Anonymous wrote:Dan Reed is one of our most influential public intellectuals. He didn't run for office, although did apply for a position on the Montgomery County Planning Board a few years back, and his candidacy was supported by several County Councilmembers - unfortunately, not a majority.

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Just because you have those five friends on Twitter who like everything you post doesn’t mean you speak for most people in the county.

says the anonymous poster on DCUM.

Most people in the county have never heard of this guy or his blog. Or DCUM, either.

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Just because you have those five friends on Twitter who like everything you post doesn’t mean you speak for most people in the county.

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Anonymous wrote:MoCo.

The poster child for:

“GO WOKE, GO BROKE”

Keep dreaming, sweetie. MoCo is as prosperous as ever.

Actually the budget is a borderline mess, and getting worse. Some of it is covid of course, but some of it is people fleeing, and the county being so anti business, that we dont backfill jobs that leave.
Seventhstate has some recent articles showing how brutal the budget is right now.

(though it calls for a tax increase to help, which is just unconscionable considering the state of the economy right now)

Flee, dude, flee! And don't look back! (Or post on DCUM about it.)

-the rest of us

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Anonymous wrote:MoCo.

The poster child for:

“GO WOKE, GO BROKE”

Keep dreaming, sweetie. MoCo is as prosperous as ever.

Actually the budget is a borderline mess, and getting worse. Some of it is covid of course, but some of it is people fleeing, and the county being so anti business, that we dont backfill jobs that leave.
Seventhstate has some recent articles showing how brutal the budget is right now.

(though it calls for a tax increase to help, which is just unconscionable considering the state of the economy right now)

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Anonymous wrote:MoCo.

The poster child for:

“GO WOKE, GO BROKE”

Keep dreaming, sweetie. MoCo is as prosperous as ever.

Anonymous wrote:Gosh I’m glad I just left MoCo. (Cue the DCUM ‘glad you left’ post).

Anonymous wrote:MoCo.

The poster child for:

“GO WOKE, GO BROKE”

Anonymous wrote:OP, here.

This thread blew up way more than I could ever have imagined or desired.

All I was really seeking was some general sense of influence that JustUpthePike has on MoCo policy. We have all seen how certain people and groups can muddle and disrupt policy decisions that can affect thousands to millions of residents. Such as Robin Ficker, Friends of the Capital Crescent Trail, or just a little further south, Friends of McMillan Park.

Basically, if I decide to ride out the rest of my life in Montgomery County, a place that I was raised in since a toddle and have lived in for decadess, and it turned into this- Imma be ticked.

https://twitter.com/SeattleMet/status/653998665992810496

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Anonymous wrote:The arguments are getting circular, and ad hominem now. Bottom line is Dan and his ilk have no time to hear the opinions of anyone who is not an “urbanist” like themselves, and share their viewpoints in their entirety.

That means super upzoning and density
It means mass transit (and literally judging those who habe the nerve to... drive a car to commute
And it means busing kids to their non neighboring schools (ironic when they are so anti car transit!

upzoning and density simply means adding more housing options closer to transit
no one is judging those who drive cars, the issue is more transit needed so people aren't forced to drive cars
busing is necessary so schools aren't overcrowded and racially/economically segregated

People in this thead were ABSOLUTELY judging car transit, and using radical terms to do so. "Destructive", "toxic", etc.

No one is against mass transit. It's good and should be encouraged for those who it makes sense for.

But there is absolutely rhetoric in this thread against both cars and even single family homes.

And busing is more certainly not the way to go.

The idea that a neighborhood or school is "segregated", makes light of what that word actually means. Anyone who can afford a house, can buy it. Period. Thats not segregation.

Car transportation is destructive and toxic. That's not judging, it's just a fact. Destructive to people and property, toxic to the environment. And costly. Even if you love cars, love driving, and drive everywhere you go, you should acknowledge the reality of this.

I'm confused. I thought "no one was judging driving".

As for destructive and toxic, we can at least differentiate as those who realize cars are essential means of transportation for the vast majority of us, versus those who drive some monstrous canyonero type SUV and pounds through gas.

Just because you have no alternative but to drive, doesn't mean that the driving isn't also destructive and toxic. That doesn't mean you're a bad person. It just means that driving is destructive and toxic.

Cars are an essential means of transportation for the vast majority of us because of deliberate policy choices the US has made over the last 70 years. It's time to change those policies.