FYI - Garry Tan is not one of the founders of YC. He is the current CEO.

Factual inaccuracies like this make it easy to discount the rest of what you're saying.

I just want to point out that every nation on earth is socialist to some degree. You can call the USA whatever you want, just know there’s a difference between how you label things and dispassionate treatment of the facts.

The USA has a socialized military, just like most nations, but other nations choose to socialize different aspects of their needs. It’s all based on what is politically acceptable.

Some countries have socialized the police, and I don’t think anyone finds that objectionable. Others would argue there’s hardly a meaningful difference between socializing our physical safety from wrong doers, and our physical safety from accident and disease, ie healthcare. I’m not here to state a position either way on the subject, just to point out the mere existence of a reasonable debate to be had, using healthcare as an example.

On the other hand, talking about Socialism (tm), in vague strokes as you said, the opposite of a reasonable debate. It’s substituting an argument for when you don’t have one.

And to talk about “San Francisco” as if that pretty much settles things is to take a whole city, full of libertarian tech leaders mind you, and reduce all of the things happening there to a single cause.

Cops have gotten raises every single year, even in your "woke" cities. Should we be giving them even bigger raises? How much? If we keep giving them raises, but (as you say) crime keeps going up, doesnt that seem like we're wasting money?

Also can you specifically name the socialist policies that are ruining SF?

Socialism: a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole

I mean this in the nicest way possible, you really should stop obsessing over culture war nonsense and start to understand what politics really are.

You can be anti-bourgeoisie and not be a socialist for instance conservatives way back in time, who were from villages were anti-bourgeoisie due to the huge difference in living standards they themselves saw, where their community could bare write or read, but their colleagues kids were going to the most expensive private school, this was the backbone of forming universal education.

Another is that conservatives once advocated or supported feminist like policy like female education[1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_motherhood