Loud ATV drivers at night? City government? Police?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe the public agitation. If by Election Day you mean November, that when the ATV activity goes down

But honestly, what’s the future? Just let it get worse and worse? For what?

I think that the campaign is working to make the issue salient online, which increases number of people riled up about it which leads to more media coverage, etc. Once the campaign is over next week, what seems like a frenzy of internet will subside because a big chunk of the agitation around it is not organic. It honestly reminds me of the frenzy generated by the CRT nonsense. So we will go back to the annual and normal level fits of annoyance.

Doesn’t address our neighbors’ problem and certainly doesn’t make it matter. I’m not some political wonk. This issue is huge for an increasing number of neighborhoods

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are moving to a very nice area WTOP. I don’t think that’s a realistic proposition for most. I don’t think it’s an equitable solution either. We stuck it out of the wide eyed enthusiasm for our ideals as long as we could. Well it’s realistically not possible to any longer. I don’t even know what a full night’s sleep and not being exhausted is like any longer

I mean, if you live in Ward 1, then you chose to live in the loudest, most diverse and most vibrant part of the city. You’ve now decided that you don’t want to live in the loudest, most diverse and most vibrant part of the city. That’s good. And it’s good that you have the choice to do so in this city.

Ward 1 is huge. I don’t live in Ward 1. Don’t think that what works for you works for and is welcome by your neighbors, especially families. You call MD riders driving through the streets whole night long the thing that makes DC vibrant? That’s quite frankly underselling DC and Ward 1.

When most families bought in Ward 1 or my Ward, this wasn’t a thing. Vast majority of them can’t afford to get out and what kind of answer is that?!

You’re just repeating stuff you heard someplace. Come back and tell me all about it when you can’t sleep and have to work the next day or your kids can’t stay awake in school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe the public agitation. If by Election Day you mean November, that when the ATV activity goes down

But honestly, what’s the future? Just let it get worse and worse? For what?

I think that the campaign is working to make the issue salient online, which increases number of people riled up about it which leads to more media coverage, etc. Once the campaign is over next week, what seems like a frenzy of internet will subside because a big chunk of the agitation around it is not organic. It honestly reminds me of the frenzy generated by the CRT nonsense. So we will go back to the annual and normal level fits of annoyance.

Doesn’t address our neighbors’ problem and certainly doesn’t make it matter. I’m not some political wonk. This issue is huge for an increasing number of neighborhoods

I don’t disagree that it’s a salient issue for you. But just like the CRT hubbub, a lot of the frenzy of emotion around a legitimate issue for many is being artificially generated for political campaign purposes.

[Anonymous]

It is completely different. CRT was totally misrepresented and used. For this you just need to look out the window or not, since you can hear it. It’s an issue for most people. A vast majority of all races (why do we always have to go there, not even white) in Ward 1 and my Ward think it’s a big issue. The only difference may be if you are close enough that it affects your life and if you have a family

[Anonymous]

How does it make any sense that up to a 100 people, mostly not from DC, get to do whatever they want at a huge expense to 1000s of households and families?! And that we are completely disenfranchised and that no one can give a solid reason why?

[Anonymous]

Here’s maybe what we do: create safe riding corridors all running past elected DC official homes, while night long. Start in Park View and ride throughout. Let’s see how the retrofit changes after the 3rd night of the vibrant torture

[Anonymous]

“Rhetoric”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How does it make any sense that up to a 100 people, mostly not from DC, get to do whatever they want at a huge expense to 1000s of households and families?! And that we are completely disenfranchised and that no one can give a solid reason why?

It doesn’t make sense. But what also doesn’t make sense is how emotional you are about it. Whether you understand it or not. You are being queued up to be overly emotional about this by targeted political campaigning. Just like those people screaming up and down about CRT. It is a nuisance and it’s quite bad. But it’s also true that your emotional response is being manipulated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here’s maybe what we do: create safe riding corridors all running past elected DC official homes, while night long. Start in Park View and ride throughout. Let’s see how the retrofit changes after the 3rd night of the vibrant torture

This is a perfect example of someone posting with the intention of driving and manipulating emotional responses in others. Keeping moving things to the extreme.

[Anonymous]

No I’m not. I’m queued up by the fact I have to pack the kids off to the grandparents’ the second school finishes because it’s the only thing I can do. I’m embarrassed that I can’t get their basic need to sleep addressed. I’ve done everything I could to make sure we live in as modern and soundproofed place possible and no dice. That’s why you have houses on the 9th hole but not on the 7th hill of a motocross terrain

I’ve done a post on dcum about it because I’m sick of it and I want to highlight it while there’s a chance for some change. People are frankly scared to open up about it because they’ll get labeled or locked. I’m not.

[Anonymous]

Not locked, laughed at.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here’s maybe what we do: create safe riding corridors all running past elected DC official homes, while night long. Start in Park View and ride throughout. Let’s see how the retrofit changes after the 3rd night of the vibrant torture

This is a perfect example of someone posting with the intention of driving and manipulating emotional responses in others. Keeping moving things to the extreme.

Whatever. I would quite welcome that. Share the cheer

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No I’m not. I’m queued up by the fact I have to pack the kids off to the grandparents’ the second school finishes because it’s the only thing I can do. I’m embarrassed that I can’t get their basic need to sleep addressed. I’ve done everything I could to make sure we live in as modern and soundproofed place possible and no dice. That’s why you have houses on the 9th hole but not on the 7th hill of a motocross terrain

I’ve done a post on dcum about it because I’m sick of it and I want to highlight it while there’s a chance for some change. People are frankly scared to open up about it because they’ll get labeled or locked. I’m not.

You keep intentionally consuming media which is driving a positive feedback loop in your brain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here’s maybe what we do: create safe riding corridors all running past elected DC official homes, while night long. Start in Park View and ride throughout. Let’s see how the retrofit changes after the 3rd night of the vibrant torture

This is a perfect example of someone posting with the intention of driving and manipulating emotional responses in others. Keeping moving things to the extreme.

Whatever. I would quite welcome that. Share the cheer

On Wednesday you will no longer post and this thread will mysteriously die out.

[Anonymous]

I’m not here to engage in cheap pop psychology. I’m here to draw some attention to how it really is living in this situation. I think it’s hard to understand. But to approximate, have someone play heavy metal at you for 4 nights straight. Call me the morning after and let’s see how queued up and emotional you are