Also, even if you don't believe it, it's not a strawman because it wasn't being attributed to someone else. Please try to balance out the random general-purpose rhetorical tricks with some actual facts or insight of your own next time.
I've banned this account for trolling, including because of the trollish username. At a minimum, that is distracting. Would you please not do it again?
More importantly, please stop posting flamebait to HN threads.
And I think the California government and many of its supposedly liberal citizens could do more as well. "Screw you, I got mine" applies to both sides.
Even better, we as a nation should be implementing all those and not just leaving it up to wealthy states.