I Just Don’t Get Why Everyone Is Mad At The Google Bus
Sometimes I am a very bad liberal. Trigger warnings and waaahing about #rapeculture make me want to yell at all the baby feminists. I am not good at Intersectionalism. Don't care about drones. And now I honest to God don't know why we're supposed to be mad about the Google Bus.
I get it like “gentrification is : (” and “the rent is too damn high” and I totally get it that tech bros and glassholes are making your lovely hippie city of San Francisco grotesque. (Hint to SF: you got pretty yuppie all the way back in the ’80s, and Apple or Snapchat or whatever had fuck-all to do with it.) But complaining about the buses?
It's not even an issue of "gentrification" which implies an effort to clean up an area. The Mission is still the same grotty barrio it's always been, it's just being invaded by hipster douches who think it's cool to live in graffiti covered Victorians and pay $3,000 for a run-down studio that used to rent for $300.
The bus came by and I got on, that's when it all began