Sean

Labor & housing advocate.
12 year housing industry veteran.

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[Sean @BCTSean]

My New Year's resolution was to be meaner, and to be nice to fewer undeserving people. Grace is to be earned, not given freely.

The reactions to the events of the first few days of this year have given me great opportunity to put this resolution into practice.

[Sean @BCTSean]

@yayathehun I appreciate you so much for this post, because this is how I know I’m gonna have to mute some phrases for a while lol.

[Sean @BCTSean]

@UtilityCalc @noahpasaran So every time the right presents a challenger "we must defeat" we have to vote for the liberal?

Come on. This is lesser-evilism done poorly.

[Sean @BCTSean]

@UtilityCalc @noahpasaran Damn, I'm in "other".

(Though this sample of 3 states is hardly a representative sample.)

[Sean @BCTSean]

The CM most known for not knowing how to build coalitions sent a *staffer* to try to convince Rae to drop out and offered the most lukewarm olive branch after months of being extremely shitty to our campaign.

Nithya jumped in at the last minute and ran to the right of both of **her own** 2020 and 2024 runs.

If Nithya can't clear *SPENCER PRATT*, that's a Nithya issue, not a "Rae not dropping out" issue.

If Nithya couldn't peel more off of Bass and Miller, that's a Nithya issue, not a Rae issue.

If after 6 years as CM, Nithya couldn't win over labor or her own SIOs, that's a Nithya issue, not a Rae issue.

The virtue is in providing people with a candidate during the primary who didn't acquiesce to dropping out in favor of a candidate who expressed zero left unity until she was scared of losing and even then couldn't even fake it by making the call herself.

I'm glad Rae stayed in, and I tabled for her 8 hours today outside a vote center in Silverlake, and the people that voted for her also expressed their thanks she stayed in because they had someone who actually represented their values to cast a vote for.

Stop absolving uninspiring candidates of being uninspiring any time someone flanks them on the left.

Also, our chapter had the opportunity to endorse Rae before Nithya even filed but... I promised folks I'd be better about not airing our chapter's laundry on twitter.

[Sean @BCTSean]

@UtilityCalc @noahpasaran Social democrats* may have voted for her, most of the socialists I know did not.

And even to this day Harris dems are saying that 3rd party voters are the reason Trump won (despite that being quantitatively untrue).

[Sean @BCTSean]

@noahpasaran @UtilityCalc I'm sorry we didn't have Jamie York, the *best* ethics person in the city, to help with our filings.

There were (clearly) some mistakes made, but the way folks have been portraying it as malicious/intentional is fucking wild. Come on.

[Sean @BCTSean]

This is the same argument KHive used against the left in 2024. It wasn't true then, it's not true now. There are a substantial amount of Rae voters who'd rather sit out a general than vote for Nithya. The assumption that Nithya would capture Rae's voters is deeply flawed.

If Nithya couldn't even get her fellow SIOs to back her, what makes you think the Rae-Nithya overlap is real for any substantial amount of people? Rae stood for real change and was unwavering on her policy and values. Nithya flip-flopped so hard that we thought the San Andreas was acting up again.

[Sean @BCTSean]

@UtilityCalc @noahpasaran I suppose you hate Faizah too then, yeah? Come on lol.

It's normal to raise funds through the end.

[Sean @BCTSean]

@michaeloburns I know exactly who you mean (and what kind of person).

[Sean @BCTSean]

@caitlin_mmm damn, how'm I gonna get my dose of the only Texan worth saving??

[Sean @BCTSean]

@heatguyj81 @barbarismcrit @hecubian_devil @squid_uagayboi Some city execs (and aspiring execs) think that adding more cops is how you reduce overtime. And maybe from a raw quantitative standpoint it *might*, but then the problem is you have more cops.

[Sean @BCTSean]

@bustitopen420 Welcome! And with your arrival, our cap on Padres fans has been reached.

[Sean @BCTSean]

@onyxicca Wait whaaaat? I always thought you were in like... a place that snows lol.

[🔻Rio Slade 🔻 @RioSlade]

🚨Wow... this is... wow 🚨

"each year spent in prison takes *2 years* off an individual’s life expectancy"

[Sean @BCTSean]

@hipearlrose Hey wait

[Sean @BCTSean]

@onyxicca Ooo! I was gonna try that next (currently martial artist), I've also been getting really unusual lag/frame drops this patch.

[Sean @BCTSean]

@Rickisback_ON_X @taliaotg Tell the police to not deploy tactics, devices, or chemicals that require personal protection then.

[Y Disassembler @loomdoop]

This is not JVP, the Bay Area activist group.

It's JVP Action; a DC-based 501c4 PAC, that has all the same corporate/billionaire donors as Saikat's other endorsements; Open Society, Amazon, HP, GitHub.

Rockefeller Brothers is J Street. Why are they funding a JVP PAC?

[Street Medic @RndmStreetMedic]

Do not show up to actions to be the peace police. Don't do that.