' . . . a 1% wealth tax
on the richest people in the state.
Polling shows the idea is extremely popular."
hasn't anyone considered the
Feelings of the tip-top 10%?
what if they've only a mere
Handfull of extra homes &
less than a Museum full of
Race Cars and shit? won't
they suffer without every
last Penny they've gotten
so fucking Good at Hoard-
ing? what if they just say
NO! to trickling down on
the Rest of us? mightn't
we all just dessicate and
simply get blown Away?
and now this Housing thing.
will they be Expected to rub
rich shoulders with the Hoi
Polloi & maybe Catch some-
thing utterly Horrible? like
Empathy for oh my gawd's
sake? won't someone Ever
Think of their poor Children?
"[200 employees] . . . rebuking the NYT's role in the onslaught of negative coverage against gender non-conforming people."
remember that vp dick Cheney?
and how he Leaked Lies of
WMDs in Iran to the nyt?
and then sacrificed his top Black
General at the United Nations
just to start a War which he
then Profited on to the tune
or Billions? THAT dick Cheney
and that very same nyt?
the 'paper of record' has a
pretty piss poor record
and it's GOOD of their
Employees to fucking
Call them Out on it
I guess ACAB now includes people who don't want to be around second hand smoke FROM FENTANYL.
Light rail service was delayed earlier this month when somebody smoked fentanyl on the train.
“An operator requested medical assistance because there was somebody who was smoking fentanyl outside the operator’s cab,” Gallagher said.
The "bus tunnel," and then subsequent light rail stations should all have been built with turnstiles. It is the only light rail system I've ever used (and I've used a lot of them) that anyone can just walk onto. It's stupid.
A free and rigorous free press are paramount for an informed public when medical issues and the well being of children and the parents who raise them are concerned.
OMG do you want public transit to fail??? Yes we can set and enforce basic expectations like don’t so drugs on a bus. We have more youth riding public transit, less commuters (thanks WFH), and employees of all backgrounds concerned about their safety. Don’t tank a public institution in favor of anti social behavior.
Too bad for that critic getting dogshit smeared in his face, but unfortunately the problem of dogshit is systemic and there's simply no point in trying to police individual incidents. Until the entire global issue of dogshit is solved once and for all why even having laws against smearing it in people's faces?
So if we can’t ask people to not smoke drugs on light rail (since security guards can’t arrest anyone) then what behavior would Ms. Graham say should be prohibited on light rail?
If the threshold of “as long as you’re not bothering anyone else” seems to be too much to enforce, what is?
@7 Does anyone know where this conductor was during the moments someone was throwing dog shit into Councilmember Sawant's backyard?
Not mentioned in the blurb about Scotland's minister is one of the final issues that forced her to step aside was the outcry over her plan to incarcerate a convicted rapist in a women's prison because they now identified as transgender. This once again demonstrates our inability to even have a discussion about controversial issues in today's hyperpartisan environment. We'll continue to lose good people to public service and discourage others from even trying (as evidenced by the woeful candidate TS has been profiling for city council) as long as the environment is so toxic.
And why, you ask, is the priest wearing purple at Bialetti’s funeral when Lent doesn’t start this year until Feb 22nd?
Because Ash Wednesday was on Feb 10th in 2016. OK, you didn’t ask.
@4 Portland's light rail payment system is similar. You can't really add turnstiles to a station at grade, such as Othello. People determined to evade the fare would access the platforms via walking on the tracks, creating a safety hazard that far outweighs the arguable social harm of fare evasion.
@5 Very true. But when parents are part of an organized religious right-wing legal assault on the rights of other parents, this fact should at least be noted in the reporting. (Another valid criticism of the Times' trans rights coverage is their uncritical use of the stigmatizing term "patient zero," which incorrectly implies that gender dysphoria is a contagious disease, and of recent origin.)
While I am a fervent believer in government housing when market forces have gone awry, and I think that housing is a human right, I am not so sure about the government’s ability to manage housing’s construction and upkeep once it is in place. This opinion is born from historical evidence. The horrors of Cabrini Green, say, or most any “projects” in large cities. Public housing gets rundown, pest-ridden, has elevators broken for months at a time, and groundskeeping rarely seems to be a priority. And then there’s the outrageous cost over-runs because of corruption with so many hands in the kitty. Everybody gets rich except the people who need a helping hand.
But the need is mind-bogglingly enormous. Here in Los Angeles Section 8 been essentially closed for many years – at least for fifteen. Last November, the Los Angeles Housing Authority held a lottery from which 30,000 winners would be waitlisted….to apply. Not waitlisted for housing. Waitlisted to be put on a list of people who can apply. I think they received nearly 300,000 entries. And note – you had to meet certain strict criteria to even enter the lottery.
So, the crisis is bad, and it’s not going to go away any time soon. I don’t think we can rely on the free market to resolve the housing issue. Builders build to make money, and why build affordable housing with all of its headaches, when you can build $3M condos that sell for $50K over the asking price?
In the meantime, I don’t think rent control is such a deadly idea. If everything was fine, it probably wouldn’t be necessary, but you can’t overlook the reliable greed factor here and housing isn’t like a Fendi purse – charge whatever the market allows. Housing is an existential need. The Fendi purse isn’t unless you’re the type who must be seen with a $4,500 bag.
And absolutely there has to be decorum on public transit. I’ve made my position clear on that in past posts. And if you let that level of behavior become the norm, you’ll be living on the set of “Blade Runner” before you know it – only without Harrison Ford and with the strong smell of piss filling your nostrils.
I’d want to see the new plans before I’d gracefully say good-bye to Yamasaki’s Century 21 Exposition. After all, several things from the World’s Fair have already disappeared with time. Remember the Flag Pavilion? As long as they don’t touch the Space Needle or the Monorail, I’m cool with an acceptable upgrade. But take pictures beforehand. So we can always remember.
Can you believe Subway is in trouble? More franchises than McDonald’s. Never a fan of their tuna, but the veggie sandwich was, every now and then, just the thing.
Aaron Rodgers has always kinda been the anti-football hero and a sort of mystic – although his mysticism may have been enhanced by Shailene. Unsettlingly cute in his day and still a fine-looking guy, he pissed me off with the vax thing. I thought he was better, smarter than that. Still, he looks at the NFL with a weary eye, and that’s kind of charming.
@13: Yeah, the at-grade stations are problematic, but you could still gate and turnstile them. If people want to walk the tracks to circumvent payment, have at it I guess.
@14: Yes. I've been bitching about this since 1992. When the bus tunnel was free it was a huge clusterfuck because the "pay-when-you get-off" thing would cause delays at every stop outside of the tunnel as people pushed their way to the front of the bus to pay.
And then when the tunnel was no longer a free ride, there were huge lines to pay when getting on the bus. So much so that Metro workers had to be hired to scan ORCA cards at the buses' back doors.
Both cases were totally inefficient and could have been avoided if the tunnel had been turnstiled.
@2 - kris, my personal favorite is Halliburton charging the US government $60 per RTE meal for all the service people in Iraq. And competitve bids were disallowed. There was lots of that going on during W's administration - friends and family backing their empty moving vans up to the loading dock at the US Treasury,
Look, I've been on metro bus routes where we had to stop because someone was ODing from fentanyl. It's not pretty.
Turn them in. Let them be turned over to the fire department, who can save their lives.
Do your drugs in a public space, like county council or city council buildings in the open, people!
Also, have they fixed the elevators and escalators yet? Old or disabled people can't use the light rail if they can't get in and out of the station platforms.
@ 15, Seattle has a much better record of building mixed income communities than anywhere else in the US, ex. Othello Station neighborhood in Columbia City and High Point in West Seattle.
Seattle already has housing like this- that she the entire concept of Holly Park which has been around for years! Why do we need to bloat it up?
FFS, Nathalie- are you also a fentanyl user on the bus?? Why are you defending this when conductors and other passengers are getting sick?! Do you hate any type safety on public transit? Hate that seattle high school kids have to take the bus and want them to get high and harassed instead?
Booting drug users off the trains, with no exceptions, is a good way to get the drug users off the trains. It’s worth doing for that reason alone.
We need to recognize that the purpose of light rail is to move people, period. They are not shelters. They are not mobile harm reduction sites. The condition of ST trains relative to rail systems in other countries is inexcusable. If we want people to use the rail system (or the buses, which are in even worse shape) instead of driving, there need to be conduct rules. And they need to be enforced. Turnstiles would be a great start. And security people in the trains would be a great next step.
So, Nathalie, you're okay with me sitting next to you on the bus and puffing away on cigarettes too, then I presume? Or would you be upset that your health was being endangered?
I personally think people should be tasered for man-spreading and putting bags on the seats. So I have no problem with throttling a loud or quarrelsome passenger or drug user on public transit. Frankly I think people who can't keep to the right on sidewalks should be knee capped.
But the problem is WHO is going to do all this? If you say police then I don't want you bitching that the police are not responding to your package thefts.
@13. "People determined to evade the fare would access the platforms via walking on the tracks, creating a safety hazard that far outweighs the arguable social harm of fare evasion."
Sorry, I think the opposite. You don't throw out the good because of occasional bad resulting from criminal intent.
@5 Raindrop, I long ago gave up even acknowledging your existence - you're a pretty mundane but annoying internet troll. But much too often, you are such a shit-pile of human waste on this planet that it's hard to ignore. Really Raindrop, I just want to again make you aware what a disgusting and shitty human being you are. Now, go fuck yourself, and don't forget a tissue - you don't want a mess while jacking off to this comment.
More importantly, to everyone else, I urge you not to engage with this shit-stain, unless it's to berate him for being the shitty person he is. No more "well even a broken clock is right twice-a-day", or "yeah, he's an ass, but I'd miss him around here", or "for once, he's actually making sense", or anything else that can be interpreted as even remotely cordial or reaching out a hand to him. Every time you do, you are shitting on all the people that are harmed by the politicians and policies that Raindrop advocates for and votes for. He hasn't changed even one iota in all these years - still the exact same dumb-fuck as ever.
First of all, proof of payment transit systems has been around a long time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof-of-payment). Second, as with most things, the devil is in the details as far as drug use. It should simply be treated like smoking tobacco on the bus (or on a train). It is against the rules, but that doesn't mean you call the cops. You simply kick them off. Off you go. You don't have to kick the habit, but you can't practice it here.
The basic problem with Sound Transit security is that they act like cops. Or at the very least they act like security guards at a store. In both cases there is good reason to arrest people, run a background check, the works. A single outlaw can cause quite a bit of damage. A shoplifter can destroy a small business. This is why it is routine for people who are caught shoplifting to be banned from the store. That way, if they return and are caught stealing, they can be charged with burglary (a more serious crime). But someone who refuses to pay the fare is costing the agency very little. Banning them would be pointless. It is only if a lot of people join them (and refuse to pay) that it actually hurts the agency. Kicking people off is thus adequate, as the vast majority of people would try to avoid the inconvenience and embarrassment of the being kicked off the train. Unless someone is violent, there is no need to ever search a rider, run a background check, or any of that shit. If they are violent, then by all means detain them until the real cops arrive. For the rest of the miscreants, just kick them off.
raindrop @5 I agree that a free press is essential to a free society. I would also say that a public expectation that the press behaves responsibly is essential, and the public criticism of things that people say is part of the spirit of having a free press. It's not that we all agree with everything everybody does, it's that we discuss our disagreements openly instead of censoring people. Good faith arguments that something a publisher is consistently communicating inaccurate and harmful information is not a violation of free press. It is part of the public discourse that a free press enables.
Pretty in Pink @28, why do you say raindrop is a troll? I don't always agree with the things that they(?) say, but it seems to me that they're making earnest statements in good faith. And they've made reasonable (not reactionary) responses to replies.
@32 First of all, Germany is not the USA. Here we don’t give a shit about rules. And if I had to hazard a guess (based upon observation), there’s 10 times as many entitled dudes not paying their light rail fare as there are people who can’t actually afford to do so.
I mean I've seen people "trying to shut down" Rowling in the sense that random internet comments have been vitriolic. Which is hardly exclusive to the Rowling discourse. When I've seen people talking about it more formally they generally are engaging with the ideas.
45 You seem to be stuck on bathroom people. In many bathrooms today one can simply lock the door for privacy. If you feel unsafe you can call for help.
You do not need to get into an argument with others about it. Bathrooms are safer than they used to be. But you seem to want to waste your time about this. In other words to trash trans people. What a shame.
27 They are not at a sheler which you probably mean shelter. They are in extremely short supply which is a major problem in Seattle with the city government.
People want lifesaving services for the homeless. We voted for social housing which is far better than public housing has been and I am not going to go into why. Do the research.
The next thing we need is decent emergency shelters until social housing is well installed in this city. This will make the city a far more livable and attractive place.
' . . . a 1% wealth tax
on the richest people in the state.
Polling shows the idea is extremely popular."
hasn't anyone considered the
Feelings of the tip-top 10%?
what if they've only a mere
Handfull of extra homes &
less than a Museum full of
Race Cars and shit? won't
they suffer without every
last Penny they've gotten
so fucking Good at Hoard-
ing? what if they just say
NO! to trickling down on
the Rest of us? mightn't
we all just dessicate and
simply get blown Away?
and now this Housing thing.
will they be Expected to rub
rich shoulders with the Hoi
Polloi & maybe Catch some-
thing utterly Horrible? like
Empathy for oh my gawd's
sake? won't someone Ever
Think of their poor Children?
"[200 employees] . . . rebuking the NYT's role in the onslaught of negative coverage against gender non-conforming people."
remember that vp dick Cheney?
and how he Leaked Lies of
WMDs in Iran to the nyt?
and then sacrificed his top Black
General at the United Nations
just to start a War which he
then Profited on to the tune
or Billions? THAT dick Cheney
and that very same nyt?
the 'paper of record' has a
pretty piss poor record
and it's GOOD of their
Employees to fucking
Call them Out on it
tho self-hating
LGBTQs may
not approve.
I guess ACAB now includes people who don't want to be around second hand smoke FROM FENTANYL.
Light rail service was delayed earlier this month when somebody smoked fentanyl on the train.
“An operator requested medical assistance because there was somebody who was smoking fentanyl outside the operator’s cab,” Gallagher said.
The "bus tunnel," and then subsequent light rail stations should all have been built with turnstiles. It is the only light rail system I've ever used (and I've used a lot of them) that anyone can just walk onto. It's stupid.
A free and rigorous free press are paramount for an informed public when medical issues and the well being of children and the parents who raise them are concerned.
OMG do you want public transit to fail??? Yes we can set and enforce basic expectations like don’t so drugs on a bus. We have more youth riding public transit, less commuters (thanks WFH), and employees of all backgrounds concerned about their safety. Don’t tank a public institution in favor of anti social behavior.
Too bad for that critic getting dogshit smeared in his face, but unfortunately the problem of dogshit is systemic and there's simply no point in trying to police individual incidents. Until the entire global issue of dogshit is solved once and for all why even having laws against smearing it in people's faces?
So if we can’t ask people to not smoke drugs on light rail (since security guards can’t arrest anyone) then what behavior would Ms. Graham say should be prohibited on light rail?
If the threshold of “as long as you’re not bothering anyone else” seems to be too much to enforce, what is?
@7 Does anyone know where this conductor was during the moments someone was throwing dog shit into Councilmember Sawant's backyard?
Not mentioned in the blurb about Scotland's minister is one of the final issues that forced her to step aside was the outcry over her plan to incarcerate a convicted rapist in a women's prison because they now identified as transgender. This once again demonstrates our inability to even have a discussion about controversial issues in today's hyperpartisan environment. We'll continue to lose good people to public service and discourage others from even trying (as evidenced by the woeful candidate TS has been profiling for city council) as long as the environment is so toxic.
And why, you ask, is the priest wearing purple at Bialetti’s funeral when Lent doesn’t start this year until Feb 22nd?
Because Ash Wednesday was on Feb 10th in 2016. OK, you didn’t ask.
Nathalie, you really believe that makes someone a narc?
@4 Portland's light rail payment system is similar. You can't really add turnstiles to a station at grade, such as Othello. People determined to evade the fare would access the platforms via walking on the tracks, creating a safety hazard that far outweighs the arguable social harm of fare evasion.
@5 Very true. But when parents are part of an organized religious right-wing legal assault on the rights of other parents, this fact should at least be noted in the reporting. (Another valid criticism of the Times' trans rights coverage is their uncritical use of the stigmatizing term "patient zero," which incorrectly implies that gender dysphoria is a contagious disease, and of recent origin.)
@4: You really believe turnstiles should have been put in place 20 years before light rail used the DSTT?
While I am a fervent believer in government housing when market forces have gone awry, and I think that housing is a human right, I am not so sure about the government’s ability to manage housing’s construction and upkeep once it is in place. This opinion is born from historical evidence. The horrors of Cabrini Green, say, or most any “projects” in large cities. Public housing gets rundown, pest-ridden, has elevators broken for months at a time, and groundskeeping rarely seems to be a priority. And then there’s the outrageous cost over-runs because of corruption with so many hands in the kitty. Everybody gets rich except the people who need a helping hand.
But the need is mind-bogglingly enormous. Here in Los Angeles Section 8 been essentially closed for many years – at least for fifteen. Last November, the Los Angeles Housing Authority held a lottery from which 30,000 winners would be waitlisted….to apply. Not waitlisted for housing. Waitlisted to be put on a list of people who can apply. I think they received nearly 300,000 entries. And note – you had to meet certain strict criteria to even enter the lottery.
So, the crisis is bad, and it’s not going to go away any time soon. I don’t think we can rely on the free market to resolve the housing issue. Builders build to make money, and why build affordable housing with all of its headaches, when you can build $3M condos that sell for $50K over the asking price?
In the meantime, I don’t think rent control is such a deadly idea. If everything was fine, it probably wouldn’t be necessary, but you can’t overlook the reliable greed factor here and housing isn’t like a Fendi purse – charge whatever the market allows. Housing is an existential need. The Fendi purse isn’t unless you’re the type who must be seen with a $4,500 bag.
And absolutely there has to be decorum on public transit. I’ve made my position clear on that in past posts. And if you let that level of behavior become the norm, you’ll be living on the set of “Blade Runner” before you know it – only without Harrison Ford and with the strong smell of piss filling your nostrils.
I’d want to see the new plans before I’d gracefully say good-bye to Yamasaki’s Century 21 Exposition. After all, several things from the World’s Fair have already disappeared with time. Remember the Flag Pavilion? As long as they don’t touch the Space Needle or the Monorail, I’m cool with an acceptable upgrade. But take pictures beforehand. So we can always remember.
Can you believe Subway is in trouble? More franchises than McDonald’s. Never a fan of their tuna, but the veggie sandwich was, every now and then, just the thing.
Aaron Rodgers has always kinda been the anti-football hero and a sort of mystic – although his mysticism may have been enhanced by Shailene. Unsettlingly cute in his day and still a fine-looking guy, he pissed me off with the vax thing. I thought he was better, smarter than that. Still, he looks at the NFL with a weary eye, and that’s kind of charming.
@13: Yeah, the at-grade stations are problematic, but you could still gate and turnstile them. If people want to walk the tracks to circumvent payment, have at it I guess.
@14: Yes. I've been bitching about this since 1992. When the bus tunnel was free it was a huge clusterfuck because the "pay-when-you get-off" thing would cause delays at every stop outside of the tunnel as people pushed their way to the front of the bus to pay.
And then when the tunnel was no longer a free ride, there were huge lines to pay when getting on the bus. So much so that Metro workers had to be hired to scan ORCA cards at the buses' back doors.
Both cases were totally inefficient and could have been avoided if the tunnel had been turnstiled.
@2 - kris, my personal favorite is Halliburton charging the US government $60 per RTE meal for all the service people in Iraq. And competitve bids were disallowed. There was lots of that going on during W's administration - friends and family backing their empty moving vans up to the loading dock at the US Treasury,
Look, I've been on metro bus routes where we had to stop because someone was ODing from fentanyl. It's not pretty.
Turn them in. Let them be turned over to the fire department, who can save their lives.
Do your drugs in a public space, like county council or city council buildings in the open, people!
Also, have they fixed the elevators and escalators yet? Old or disabled people can't use the light rail if they can't get in and out of the station platforms.
@ 15, Seattle has a much better record of building mixed income communities than anywhere else in the US, ex. Othello Station neighborhood in Columbia City and High Point in West Seattle.
Seattle already has housing like this- that she the entire concept of Holly Park which has been around for years! Why do we need to bloat it up?
FFS, Nathalie- are you also a fentanyl user on the bus?? Why are you defending this when conductors and other passengers are getting sick?! Do you hate any type safety on public transit? Hate that seattle high school kids have to take the bus and want them to get high and harassed instead?
Booting drug users off the trains, with no exceptions, is a good way to get the drug users off the trains. It’s worth doing for that reason alone.
We need to recognize that the purpose of light rail is to move people, period. They are not shelters. They are not mobile harm reduction sites. The condition of ST trains relative to rail systems in other countries is inexcusable. If we want people to use the rail system (or the buses, which are in even worse shape) instead of driving, there need to be conduct rules. And they need to be enforced. Turnstiles would be a great start. And security people in the trains would be a great next step.
So, Nathalie, you're okay with me sitting next to you on the bus and puffing away on cigarettes too, then I presume? Or would you be upset that your health was being endangered?
I personally think people should be tasered for man-spreading and putting bags on the seats. So I have no problem with throttling a loud or quarrelsome passenger or drug user on public transit. Frankly I think people who can't keep to the right on sidewalks should be knee capped.
But the problem is WHO is going to do all this? If you say police then I don't want you bitching that the police are not responding to your package thefts.
@13. "People determined to evade the fare would access the platforms via walking on the tracks, creating a safety hazard that far outweighs the arguable social harm of fare evasion."
Sorry, I think the opposite. You don't throw out the good because of occasional bad resulting from criminal intent.
"The purpose of light rail is to move people, period. They are not shelters. They are not mobile harm reduction sites."
agreed.
so Where
precisely Are
these crucial Amenities?
haunting
*Billionaire's
Nightmares?
we allow them* to Rule Us yet
we Blame the Victims
of Winner-Take-ALL
Capitalism when
shite sucks and
They* Could
NOT be any
Happier!
Q:
"Where
precisely Are
these crucial Amenities"
A:
At a sheler.
@5 Raindrop, I long ago gave up even acknowledging your existence - you're a pretty mundane but annoying internet troll. But much too often, you are such a shit-pile of human waste on this planet that it's hard to ignore. Really Raindrop, I just want to again make you aware what a disgusting and shitty human being you are. Now, go fuck yourself, and don't forget a tissue - you don't want a mess while jacking off to this comment.
More importantly, to everyone else, I urge you not to engage with this shit-stain, unless it's to berate him for being the shitty person he is. No more "well even a broken clock is right twice-a-day", or "yeah, he's an ass, but I'd miss him around here", or "for once, he's actually making sense", or anything else that can be interpreted as even remotely cordial or reaching out a hand to him. Every time you do, you are shitting on all the people that are harmed by the politicians and policies that Raindrop advocates for and votes for. He hasn't changed even one iota in all these years - still the exact same dumb-fuck as ever.
@23, dedicated security is already doing this on Sound Transit. Not sure why you got stressed out; nobody asking Seattle police to do it.
@28: What exactly in @5 derailed you?
If you don't answer, your silence will.
First of all, proof of payment transit systems has been around a long time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof-of-payment). Second, as with most things, the devil is in the details as far as drug use. It should simply be treated like smoking tobacco on the bus (or on a train). It is against the rules, but that doesn't mean you call the cops. You simply kick them off. Off you go. You don't have to kick the habit, but you can't practice it here.
The basic problem with Sound Transit security is that they act like cops. Or at the very least they act like security guards at a store. In both cases there is good reason to arrest people, run a background check, the works. A single outlaw can cause quite a bit of damage. A shoplifter can destroy a small business. This is why it is routine for people who are caught shoplifting to be banned from the store. That way, if they return and are caught stealing, they can be charged with burglary (a more serious crime). But someone who refuses to pay the fare is costing the agency very little. Banning them would be pointless. It is only if a lot of people join them (and refuse to pay) that it actually hurts the agency. Kicking people off is thus adequate, as the vast majority of people would try to avoid the inconvenience and embarrassment of the being kicked off the train. Unless someone is violent, there is no need to ever search a rider, run a background check, or any of that shit. If they are violent, then by all means detain them until the real cops arrive. For the rest of the miscreants, just kick them off.
raindrop @5 I agree that a free press is essential to a free society. I would also say that a public expectation that the press behaves responsibly is essential, and the public criticism of things that people say is part of the spirit of having a free press. It's not that we all agree with everything everybody does, it's that we discuss our disagreements openly instead of censoring people. Good faith arguments that something a publisher is consistently communicating inaccurate and harmful information is not a violation of free press. It is part of the public discourse that a free press enables.
Pretty in Pink @28, why do you say raindrop is a troll? I don't always agree with the things that they(?) say, but it seems to me that they're making earnest statements in good faith. And they've made reasonable (not reactionary) responses to replies.
@32 First of all, Germany is not the USA. Here we don’t give a shit about rules. And if I had to hazard a guess (based upon observation), there’s 10 times as many entitled dudes not paying their light rail fare as there are people who can’t actually afford to do so.
@41 - hence the need for turnstiles, to keep most of the problem cases off in the first place.
"If you were born with
Y chromosomes,
you're male.
Period."
--@^
truly? Mother
Nature's fucking Perfect? hell
there hasn't been a Perfect Game
since Felix Hernandez threw one here in 2012
since When are human
beings Always perfect?
I mean I've seen people "trying to shut down" Rowling in the sense that random internet comments have been vitriolic. Which is hardly exclusive to the Rowling discourse. When I've seen people talking about it more formally they generally are engaging with the ideas.
45 You seem to be stuck on bathroom people. In many bathrooms today one can simply lock the door for privacy. If you feel unsafe you can call for help.
You do not need to get into an argument with others about it. Bathrooms are safer than they used to be. But you seem to want to waste your time about this. In other words to trash trans people. What a shame.
27 They are not at a sheler which you probably mean shelter. They are in extremely short supply which is a major problem in Seattle with the city government.
People want lifesaving services for the homeless. We voted for social housing which is far better than public housing has been and I am not going to go into why. Do the research.
The next thing we need is decent emergency shelters until social housing is well installed in this city. This will make the city a far more livable and attractive place.