| Me | I swim in SF Bay, I often have pedestrian rage at idiots in cars, I think Obama/Biden were/are right wing tools for the security state but Trump and his ilk are morally corrupt thugs, and I want to kick the next person who says “SF Doom Loop" |
I just published The Barking Dog Roasters, a yelpish review of a lovely little coffee shop in Boyes Hot Springs, CA: https://medium.com/@joeschmuck/barking-dog-roasters-fe0ba060973f
He can come to San Francisco and fuck up our city for a week while cutting corporate deals, but he can’t be bothered to go deal with the most existential issue we face today.
https://www.axios.com/2023/11/27/biden-cop28-climate-summit-dubai
I wrote this, maybe it will strike a chord, maybe you'll wanna strike me.
Our capitalist rulers, and the politicians they own, are playing the long game. Since the 1950s they have been working steadily to shift the Overton window, to reduce the influence of labor unions, to boost consumerism, and to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of a few.
A large part of that strategy involves privatizing services that used to be (and should be) public.
They're playing the long game, and they are winning — much to the detriment of you and me and the environment we live in.
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