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Unkempt posted:Oh god, I've got to give up this 'faith in humanity' nonsense. Lets me down every time. I'm in the same boat, no matter how pessimistic I think I am I still get shocked when faced with the worst humanity has to offer  edit: dog tax 
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Unkempt posted:Where did this followup come from? Google doesn't seem to know. It comes from fakesville, and I got owned, it would seem. Speaking of which, remember Gary Bauer?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmXW2GsAM6M
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Filthy Hans posted:It's not bullshit, it's from a follow-up statement by the airhead in this PBS Frontline clip: whoa, I took that picture years ago. Didn't know it got out in the wild. At least I don't have to feel too bad because it’s very anonymous WRT the kid. 
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after detroit was taken over by an emergency manager, they approved construction of a $142 million, 3.3 mile light rail track at the same time they were cutting pension benefits, closing schools, and generally inflicting severe austerity on detroit. the "q-line" opened yesterday and white people love it. 
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Gio posted:after detroit was taken over by an emergency manager, they approved construction of a $142 million, 3.3 mile light rail track at the same time they were cutting pension benefits, closing schools, and generally inflicting severe austerity on detroit. On the other hand (DANGER, NEOLIBERALISM AHEAD), infrastructure upgrades have a fantastic return on investment. I really don't know anything about the new line -- does it bring in any investment into Detroit that could help curb the austerity measures, or go through underserved neighborhoods and aid work transport, or anything else? Or does it basically not do anything that a cheaper bus line couldn't? I mean, other than get white suburbanites on, since they might literally die if they had to ride a city bus through poor neighborhoods. For example, pictured below is the top end of the trolley tracks from Philadelphia's route 23 trolley. When a 3,000 foot section of Germantown Avenue required construction in 2008, it cost $18 million -- bear in mind that's about the cost of two miles of a new urban four-lane highway. A chunk of that cost was resurfacing with cobblestone, installing trolley tracks, and fixing all of the old trolley-car power and caternary wiring. The trolley has not run at all since 2003, nor regularly since 1996, and that was weekend-traffic only for the last four years. The Route 23 bus carries that traffic now. In a city with failing schools, People With Clout overspent millions and millions of dollars so a little over a half mile of street would look pretty. 
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I'm not at all familiar with detroit's geography but I'm having a hard time seeing how 3.3mi of light rail will do anything for anyone, if it were in my town it'd basically just enough distance to make a good rich man's tour of cafes and antique stores in the central city.
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it goes through the few increasingly gentrified parts of detroit, where else?
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Slavvy posted:I'm not at all familiar with detroit's geography but I'm having a hard time seeing how 3.3mi of light rail will do anything for anyone, if it were in my town it'd basically just enough distance to make a good rich man's tour of cafes and antique stores in the central city. 
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Gio posted:well it sure as poo poo isn't going to help the vast majority of city residents, but if you dont give a poo poo about that then it may turn out to not be an awful investment. its success hinges on two promises: that it will help the booming development downtown spread, and that its the beginning of a larger regional transit system (not gonna happen). right now its basically a ferry for drunk suburbanites to make it from the downtown district to midtown, previously separated by a major freeway, without having to hop in their car. This. The entire point of these projects is to pull in tax dollars from the suburbs. e; whoops, this is the picture thread 
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the entire point is to gentrify the area, which is better than decades of decay and blight, but it also highlights how the poor residents of detroit are almost completely left out of the equation to "rebuild detroit."
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tetrapyloctomy posted:On the other hand (DANGER, NEOLIBERALISM AHEAD), infrastructure upgrades have a fantastic return on investment. I really don't know anything about the new line -- does it bring in any investment into Detroit that could help curb the austerity measures, or go through underserved neighborhoods and aid work transport, or anything else? Or does it basically not do anything that a cheaper bus line couldn't? I mean, other than get white suburbanites on, since they might literally die if they had to ride a city bus through poor neighborhoods. being totally honest - it's super hard to tell if new transit infrastructure actually attracts new development, or if it just collects new development which was going to happen somewhere into happening in a certain place. like new transit is absolutely a part of an essential urban regrowth program but, if the question is if new transit is itself enough to spark new development without any context of growth or any sort of organized value capture scheme, well... 
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i think its a little more than a people mover 2.0. the people mover connects a smaller area that was already walkable to begin with, or at least a hell of a lot faster to walk than bother yourself with the people mover. qline at least connects two areas that are not really within walking distance of one another. but again, its a ferry for drunk suburbanites and midtown hipsters. 
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edit: gently caress wrong thread
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Go back to full trolley service. Turns out Who Framed Roger Rabbit was a documentary about the big 3 purchasing and dismantling light rail in place of buses and highways.
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Because the Gadsden flag wasn't sad enough already.
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Re: Detroit "QLine", the power line died for about an hour in the first 24 hrs of operation. It has batteries, but they didn't help. "Investment". E: attaching on edit doesnt work on awful app  Hope this does: 
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Dance McPants posted:Go back to full trolley service. Turns out Who Framed Roger Rabbit was a documentary about the big 3 purchasing and dismantling light rail in place of buses and highways. I read a really spergy explanation for how this is not exactly the case and cars were inevitable and it sort of made sense but I really prefer this narrative and would prefer that people continue to think of it this way. Sounds disingenuous and neo-something but it's partly true and well, American Car Culture is toxic in the extreme so if a funny movie with Bob Hoskins, Kathleen Turner and a cartoon rabbit can poke holes in that hoo loving ra 
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Investing in infrastructure? loving white people!!
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maybe a touch  for cartoon boobshttps://twitter.com/gokunaruto67/status/863582198758166528
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They forgot to put the caveat that it can't be steve bannon punching himself for free whiskey for life 
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JawKnee posted:They forgot to put the caveat that it can't be steve bannon punching himself for free whiskey for life If he wants to punch himself in the face then drink himself to death they might be okay with bankrolling that. 
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Bip Roberts posted:If he wants to punch himself in the face then drink himself to death they might be okay with bankrolling that. 
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Bip Roberts posted:If he wants to punch himself in the face then drink himself to death they might be okay with bankrolling that. If you take off the _d from the end of the file name after you upload, you'll get the full sized image. 
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duz posted:If you take off the _d from the end of the file name after you upload, you'll get the full sized image. I don't get it. https://twitter.com/SeanMcElwee/status/863758077945946112
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vOv posted:I don't get it. Pictured: the president of France and his rapist. 
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Stultus Maximus posted:Pictured: the president of France and his rapist. Technically not rape, the age of consent is 15 in France. 
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They do remember that EFG was named as such for a reason and his mask is also after the ultimate failure that was the Gunpowder Plot... Are they truly still using him as an emblem? Edit: oh hell I didn't realize I was in this thread. Should post a pic. 
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Spiffster posted:They do remember that EFG was named as such for a reason and his mask is also after the ultimate failure that was the Gunpowder Plot... The real "ultimate failure" here is not including a picture! https://twitter.com/TheWikiHowGuy/status/863886331298054144
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vOv posted:The real "ultimate failure" here is not including a picture!  Incredibly edgy and subversive street artist Sabo has zeroed in on Maxine Waters' beef:  
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TheBigAristotle posted:Incredibly edgy and subversive street artist Sabo has zeroed in on Maxine Waters' beef: Somehow I don't think calling someone a race traitor in Inglewood is going to work out the way you hoped 
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