Matthew Lefkowitz
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Matthew Lefkowitz
@LefkowitzSyS
Standard-issue, middle-class, suburban-California psuedo-intellectual who loves to hyphenate. Sire/Sovereign.
San Francisco, CA Joined Kasım 2011
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@Mazelit_ Not true of the GOP. Take it from me, a happy, Jewish Republican anecdote. The tent is big and the stakes holding up the tent move, as needed, to make room for political refugees. Come!
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There is no room for Jews in the current 2-party system in America. The liberals send us out to slaughter and the trolls on the Right are no better.
I’m politically homeless. I’m OK with that. Anyone else here?
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This song pretty much sums up the City I was born, raised and lived for 34 years…
Pray for the Israel Day Parade tomorrow.
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@alyssakrejmas House of Bagels on Geary is fine. Schlok's on Fell is very good.
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Drop the most random UCLA football player you can think of in the comments! Let’s see who actually remembers them. 👇 🏈
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I am not particularly political however having been in SF for the better part of 3 months and watching the @spencerpratt campaign in LA, I have a few observations.
1. Listening to the screams of addicts at 3 in the morning on Union Square is slightly terrifying at first. And then you just accept that we are living in an open asylum.
2. I have yet to go a full day without seeing at least 1 human openly smoking crack or shooting up.
3. I have seen more ass cracks in public than any human should be subjected to.
4. On day 8, I had the lovely misfortune of having pee splattered on my as a woman unleashed upon a light pole.
On what planet is any of this humane? How is this acceptable?
I wanted to love it here and mostly I do. I have met some amazing people, the weather is obnoxiously perfect and we are making more progress in the startup/tech ecosystem than we ever would have back home.
That being said, am I going to ever put permanent roots down in a city where my out of town friends or potential children will have to navigate piles of feces on the sidewalk or miss their bus stop because some tweaker is freaking out and puts you on high alert? Honestly, no.
I can't vote legally in the state or I would wholeheartedly support anyone who is for cleaning this shit up.
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Spencer Pratt used his social media platform to spread extreme misinformation & disgusting scare tactics against our housing laws, including SB 79 (more homes near public transit) & SB 9 (duplexes & fourplexes).
Pratt is a mega NIMBY & he lies, which he’s doing again here.
Bobby LaValley@Bobby_LaVallley
.@spencerpratt: "We’re going to build so much housing, the entire city will be cranes. We’re going to look like Dubai in eight years."
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Drop the most random Stanford football player you can think of in the comments! Let’s see who actually remembers them. 👇 🏈 🌲
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Who remembers watching Jahvid Best at Cal? 🛩️
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@moseskagan There was a time when communists were proud of their identity and proclaimed it loudly rather than, as today, identifying as "democratic socialists" or "progressives" or some other euphemistic label.
Alameda, CA 🇺🇸 English
This is important in LA, too.
Neither Bass nor Nithya are communists. Both are basically normie Dems who swung too far left (for my liking, anyway) during the '20-'24 period when so many other people did, too.
Throwing around "communist" just makes us sound crazy to the kind of middle-of-the-road, sensible voters moderates are trying to persuade.
Jay Martin 🏠 🏢🏚️🌇@jaymart222
From a political perspective, calling existing programs “communism” is a tactical error. The reaction to the Mayor’s housing plan is the textbook case. The city already had the power to take buildings from bad landlords. In rem foreclosure. Eminent domain. 7A administrators. None of it is new. And all of it requires court judgments, waiting periods, and Council sign-off. There is no instant seizure button, no matter how the rhetoric sounds. COPA is the same story. It is a right of first offer, not a seizure. San Francisco has run it since 2019 with no legal challenges and a market that never slowed. The heavy-handed version New York tried two decades ago, Local Law 79 of 2006, is the one the courts struck down. The careful version survives. The seizure version loses. Of course they shouldn’t be passing bills of questionable legality in the first place but that’s not the point I’m debating. The idea of the policies themselves must become toxic to touch. The Mayor’s rhetoric is built to gin up his base and inflame his opposition. It does not match the legal reality of what he can actually do. And right now the public believes things are going well. Voters went from 66% wrong track last fall to a right track majority today. Every hard input says the same thing. The anecdotal conversations people claim to have with their neighbors do not change that. So when you label all of it communist or socialist, you tie his current popularity to policies I would argue are bad ones. You do his work for him. Labels do not move voters. Impacts do. Look at the numbers. Voters give socialism the cold shoulder and pick capitalism head to head, but two thirds back the millionaire’s tax anyway. Majorities back free childcare but also support limited government power. The policy outruns the label every time. Attack the label and you lose. Attack the impact and you have a chance. Those who oppose bad policy should be proving it is bad to the people who do not already agree. Just calling it bad desensitizes everyone. Every time you say communism without tying it to something real, you make the word easier to embrace. Tie the proposals to the reality, or stop using the labels.
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@MrsMassacre What makes Montana more expensive than other places?
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We get so many of these dumb shit motherfuckers moving to Montana. They do 0 research, don't realize how expensive it is to live here and then they clutter up the place with their stupid, shitty little RVs because they're retarded poor fucks who need to fuck off. YELLOWSTONE ISN'T REAL, STOP MOVING HERE.
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Available Wi-Fi in the coffee shop I was writing in. Tell me what I can do, gentle lady, to finally allow your wandering spirit to rest.
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@DrewSav Before the Great Depression, macroeconomic contractions were called panics. The Panic of 1873 was great (large).
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Calling it the Great Depression implies there were some other not so great depressions and I'd hate to see what those looked like.
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@tanujDE3180 Seems to me your engineer should have fixed the source of the recurring data corruption during those three years spent patching the recurring data corruption.
San Francisco, CA 🇺🇸 English
a staff engineer at my old company got laid off during “cost cutting.”
his entire farewell meeting was 12 minutes long.
week later:
payment service started randomly failing.
turns out he was manually fixing edge-case data corruption every night for 3 years.
nobody even knew.
the most dangerous systems are the ones surviving because of one invisible engineer.
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