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Anonymous wrote:Everyone I know in a nutshell. The sentiment has turned so much in the last year, it’s not turning back. Enjoy while it lasts. But I think who’ll end up in the burbs is not us

You sound like the NIMBYs that use coded language about “quality of life” to enforce segregation. Maybe that’s your natural political inclination? The progression here is that you will next start complaining about cookouts in your neighborhood.

Who’s the politician who’s on your side here to try to criminalize and arrest these kids? Whatever you think is happening is not happening. If you cannot tolerate living in a city the best thing about this country is that you are afforded abundant choice.

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Anonymous wrote:It cracks me up that the race-baiting PP is defending a red state favorite pastime.

Also, these are not “kids”. Look out the window.

So here are things that will happen regardless of whether there’s a politician PP describes (there are and there will be more) if things don’t change: no statehoood, even greater income, health, prospects, life expectancy, learning gaps IN THE CITY (none of us are moving to the suburbs). So who pays? You know the answer.

What does “red state pastime” mean exactly and why is political party relevant here?

I’m curious also what you characterize as “race baiting”. Is it not true that your grievance is about the recreational activity of Black kids in your neighborhood? Or is it white kids who you are complaining about? Race is always present and relevant to questions of policing in this city. Interesting that you think pointing this out is “race baiting”. You must be one of those people who like to say that anti-racist activists are “the real racists”.

Anonymous wrote:It cracks me up that the race-baiting PP is defending a red state favorite pastime.

Also, these are not “kids”. Look out the window.

So here are things that will happen regardless of whether there’s a politician PP describes (there are and there will be more) if things don’t change: no statehoood, even greater income, health, prospects, life expectancy, learning gaps IN THE CITY (none of us are moving to the suburbs). So who pays? You know the answer.

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Anonymous wrote:We and many families with children live in an area that has become a playground for these groups. The police is prevented from doing much, and they carry on the whole night at such loud levels and speeds that it’s impossible to sleep and people stay indoors. It’s a very sad state of affairs. Children who need to sleep or study or go to school are being sacrificed for a pretty pitiful excuse for a rush which could be safely practiced where it’s not endangering lives, health and well-being of others. This is the 2nd summer and we are moving out but not everyone can. Having seen first hand what this does to people, especially children (it’s basically a form of torture - noise and sleep deprivation), I would vote for anyone and anything that would stop it in DC borders.

Welcome to city living. This is what vibrancy means. If this doesn’t appeal to environment that you want to raise your kids, I recommend moving to the suburbs.

How do you explain that you equate vibrancy with the favorite pastime of a red state hick exercised by mostly suburbanites who come here, terrorize the city people, and then sleep calmly in their suburban homes where they raise their children in the suburbs? And you can’t even tell this is being done to you? What hope is there for democracy?

If everyone in your community to only engage in recreation in highly regulated manner that you can control, you can accomplish that through a suburban HOA. You cannot accomplish that it an open and vibrant city. Sorry.

It’s literally against the law. Cops just need to start enforcing the laws.

FWIW, I think a reckoning is coming. People are all about supporting liberal causes until they start feeling unsafe.

Anonymous wrote:Everyone I know in a nutshell. The sentiment has turned so much in the last year, it’s not turning back. Enjoy while it lasts. But I think who’ll end up in the burbs is not us

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Anonymous wrote:We and many families with children live in an area that has become a playground for these groups. The police is prevented from doing much, and they carry on the whole night at such loud levels and speeds that it’s impossible to sleep and people stay indoors. It’s a very sad state of affairs. Children who need to sleep or study or go to school are being sacrificed for a pretty pitiful excuse for a rush which could be safely practiced where it’s not endangering lives, health and well-being of others. This is the 2nd summer and we are moving out but not everyone can. Having seen first hand what this does to people, especially children (it’s basically a form of torture - noise and sleep deprivation), I would vote for anyone and anything that would stop it in DC borders.

Welcome to city living. This is what vibrancy means. If this doesn’t appeal to environment that you want to raise your kids, I recommend moving to the suburbs.

How do you explain that you equate vibrancy with the favorite pastime of a red state hick exercised by mostly suburbanites who come here, terrorize the city people, and then sleep calmly in their suburban homes where they raise their children in the suburbs? And you can’t even tell this is being done to you? What hope is there for democracy?

If everyone in your community to only engage in recreation in highly regulated manner that you can control, you can accomplish that through a suburban HOA. You cannot accomplish that it an open and vibrant city. Sorry.