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Re:SF cracks down on ‘Monkey Parking’ mobile app by r00fus on Monday June 23, 2014 @03:41PM (#7934105)
While it's easy to demonize "environmentalists", it's pretty clear in the SF Bay Area that environmentalists and property owners are in collusion (or property owners are using the environmentalist label to limit supply).

Ultimately, the best way to root-cause a policy issue is to follow the money. Someone is making money from a lack of governance.

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Re:SF cracks down on ‘Monkey Parking’ mobile app by dsl on Monday June 23, 2014 @04:28PM (#7934421)
It is not so much money as it is power. San Francisco has a reverse-Tea Party problem.

When all viable candidates for a position are already left of center, the only way to shine is to seem more-progressive and out liberal the other guy.

As evidenced by the problems on the right currently - the biggest danger is that as we keep creeping to the extreme left, the "far out nutjobs" are only a tiny step away and seem almost reasonable by comparison.

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Re:SF cracks down on ‘Monkey Parking’ mobile app by pessimizer on Monday June 23, 2014 @04:36PM (#7934480)
The 'left' has vary little presence in current US government (including in San Francisco) on any level. 'Far-left nutjobs' in the modern context refers to anyone to the left of Nixon.
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