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I live in Sunnyvale CA, am politically moderate, and I feel sick whenever I have to go to Palo Alto or deal with people from Palo Alto, Los Altos, Atherton and their phony concern for "the poor" and "the environment", etc.

The same people saving the world with their $120,000 cars in the carpool lane have low-income housing in Palo Alto--but only for "schoolteachers"! Yes "poor" people are OK, as long as they have masters degrees. (See: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/making-it-in-the-bay/palo-alto-los-gatos-affordable-housing-for-teachers/3035338/ ). This strikes me as the most racist thing ever.

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Yes. Marc Andreessen's defense of property values recently when the city council was considering multifamily housing in Atherton after lecturing others on affordable housing - pathetic! https://nypost.com/2022/08/08/marc-andreessen-opposed-affordable-housing-in-his-town-report/

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I live in Los Altos. We have two cars for three drivers (my parents live with me), a 2005 and a 2001 volvo. We are the only one in the pool of Teslas in our school. Good thing my kids don’t ask that many questions about our weird car situation , I must have done something right..

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Yet they say climate change disproportionately affects the poor, when in fact, net zero will crush the poor, in the wealthy west and third world countries.

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Climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the radical left (communists).

I am not the only one to equate climate change fanatics to Marxism:

"Lord Christopher Monckton, a special adviser to UK’s Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, narrated in an interview, “The environmentalists are merely watermelons: green on the outside, red on the inside, or I call them the traffic light tendency: yellow (afraid) to admit they are really red. You may think this is just rhetoric but I used to know one of the founders of Greenpeace, the late Eric Ellington, then whom nobody less political could be found. He was genuinely concerned that nobody should mess up the planet, and so he and his fellow founders all had rather idealistic notions about what they would like to achieve. Within a year or two, he said, they all had to leave because they weren’t political. When the Marxists moved in, and in his words, ‘took the movement over,’ they were unable to stop it because they were politically outmaneuvered by the hard left.”

Since man walked out of caves and formed social groups, tribes, there has been nut cases in sandwich boards wandering around proclaiming, "The end is near."

Today we call the nuts, Democrats.

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Excellent post!

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