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Is it GENTRIFICATION, or RUINING neighborhoods?
Hello:
Seattle
USED to be a funky city.. Amazon bought up ALL the funk, built huge
skyscrapers and filled them with highly paid millennials. The Millennials
bought up every piece of available real estate causing
prices to skyrocket. So, did homelessness. Our crowded freeways have
become even more crowded. It's NOT a funky city anymore.. It looks like
a strip mall.
Yes, I feel that along with other multinational corporations Amazon should move it's entire Business Empire to China where the undesirable baggage of Big Business such as causing the misery of high employment, increased wealth and living standards for the population of this 'go ahead' nation whilst providing $ trillions for the government to advance it's military capabilities and space programme.
America could return to a healthy, Donkey and Cart economy and we'd all live happily ever after.
Isn’t terrible the way evil capitalists create employment and build infrastructure something should be done about it immediately so that the poor and unemployed can at least have pride in their poverty
Isn’t terrible the way evil capitalists create employment
But it is only the fact that you are a stupid, intellectually deficient moron which prevents you from questioning the premise that "employment", in the context you are using the word, is a good thing. In actual fact, in the context you are using the word, it describes the process of me working hard for forty hours a week in order to help make someone else I don't know rich, while I personally struggle to survive because all the profit produced by the work I do goes to making this other person rich, and I get just enough "compensation" for this robbery to ensure I return the following week.
But hey. Jobs, right. Small business. Small government. It's great that idiots like you get brainwashed by these silly buzzwords. The rest of the world needs someone to laugh at.
But it is only the fact that you are a stupid, intellectually deficient moron which prevents you from questioning the premise that "employment", in the context you are using the word, is a good thing.
But you’re the one who cannot define Socialism your stupidity is the stuff of legend , it’s actually embarrassing the way everyone kicks you up and down the site and you cannot defend yourself
Ahh so employment is a bad thing , yes Marx was on the same page regards that as he never worked a day in his life
In actual fact, in the context you are using the word, it describes the process of me working hard for forty hours a week in order to help make someone else I don't know rich, while I personally struggle to survive because all the profit produced by the work I do goes to making this other person rich, and I get just enough "compensation" for this robbery to ensure I return the following week.
Why not seek a better paying job than toilet cleaner or burger flipper it will do wonders for your condition and save your dad a fortune in covering your ass
But hey. Jobs, right. Small business. Small government. It's great that idiots like you get brainwashed by these silly buzzwords. The rest of the world needs someone to laugh at.
You’re right Marx and Engels preferred big business and paying workers minimum wage , you are a silly boy aren’t you?
The people who seek employment believe it’s a good thing as compared to the alternative. Your description of the working man’s experience isn’t accurate. People who are fortunate enough to have full time jobs are most often not struggling to survive. They are the middle class.
Hey, why don’t you weigh in on the debate concerning theories of value?
The people who seek employment believe it’s a good thing as compared to the alternative.
You can fuck off with your circular reasoning, Herr Amarel, The people who seek employment are doing so because they've been convinced it's a good thing. Appealing to populism is just what Hitler did. If all these lemmings jump off a cliff, then jumping off a cliff must be awesome, right?
This is like saying hunter/gatherers toiled for food because
Spare us your ridiculously false analogies please, Amarel.
Hunter gatherers toiled for their own food, yes. Hunter gatherers did not toil to make corrupt asshats like you rich. You see the difference there, buddy? In the first example I get back everything I put into my hunting and gathering. In the second example I hunt and gather for a company and I don't get back everything I put into hunting and gathering. You take it all and give me back a couple hundred dollars a week.
Obviously, corrupt dickhats like you have been trying to convince people that they are the exact same thing for the last two hundred years, but the truth of the matter is that you are simply a liar, aren't you?
The only problem being that you can't gather shit while playing Skyrim, eh Nom? Without a system and a lot of help from others, your ass would die in a few days. I highly doubt you would enjoy a hunter gatherer, Skyrimless reality...
but the truth of the matter is that you are simply a liar, aren't you?
The truth is, you don't use your old accounts anymore because they were humiliated into dust in past debates. Care to discuss that buddy?
The only problem being that you can't gather shit while playing Skyrim, eh Nom?
Yeah, but it's OK because I heard I can do it by wasting my life spamming pro-fascist propaganda on the internet. Happy days, hey buddy?
The truth is, you don't use your old accounts anymore because they were humiliated into dust in past debates. Care to discuss that buddy?
Sure buddy. An hour ago you posted a massive list of names and claimed they were my "dupe accounts". I'm a little bit confused, because now you appear to be saying I'm not using any dupe accounts. I just wondered which one it was?
Yeah, but it's OK because I heard I can do it by wasting my life spamming pro-fascist propaganda on the internet. Happy days, hey buddy?
You waste your days by playing video games all day and being poor and miserable. I waste them doing what I want. Usually traveling or shopping. Anything else?
Sure buddy. An hour ago you posted a massive list of names and claimed they were my "dupe accounts". I'm a little bit confused, because now you appear to be saying I'm not using any dupe accounts. I just wondered which one it was?
They somehow always appear when I provoke you by banning you to force them out. Isn't that amazing?
Hunter gatherers did not toil to make corrupt asshats like you rich.
Until they discovered they could steal from their neighbors by trading bunny furs for things they wanted more. Or wad that the neighbors stealing from them? Either way, that trade was the beginning of exploitation. Or was it the beginning of wealth creation? Being confused is confusing, eh Nom?
Hey, have you seen that debate on theories of value? Why not weigh in?
Amazon bought up ALL the funk, built huge skyscrapers and filled them with highly paid millennials. The Millennials bought up every piece of available real estate causing prices to skyrocket.
Time to apply for one of those jobs, eh Con? Nah. You're old enough you probably bought a house long ago.
So, did homelessness. Our crowded freeways have become even more crowded. It's NOT a funky city anymore.. It looks like a strip mall.
That's the price we pay for importing more and more people, eh Con?
Yes, they brought in tons of jobs.. So?
So help us reduce the crap by defending the border and putting a reasonable cap on legal immigration.
Then stop telling us we "hate progress", if you don't really think that's what this crap is...
I personally just wheel my way into an actual physical store. But the masses wanted progress...
So help us reduce the crap by defending the border
If your border wasn't defended you'd have been invaded you dumbass. Stop misusing language. What you want is another Berlin Wall because all Conservatives know how to do is divide, deride and hate.
If your border wasn't defended you'd have been invaded you dumbass.
How do you think 30 million illegals got here...
Stop misusing language.
See above.
What you want is another Berlin Wall because all Conservatives know how to do is divide, deride and hate
We know how to not let the wolf in the hen house. Your ideology spreads its legs for anything that moves.
You're like the girl that screws every guy she meets, then wonders why she's pregnant, working at McDonalds and her life is fucked up.
We are like the girl who keeps her legs closed, and only opens them for the right people.
Any diseases you wanna tell us about. Oh wait, the ones you spread em for brought those too. You're a genius. We should obviously follow you down the path to destruction. No thanks.
Ahahahaha! I think they overstayed their Visas, dumbass, like the facts stipulate. Are you telling us you've been invaded by an army of Mexicans whose pernicious aim is working minimum wage jobs? Sounds legit. Tell us more Herr Peanut Head.
See above.
See below.
You're an intellectually retarded moron.
We know how to not let the wolf in the hen house.
Cool. I know not to put all my eggs in one basket and always to look before I leap.
You're like the girl that screws every guy she meets
Cool. You're like the Nazi who won't shut his fat stupid mouth.
Lol. I didn't say you personally let them in you buffoon. Please stop trying to use your own poor reading comprehension as a weapon. The word "you" is often used to denote the group of which you are part, in this case Americans.
Ahahaha. That's great. So you're a retired moron. Except, that's almost certainly not true because you tell lies at a rate of fire comparable to a wall-mounted machine gun.
We've already had this conversation Bronto. I mocked you for being so stupid that it took you SIXTEEN years longer to retire than it took me.
We know this isn't true because you've made other claims in the past, even claiming to be a journalist.
We also know it isn't true because you'd have no need to constantly bitch about your shitty life or not being able to open a bank account to get a job....
If you are not a moron, then how is it possible for you to entirely "forget" a conversation we had less than a week ago?
Looks like I remember very well. Too well for you.
You claimed to be taking records of everybody's IP addresses. The site owner then told you that you could not be doing that because of the way the site handles traffic.
You claimed to be a Cherokee Indian. You then proceeded to claim you lived on an Indian reservation in a state with no Indian reservations.
Lol. You're laughable. Literally every word that spills out of your fascist mouth is poison.
You claimed to be taking records of everybody's IP addresses. The site owner then told you that you could not be doing that because of the way the site handles traffic.
I also explained to you that someone can get it by sending you a link that pulls you from the protection of the site and onto their personal site.
You claimed to be a Cherokee Indian. You then proceeded to claim you lived on an Indian reservation in a state with no Indian reservations.
The Washington Post (sometimes abbreviated as WaPo) is a major American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., with a particular emphasis on national politics and the federal government. It has the largest circulation in the Washington metropolitan area. Its slogan "Democracy Dies in Darkness" began appearing on its masthead in 2017.[7] Daily broadsheet editions are printed for the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia.
BRAIN DEAD you are BOY or maybe you are a GURL !!!!!!!!!! LMMFAO !!!!!!!!!!
The Space Needle is an observation tower in Seattle, Washington, a landmark of the Pacific Northwest and an icon of Seattle. It was built in the Seattle Center for the 1962 World's Fair, which drew over 2.3 million visitors. Nearly 20,000 people a day used its elevators during the event.[7]
Once the tallest structure west of the Mississippi River,[7] it is 605 ft (184 m) high, 138 ft (42 m) wide, and weighs 9,550 short tons (8,660 tonnes). It is built to withstand winds of up to 200 mph (320 km/h) and earthquakes of up to 9.0 magnitude,[8] as strong as the 1700 Cascadia earthquake. It also has 25 lightning rods.[9]
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How many neighborhoods has the SPACE NEEDLE ruined you FUCKIN IDIOT ?????
STUPOR STUPID can your DUMB ASS pay attention there BUSINESS MAN ??????
There are an estimated 90 million paying Amazon Prime subscribers in the United States today according to Consumer Intelligence Research Partners and Statista. Amazon was able to grow Prime memberships from 63 million in June 2016 to 90 million in September of last year.Mar 4, 2018
GODDAMN i am guessing those 90 million paying Amazon users are destroying communities ! You don't know SHIT you FUCKIN IDIOT but there is one THING you do know is that you SWALLOW the LIES the WASHINGTON COMPOST feeds you and the your DUMB ASS is a WILLING PARTICIPANT
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