GOODER AND HARDER, LA: Los Angeles Socialist Nithya Raman Brags About Getting Crosswalk Done, There’s Just ONE Big Problem.
So wait wait wait…
You are celebrating for
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…painting a CRACKED ROAD????????
— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) August 27, 2026
Fresh paint (that took almost a year to finally apply) on crumbling infrastructure is the perfect metaphor for L.A. in the 21st century.
UPDATE: “Councilmember Ramam [sic] will almost certainly lose the mayoral race and fade into obscurity, but with this post, she has achieved Online Immortality, and for that, we should all be grateful.”
I've had a day to meditate on this post and I think it's a Hall of Famer and I am thrilled to induct it into the canon.
The best worst tweets have LAYERS and this one has a million:
1. The street is SHITTY. It still is, but now it's covered in paint.
2. Why did it take a… https://t.co/zHDnbznz9x
— Jarvis (@jarvis_best) August 27, 2026