What are you doing to play a part in preventing gentrification?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why would someone protest gentrification? You think certain neighborhoods should be racially exclusive?

Gentrification causes people to lack homes.

Not working causes people to lack homes. Bartenders can live in gentrified neighborhoods, so stop whining and get a job.

Yeah right, just working any job will allow someone to get approved for a $1400/month apt

Then get a second or third job or whatever it takes and also develop some skills so that people will pay you enough to make it. Whatever it takes.

That’s great that you feel that way, but a lot of people can’t/won’t/don’t do that, so unless you want a bunch of unhoused people on the sidewalks of your neighborhood, I hope you support a public option for housing (just like there is a public option for k-12 schools) and shelters + rehabs in your neighborhood.

People make terrible decisions. Having babies they can’t afford with men who are broke is the biggest mistake. No one is entitled to live in DC or any expensive area. Move to a cheaper place.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why would someone protest gentrification? You think certain neighborhoods should be racially exclusive?

Gentrification causes people to lack homes.

Not working causes people to lack homes. Bartenders can live in gentrified neighborhoods, so stop whining and get a job.

Yeah right, just working any job will allow someone to get approved for a $1400/month apt

Then get a second or third job or whatever it takes and also develop some skills so that people will pay you enough to make it. Whatever it takes.

That’s great that you feel that way, but a lot of people can’t/won’t/don’t do that, so unless you want a bunch of unhoused people on the sidewalks of your neighborhood, I hope you support a public option for housing (just like there is a public option for k-12 schools) and shelters + rehabs in your neighborhood.

People make terrible decisions. Having babies they can’t afford with men who are broke is the biggest mistake. No one is entitled to live in DC or any expensive area. Move to a cheaper place.

We need more affordable housing throughout. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t uplift every corner of this small city

[Anonymous]

Bricking people

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would someone protest gentrification? You think certain neighborhoods should be racially exclusive?

Gentrification causes people to lack homes.

Not working causes people to lack homes. Bartenders can live in gentrified neighborhoods, so stop whining and get a job.

Yeah right, just working any job will allow someone to get approved for a $1400/month apt

Then get a second or third job or whatever it takes and also develop some skills so that people will pay you enough to make it. Whatever it takes.

That’s great that you feel that way, but a lot of people can’t/won’t/don’t do that, so unless you want a bunch of unhoused people on the sidewalks of your neighborhood, I hope you support a public option for housing (just like there is a public option for k-12 schools) and shelters + rehabs in your neighborhood.

People make terrible decisions. Having babies they can’t afford with men who are broke is the biggest mistake. No one is entitled to live in DC or any expensive area. Move to a cheaper place.

Educate yourself, PP

[Anonymous]

A pellet gun.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bricking people

Sadly, some seriously nihilistic teens are indeed doing this to prevent gentrification. It is terrible that they have so much public sympathy rather than 1) their victims and 2) us parents trying very hard to stay in the middle class and hoping to see some return on our modest home investments in this city, or at least not see the neighborhoods we invested in become crapholes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bricking people

For real?!?!!!

[Anonymous]

Herbicide on the lawn, boarded up a window just because

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Bricking people

Sadly, some seriously nihilistic teens are indeed doing this to prevent gentrification. It is terrible that they have so much public sympathy rather than 1) their victims and 2) us parents trying very hard to stay in the middle class and hoping to see some return on our modest home investments in this city, or at least not see the neighborhoods we invested in become crapholes.

Oh come on. This isn't about "preventing gentrification." And even if it were, it all the more increases the calls for more policing and efforts to push them out.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Bricking people

Sadly, some seriously nihilistic teens are indeed doing this to prevent gentrification. It is terrible that they have so much public sympathy rather than 1) their victims and 2) us parents trying very hard to stay in the middle class and hoping to see some return on our modest home investments in this city, or at least not see the neighborhoods we invested in become crapholes.

Oh come on. This isn't about "preventing gentrification." And even if it were, it all the more increases the calls for more policing and efforts to push them out.

On the contrary, it is about gentrification in every way. The teens who brick are 1) claiming "their" space and 2) expressing the "rage" being stoked by extremely irresponsible people who feed them inflammatory lines about how gentrifiers are invading "their" turf. Braining white people with bricks is literally their reaction to gentrification, and too many adults who should know better tell them they're justified if they want to kill or permanently disable their neighbors.

I don't know that they're thinking far enough ahead to realize there could eventually be backlash. They're mostly thinking nothing will happen to them even if they get caught.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Bricking people

Sadly, some seriously nihilistic teens are indeed doing this to prevent gentrification. It is terrible that they have so much public sympathy rather than 1) their victims and 2) us parents trying very hard to stay in the middle class and hoping to see some return on our modest home investments in this city, or at least not see the neighborhoods we invested in become crapholes.

Oh come on. This isn't about "preventing gentrification." And even if it were, it all the more increases the calls for more policing and efforts to push them out.

On the contrary, it is about gentrification in every way. The teens who brick are 1) claiming "their" space and 2) expressing the "rage" being stoked by extremely irresponsible people who feed them inflammatory lines about how gentrifiers are invading "their" turf. Braining white people with bricks is literally their reaction to gentrification, and too many adults who should know better tell them they're justified if they want to kill or permanently disable their neighbors.

I don't know that they're thinking far enough ahead to realize there could eventually be backlash. They're mostly thinking nothing will happen to them even if they get caught.

Why is this not prosecuted as a hate crime?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Bricking people

Sadly, some seriously nihilistic teens are indeed doing this to prevent gentrification. It is terrible that they have so much public sympathy rather than 1) their victims and 2) us parents trying very hard to stay in the middle class and hoping to see some return on our modest home investments in this city, or at least not see the neighborhoods we invested in become crapholes.

Oh come on. This isn't about "preventing gentrification." And even if it were, it all the more increases the calls for more policing and efforts to push them out.

On the contrary, it is about gentrification in every way. The teens who brick are 1) claiming "their" space and 2) expressing the "rage" being stoked by extremely irresponsible people who feed them inflammatory lines about how gentrifiers are invading "their" turf. Braining white people with bricks is literally their reaction to gentrification, and too many adults who should know better tell them they're justified if they want to kill or permanently disable their neighbors.

I don't know that they're thinking far enough ahead to realize there could eventually be backlash. They're mostly thinking nothing will happen to them even if they get caught.

Why is this not prosecuted as a hate crime?

It is barely prosecuted at all. That's our problem here in DC.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bricking people

Sadly, some seriously nihilistic teens are indeed doing this to prevent gentrification. It is terrible that they have so much public sympathy rather than 1) their victims and 2) us parents trying very hard to stay in the middle class and hoping to see some return on our modest home investments in this city, or at least not see the neighborhoods we invested in become crapholes.

Oh come on. This isn't about "preventing gentrification." And even if it were, it all the more increases the calls for more policing and efforts to push them out.

On the contrary, it is about gentrification in every way. The teens who brick are 1) claiming "their" space and 2) expressing the "rage" being stoked by extremely irresponsible people who feed them inflammatory lines about how gentrifiers are invading "their" turf. Braining white people with bricks is literally their reaction to gentrification, and too many adults who should know better tell them they're justified if they want to kill or permanently disable their neighbors.

I don't know that they're thinking far enough ahead to realize there could eventually be backlash. They're mostly thinking nothing will happen to them even if they get caught.

Why is this not prosecuted as a hate crime?

Because their brains are not fully developed until 25, which is the same reason why they won't be prosecuted for assault. I think one article about this even had the spouse of the victim virtue signaling about how society and discrimination caused the perp to brutalize her husband.

[Anonymous]

I read that. It was nuts. I suspect they realize they have to keep living in the neighborhood so not as much of a virtue signaling as survival instinct. Otherwise they would get it from the liberal extremist neighbors and the neighbors that beat the living daylights out of them in the first place. Between a rock and a hard place.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bricking people

Sadly, some seriously nihilistic teens are indeed doing this to prevent gentrification. It is terrible that they have so much public sympathy rather than 1) their victims and 2) us parents trying very hard to stay in the middle class and hoping to see some return on our modest home investments in this city, or at least not see the neighborhoods we invested in become crapholes.

Oh come on. This isn't about "preventing gentrification." And even if it were, it all the more increases the calls for more policing and efforts to push them out.

On the contrary, it is about gentrification in every way. The teens who brick are 1) claiming "their" space and 2) expressing the "rage" being stoked by extremely irresponsible people who feed them inflammatory lines about how gentrifiers are invading "their" turf. Braining white people with bricks is literally their reaction to gentrification, and too many adults who should know better tell them they're justified if they want to kill or permanently disable their neighbors.

I don't know that they're thinking far enough ahead to realize there could eventually be backlash. They're mostly thinking nothing will happen to them even if they get caught.

Why is this not prosecuted as a hate crime?

It is barely prosecuted at all. That's our problem here in DC.

My investment advisor was bricked while walking with his wife on a week day around 1:30 in the afternoon. He was a couple of blocks from St Patrick's Cathedral in a good neighborhood. He was bricked so hard he thought something had fallen from the top of the building and he was seriously injured. He and his wife managed to walk a couple of blocks to where a cop was walking and managed to get the 'bricker" arrested. The "bricker was released in about 5 hours. Believe me, you don't want to be bricked.

My investment advisor was going to buy property in NYC but now he is not going to. He and his wife also avoid going to NYC now.