Another shooting during the daytime iDC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We aren't defunding the police fast enough -- that's the problem.

Oh wow. Yes, I sure wish there had been a social worker or a violence interupter available yesterday afternoon. That would have solved everything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We aren't defunding the police fast enough -- that's the problem.

We aren't supporting communities that have been crapped on for centuries. Not enough and not fast enough. Yeah, and defund MPD to fund that. They don't stop shootings.

Columbia Heights is one of the most "supported" communities in the city, nitwit. It is actually a respectable and desirable neighborhood now, which it wasn't 10 years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ban illegal guns instead of catch and release the people who use them in DC. If DC is serious about guns, enforce laws, right?

Illegal guns are already . . . well, illegal. What more "banning" can take place?

Double-secret Ben them, then!

[Anonymous]

Better hurry up a defund those cops.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Value of your real estate will go down as people flee to the suburbs.

Nope. Keep dreamin'.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Value of your real estate will go down as people flee to the suburbs.

Nope. Keep dreamin'.

If COVID has shown us anything, it’s that we don’t NEED to live in crowded cities to do our jobs.

The only point to living in the city was being close to the office to spare us a commute. So we put up with the expensive housing, crowded conditions, crime, etc, because at least we weren’t spending two hours in the car every day.

But now? With everyone working mostly from home? Why would ANYONE, especially families, *choose* to live in the city if they didn’t have to?


We have just witnessed the apogee of urban living. It happened in January of 2020. Nowhere to go but down

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Value of your real estate will go down as people flee to the suburbs.

Nope. Keep dreamin'.

If COVID has shown us anything, it’s that we don’t NEED to live in crowded cities to do our jobs.

The only point to living in the city was being close to the office to spare us a commute. So we put up with the expensive housing, crowded conditions, crime, etc, because at least we weren’t spending two hours in the car every day.

But now? With everyone working mostly from home? Why would ANYONE, especially families, *choose* to live in the city if they didn’t have to?


We have just witnessed the apogee of urban living. It happened in January of 2020. Nowhere to go but down

My wife's firm was about to move 800 employees from NoVA into DC. After the triple wammy of covid, BLM, and DC violence increase, they have as of last week told these employees to expect to work from home potentially forever. So, you may not visibly see DC "shrinking" but DC is losing a LOT of potential growth to its mismanagement and poor policies

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Value of your real estate will go down as people flee to the suburbs.

Nope. Keep dreamin'.

If COVID has shown us anything, it’s that we don’t NEED to live in crowded cities to do our jobs.

The only point to living in the city was being close to the office to spare us a commute. So we put up with the expensive housing, crowded conditions, crime, etc, because at least we weren’t spending two hours in the car every day.

But now? With everyone working mostly from home? Why would ANYONE, especially families, *choose* to live in the city if they didn’t have to?


We have just witnessed the apogee of urban living. It happened in January of 2020. Nowhere to go but down

My wife's firm was about to move 800 employees from NoVA into DC. After the triple wammy of covid, BLM, and DC violence increase, they have as of last week told these employees to expect to work from home potentially forever. So, you may not visibly see DC "shrinking" but DC is losing a LOT of potential growth to its mismanagement and poor policies

I hope someone from that firm is doing Mayor Bower's office the favor of letting them know this, and exactly why they changed their mind about the move.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Value of your real estate will go down as people flee to the suburbs.

Nope. Keep dreamin'.

If COVID has shown us anything, it’s that we don’t NEED to live in crowded cities to do our jobs.

The only point to living in the city was being close to the office to spare us a commute. So we put up with the expensive housing, crowded conditions, crime, etc, because at least we weren’t spending two hours in the car every day.

But now? With everyone working mostly from home? Why would ANYONE, especially families, *choose* to live in the city if they didn’t have to?


We have just witnessed the apogee of urban living. It happened in January of 2020. Nowhere to go but down

My wife's firm was about to move 800 employees from NoVA into DC. After the triple wammy of covid, BLM, and DC violence increase, they have as of last week told these employees to expect to work from home potentially forever. So, you may not visibly see DC "shrinking" but DC is losing a LOT of potential growth to its mismanagement and poor policies

I hope someone from that firm is doing Mayor Bower's office the favor of letting them know this, and exactly why they changed their mind about the move.

Let the press know too. Seriously. No tax base = no services

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Feds can give someone 5 years for handgun use in a crime of violence. But never do.
Move this stuff to federal court, its real time.

DC courts are federal courts. Why are the Federal judges and prosecutors slow rolling criminals in the District?

I have NO idea. But the Post expose on the way that DC treats youth offenders through the youth "rehabilitation" (cough) act, also talked about gun crimes being routinely pleaded down--so no crime, no conviction, no record. This in a city that went to the Supreme Court to contest basic gun ownership rights for law-abiding citizens. Makes no sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We aren't defunding the police fast enough -- that's the problem.

We aren't supporting communities that have been crapped on for centuries. Not enough and not fast enough. Yeah, and defund MPD to fund that. They don't stop shootings.

Columbia Heights is one of the most "supported" communities in the city, nitwit. It is actually a respectable and desirable neighborhood now, which it wasn't 10 years ago.

Maybe the shooters weren’t supported and that’s why they had to go shoot a bunch of people. Should write them a check now

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

The only point to living in the city was being close to the office to spare us a commute. So we put up with the expensive housing, crowded conditions, crime, etc, because at least we weren’t spending two hours in the car every day.

But now? With everyone working mostly from home? Why would ANYONE, especially families, *choose* to live in the city if they didn’t have to?

Because full time telework won't last forever? Because we like walking to things? Going to restaurants that aren't Applebees? Being able to have more than two drinks at a party or bar without paying $50 to get home (and back to your car the next day) and wondering if you will even be able to get an Uber to the ass end of nowhere? Being able to go to a museum or concert or play without it being an all day production? Because we actually understand statistics and know that there is no practical difference between your likelihood of being murdered whether you live in the city or suburbs as long as you're not selling drugs or joining a gang? Because we don't want to contribute to wasteful, car-based, suburban sprawl lifestyles?

So yeah, there are plenty of reasons ANYONE would choose to live in a city, or were you only asking from a Karen perspective?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ban illegal guns instead of catch and release the people who use them in DC. If DC is serious about guns, enforce laws, right?

You can’t do this. Scalia created an individual right to bear arms by twisting the words of the Constitution. In a DC handgun case.

DC wants to ban handguns. Scalia and his Fed Soc buddies made it impossible.
Scalia put the lives of DC children at risk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

The only point to living in the city was being close to the office to spare us a commute. So we put up with the expensive housing, crowded conditions, crime, etc, because at least we weren’t spending two hours in the car every day.

But now? With everyone working mostly from home? Why would ANYONE, especially families, *choose* to live in the city if they didn’t have to?

Because full time telework won't last forever? Because we like walking to things? Going to restaurants that aren't Applebees?Eh. This argument is ridiculous. Maaaybe if you're into high-end dining. My family is not. We love the plethora of cheap, quality diverse ethnic restaurants in our suburb. Being able to have more than two drinks at a party or bar without paying $50 to get home (and back to your car the next day) and wondering if you will even be able to get an Uber to the ass end of nowhere? I live pretty far out and getting an Uber to downtown is nowhere that expensive and we've never had any trouble getting one there or backBeing able to go to a museum or concert or play without it being an all day production? Why would it be an all-day production? Because we actually understand statistics and know that there is no practical difference between your likelihood of being murdered whether you live in the city or suburbs as long as you're not selling drugs or joining a gang? Because we don't want to contribute to wasteful, car-based, suburban sprawl lifestyles? Sorry, I chill in my huge yard all the time as I telework. Don't drive very often, TBH

So yeah, there are plenty of reasons ANYONE would choose to live in a city, or were you only asking from a Karen perspective?

[Anonymous]

Call the violence interrupters, stat.