Lululemon Navy Yard closed “temporarily” after being robbed at gunpoint

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Anonymous wrote:Now permanently closed:

https://twitter.com/TKxCrazylegs/status/1738640789238865987

Another harbinger of how quickly DC is declining. Navy Yard, the Wharf, City Center, and Gallery Place/Chinatown have been major development projects for the past 20 years. Literally, billions invested. And for a number of years it was all great. No one worried about their safety. But after BLM and the collapse of policing and prosecutions, the city is reverting to what what it was in the 80s. Lawless. A ghost town downtown. No one wants to go there. Even the sports teams are leaving.

DC is quickly entering a doom loop. Until DC gets really tough on crime and prosecutors and judges do their jobs, the death spiral will continue. And I don't see that changing. Voters in DC will always vote for progressives. And they value spending a quarter of a million dollars repainting the Black Lives Matter sign on 16th over actually arresting the few hundred criminals that are terrorizing this city.

We avoid going into DC if at all possible. It just is not worth the risks.

That’s really silly and hysterical. Crime is a problem, but a lot of NW isn’t experiencing this. I live near Georgetown and see none of this.

Low information and must not really follow the news. Carjackings on that side of town not quite daily, but definitely weekly. I live in a nice area of town but stopped a volunteer project I did every week mainly to limit metro time back and forth.

I have noticed a big increase in metro police and other security in the last year. Better fare gates have been added to many stations and continue to be installed. And more fare paying riders from the before COVID times are back. Metro has less of a feeling of lawlessness than it did a year ago. You might give it a try. I don’t work there, just a fan of public transportation and want it to survive! So it needs fare paying riders of course.

I will just say as a former long-time resident who still returns to DC several times a year - On my most recent trip earlier this month, each time I rode the metro I saw at least one person evade the fare literally each time I entered and left a station. I cannot recall a single instance during the decade plus I rode the metro multiple times a day where I ever saw someone evade the fare. So yes, my anecdotal report is that D.C. in 2023 is very different from D.C. in even the late 2000's. That being said, aside from the surprising fare evaders I did not feel unsafe taking my young child around parts of downtown (metro center to l'enfant plaza).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wealth redistribution. This is what liberals want.

This. Young people want socialism. This is how it works.

Wait until the young people find out what the government thinks they need when socialism proceeds to communism.

One of DC's illiterate kiddos found DCUM. How cute.

No, I was just rolling my eyes at you “Commies under the bed!” people.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:One of the issues is that effective policing gets challenged by "equity" arguments--specialized task forces that end up statistically impacting one population over another, paying metro fares etc. The only solution I see is do the same for everyone--ie everyone pays metro fares, everyone gets a ticket with teeth for public pot smoking, impounding any car with the wrong tags or too many tickets, randomization of road blocks that check drivers/cars, neighborhood sweeps for illegal firearms. I know it sounds scary and could run into constitutional challenges, but if emergency law were decreed it might work? I don't really see what else to do, except let criminals run DC to satisfy equity types.

But white collar crime like insider trading is completely ignored by the DC police. In order to be fair to everyone, DC must investigate all crimes.

Police don’t investigate insider trading anywhere. That’s the SEC’s job.

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Anonymous wrote:Wealth redistribution. This is what liberals want.

This. Young people want socialism. This is how it works.

Wait until the young people find out what the government thinks they need when socialism proceeds to communism.

:roll:

One of DC's illiterate kiddos found DCUM. How cute.

Pp who thinks lax policing is “how socialism works” needs to go back to a high school government class. Policing is very different from Econ policies.

— an economist

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Some people promote both, PP. It's quite obvious.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wealth redistribution. This is what liberals want.

This. Young people want socialism. This is how it works.

Wait until the young people find out what the government thinks they need when socialism proceeds to communism.

:roll:

One of DC's illiterate kiddos found DCUM. How cute.

Pp who thinks lax policing is “how socialism works” needs to go back to a high school government class. Policing is very different from Econ policies.

— an economist

Exactly. Though there is a correlation. Progressives are critical theorists. Therefore, they view everything through an oppressor/oppressed lens. This causes them to be lax on crime (criminals are the oppressed) and support socialism (poor people are the oppressed and they believe socialism will make them not poor...LOL).

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We can’t have nice things.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wealth redistribution. This is what liberals want.

This. Young people want socialism. This is how it works.

Wait until the young people find out what the government thinks they need when socialism proceeds to communism.

:roll:

One of DC's illiterate kiddos found DCUM. How cute.

Pp who thinks lax policing is “how socialism works” needs to go back to a high school government class. Policing is very different from Econ policies.

— an economist

Police would be unnecessary if all goods were equally distributed throughout the population. Nothing to steal, no crime.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wealth redistribution. This is what liberals want.

This. Young people want socialism. This is how it works.

Wait until the young people find out what the government thinks they need when socialism proceeds to communism.

:roll:

One of DC's illiterate kiddos found DCUM. How cute.

Pp who thinks lax policing is “how socialism works” needs to go back to a high school government class. Policing is very different from Econ policies.

— an economist

Exactly. Though there is a correlation. Progressives are critical theorists. Therefore, they view everything through an oppressor/oppressed lens. This causes them to be lax on crime (criminals are the oppressed) and support socialism (poor people are the oppressed and they believe socialism will make them not poor...LOL).

Hard to know where to start with this load of BS. Let’s start here: not all progressives are critical theorists, by a long shot.

And progressivism doesn’t equal socialism, you really do need to go back to high school government class to understand that the economics are very different between these two. (Hint: privatization? Extent of redistribution?)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Now permanently closed:

https://twitter.com/TKxCrazylegs/status/1738640789238865987

Another harbinger of how quickly DC is declining. Navy Yard, the Wharf, City Center, and Gallery Place/Chinatown have been major development projects for the past 20 years. Literally, billions invested. And for a number of years it was all great. No one worried about their safety. But after BLM and the collapse of policing and prosecutions, the city is reverting to what what it was in the 80s. Lawless. A ghost town downtown. No one wants to go there. Even the sports teams are leaving.

DC is quickly entering a doom loop. Until DC gets really tough on crime and prosecutors and judges do their jobs, the death spiral will continue. And I don't see that changing. Voters in DC will always vote for progressives. And they value spending a quarter of a million dollars repainting the Black Lives Matter sign on 16th over actually arresting the few hundred criminals that are terrorizing this city.

We avoid going into DC if at all possible. It just is not worth the risks.

That’s really silly and hysterical. Crime is a problem, but a lot of NW isn’t experiencing this. I live near Georgetown and see none of this.

Low information and must not really follow the news. Carjackings on that side of town not quite daily, but definitely weekly. I live in a nice area of town but stopped a volunteer project I did every week mainly to limit metro time back and forth.

I have noticed a big increase in metro police and other security in the last year. Better fare gates have been added to many stations and continue to be installed. And more fare paying riders from the before COVID times are back. Metro has less of a feeling of lawlessness than it did a year ago. You might give it a try. I don’t work there, just a fan of public transportation and want it to survive! So it needs fare paying riders of course.

I will just say as a former long-time resident who still returns to DC several times a year - On my most recent trip earlier this month, each time I rode the metro I saw at least one person evade the fare literally each time I entered and left a station. I cannot recall a single instance during the decade plus I rode the metro multiple times a day where I ever saw someone evade the fare. So yes, my anecdotal report is that D.C. in 2023 is very different from D.C. in even the late 2000's. That being said, aside from the surprising fare evaders I did not feel unsafe taking my young child around parts of downtown (metro center to l'enfant plaza).

+1

I rode the metro with my young child the other day. A man squeezed through the fare gate right behind my kid and I. It is one of the new gates and it startled me but the cop standing right there didn’t say a thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wealth redistribution. This is what liberals want.

This. Young people want socialism. This is how it works.

Wait until the young people find out what the government thinks they need when socialism proceeds to communism.

One of DC's illiterate kiddos found DCUM. How cute.

No, I was just rolling my eyes at you “Commies under the bed!” people.

Wow, you can write words like an adult. Impressive. Socialism and communism are great ideas until you realize that the government is going to give you want it thinks you need and actively prevent you from getting anything else. Each according to their ability and each according to their need. I can tell you what government thinks about the abilities of the proles: "You didn't build that."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wealth redistribution. This is what liberals want.

This. Young people want socialism. This is how it works.

Wait until the young people find out what the government thinks they need when socialism proceeds to communism.

:roll:

One of DC's illiterate kiddos found DCUM. How cute.

Pp who thinks lax policing is “how socialism works” needs to go back to a high school government class. Policing is very different from Econ policies.

— an economist

Exactly. Though there is a correlation. Progressives are critical theorists. Therefore, they view everything through an oppressor/oppressed lens. This causes them to be lax on crime (criminals are the oppressed) and support socialism (poor people are the oppressed and they believe socialism will make them not poor...LOL).

Hard to know where to start with this load of BS. Let’s start here: not all progressives are critical theorists, by a long shot.

And progressivism doesn’t equal socialism, you really do need to go back to high school government class to understand that the economics are very different between these two. (Hint: privatization? Extent of redistribution?)

Private ownership leads to inequality unless what you own has no intrinsic value.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wealth redistribution. This is what liberals want.

This. Young people want socialism. This is how it works.

Wait until the young people find out what the government thinks they need when socialism proceeds to communism.

One of DC's illiterate kiddos found DCUM. How cute.

No, I was just rolling my eyes at you “Commies under the bed!” people.

Wow, you can write words like an adult. Impressive. Socialism and communism are great ideas until you realize that the government is going to give you want it thinks you need and actively prevent you from getting anything else. Each according to their ability and each according to their need. I can tell you what government thinks about the abilities of the proles: "You didn't build that."

It is lazy, basic thinking to associate communism with progressive lax on crime policies advocated by milquetoast, UMC caucasians with white guilt.

Stalin and Castro were not known for being soft on crime. The Gulag wasn’t just for political prisoners. An East German police state wasn’t letting people jump turnstiles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wealth redistribution. This is what liberals want.

This. Young people want socialism. This is how it works.

Wait until the young people find out what the government thinks they need when socialism proceeds to communism.

:roll:

One of DC's illiterate kiddos found DCUM. How cute.

Pp who thinks lax policing is “how socialism works” needs to go back to a high school government class. Policing is very different from Econ policies.

— an economist

Police would be unnecessary if all goods were equally distributed throughout the population. Nothing to steal, no crime.

Hardly, because someone wouldn’t be happy with their paltry allotment and would take yours so they have 2 and you have none.

[Anonymous]

Most western European countries that have extensive social safety nets are ALSO tough on crime. They do a lot of things that we struggle to do in this country because of constitutional constraints. Like make it almost impossible for people to own guns. They also more easily prosecute crimes, can take away rights if someone is deemed mentally incapacitated, and put more people in mental health facilities against their wishes. The don't imprison as many people and their prisons are much nicer than ours, because they are focused on rehabilitation.

It's just a totally different cultural attitude towards crime. Asia also does better with crime, and again, many of the reasons why have to do with fewer (if any) constitutional protections.

I'm progressive but would support a much more tough on crime approach. But that includes getting rid of (or at least taking the teeth out of) the 2nd amendment, and creating a really robust system for roving the mentally ill from broader society, as well as much more aggressive policies and supports for addressing substance abuse. But yes, also more prosecution of crime and stiffer penalties for all crime, but including social crimes like fare evasion.