We are all Slave now.

[Hank Chinaski]

Anyone watching the Romanoffs? Thoughts?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

As Sebby said, another example of the mainstream media doing Democrats bidding.

[Icky Thump]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

Yes. All the new apartments going up in Manhattan are worthless.

(Of course I'm not taking issue with the argument. If you owned a standalone house on a full block you owned in NYC, it would be worth way more than an apartment in a building on that block. But, damn. You don't own the right to every single space within x number of feet of your house just because you don't want the value of that house to drop. And frankly, I'm sick of people using the value of their house to justify every stupid racist, unsupportable notion.)

TM

There's this thing called "eminent domain". Ok to use it for a stadium but not for housing?

[Icky Thump]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

That is an interesting blog post and thanks for sharing. The third-to-last paragraph says:





I would rather live in a denser neighborhood....

The good of a sparse nabe:

-always find a parking spot
-peace and fucking quiet
-I can go days without seeing a neighbor's face

The bad:
-shoveling
-raking
-taking care of my damn yard. Today, when cutting back some plants, I noticed where the fucking squirrels planted what would soon be an oak tree right next to my fucking house. Seriously, this was a plant with oak leaves with a trunk a half-inch thick.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Icky Thump

There's this thing called "eminent domain". Ok to use it for a stadium but not for housing?

No, duh. The out of town developers are going to use it to bulldoze our neighborhoods...

(Meanwhile Minnesota adopted domain reform after Kelo, so, no, that won’t happen.)

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Icky Thump

The good of a sparse nabe:

-always find a parking spot
-peace and fucking quiet
-I can go days without seeing a neighbor's face

The bad:
-shoveling
-raking
-taking care of my damn yard. Today, when cutting back some plants, I noticed where the fucking squirrels planted what would soon be an oak tree right next to my fucking house. Seriously, this was a plant with oak leaves with a trunk a half-inch thick.

Just don't mess with bamboo. That stuff is a nightmare.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Just don't mess with bamboo. That stuff is a nightmare.

2. You practically have to put cement down on top of the stuff to kill it.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Site was down this morning. We always just take it for granted that it will be here without enough thanks to RT for doing a thankless job for us. So, thank you RT!

And it's not free, so I sent her a payment as we all should periodically.

TM

[Replaced_Texan]

Sorry the board was down for a while. My card changed and I forgot this was one of my automatic payments. Hope I didn't kill any discussions.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

People have been saying this for years. The truth is, as white people further understand the advantages they have set up for themselves and the more they segregate themselves everywhere, in every possible way, the more they turn themselves into the last older generation.

By the way, I'm halfway through https://www.amazon.com/White-Fragili.../dp/0807047414 and it's an excellent book.

TM

Yes and no. I've lived for the last 15 years in neighborhoods that were exactly the sort in which white people would segregate themselves in decades past. (Not intentionally, of course. But these places tended to have nice homes and school districts, so the purchases made sense.) But the browning of the country has turned these neighborhoods an array of colors. Asians, Indians, and people of various Middle Eastern descent are statistically almost as common as Whites. There are fewer African Americans than those groups, but in my observation, that number has been steadily and dramatically increasing.

I think it's difficult to turn into one's older bigoted uncle when one is regularly socializing with people of varied backgrounds.

Whites still have some institutional advantages, but the trend is toward a much more varied culture. I don't see whites even remaining a majority in the burbs in coastal areas for too much longer. The defining line I see in the nice suburbs is more economic than racial. The poor of all colors are being priced out, aggressively. There a lot of "lesser suburbs" growing to service those people, as they're being priced out of the cities as well. I've notice a number of these, comprised of developments where lots of homes went into foreclosure in the crisis.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

Sorry the board was down for a while. My card changed and I forgot this was one of my automatic payments. Hope I didn't kill any discussions.

I think TM was about to convince Sebby he made a mistake in not voting for Hillary. But now that will never happen.

Remind me again where to send something to help with the cost

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Just don't mess with bamboo. That stuff is a nightmare.

Also, mint. Do not grow mint. Ever.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

That describes almost every old Republican I know. It’s puzzling. I think boomers are just bitter and don’t like being old and irrelevant to the future. Narcissists railing at easy targets.

The book has loads of references to the problems caused by social media, both right and left. The extreme right lives in a cave and ignores ideas that refute it. The extreme left is still open to debate, but there’s a call-out, shaming, and witch hunt sector of it that is trying to squelch debate it doesn’t like.

My old GOP relatives will be dead son enough. What of the dangerous alt-right young males and frivolous and coddled leftie kids?

The silos are creating armies of fresh idiots in this country.

The biggest idiots are the both-sider, centrist, not taking a position but taking a position by doing it morons, the third party voters. When will they die off?

As we all know, ain't nothing in the middle of the road but road kill.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Yes and no. I've lived for the last 15 years in neighborhoods that were exactly the sort in which white people would segregate themselves in decades past. (Not intentionally, of course. But these places tended to have nice homes and school districts, so the purchases made sense.) But the browning of the country has turned these neighborhoods an array of colors. Asians, Indians, and people of various Middle Eastern descent are statistically almost as common as Whites. There are fewer African Americans than those groups, but in my observation, that number has been steadily and dramatically increasing.

I think it's difficult to turn into one's older bigoted uncle when one is regularly socializing with people of varied backgrounds.

Whites still have some institutional advantages, but the trend is toward a much more varied culture. I don't see whites even remaining a majority in the burbs in coastal areas for too much longer. The defining line I see in the nice suburbs is more economic than racial. The poor of all colors are being priced out, aggressively. There a lot of "lesser suburbs" growing to service those people, as they're being priced out of the cities as well. I've notice a number of these, comprised of developments where lots of homes went into foreclosure in the crisis.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graph...=.6e76a8351bf1

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.9082b93f6c1e

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown...than-students/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.7285fc094e77

You really should read White Fragility. This idea that white people create actual friendships with diverse people is, in general, just not true. It may occur early in life, but apparently, those relationships do not last, no matter what your overly-weighted anecdotal evidence tells you.

I don't know what this means: "Whites still have some institutional advantages, but the trend is toward a much more varied culture." But the first part is comical. Whites enjoy deep, entrenched, lasting, meaningful, and self-sustaining advantages.

TM

[Not Bob]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

Anyone watching the Romanoffs? Thoughts?

I just watched the first one and about 10 minutes of the second one. I’m not sure. It seems slow, but I will give Mr. Weiner a chance.

I did like the apartment in the first episode. And I love Paris, so there is that.