1/n - On the whole @chesaboudin thing, it’s like my college Russian lit class…
You’ve got people (@DavidSacks and crew) who are reading every word he says or action he takes (or lack thereof) as pure, strategic, calculated evil…
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3/n Has his office and policies probably made stuff worse and emboldened criminals. It seems likely yeah. The numbers don’t seem to work in his favor.
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4/n But everyone assigning blame and calling him the spawn of Satan are just projecting their deep political biases on
@chesaboudin in the same way my Russian lit professors hung on every word of Dostoevsky after their 400th reading of Crime and Punishment…Show this thread -
5/n They had a worldview and theory on how a novel should be seen and made sure to read the text in that way.
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6/n Suggested next step: Chill the f*ck out. There were homeless abound and criminals breaking into cars in SF before Chesa. It’s just now spread out across the city a bit more and probably on the rise.
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7/n - If there’s anything wealthier folks (aka the loud complainers on Twitter) are good at, it’s avoiding poor people anyway. If my middle class tech job ass can afford to rent in the Marina, I’m sure most of the complainers so riled up can do the same.
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8/n tl;dr - Chesa may not be good for SF, but he ain’t probably as evil as Twitter makes him out to be. Go enjoy the nice weather we’re having :)
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