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Inside tech billionaires’ push to reshape San Francisco politics: ‘a hostile takeover’::The Guardian and Mission Local unravel ‘grey money’ network flooding the progressive city with conservative cash

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[–] Zak@lemmy.world 33 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Engardio has promoted policies including increased police staffing, harsh penalties for narcotics offenses

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the political network erected with the aid of libertarian tech money...

I think it's important to point out that locking people up for using drugs is not a libertarian position; it's a conservative position.

[–] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Yeh but paying for the police to lock up drug users with private money is libertarian

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] megaman@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 9 months ago

I think the idea/joke is that the police are effectively privatized by being privately funded and carring out the rules of their funders.

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