[michaelochurch]

There are four demonic elephants (named Housing Prices, Cultural Erosion, Age Discrimination, and Limousine NIMBY Leftism) the size of tanks in the room. They're all shitting highly radioactive nuclear diarrhea by the truckload per minute and you can actually taste the alpha particles. But this article came along to say, "look, 10 cute kittens!" In fact, the kittens are all dead of asphyxiation from the vapors coming off the putrefied elephant feces, and covered in liquid shit, which makes them a lot less cute.

This article ignores the demonic elephant-monsters and tries to bring attention to the kittens. Poor kitties.

[EdwardDiego]

> Limousine NIMBY Leftism

Are you able to elaborate on this one?

[michaelochurch]

Sure. New York and San Francisco have a lot of people that are total assholes to everyone (especially their subordinates and colleagues at work) but consider it OK because, after all, they're Democrats. They're not "those people" who overtly espouse economic inequality; they're couth enough to covertly support it. They also tend to be the people who (a) keep housing prices high in places like San Francisco and New York by pushing NIMBY regulations that block housing deveopment, and (b) choose not to vaccinate their kids on pseudoscientific grounds and are singularly responsible for the resurgence of third-world childhood diseases in places like the Bay Area. It's all OK, though, if you're working on a "world changing product" and promise God to "help Africa" (price discriminate with said product) once you've made it to the top.

You know how potheads lose motivation because when you're high, even goofy stuff feels like real accomplishment, and some eventually lose that need to experience substantial achievement? That's why limousine liberals are poisonous. They and their acolytes and their inefficient nonprofits (often with top executives making $350k on a 10-to-3 workday) give a bunch of people the satisfaction that comes from helping people-- the feeling of having done something-- without actually helping people much.

We need real liberalism and real environmental protection and a real social safety net, not fuckheads using phony environmental arguments to push NIMBY policies that keep their houses overvalued.

[EdwardDiego]

Cheers mate, that explains it. I was struggling to reconcile the Bay Area's famed leftie tendencies with the realities of inequality on the ground.