San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities
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San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities is a recurring book in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between May 24, 2022 and June 23, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “His book San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities”; “And in a book called San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities”. It most often appears alongside California, Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles.
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- Category: Books
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: May 24, 2022
- Last seen: June 23, 2022
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- California (2 shared issues)
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- Gavin Newsom (2 shared issues)
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- Los Angeles (2 shared issues)
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- Michael Shellenberger (2 shared issues)
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- Newsom (2 shared issues)
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- Oakland (2 shared issues)
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- Project Roomkey (2 shared issues)
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- San Francisco (2 shared issues)
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- San Francisco Chronicle (2 shared issues)
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- suboxone (2 shared issues)
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- United States (2 shared issues)
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- Abolitionist (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
The latest step in his intellectual evolution is his book San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities, which points out all the rampant crime and drug use and homelessness and garbage in SF and says maybe some of these things are bad (the New York Times wrote a negative review here).
Inline links: here
Maybe something like: these are profound psychological truths, but their failure mode is to be reduced to preachiness and haranguing. And in a book called San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities, there’s almost no way not to have them sound like preachiness and haranguing. It’s like how calling out injustice and highlighting the cruelty of those who ignore the less fortunate is all nice and well when Victor Hugo does it - but if the book is by Rachel Maddow, I am just going to skip those parts.