What are the tech workers supposed to do? Not exist? Google and Facebook are in Silicon Valley, and tech workers are people too. Palo Alto could EASILY tell Google and Facebook to leave (literally just rezone the area), but it loves the tech workers and their salaries. They just don’t want tech workers to live there.

No harm, no foul.

But then, it isn’t a genocide. Genocide requires death. If black and brown people are surviving, that means they are not being killed, which means it is not a genocide.

Intellectual property rights were violated, that is a crime at least. And she actually already pleaded guilty.

I think you are now also changing the definition of “white washing” to suit your needs. White washing means erasing POC people from history, but I literally was ADDING people of color to history with my post. Try again, this is getting boring.

I know, but someone keeps elevating him out of the greys. May as well make the best of it.

This is one of the most pathetic excuses of a response I have ever seen. Rather than prove genocide is happening, you deflect to say I deny white privilege exists? White privilege DOES exist. There. I said it.

The funny thing is, slavery is at an all time global high, but not in white countries.

There definitely is a victim. If someone steals my property they still stole my property, even if they did try to replace it with something else. That the employees were duped means they were duped, which is a crime called FRAUD.

I mean according to Critical Race Theory, White Privilege already IS the normal.

The Germans are going right, and Justin Trudeau is actually dialing back Canadian offensive capabilities. We are on our own.

This troll has been going around being basically Maoist (or some other off-brand type of Marxism) all day. Earlier he tried calling gentrification a “genocide.” Basically comparing poor people moving out of their neighborhoods to shitty housing to Rwanda or Armenia or 1940s Germany.

as sentenced to 30 months in prison on Wednesday for defrauding 60 different stores across 12 states out of $400,00 of designer hand bags.

The long time residents of EAST Palo Alto, yes. The existing residents of Palo Alto (a different city), no. Palo Alto residents just love having extremely high property values and their small beachside suburb. They are the NIMBYs preventing it all.

Wait what? Where did I ever say poor people are stopping new housing? I said the Palo Alto City Council: Palo Alto was a rich suburb even before the tech workers showed up, and its mostly old rich longtime Palo Alto residents who keep development at bay.

Your criticism of PEPFAR is atrociously bad, especially with it being uncited.Yah its in quotes but where is the actual source? And everyone credits the modern program for bringing AIDs down. Even Dylan Matthews actually gave him credit:

It is not “impossible to build enough” housing in Palo Alto. If Palo Alto had Manhattan’s density in units per square mile then there would not be a housing crisis there.

The problem is Palo Alto is so overpopulated (relative to the number of units it has) that the population keeps spilling into East Palo Alto. So yah, Palo Alto needs to build a fuckton more housing to stop displacing residents elsewhere.

The Democrats have a real problem. All their big names are at the age where they just cannot run again, and there isn’t a large pool of young Democrats with any experience in government. Three decades of not investing in ground level politics will do that to you.

You can’t drive housing costs down when the population moving to an area is exploding and you are not building anything. Allowing a few towers with a few hundred units is just the beginning. Palo Alto needs THOUSANDS of new units, and zoning plays a part in that. Believe it or not you can, in your zoning rules,…