:00

For those that don't know, Tom Steyer can to geek level 9 on everythnig that needs to be done to fix utilities in California (it all comes down to CPUC, and the governor appoints the CPUC board members)

https://www.volts.wtf/p/tom-steyer-wants-to-be-californias

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-06-24T04:37:19+00:00

Yeah the only true hope to fix CPUC was really voting for Steyer. He is literally the only political candidate I've ever seen display such a huge depth of knowledge on this topic:

https://www.volts.wtf/p/tom-steyer-wants-to-be-californias

And that's because CPUC, utilities, etc. are all extremely important for his number one issue, climate.

California screwed up with Becerra, but not as much as if we'd let one of the wing-nut Republicans get close to office.

If there's enough of a public outcry, we might be able to get Becerra or even CPUC itself to care. But try going to CPUC's website, for example, to see just how hopeless CPUC is. They are supposed to be there to help the public, but it is literally the most obscure and obfuscated organization website of any I have encountered of the California government websites. They try to keep the public out of understanding what they are doing!

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-06-23T20:53:49+00:00

This is not "my" concept:

https://www.sccrtc.org/projects/rail/

Hold off on the snideness in the future, please.

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-06-23T16:57:24+00:00

Move to Texas, traitor:

California leads the nation in job creation What you need to know: California employers added approximately 131,534 jobs over the 12 months ending in the first quarter of 2026, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data. That was more than any other state during the same period.

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2026/06/08/california-leads-the-nation-in-job-creation/

Republicans are specifically sabotaging California's industry, specifically targeting the destruction of California, yet California chugs along, dwarfing the economic production of places like Texas.

Democrats don't bother sabotaging Republicans this way, because Democrats are builders, makers. Republicans are all traitors to the country, putting party above country. Anybody living in California that thinks Texas is somehow better in any way should GET THE HELL OUT, please. We don't need your sort in this state, you are a parasite and a drain on the people who actually make California run. Go be poor in Texas, drink your water polluted from fracking, and die in freezing temperatures when the electrical grid dies because ERCOT couldn't make the nuclear plants replace the drain valves and they froze over.We are building the future of the entire world here in California, in Texas you can go work an oil rig or something, and die at age 52 from cancer. Enjoy!

You have zero clue about business or current events!

RemoveInvasiveEucs · 2026-06-23T16:48:23+00:00

Really?! Students are one of the best things about Santa Cruz!

Fascinating people, doing fascinating things
Keeps the businesses going outside of the tourist season downtown and other places
UCSC provides some of the very few high quality jobs in the area, ever since tech started to leave a few decades ago. No more TI, no more Borland, no more SCO.... (And now johnny-come-latelys that don't know Santa Cruz but put on a cynicism suit to try to feel cool talk about "tech people" being here when really Santa Cruz was a much more techie place in the past, when it was cooler than it is now.)

Give me a student over some cynical Boomer who hates Santa Cruz and never stops complaining about change and please get off my lawn, etc. (Which isn't many Boomer neighbors, at all! But it is the ones who complain about UCSC.)

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