BART (Oakland Subway) stabbing

1. 2018-07-25 at 4:17 PM UTC

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   Cootehill African Astronaut [my unsymmetrically blurry oregano]
   What hot takes can we take from this?
   
   The surface one is that this is obvious hypocrisy. One rule applies to blacks, a completely different one to whites.
   But we already know that.
   
   Then below that we have the bigotry of low expectations. Blacks can't be expected to behave themselves cos they're just stupid and violent, and shouldn't be held responsible for killing people. Only whites have agency enough to be held accountable when they get all stabby.
   Democrats are the real racists, blah blah. It's a valid observation.
   
   But I think there is more to the predilection for whites to turn on each other, while blacks protest whenever whites do anything at all. It's about status. A white is a competitor for status, while blacks, frankly, aren't.
   
   In addition the likes of "Black Lives Matter" are only about status. No one gives a fuck about the lives of the likes of Freddy Gray, any more than they care about the lives of any of those other dumb niggers who are shot in their hundreds every week in gang violence. It's about status and having some way to assert some sort of superiority over whites.
   
   And liberals are people who notice that the world sucks, so turn on their friends and allies and blame them for that. Liberals will whinge all day about white racism to their family, or their facebook friends, but won't say anything to genuinely racist people like the Chinese or Russians. Liberals will also attack those who resemble them most far easier than they will attack strangers. Liberalism is when you hate someone who looks like you. Liberalism is basically a phenomenon of what happens when a group of people turn on each other, and it's no surprise it's associated with urbanisation/over-population.
2. 2018-07-25 at 10:09 PM UTC

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   S6x African Astronaut

   Originally posted by Lanny I'm fine with high density condominiums, but at least what I've seen of Dublin is mostly single family residences. Big sure, but still single family. It might look alright now with spats of open land but I give it 5 to 10 more years before every square foot has something built on it.
   
   Ideally the future is dense urban centers with natural landscape surrounding it, but american cities have failed miserably to do anything even remotely like this.

   
   It's baby steps right now for urban planning. And those houses out there (still being built as track homes) will taper off eventually. it is a thing of the past. I believe that the projects of low income are being pushed far away from cities (and jobs) to the most isolated suburbs that exist. the wealth wanted those low income ACCORN like structures for themselves to live in while staying close to work. a lot of people on Housing were told they could get a giant house in cities like fairfield and Dublin and Antioch for what they will have to pay for, in older part of Oakland. this is how Gentrification works. anyone who purchase a home in a nice suburbs and sees crime rate going up do to young adults involved in gangs not relinquishing their gang affilitations tend to bring crime with them out into once peaceful suburbs. regardless of race they may be, if they were involved in gang life in Oakland or San Francisco or any other inner city,then they're usually bringing it with them. the flip side is they may have younger siblings who can be spared from the gang lifestyle and given a better chance at being productive. it comes with the good and the bad. Yet it is unfair when people who purchased homes and willing to travel 60 miles into San Francisco or Oakland in return for affordable home purchase in their income suddenly have to exchange trouble teens from inner city with the "NIMBY" of inner city who are the new wealth and taking over older projects and building new condos or apartments.
   
   They called the suburbans the NIMBY when in fact it was they who created NIMBY for their gentrification. it's a mind fuck of liberal psychology extreem.
   
   
   
   

   Originally posted by benny vader tall building, like chemtrials, are fucking up the wind system and causing unnatural weather pattern changes.
   
   the turbulence left behind by tall buildings slicing highspeed winds apart is what caused unnatural tornados.

   
   
   Yes, they figured this out I guess long ago (or in the past 2-3 decades) yet with new composited/steal mixed technology .. they can design with the dynamics of gaps between buildings while having turbines built in to utilize the design to help with the electrical grid system by producing much of the electricity into the structures design.