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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you want children playing kickball in the street, move to the suburbs. Seriously, you’re in the wrong place. Do you think kids should be able to play in the streets of Manhattan? If you let your kids play in the street in DC, you should have your head examined. [/quote]

I don’t understand this mentality of “if you don’t like X then move to Y.”  A city and its government should be responsive to the different needs of its citizens. If some residents of a citizen want to advocate for bike lanes and some want to advocate for higher speed limits for cars so they can get to their destination, the result should reflect in some way what the citizens want and what helps the city grow.  50 years ago many circles were cut down to provide more car lanes- why didn’t the people who wanted that just move instead of trying to change the city to suit them?

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People are free to lobby for whatever stupid thing they want. But if you want kids playing in the streets — and huge yards and you want to live in a McMansion — then you should move because city living isn’t for you. [/quote]

I have a [b]6500 square foot house [/b]on a 25000 square foot yard and I want slower traffic on my street!  In fact, I have achieved it via calming measures and the now nearly constant presence of police nabbing people for speeding and blowing through stop signs - and I LIVE IN DC!  We didn’t have a ton of traffic in the first place but I will be damned if folks try to ignore the rules on my block.  [/quote]

Why do you need such a massive house? Do you have 3 generations of family living with you, or like 8 kids? Because unless you do, how can you justify such as large house for a regular size family???

Do you have any idea the amount of energy or electricity required to keep a house that size working? It’s literally 3 times larger than the average American home - which itself is much more consumptive than most homes in the rest of the world. Not too mention the whole privilege aspect of flaunting such wealth in a city where so many are barely scraping by.

You are the reason DC and most other coastal cities will be under water in our lifetimes.

Thanks a lot. [/quote]

Not so fast bucko, I have an excellent idea.  I built the house and we have a geothermal and solar mix.  We also have a specifically planned garden and tree space. In the end, our carbon footprint is probably 1/100 of yours.  Stop launching into attacks when YOU are likely the problem.  Go find a mirror and deal with the person you see in it.  And don’t speed!  [/quote]

I don’t care if it’s powered by magic and your garden has a skittles trees - you have a massive house, a house way bigger than you need - in a city where POC are living in tents underneath bridges.

Did you even consider taking part of your 25,000 sq foot lot and building a home for some of these *human beings* that have literally nothing? Or building a a smaller house and putting the rest of the money into helping a shelter?

Of course you didn’t. Because you’re scum.

You might not have a trump sign in your yard, but your home tells everyone all they need to know about you and who you support.

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