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Is the Amazon-Led Economic Boom Wrecking Seattle?
reifman writes: Seattleites are struggling with massive traffic, rising housing costs and declining diversity. Amazon's building and acquiring enough office space to triple its local headcount by 2020. Facebook, Google and many other tech companies are now expanding here as well — it's the San Franciscoization of Seattle. Downtown is filled with 75 cranes — some blocks look like mining towns. Amazon's hired so many white males that King County is now the whitest in the nation and hate crimes against gays have shot up in a formerly LGBTQ neighborhood. Politicians can't agree on reforming impact fees and taxes to address these issues."
An interesting piece of recent advice from a long time Amazonian to the company's interns: avoid full-time employment there.
"oh look someone is successful... KILL THEM!"
Seriously, progressives... Learn from Detroit. Stop fucking things up. Just let people enjoy something going well.
You've so far succeed in turning a successful industry into your idealized form ZERO times. The best you can claim so far is utterly destroying any community in which you've tried it.
Just stop. And try to enjoy good things. Is it perfect? Life isn't perfect. But for the love of god stop fucking up things that are working.
This country can't stand much more of your shit.
And here a bunch of robots are going to come marching after me saying
"ERROR ERROR ALL LEFTIST ACTIONS ARE GOOD. ALL PAST FAILURES ARE DELETED"
Enough. I'm not even promoting rightist shit. I'm just saying... if something is working... leave it alone. Just stand the fuck away from it and leave it alone.
Why don't you focus on your other little projects that you seem to have lost interest in? How about improving education in the inner city? remember when that mattered to you? You fucked it up horribly and then walked away taking no responsibility for anything.
What about lowering the costs of healthcare? How has that one gone? Total failure again.
What about housing price? Nope.
What jobs? Nope.
Crime? Nope.
After serially fucking up everything they've ever touched, in typical leftist fashion... they want a fucking promotion. And that means they want to take another stab at reengineering a city with a successful industry that is making money. Why? Because they're bored apparently and can't be bothered to fix any of the shit they already broke.
And I know... you're mad at me for saying your little tribe and your little ideology could ever have made a mistake... Except for you're fucking blind if you haven't realized it makes very little besides mistakes.
Look at Washington DC... Look at the schools. THey get more money per student than anywhere and they're a complete mess. How did that happen?
Critics said for ages that hte issue was not money. The issue was how the schools were run. That there are bad teachers that need to lose their jobs. As in fired. And that there are disapline problems in the school that cause students to disrupt class rooms... etc.
But of course that is all some kind of bigoted propaganda. Because the real solution is to just give the teachers more money. Which has a zero percent track record of actually accomplishing anything.
I'm beyond tired of the fucking robot progressives. And I am NOT making an appeal to some other political faction. Most of them are horribly corrupt. But the progressive robots need to have someone pee on their circuit boards because they're out of fucking control. They've got a zero percent track record of making a positive contribution and they always think they have the answers despite the facts of the matter suggesting that they have in fact never had the answers.
Their great claim to fame is what? That they don't believe being racist and sexist is a good idea? Brilliant. Welcome to 90 percent of the rest of the population. That's not distinctive.
I've decided to stop wasting my time responding to AC trolls/sockpuppets... so if you want a response from me... login.
Yeah, good point. Seems pretty likely that a growing queer population has led to violence against queers. God, why won't the queers stop doing hate crimes to themselves!