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12 Jun, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Because people clearly struggling with some kind illness are very normal in politics. The idea of filing a complaint in a city famous for vindictiveness and ladder climbing is nauseous. You risk being ostracized by allies or accused of partisanship (which happened w/ this story)
Just like all accusations of misconduct, is anyone gonna waste their time filing a complaint and testify against a respected politician with attack brigades on standby? Without anyone else to back you up and could end up just looking like one incident rather than behavior? No.
There are people in SF politics, in Oakland politics: activists, electeds, bureaucrats, reporters and I can tell they're clearly ill or out of control. Everybody knows. I got things to do and I'm not gonna waste my time filing complaints and be accused of trivializing or whatever
I applaud Peskin for what he did and I hope it inspires more people to both call out and self-reflect on their extreme behavior, and rather than enabling it as truth telling because you agree with the message, get them the help they need.
Politics is a hard field to be in. It's hard not to become unwell or mentally damaged from it without proper assistance and care.

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Darrell
13 Jun
An interesting way I'm measuring the housing crisis with census data is looking at age medians over the course of 80 years for each consecutive decade. Whats fascinating is how a 100 year old Berkeley neighborhood as late as 1980 had a median age of 38. Today its 54 yrs old.
This would likely suggest how the lack of available housing keeps incumbent residents aging in place while new generations of families buy housing elsehwere
Are there variables I should consider beyond this that would cause the population to age like that?
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Darrell
10 Jun
Good for Peskin.
Treatment is good. No jokes to be made here, its great Peskin has done this and said so openly.
Obviously this stuff is wildly inappropriate. Part of being a bigtime politician is having lots of friends who will understandably defend Peskin but anybody looking at this reasonably would know this is unbecoming. Glad he's getting treatment.
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Darrell
10 Jun
I disagree with @mattyglesias take that everyone becoming homeowners is a problem. Theres high income countries have high homeownership yet build homes. It's American homeownership culture where the house is relied on as a class-jumping tool that creates shortages that's failed
The real problem is that we tell people homeownership is their key to the middle class rather than wages being the key to the middle class since the latter has been stagnant for decades now.
We should have 90% homeownership like Singapore and China. At least half of NYC or more should be homeowners like Tokyo. Owning your home with a low yield is good. Real estate being the "get rich quick" scheme for Americans and thus a feudal culture that Blackrock exploits is bad
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Darrell
9 Jun
A Berkeley NIMBY who works in real estate designing mansions, who lives in a $2 million dollar all white neighborhood, the 1st in the U.S. zoned for single family to bar Black people invokes the Tulsa massacre he just learned about to oppose two family zoning. He crossed the line
@alfred_twu: you crossed the line first Darrell, you squeezed the NIMBYs, you hammered them to the point of desperation. And in their desperation they turned to arguments they dont fully understand.
NIMBYs arent complicated Alfred, we just need to find out what hes after
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Darrell
8 Jun
Freddie deBoer's piece was good? It's another Leftist piece saying explicitly: "YIMBYs are right on the big picture, but annoying day-to-day." Offering criticism that YIMBYs should treat communities with nuance rather than blanket NIMBY accusations.
freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/maybe-you-co…
deBoer states the obvious: some developers are bad and YIMBYs should be critical. Anti-gentrification activists can be wrong but they should not made fun of. That many POC have cultural attachment to things and that "we need YIMBYs" so they should stop being socially inept online
I'm getting a sense that people are kinda pissed or mocking this piece, I dont know this deBoer guy too well, but I thought it was pretty decent. I've basically heard the same exact thing from yimby-lites in the housing activist spaces. Seems pretty supportive all-in-all Image
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2 Jun
Wait, okay my bad. Alec here said "bike lanes" but the story isnt about that, its recreational biking on the trail. I dont care about that but on *bike lanes* e bikes are welcome and anyone complaining can get them widened or shut up.
Now whats a "recreational" trail? I dont use ebikes but i see em on city park trails or shoreline trails where i do "recreational cycling" and thats great. Unless its out in the wilderness, and even then i dont care, but especially green areas and parks in suburbs and cities
Whenever in doubt its safe to side against exclusionary cyclists who bitch about bike lanes, people not wearing helmets, ebikes ect. Fuck your midlife crisis, let people bike, electric or not.
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