Amazon is searching for HQ2 due to the deranged anti-development, anti-transit, anti-affordable housing, anti-everything NIMBYism of the Seattle Slimes and its readership cesspool.

Where do people think there's enough land in Seattle for a second Amazon HQ?

Amazon is searching for HQ2 because they already occupy 25% of the city's commercial real estate and is a significant % of total employment in the area. Any further expansion in the city will simply drive up real estate prices and operating costs.

Everyone pushing for Amazon to expand in the city is setting up Seattle to be the next Detroit; when Amazon stops growing and (eventually) starts declining, the city will realize they should be chasing more and diverse employers, not hanging everything on Amazon's hook.

Why do people want Seattle to compete with economically depressed hellholes that have to sell their worthless land for pennies and their citizens as wage slaves?

Here's a nice summary of the current state of scientific research on the effects of human-induced climate change on weather events.

You could read it, Charles. Or you could decide you've already made up your mind, and don't need to read any more on the subject.

@2

South of I-90. You've probably never been there.

It's not lack of land that's motivating Amazon, it's greed, just as it has always been.

there's nothing controversial about the Evergreen professor. He didn't want to go along with a transformation of a "POC stay home to show our importance" day into a "white people stay home because POC people don't like you" event (literally what it was) and then the little baby-students down there lost their minds.

1. I'm still trying to figure out what a "second headquarters" is. What does that even mean? Is it OK if I just start calling it a "branch office"? Or "more office space"? And how come everyone else isn't already doing that?

2. Because if "second headquarters" actually means something, then how can it be in Seattle? If it's in Seattle, then it's not a second headquarters. They're just expanding their headquarters. Asking them to "Build their second headquarters in Seattle" is actually "asking them not to build a second headquarters."

Of course, if we just call it a branch office, or just "more office space" then it is reasonable to talk about whether Amazon will add more office space here or somewhere else.

I think Amazon wants more office space somewhere other than Seattle because the purpose is to move 50,000 liberals into a red state or swing state. If they set up more office space in Alabama or Arizona or something, and move a fuck ton of tech workers and their families there, they can swing an election. I know everyone makes Bezos into this right wing guy but he's kind of the same as Bill Gates. Aggressive and merciless in business, but a bleeding heart otherwise.

Look at how the Washington Post became a supercharged anti-Trump muckraker under Bezos. What kind of right wing Republican spends hundreds of millions of dollars to turn a media outlet into an anti-Republican attack dog? If Bezos was what they say he is, he'd have made the Post into the Wall Street Journal, of not Fox News. He might not be Noam Chomsky, but anybody with common sense knows Trump has to go, and Bezos is a guy who thinks on a massive scale. He would not flinch at the idea of shifting a bloc of population from one state to another to achieve a goal. Gotta rent that office space somewhere.

"Second headquarters". Say that out loud and tell me if you think you sound stupid.

@4: Of course, Renton! Or even better, Skyway!

@6 "Second Headquarters" is a pretty transparent fiction. No company operates that way, of course. It's a carrot to make exurban Virginia (or wherever) think they might be getting the HQ and not just a satellite campus, and a stick to make Seattle think it might be losing the HQ.

@8 Yeah, I didn't think you'd ever seen Rainier Valley. People who grind on about lack of land in this city tend to have no idea what half of it looks like.

#7: Well said.

"There were two unrelated killings, a month apart and separated by the distance of almost the entire country. This may be a new, emerging pattern."

Going to show your work, or just make baseless assumptions?

You have clearly never bothered, but go look up the statistics on interracial murder in the US. Per the FBI, in 2015 (last year data is available), of the total murders for the year, white on white murders were 42%, black on black homicides were 39%, white in black killings were 3%, and black on white murder was 8% of the total. The remaining numbers are when the races are unknown, or when multiple races are involved.

Interracial murder is actually quite rare, and always has been.

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/201…

Maybe "a 2nd Campus close to where America's population actually lives" might be more accurate. they'll probably go with somewhere young techies might actually want to live, i.e. not-St. Louis, not-Cincinnati, not-Flint, not-Topeka...

@7: So I understand, Mistral: You are comparing A) bike lanes, guarantees of equal rights under the law, and avoidance of poisoning the world in which we live to B) handouts in the dozens of millions of dollars to giant private businesses--massive corporate welfare, right?

@17: Dozens or hundreds of millions, that is.

@16

If a vibrant business sector isn't mutually exclusive to aiding and assisting the poor, then surely requiring all businesses to equally aid and assist the poor via evenly levied taxes isn't mutually exclusive with a vibrant business sector?

@11

>discriminating against minority students and inciting more violence against them.

he has done absolutely nothing whatsoever in aggression against anyone. He is the most reasonable person in the entire discussion. Go ahead and find me some quotes with context that prove your point, you can't.

@14 Most murders are intra-religion. Bam, I just disproved all religion-associated terrorism and hate crime.

It's fairly simple: just upzone Crown Hill to 40 story MFH.

And since you're new to America, this was called "lynching" when I was a kid in the South. Just start enforcing the Reconstruction Laws that are still on the books. Start with blue states and purple states.

Ka-ching

After Failing to Prosecute Bankers, Obama Cashes In With Wall Street Speeches

Re black and brown people being killed in Trump's America:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local…

@14

Teddy, these are supposed to be quick news summaries, not in-depth studies.
I know, you knew that already and just wanted to troll. Whatever.
Since you're looking for proof, and you claim that you would prefer it in the form of some hard analytics, here you go:
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_59beca…
Lots of numbers, charts, and graphs for you to get your fact porn on Teddy.

RE: Amazon's "HQ2":
1. Perhaps they don't want to build it [whatever it is] here because when the CSZ fault finally ruptures, it will be practical to have an operational HQ somewhere outside of the destruction zone. Redundancy is good for continuity, you know?
2. Building HQ2 in Seattle, with anticipated 50k more employees, would smother out already-not-good traffic problems with a fresh layer of hell. So until we have truly functional, regional light rail, and affordable housing plans in place, let's maybe not compound our problems?
3. Seattle is hardly "anti-business". Notice all the cranes in our skyline for the past 5 years? Amazon is expanding incredibly, Boeing received a, what, $8.7 billion tax break, "the largest corporate tax break any state had given any corporation", and promptly cut 12k jobs. Microsoft, Google, Getty Images, Real, Adobe, Blue Origin, and so many more. That all sounds pretty 'business friendly' to me. I don't know what the Stl Times is on about.
4. Also, what Banna @3 said.

@28

Hey dumbass, didn't you read Teddy's post (14)?

People of color killing other people of color, it happens all the time, white people killing other white people, it happens all the time.
That doesn't change the fact that racially-motivated killings are on the rise.

Why the fuck do you Nazi apologist always try to defend hate crimes?
Why do you always want to equate common crime with hate crimes?
Why do you find facts so insulting?

Seriously though, is your argument that sense black people kill other black people that it's okay to kill black people? Is that what you're trying to say?
If that's the case, then I guess it's okay to kill anyone, because black people kill black people and white people kill white people etc etc etc.
Is that what you want? You want murdered to not be a crime?

@31, I know it makes things more difficult for you, for which I apologize, but if you care about ___, it has to be all the time. It can't only be when it can be marketed to fit a narrative in furtherance of a political agenda.

Fuckin phonies. Everywhere.

@32
Believe it or not, I care whenever anyone gets murdered, even people I don't like, because murder is wrong.
Great job of avoiding the real issue though, it almost worked.
Apparently, you're one of the people who believes it's never a problem when people get killed.
You see, you never said that black people dying was a problem.

It looks like you're one of those phonies that needs a good fucking.
Good luck with that.

1.Be Jewish
2.Get chased out of your job by progressive pitchfork mob sanctioned by your employer
3. ?????
4. Profit

Identity politics is REALLY lucrative given sufficient nuance.

GermanSausage in @11, @22

discriminating against minority students and inciting more violence against them

That is a lie.

he went on fox news to race bait and rally the white supremacists

"Fox News" is not a synonym for "white supremacists." That's ignorant.

@36. #11,22"Lil smoky" as he's referred to by anyone who's ever seen him naked, is a racist troll. Don't feed the trolls.