Thread by @shayshinecastle

Omgosh is it Tuesday already? Feels like we were just here... 'cause we were, on Friday AND Saturday for the annual retreat.

We're easing back into it with a study session tonight. Three things on the agenda:
Eviction Prevention (No Eviction Without Representation)
Parking policies/pricing
Alpine Balsam update

I didn't realize that last one was on the agenda, so apologies. I left it out of the preview in this week's newsletter.

Our Wallach Sigh-O-Meter is at 1 and the meeting hasn't even started.

OH JFC. The pre-meeting chatter tonight.
Wallach sighed bc the council got postcards comparing them to Nazis for lethal control of prairie dogs.

Wallach, who said he is Jewish, feels disgusted and offended by that.

Nagle: "What makes us different? We're gassing 30,000" prairie dogs.

Wallach: "I think a comparison to what we're doing to the systematic, industrial execution of entire races of people" is not accurate.

Nagle: "I would disagree with that."

Young: "The Third Reigh actually modeled their system of oppression after the United States."

Reich*

Wow. I don't really know how to follow that with actual city business...

I'm back, briefly, to say that Wallach disagreed with Young's statement. "No other regime that I'm aware of" used industrial systems to kill people, he says.
Young: We deloused and showered people with kerosene when they crossed the border....

Not entirely sure what she was talking about. (Link, anyone?) But the whole thing ended when Brockett — who is leading tonight's meeting — broke in and started... leading tonight's meeting.

Wild.

Back for one more tidbit. Nagle is also Jewish (if I recall correctly.) Not saying that makes this OK, but thought you should have all the facts.

OK, adding a couple more tweets for context, since it's been brought to my attention that some people may feel I was questioning Wallach's own feelings about the postcards and somehow disingenuous. I was not; that was not my intention.

The Twitter thread started off with my snarky little Wallach Sigh-O-Meter, which I sometimes use as a lighthearted break to news coverage. (Much like my references to Sassy Sam or Swetlik's backlit couch)

At that point, I didn't know what he was sighing about. It was pre-meeting conversation, and I didn't intend to tweet about the postcard comparing council members to Nazis, because it's idiotic and offensive and not really relevant what some kook thinks.

I *only* tweeted about it because of Nagle's response, which DID seem noteworthy. And the convo was already moving by then, so I had to type fast.

I apologize to anyone who thought I was making light. It was funny (the sigh) until it wasn't (people comparing lethal control of pdogs to the Holocaust).

If I knew where the convo was going to go, I never would have started it in that way.