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Old 05-28-2020, 07:59 AM
 
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Burn down your community stores now. Then complain about food deserts, lack of access, and being "underserved" later.
And it's always someone else's fault.
Yeah nothing improves a sandbox like taking a dump in it
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Old 05-28-2020, 08:05 AM
 
Location: It's in the name!
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Ah yes, the "revolutionary" vassal state of the EU....not "submissive" at all, LOL.
They are more free than we are when you think about it. As long as we "have our guns" the government can rob and steal from us and give to the wealthy.

The people int he EU don't have nearly as much financial burdens as we do. Yes, we may have more opportunity, but at what cost? We work ourselves to the grave trying to compensate for how expensive it is to live. The EU has more privacy rights while we give ours away in the name of "national security."

Yes, America is the great experiment. But the experiment is to see how much you can get away with fleecing the public before they revolt. From what I see, it looks like it is working.

People are dying in this country because they can't afford healthcare. Students are graduating with student debt that will take them at least a decade to pay off. Meanwhile are school systems are at the bottom compared to the rest of the world.

We laugh at the EU, but deep down, we should envy them.

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So, we are getting worked to death, and when we get sick, we have to work harder to pay off the medical debt. Then we are encouraged to get into more debt by going to school so that we can increase our earning potential to pay for everything else.
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Old 05-28-2020, 08:07 AM
 
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They are more free than we are when you think about it.
No, they're not, at all.
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Old 05-28-2020, 08:15 AM
 
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I was watching the ones in Minneapolis and my first reaction was negative.

But on retrospect just like forests need fire for renewal, so do urban areas. The greatest fires in major cities from Rome to Chicago renewed the cultural heritage and evolved the lifestyle of its citizens.

You need destruction to usher in renewal, and pain to bring with it happiness. Most of the city like the target are dystopian and plagued with homogenized architecture imported from the suburbs.

I think riots, despite all their negatives, are necessary from time to time.
Is people coming to your house, taking your stuff, and burning your house down a good thing?
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Old 05-28-2020, 08:42 AM
 
Location: Brackenwood
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Is people coming to your house, taking your stuff, and burning your house down a good thing?
Maybe his house could use some "renewal."
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Old 05-28-2020, 08:48 AM
 
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I was watching the ones in Minneapolis and my first reaction was negative.

But on retrospect just like forests need fire for renewal, so do urban areas. The greatest fires in major cities from Rome to Chicago renewed the cultural heritage and evolved the lifestyle of its citizens.

You need destruction to usher in renewal, and pain to bring with it happiness. Most of the city like the target are dystopian and plagued with homogenized architecture imported from the suburbs.

I think riots, despite all their negatives, are necessary from time to time.
……………………………… unless the destruction from those fires is not rebuilt and buisnesses do not reopen.
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Old 05-28-2020, 08:52 AM
 
Location: Morrison, CO
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Rioting and burning down neighborhoods is good, but the positives, and renewal that comes from Gentrification is bad.
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Old 05-28-2020, 08:54 AM
 
Location: the very edge of the continent
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They are more free than we are when you think about it. As long as we "have our guns" the government can rob and steal from us and give to the wealthy.

The people int he EU don't have nearly as much financial burdens as we do. Yes, we may have more opportunity, but at what cost? We work ourselves to the grave trying to compensate for how expensive it is to live. The EU has more privacy rights while we give ours away in the name of "national security."

Yes, America is the great experiment. But the experiment is to see how much you can get away with fleecing the public before they revolt. From what I see, it looks like it is working.

People are dying in this country because they can't afford healthcare. Students are graduating with student debt that will take them at least a decade to pay off. Meanwhile are school systems are at the bottom compared to the rest of the world.

We laugh at the EU, but deep down, we should envy them.

Work-Life Benefits

Healthcare (Self-explanetary)

Tuition

School Systems

So, we are getting worked to death, and when we get sick, we have to work harder to pay off the medical debt. Then we are encouraged to get into more debt by going to school so that we can increase our earning potential to pay for everything else.
Hey, I'm ALL IN on school vouchers/choice! Make that happen! European countries allow school choice funded by public tax money. Finland, for example... You know how everyone raves about how great Finland's school system is? Here's why...

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"Finland runs a national school choice system where parents and students can choose freely between the 2,600 municipal and 80 privately-managed schools and funding follows the student."
The magic of education in Finland - worldbank.org
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Old 05-28-2020, 09:01 AM
 
Location: Just over the horizon
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I was watching the ones in Minneapolis and my first reaction was negative.

But on retrospect just like forests need fire for renewal, so do urban areas. The greatest fires in major cities from Rome to Chicago renewed the cultural heritage and evolved the lifestyle of its citizens.

You need destruction to usher in renewal, and pain to bring with it happiness. Most of the city like the target are dystopian and plagued with homogenized architecture imported from the suburbs.

I think riots, despite all their negatives, are necessary from time to time.



Yes, because God knows that Target and other businesses and shop owners that got vandalized and looted are directly responsible for the mistreatment of black people by the police.

They got what's coming to them


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Old 05-28-2020, 09:37 AM
 
Location: Manchester NH
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……………………………… unless the destruction from those fires is not rebuilt and buisnesses do not reopen.
It could be turned bad or good.

Minneapolis could let this make them bitter and divided, and rebuild in a way that leads them down the wrong path.

Or they can turn this into something good, and restructure the city, and build a new history for themselves.

Succeed or fail, the disaster is a necessary catalyst.
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