Ok so you’re probably correct but I also like seeing the opposite of the usual “omg socialism everyone in NYC is already dead!!!”

I only learned like last year that you can keep convening grand juries until you get one that indicts. Seems kind of strange to me

poor people never could live in cities.

Many poor people live in cities.

and the people who live in impoverished neighborhoods in urban areas, also don’t have access to any of that.

People who live in poorer parts of New York City, at least, can take a bus or train to other parts.

I don’t know where you live but one of the popular bars near me in NYC is $18 for a show tonight. They also have a free DJ show of some sort. A smaller spot that does shows I know of has one for $14. That’s just two spots I know off hand. There are many more.

I feel like you’re messaging me from some other world. I’m mostly speaking from living in NYC. Where you you speaking from?

There are rich people who think the poor should be exterminated, but they’re (hopefully) a minority and not likely the people in this thread.

I really don’t think those ultra rich snobs are the people going to see a local band play to 75 people in a bar. “Cultural events” doesn’t exclusively mean like Opera and Broadway. It’s also “three people put out an EP and are playing it live at Stingy Pete’s tonight. Tickets are PWYW, $5 recommended”

No one here is lecturing the poor about how to live their lives. The argument was that poor people should be allowed to live in cities, if they desire, in part because there are many nice things that come with living in a city.

I’m not telling you that you shouldn’t be alive. I don’t know where you got that from.

I don’t understand why you’re mad at all here.

Who’s telling you that $150k salary is shameful? Are you conflating poverty and shame?

The argument was that cities have more opportunities for cultural and social events. That’s undeniably true because those scale directly with the amount of people. A town of 10,000 simply doesn’t have the bodies to support a metal scene a punk scene a hip-hop scene and EDM scene all at once. Thus, telling poor people that they must move away from cities is denying them those things. It’s saying sorry, you’re too poor to participate.

You can feel bad for people like me for ‘suffering’, but what you don’t get is that to us it was never suffering. it was a normal life.

Many people live what seems normal to them but by outside perspectives would be seen as impoverished. No running water. No indoor plumbing. Child labor. Women denied rights. “It was normal to us” is an extremely weak argument.

I grew up in a car-centric suburb and I never want to live there again. It’s worse on most metrics. Transit sucks. Fewer options for food, entertainment, socializing, etc.

because it’s all we could afford

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am i suppose to feel like i was therefore impoverished or something?

Sounds like yes? You’re saying yes. I don’t understand your question.

Also vastly fewer cultural and social options. Poor people don’t deserve those things, I guess!

He doesn’t even officially become mayor until January.

People act like he won be primary and became God king. And then won the general and became double God king.

Stop letting companies consolidate.

Yeah if AI was actually good you wouldn’t need to mandate it. No one was like “everyone here must use Google search”.

Companies fill up with idiots and parasites. People who are adept at thriving in the role without actually producing value. Google is no exception.

Assuming what you’re saying about the harms of consuming pornography, is it the state’s responsibility? Is it a top priority? Do we trust conservatives to implement a solution in good faith?

The answer to all of those I think is no.

There’s no analogous ID check for violent media, so far as I know.

There could be a raging wildfire and I would hesitate if a Republican said “let me deal with it”. They are fundamentally untrustworthy.

That’s on top of the deep irony of the same party that goes on about “small government” and “parents rights” is typically the same one pushing draconian anti-porn laws. It’s a joke. “A government small enough to fit in your bedroom”. Their motivations are so corrupt I am extremely skeptical of anything they propose.

The us is really stupid for many reasons. 50+ patchwork systems for stuff everyone needs, like ID, is one of them. Using a driver’s license for ID is another.

For some people, their entire world view revolves around “there must be in-groups to protect and out-groups to bind”. That’s it. Everything else is a polite fiction on top of that.

These people are, generally, bad people. Like, a child reading about them in a book would point out that they’re not good.

Many conservatives adhere to this world view.

Saint Luigi preserve us.

He could maybe take it and donate the money, but people are so low information they wouldn’t find out.

I’ve been buying music (mostly from Bandcamp) for years. Now I have a hefty library and the people making music got paid

I’m sure there are companies that are at least more good than bad. Teachers pay teachers. Meetup. Bandcamp before they sold. That’s all I have off the top of my head. But even so capitalism invites cruelty, and the best intentions can easily wither under the pressure to make more money.

I work for a very large company involved in medicine. They make machines to do like blood work. That’s fine. People need that. But they treat many of their workers like trash. I don’t get paid for holidays and get the legal minimum sick leave per year. Their mission isn’t especially evil , but their behavior sucks.

I think a good step would be if people could admit the companies they work for are making the world worse. I’ve met some people who work for Google who do some backflips about how no the company is good and definitely they’re good people and it’s not the $300k salary talking.