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  Why are people burning their city to the ground in Baltimore? How doe Looting and Mob Violence Help?

  by PokerPlayerPhil in

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  it's hard enough for businesses to enter these areas the government once had to offer up tax breaks to service them.

  in watts, california it took decades for city residents to get a grocery store after the thugs burned their businesses to the ground.

  you can see the insanity taking place, when you allow mobs and fools to burn building down nothing good comes from it.

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  I would disagree on the "genuine human solidarity" part. Maybe the national media didnt pay attention, but the day after the riot, hundreds of neighbors and city residents came out and personally cleaned up the mess. They didn't wait for the taxpayer funded city of Baltimore Public Works department to do it. These people care about their city and their neighborhood and are willing to work together to clean up other people's mess.
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  Why are people burning their city to the ground in Baltimore? How doe Looting and Mob Violence Help?

  by PokerPlayerPhil in

  1. social
  2. current

  it's hard enough for businesses to enter these areas the government once had to offer up tax breaks to service them.

  in watts, california it took decades for city residents to get a grocery store after the thugs burned their businesses to the ground.

  you can see the insanity taking place, when you allow mobs and fools to burn building down nothing good comes from it.

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  GrreatTeacher

  White people are notoriously bad at discerning class or potential threat by the way black folks dress. If you're black, you're suspect. It's the overriding consideration in any encounter with a black person. And, I say this as a white American, "tattling" on those other white folks around me. A black man in a suit is, first and foremost, a black man.
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  Why are people burning their city to the ground in Baltimore? How doe Looting and Mob Violence Help?

  by PokerPlayerPhil in

  1. social
  2. current

  it's hard enough for businesses to enter these areas the government once had to offer up tax breaks to service them.

  in watts, california it took decades for city residents to get a grocery store after the thugs burned their businesses to the ground.

  you can see the insanity taking place, when you allow mobs and fools to burn building down nothing good comes from it.

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  GrreatTeacher

  A distinction without a difference. For all intents and purposes, it's racism.
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  Why are people burning their city to the ground in Baltimore? How doe Looting and Mob Violence Help?

  by PokerPlayerPhil in

  1. social
  2. current

  it's hard enough for businesses to enter these areas the government once had to offer up tax breaks to service them.

  in watts, california it took decades for city residents to get a grocery store after the thugs burned their businesses to the ground.

  you can see the insanity taking place, when you allow mobs and fools to burn building down nothing good comes from it.

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  GrreatTeacher

  Yes, $25K is about $12.50 an hour. This is waay above minimum wage. And, it's enough to make you what? Poor. Yes, folks, poor.
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  Why are people burning their city to the ground in Baltimore? How doe Looting and Mob Violence Help?

  by PokerPlayerPhil in

  1. social
  2. current

  it's hard enough for businesses to enter these areas the government once had to offer up tax breaks to service them.

  in watts, california it took decades for city residents to get a grocery store after the thugs burned their businesses to the ground.

  you can see the insanity taking place, when you allow mobs and fools to burn building down nothing good comes from it.

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  GrreatTeacher

  I don't know how I managed to highlight the last part of my comment, but it is not a quote. Those are my words. The most important ones, actually.
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  Why are people burning their city to the ground in Baltimore? How doe Looting and Mob Violence Help?

  by PokerPlayerPhil in

  1. social
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  it's hard enough for businesses to enter these areas the government once had to offer up tax breaks to service them.

  in watts, california it took decades for city residents to get a grocery store after the thugs burned their businesses to the ground.

  you can see the insanity taking place, when you allow mobs and fools to burn building down nothing good comes from it.

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  GrreatTeacher

  Unions have been the entity protesting against economic injustice and they have done it for the last 100 years. Yet, now due to a smear campaign from the right and a historic distaste in the south, people have just been willing to let their voice go unheard in the legally protected avenue that they do have.

  In response to union members fighting for better wages, people complain that union members are overpaid! Can you imagine the amount of propaganda that allows people who make less be angry towards people who have fought, often at risk of their own livlihood to get a fair share of the pie? It boggles the mind.

  Folks don't realize that wages have been stagnant for years and now due to inflation, people are actually making less in inflation injusted wages than they were a few years ago.

  Right wing propaganda has done a pretty good job of convincing some folks to not bite the hand that feeds you. If they have to raise wages, they will have to lay others off. This is flatly Bullshit. There are plenty of business models around that, unsurprisingly, manage to turn a profit while paying decent wages. When your company profits are in the high millions or billions, I'm simply calling Bullshit.

  The biggest piece of propaganda, though, is the pulling of the wool over the eyes of workers by convincing them they are part of the middle class when they are not. If you make 25k, you are not middle class. You may have been 15 years ago, but if your wages haven't risen and inflation had, you're poor, folks! And to add insult to injury, your CEO has made even more in relation to inflation.

  This is the widening gap between rich and poor, right here! You are getting less of the pie and your boss is getting more. No amount of protesting that if you want better wages then get a better job will change the fact that this is happening across all strata of jobs and industries.

  So, yes, American worker, you are getting screwed, but people who stand up for themselves peaceably are reviled and are the target of much vitriol from their fellow Americans who are also getting screwed!
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  Why are people burning their city to the ground in Baltimore? How doe Looting and Mob Violence Help?

  by PokerPlayerPhil in

  1. social
  2. current

  it's hard enough for businesses to enter these areas the government once had to offer up tax breaks to service them.

  in watts, california it took decades for city residents to get a grocery store after the thugs burned their businesses to the ground.

  you can see the insanity taking place, when you allow mobs and fools to burn building down nothing good comes from it.

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  GrreatTeacher

  My inlaws lived in south Baltimore in a working class neighborhood that so feared blacks moving in that the actual deed to their property stated 3 things: No Negros, No Jews, and no farm animals. I don't know whether they were listed in order of importance or not. Their house was built in the 1920s so the restriction dated from that time. Of course it couldn't be enforced once laws were passed prohibiting discrimination in housing, but the area has only recently seen its first black folks move in. The white folks are quite angry about it, but not all of them can afford to move to the suburbs.

  The ones who could move out to the suburbs found beaches on the Chesapeake bay and its tributaries. They liked the so much that they put up big signs at the entrances stating, "No niggers and no Jews." They also had to come down when the law prohibited them.

  Law enforcement is corrupt. The city jail was being run by the criminals. They ran their drug businesses from the inside and one officer ended up pregnant by an inmate. This happened just recently.

  Nobody wants to work in Baltimore anyhow because the pay for officers is so much lower than surrounding counties. It's also known to be very violent and not a safe place to work. There's lots of turnover on the force. They're not very much into the "serve" part of serve and protect. A couple years ago, some people leaving an Orioles game got lost in a bad neighborhood and when they stopped to ask some officers for directions, they screamed at them and told them to get the hell out of there in a threatening way.

  The city is racist and still de facto segregated. There has been some new highrise construction along Key Highway and in Canton along the waterfront, but they're definitely not affordable housing! So, yes, they do bring more tax revenue into the city which is badly needed. The roads are horrible. Driving through the city will destroy your suspension. There are water main leaks; the infrastructure is falling apart. But, that just increases the divide between the haves and the have nots. There just isn't much middle class left in the city. They moved to the suburbs years ago.

  It's definitely a city in crisis.
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  Questions for those that believe in Electricity

  by OnTheWayOut in

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  you can't see electricity or hear it or feel it.

  well, there are sparks and lightning bolts and heating elements and the light and heat of filaments.

  and somehow, it lights up neon in a tube.

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  GrreatTeacher

  Thanks, Bungi Bill!

  Current and amperage are used pretty interchangeably in the US, with amperage being the preferred term. But, I get your point that the amp is a unit of measure.

  May the Electromotive Force be with you!
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  Questions for those that believe in Electricity

  by OnTheWayOut in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  you can't see electricity or hear it or feel it.

  well, there are sparks and lightning bolts and heating elements and the light and heat of filaments.

  and somehow, it lights up neon in a tube.

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  GrreatTeacher

  We used to test little 9v batteries by putting them on our tongue when we were little.

  If the toy wasn't working, we would pull the batteries out and lick them to see whether they were dead or not. No zing and we would just replace the batteries. But, if we got zinged, it was so sad because the toy was probably broken. :(
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  Sorry, But Your Sad Story Doesn't Make Me Feel Better. Is it supposed to?

  by Tempest in a Teacup in

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  i have very recently come out of a bout of severe depression which lasted for years.

  i have ginormous underlying issues which i hardly talk about, especially to my family.. today my sister came in, wanting to force me to do something she wanted.

  her strategy was to make me feel bad for feeling bad, just to show me that my problem (which she has no idea of but thinks she does) wasn't the biggest in the world.

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  It's a truly ignorant thing to say because mental illness IS a physical illness.

  How would they like it if the part of their brain that allows them to feel happiness or even just feel okay wasn't working?

  I have real issues with the bifurcation of mental and physical illness. They aren't separate things.