Seattle is dying

[AK47bp]

...wearing a KKK outfit, singing negro spirituals, in Portland.

KKK outfit? I’m offended.










It’s a uniform.

[abraham]

But my car tabs!

I'll have you know I actually paid for my office chair

[fatnslow]

[QUOTE=Bobby Stainless;5634522]I just dont really care that much to investigate it. I just posted that Seattle was a shithole to rile people like yourself up.

I was educated in New England btw.

Little school called Vanderbilt here in Nashville. Buncha dumbasses.[/QUOT


Be careful calling out a city that's already seen 25 years of gentrification, Nashville is quickly on it's way and you'll see all the issues that go with rapidly increasing real estate value soon enough. Mix in a highly unsegregated divide of the uneducated and you'll be having all the homeless/addicted/mentally ill coming to the city to camp and buy their meth in your zip code. Unless you can use that fancy "Vandy" education to solve a social issue that NO metropolitan area in the US has been able to fix be thankful you have a good life due to winning the parental lottery.

[Ted Striker]

I'll have you know I actually paid for my office chair

Was that wrong? Should I have not done that? I tell you I gotta plead ignorance on this thing because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing was frowned upon, you know, cause I've worked in a lot of offices and I tell you people do that all the time.

[glademaster]

Part of the problem is prioritizing tax breaks for the wealthy over social programs. Amazon and damn near every single person who posts on this board and lives in greater Seattle should have been taxed.

FIFY.

[Ted Striker]

RE: taxes, Brit's right. WA has some of the most regressive tax policies in the country.

[wooley12]

Bill Gates just needs to drink enough sugary drinks.

[ncskier]

This article seems timely regarding San Francisco limousine liberals blocking a homeless shelter
https://gizmodo.com/america-s-most-e...-sh-1833640853
Let's be honest, the political polarization of left vs right has masked the fact the very rich people across the political spectrum are just assholes. Most people of means feel like they have made it on their own and don't want to help out. Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos could build shelters all across the pacific northwest and fund untold programs, but instead they vaccinate kids across the globe and pay off dick picks. In relative terms we are all wealthy having disposable means to ski and be on the internet, but it becoming much to big a problem for even half hearted attempts to solve.

[glademaster]

This article seems timely regarding San Francisco limousine liberals blocking a homeless shelter
https://gizmodo.com/america-s-most-e...-sh-1833640853
Let's be honest, the political polarization of left vs right has masked the fact the very rich people across the political spectrum are just assholes. Most people of means feel like they have made it on their own and don't want to help out. Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos could build shelters all across the pacific northwest and fund untold programs, but instead they vaccinate kids across the globe and pay off dick picks. In relative terms we are all wealthy having disposable means to ski and be on the internet, but it becoming much to big a problem for even half hearted attempts to solve.

Providing money to fund programs that help people within your own country is Socialism, which is evil, whereas funding programs that help the impoverished abroad is philanthropy, which makes you a golden god. Duh.

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This article seems timely regarding San Francisco limousine liberals blocking a homeless shelter
https://gizmodo.com/america-s-most-e...-sh-1833640853
Let's be honest, the political polarization of left vs right has masked the fact the very rich people across the political spectrum are just assholes. Most people of means feel like they have made it on their own and don't want to help out. Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos could build shelters all across the pacific northwest and fund untold programs, but instead they vaccinate kids across the globe and pay off dick picks. In relative terms we are all wealthy having disposable means to ski and be on the internet, but it becoming much to big a problem for even half hearted attempts to solve.

it is American to not help people up and down the financial ladder - they can bootstrap themselves goddammit

one of my clients is a doc who had a conversation with a perennially homeless guy who said he was for universal health care until he realized his taxes would be paying for other people -- then he was totally against it (not that he paid taxes or his hospital bill...purely speculative conversation)

[PNWbrit]

Bill Gates... but instead they vaccinate kids across the globe

His reaction to your point which is put to him often is "All life has equal value"

Most people of means feel like they have made it on their own and don't want to help out.

and last I heard his foundation has saved over 120m lives worldwide.

Bezos

The soon to be ex-Mrs Bezos is already involved in the Seattle homeless problem, hopefully she'll be empowered and motivated to do even more.

[Svengali]

Back in the day of passenger rail travel(until the 1990's), lots of places solved their homeless problem with oneway rail tickets. Most of those routes have faded away, replaced by a greyhound bus. It's a lot easier to get off a bus at the next stop then jumping off a train in the middle of nowhere.

[Ted Striker]

it is American to not help people up ... the financial ladder - they can bootstrap themselves goddammit

Then kick the ladder away once at the top.

one of my clients is a doc who had a conversation with a perennially homeless guy who said he was for universal health care until he realized his taxes would be paying for other people -- then he was totally against it (not that he paid taxes or his hospital bill...purely speculative conversation)

That right there is the quintessential poor American lie: "I'm not paying for someone else's _______!"
Dude, unless you're at least what could be called lower middle class you're not paying for shit.

[char_]

You can make all the "right" decisions and still end up poor.

[TAFKALVS]

You can make all the "right" decisions and still end up poor.

What’s really scary is the people who make all the wrong decisions and end up rich.

[MontuckyFried]

The soon to be ex-Mrs Bezos is already involved in the Seattle homeless problem, hopefully she'll be empowered and motivated to do even more.

That's awesome, and I wish her well. Amazing what can happen with private charity, especially since they have the power and freedom to think more outside the box. See: Bill Gates. Dude really has done a lot of good in this world. He's spent an absurd proportion of his private wealth toward his charitable efforts.

Will be interesting to see what Ms. Bezos comes up with! Seriously. I hope whatever they come up with actually sees some tangible results.

[DaveTV]

Back in the day of passenger rail travel(until the 1990's), lots of places solved their homeless problem with oneway rail tickets. Most of those routes have faded away, replaced by a greyhound bus. It's a lot easier to get off a bus at the next stop then jumping off a train in the middle of nowhere.

And then there was the hobos

[ACH]

...wearing a KKK outfit, singing negro spirituals, in Portland.

Which one, Maine or Oregon?

KKK outfit? I’m offended.










It’s a uniform.

I was going to go with "costume", butthey...

[dunfree]

What’s really scary is the people who make all the wrong decisions and end up rich.

only scary if they act like it was all because of merit and planning.

[Vt-Freeheel]

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Seriously, Fuck Massachusetts

[Brock Landers]

No, fuck you buddy!

[shroom]

idk guys, living in seattle is great if you want to feel like you’re still in college every day. fountain of youth, i say.

[Vt-Freeheel]

No, fuck you buddy!

Got one!

[iceman]

The soon to be ex-Mrs Bezos is already involved in the Seattle homeless problem, hopefully she'll be empowered and motivated to do even more.

She'll probably be able to build them all houses and it wouldn't even dent her.

[jfost]

She'll probably be able to build them all houses and it wouldn't even dent her.

I dunno, $75B doesn't go as far as it used to around here....