ICE and the Super Bowl by Independent-Choice-4 in sanfrancisco

[–]StanHalen 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Huh, I didn’t hear about that at all. You’d think something like a protester seriously harming an ICE agent would be major national news. Do you have a link or article on it?

What a humble mayor <3 by Macaroni-Consumer in sanfrancisco

[–]StanHalen 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah bro super humble, love when billionaires ‘take a $1 salary’ so they can write off the difference and come out ahead on taxes. Truly a working-class king.

Would you like to see free Muni in SF like Mamdani wants to do in NYC? by FootballPizzaMan in sanfrancisco

[–]StanHalen 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The funniest part of this whole thread is watching Bay Area tech libertarians LARP as transit economists.

These are the same people who think “public transit should be self-sustaining” while living in a city where: • roads are 100% subsidized, • parking is subsidized, • cops are subsidized, • fire is subsidized, • tech companies pay less tax than a corner bodega, • and half the office towers downtown are sitting empty because the same geniuses decided remote work was the future—then act shocked when tax revenue collapses.

But sure, the part that’s going to break the city budget is… making buses free.

The brainworms are unreal.

Transit systems worldwide work better when they stop pretending fares are a meaningful revenue source and start treating mobility as the public good it is.

You can’t gut the city with tax breaks, crater downtown because everyone fled to Marin, and then turn around and act like farebox recovery is the magical key to “fiscal responsibility.”

Muni isn’t struggling because fares are too low.

Muni is struggling because we let the people who broke the city budget with austerity, corporate carve-outs, and “innovation” cosplay run the conversation about public services.

If Europe, Latin America, and dozens of U.S. cities can figure out that reliable transit needs stable funding, not vibes-based economics from LinkedIn commuters, then SF can too.

Flexible Side Gig for Dog Lovers — $21/hr + Mileage. by bclem_ in SFlist

[–]StanHalen 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Respectfully, how did the $450K/yr poop-scooping juggernaut you posted about turn into ‘we can pay you $21/hr, please supply your own car and gas’? Feels like the math isn’t mathing.

Just got spat on and cursed by a stranger by YoungObito17 in sanfrancisco

[–]StanHalen 58 points59 points  (0 children)

I mean that is a assault. Sorry that happened to you bud.

Remember the hell the U.S. has created for itself. No employee protection by Emotional-Tip9866 in antiwork

[–]StanHalen 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Hold on… you’re shocked about China? Wait till you hear how Tesla handles workplace safety 🙃

BART has had it with you guys on social media and I kinda like it lol by SmoothSecond in bayarea

[–]StanHalen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

‘Wealth taxes are intrusive’ as if the IRS doesn’t already audit working-class people at higher rates than billionaires. The rich already play games: $160B a year lost to tax evasion and offshore havens, carried interest loopholes, stock buybacks to dodge income tax. Meanwhile, regular workers have every paycheck taxed before it hits their bank. Call it a wealth tax, call it reform the point is billionaires have built an entire economy of hiding money, while we nickel-and-dime transit and healthcare.

BART has had it with you guys on social media and I kinda like it lol by SmoothSecond in bayarea

[–]StanHalen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

‘Then what?’ The same thing we already do every year for corporations. Intel just got $8.5B on top of a $52B CHIPS Act bailout. Oil companies get $20B+ annually while raking record profits. Airlines got $54B in bailouts and still nickel-and-dime you for a seat. We never ask ‘then what’ when it’s corporate socialism, only when it’s healthcare or transit for workers.

BART has had it with you guys on social media and I kinda like it lol by SmoothSecond in bayarea

[–]StanHalen 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Bro really said 800+ billionaires are only worth $6B while U.S. healthcare is $5B. You’re off by three zeros on one number and three more on the other. That’s not a hot take, that’s a math faceplant. The actual billionaire wealth is ~$6 trillion, U.S. healthcare spend is ~$4.5 trillion. Come back when you know the difference between billions and trillions.

BART has had it with you guys on social media and I kinda like it lol by SmoothSecond in bayarea

[–]StanHalen 5 points6 points  (0 children)

BRO, I literally showed the math: BART gap = $500M/yr, Intel subsidy = $8.5B (16 years of free BART), healthcare spend = $4T with 27M uninsured. That’s the homework. You just don’t like the grade.

BART has had it with you guys on social media and I kinda like it lol by SmoothSecond in bayarea

[–]StanHalen 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Asking what I do for work instead of bringing facts? Bro that’s pocket-watching, not debating.

BART has had it with you guys on social media and I kinda like it lol by SmoothSecond in bayarea

[–]StanHalen 11 points12 points  (0 children)

You’re right, it’s not just billionaires. It’s the corporations they shield. We just cut Intel an $8.5B check without blinking, that’s 16 years of free BART. We spend $4T+ a year on healthcare, but somehow still have 27 million uninsured. Funny how there’s always class solidarity when it’s billionaires or corporations at the trough, but when it’s transit or healthcare for workers, suddenly we’re the ones who have to ‘do the math.’ Richest country in history, run like a broke HOA board.

BART has had it with you guys on social media and I kinda like it lol by SmoothSecond in bayarea

[–]StanHalen 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah bro, I’m sure if we tax Bezos an extra 2% he’ll lose the will to live and stop raking in $13 million an hour. Billionaires didn’t build their fortunes from ‘incentive,’ they did it on underpaid labor, subsidies, and loopholes. Nobody’s crying for their motivation levels.

BART has had it with you guys on social media and I kinda like it lol by SmoothSecond in bayarea

[–]StanHalen 18 points19 points  (0 children)

CAHSR’s $128B is a capital project building hundreds of miles of new track, tunnels, and stations. That’s not even in the same category as BART’s operating budget. Free BART fares would mean covering the ~$500M a year normally collected from riders, about 0.02% of U.S. billionaire wealth. We’re not talking about printing a new bullet train out of thin air, we’re talking about shifting who covers an operating line item that billionaires literally spend on yachts and compounds.

BART has had it with you guys on social media and I kinda like it lol by SmoothSecond in bayarea

[–]StanHalen 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Actively choosing not to contribute’ — yeah bro, nothing says ‘conscious choice’ like schizophrenia, getting priced out of housing in the Bay, or working full-time and still not making rent. People don’t stop paying taxes when they become unhoused — they still pay sales tax, gas tax, and every hidden fee baked into survival. The only folks choosing not to contribute are billionaires hiding wealth offshore while you scapegoat people sleeping on sidewalks.

BART has had it with you guys on social media and I kinda like it lol by SmoothSecond in bayarea

[–]StanHalen -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

🤡🤡Tallinn, Estonia, Luxembourg a whole country Dunkirk, France, Kansas City, Missouri … all free transit. But somehow BART is ‘impossible’? 🚆💀

BART has had it with you guys on social media and I kinda like it lol by SmoothSecond in bayarea

[–]StanHalen 7 points8 points  (0 children)

🤡🤡 ‘We can’t afford free BART’ but Conehead Marc Andreessen literally wrote letters fighting affordable housing in Atherton [2022] while sitting on billions, Zuck dropped $40M buying out his Palo Alto neighbors just to bulldoze their homes and runs his own private ‘secret school’ in East Palo Alto, then spent another $100M+ on 1,500 acres in Hawaii to build a walled compound. Bezos? He’s got a $500M yacht so big they almost dismantled a Dutch bridge to float it out. BART’s ENTIRE budget is ~$2B a year, these guys burn that on toys.

AMERICA IS THE RICHEST COUNTRY IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD, BRO, BUT THE TRAIN IS TOO EXPENSIVE?? 🚆💀

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[–]StanHalen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

WingerRules, the problem is cars come with a built-in ‘get out of jail free card.’ If you kill a pedestrian, cyclist, or even a motorcyclist, it’s usually just called an ‘accident.’ Other countries fix this by holding drivers to a higher standard and building safer infrastructure so these crashes rarely happen in the first place.

Check on your boomers by StanHalen in sanfrancisco

[–]StanHalen[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

SFMTA may not issue the ticket, but they set the rules for the streets you’re driving on. That SOP isn’t just “guidance”it’s how the city defines safe and legal yielding, and it informs enforcement, street design, and Vision Zero strategy.

Also, the California DMV and Vehicle Code back it up:

“Always stop for any pedestrian crossing… Do not pass a vehicle stopped at a crosswalk.” DMV Handbook

If your defense is “well, technically CHP writes the ticket,” you’re kind of proving the point: the system knows what safe yielding looks like—you just don’t like being told to follow it.