Gun shots on 14th street tonight!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly- the gentrify crowd did this. You can’t just toss up row houses and close your eyes to the actual needs of the neighborhood. The problems of systematic/generational racism aren’t going to vanish simply because you bought an over priced home.
I see strong parallels between gentrifiers and climate change deniers. You think that you can muscle through any ill effects of your actions. Turns out- you are both wrong.
So keep pricing people out of the city… and see how that plays out for you.

It’s not so much the gentrification. It’s the fact that the gentrifiers mostly refuse to send their kids to the neighborhood schools which would have the biggest impact on improving AA test scores, outcomes, etc. Instead they flee for charters or privates and walk by the BLM signs on their stoops every day. They are guilty of the worst form of systematic racism, but they are totally clueless about it.

So parents who care about education should sacrifice their children? Do you realize the non-gentrified can go to charters as well?

OMG. So those of us who are choosing to send our kids to our neighborhood schools don't "care" about education and are "sacrificing" our children? Is that what you really think about us?

We all know there are DCPS schools that have zero children at grade level, and other DCPS schools that are doing great. The blanket statements about all non-charters or all charters are useless in the context of DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:14 and R is one of the sketchiest intersections in NW

This statement would indicate that you don’t get around much.

Omg I live 2 blocks away and this block is sketchy af

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My understanding is that yes, hunger is an issue. The stats the Capital Area Food Bank quote are:

1 out of 10 residents of the metropolitan Washington region is food insecure.
Nearly ⅓ of them are children.

There was an article in the Post talking about how students have suffered and food insecurity via losing access to meals was part of it. I'm not a policy expert by any means, but I do think that the benefits from UBI would extend into the community greatly. Just looking at this one issue, people could then spend money in their communities instead of relying on school meals or food banks. Maybe shoplifting would go down encouraging more grocery stores to open, providing stable jobs. There is something to be said for the dignity of choosing and paying for your own food.

As for the issue of involvement with the drug trade, which I assume is what's fueling these shootings, my hope would be that with better options people would choose something else. No one wants to be terrified for their life as they walk down the street, or see their friends and loved ones hurt or killed. People with better options exercise them. That's why there's a Ward 9.

So the shootings were about food shortages? Stay on topic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
My understanding is that yes, hunger is an issue. The stats the Capital Area Food Bank quote are:

1 out of 10 residents of the metropolitan Washington region is food insecure.
Nearly ⅓ of them are children.

There was an article in the Post talking about how students have suffered and food insecurity via losing access to meals was part of it. I'm not a policy expert by any means, but I do think that the benefits from UBI would extend into the community greatly. Just looking at this one issue, people could then spend money in their communities instead of relying on school meals or food banks. Maybe shoplifting would go down encouraging more grocery stores to open, providing stable jobs. There is something to be said for the dignity of choosing and paying for your own food.

As for the issue of involvement with the drug trade, which I assume is what's fueling these shootings, my hope would be that with better options people would choose something else. No one wants to be terrified for their life as they walk down the street, or see their friends and loved ones hurt or killed. People with better options exercise them. That's why there's a Ward 9.


So the shootings were about food shortages? Stay on topic.

The amount of naïveté on this thread is astounding. Better options already abound. As PPs above have noted--there is no shortage of "programs" for youth in this city, including the long-running Summer Youth Employment Program which extends until the age of 22. In addition, restaurants and hotels are begging for workers now right now and cannot find people to apply. They would rather sit home and collect stimulus checks. But you know what? Taking advantage of those programs and opportunities requires having the capacity to show up. To show up on time. To put down the Insta/Snapchat and listen and do actual work. To be able to speak without every other word beginning with "mother**er" or some other profanity. To not get in confrontations with coworkers or supervisors. And the responsibility to instill those types of life skills lies with parents. Not with schools. Not with "society" at large. But with parents.

And there are a LOT of young AA and Latino kids in this city who DO avail themselves of those opportunities, becoming the first generation in their families to graduate from high school or attend college. But there are some---like the roughnecks doing the banging around 14th Street, who instead find it much easier to get up late, smoke dope, and shoot the sh$t with their buddies on the corner. And those folks don't need more "programs"---they need to be kept in jail and away from the rest of us instead of the continuous "catch and release" cycle for violent offenders that our equally naive city council endorses. One of the reasons there is a Ward 9, as PP put it, is that during the 1980s and 90s, a huge number of middle class AA families decided that they weren't putting up with the crime BS either, and they moved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
My understanding is that yes, hunger is an issue. The stats the Capital Area Food Bank quote are:

1 out of 10 residents of the metropolitan Washington region is food insecure.
Nearly ⅓ of them are children.

There was an article in the Post talking about how students have suffered and food insecurity via losing access to meals was part of it. I'm not a policy expert by any means, but I do think that the benefits from UBI would extend into the community greatly. Just looking at this one issue, people could then spend money in their communities instead of relying on school meals or food banks. Maybe shoplifting would go down encouraging more grocery stores to open, providing stable jobs. There is something to be said for the dignity of choosing and paying for your own food.

As for the issue of involvement with the drug trade, which I assume is what's fueling these shootings, my hope would be that with better options people would choose something else. No one wants to be terrified for their life as they walk down the street, or see their friends and loved ones hurt or killed. People with better options exercise them. That's why there's a Ward 9.


So the shootings were about food shortages? Stay on topic.

The amount of naïveté on this thread is astounding. Better options already abound. As PPs above have noted--there is no shortage of "programs" for youth in this city, including the long-running Summer Youth Employment Program which extends until the age of 22. In addition, restaurants and hotels are begging for workers now right now and cannot find people to apply. They would rather sit home and collect stimulus checks. But you know what? Taking advantage of those programs and opportunities requires having the capacity to show up. To show up on time. To put down the Insta/Snapchat and listen and do actual work. To be able to speak without every other word beginning with "mother**er" or some other profanity. To not get in confrontations with coworkers or supervisors. And the responsibility to instill those types of life skills lies with parents. Not with schools. Not with "society" at large. But with parents.

And there are a LOT of young AA and Latino kids in this city who DO avail themselves of those opportunities, becoming the first generation in their families to graduate from high school or attend college. But there are some---like the roughnecks doing the banging around 14th Street, who instead find it much easier to get up late, smoke dope, and shoot the sh$t with their buddies on the corner. And those folks don't need more "programs"---they need to be kept in jail and away from the rest of us instead of the continuous "catch and release" cycle for violent offenders that our equally naive city council endorses. One of the reasons there is a Ward 9, as PP put it, is that during the 1980s and 90s, a huge number of middle class AA families decided that they weren't putting up with the crime BS either, and they moved.

+1. Well said.

[Anonymous]

Charles Allen says he hasn't commented on any of this because his Twitter account got hacked, because that's the only way to communicate?

https://twitter.com/CMCharlesAllen/status/1419034932790321154?s=19

Going to guess his advisers are telling him that each time he opens his mouth about crime he loses voters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Charles Allen says he hasn't commented on any of this because his Twitter account got hacked, because that's the only way to communicate?

https://twitter.com/CMCharlesAllen/status/1419034932790321154?s=19

Going to guess his advisers are telling him that each time he opens his mouth about crime he loses voters.

He’s so weak on crime. It’s pathetic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Charles Allen says he hasn't commented on any of this because his Twitter account got hacked, because that's the only way to communicate?

https://twitter.com/CMCharlesAllen/status/1419034932790321154?s=19

Going to guess his advisers are telling him that each time he opens his mouth about crime he loses voters.

So how to get him and his sympathizers off our city council?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Charles Allen says he hasn't commented on any of this because his Twitter account got hacked, because that's the only way to communicate?

https://twitter.com/CMCharlesAllen/status/1419034932790321154?s=19

Going to guess his advisers are telling him that each time he opens his mouth about crime he loses voters.

So how to get him and his sympathizers off our city council?

Stop electing only liberal Democrats. There needs to be some checks and balances on the council to hold back this woke stampede to the bottom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Charles Allen says he hasn't commented on any of this because his Twitter account got hacked, because that's the only way to communicate?

https://twitter.com/CMCharlesAllen/status/1419034932790321154?s=19

Going to guess his advisers are telling him that each time he opens his mouth about crime he loses voters.

So how to get him and his sympathizers off our city council?

Stop electing only liberal Democrats. There needs to be some checks and balances on the council to hold back this woke stampede to the bottom.

This.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Charles Allen says he hasn't commented on any of this because his Twitter account got hacked, because that's the only way to communicate?

https://twitter.com/CMCharlesAllen/status/1419034932790321154?s=19

Going to guess his advisers are telling him that each time he opens his mouth about crime he loses voters.

So he is a victim of crime as well. The suffering!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Charles Allen says he hasn't commented on any of this because his Twitter account got hacked, because that's the only way to communicate?

https://twitter.com/CMCharlesAllen/status/1419034932790321154?s=19

Going to guess his advisers are telling him that each time he opens his mouth about crime he loses voters.

So how to get him and his sympathizers off our city council?

Stop electing only liberal Democrats. There needs to be some checks and balances on the council to hold back this woke stampede to the bottom.

This.

This x 1000. It’s a contest of who can come up with the wokest & most clueless stuff. There comes a tipping point when people have enough & just leave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Charles Allen says he hasn't commented on any of this because his Twitter account got hacked, because that's the only way to communicate?

https://twitter.com/CMCharlesAllen/status/1419034932790321154?s=19

Going to guess his advisers are telling him that each time he opens his mouth about crime he loses voters.

So how to get him and his sympathizers off our city council?

Stop electing only liberal Democrats. There needs to be some checks and balances on the council to hold back this woke stampede to the bottom.

This.

Totally agree. I'm thinking of forming a political committee to start distributing some shirts & signs about Charles Allen supporting crime. Let me know if you're interested. I think step #1 is for us to show a viable challenger there is support for getting rid of Allen and others. If anyone else is interested I'll be starting a thread and group on this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Charles Allen says he hasn't commented on any of this because his Twitter account got hacked, because that's the only way to communicate?

https://twitter.com/CMCharlesAllen/status/1419034932790321154?s=19

Going to guess his advisers are telling him that each time he opens his mouth about crime he loses voters.

So how to get him and his sympathizers off our city council?

Stop electing only liberal Democrats. There needs to be some checks and balances on the council to hold back this woke stampede to the bottom.

This.

Totally agree. I'm thinking of forming a political committee to start distributing some shirts & signs about Charles Allen supporting crime. Let me know if you're interested. I think step #1 is for us to show a viable challenger there is support for getting rid of Allen and others. If anyone else is interested I'll be starting a thread and group on this.

This is either sock puppetry or the Qnon bat-signal went out for trumptrolls to start disrupting this thread. I’ve reported all your posts.


There is one, and ONLY ONE, solution to this problem: getting rid of every single gun in this country. Period. End of discussion. That’s the only thing that stops this. There iso need to discuss any other factors but that. It’s the guns. Nothing else. Full stop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Charles Allen says he hasn't commented on any of this because his Twitter account got hacked, because that's the only way to communicate?

https://twitter.com/CMCharlesAllen/status/1419034932790321154?s=19

Going to guess his advisers are telling him that each time he opens his mouth about crime he loses voters.

So how to get him and his sympathizers off our city council?

Stop electing only liberal Democrats. There needs to be some checks and balances on the council to hold back this woke stampede to the bottom.

This.

Totally agree. I'm thinking of forming a political committee to start distributing some shirts & signs about Charles Allen supporting crime. Let me know if you're interested. I think step #1 is for us to show a viable challenger there is support for getting rid of Allen and others. If anyone else is interested I'll be starting a thread and group on this.

This is either sock puppetry or the Qnon bat-signal went out for trumptrolls to start disrupting this thread. I’ve reported all your posts.


There is one, and ONLY ONE, solution to this problem: getting rid of every single gun in this country. Period. End of discussion. That’s the only thing that stops this. There iso need to discuss any other factors but that. It’s the guns. Nothing else. Full stop.

First of all it isn't sock puppetry. Second of all I agree on the need for more action on guns but that will have to happen at the federal level. The chances of anything real being done at a federal level are almost 0, so we have to act locally and do other things that are under our control now