Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Agreed. I will never forget 5 months and $4 billion in damage caused by the BLM riots.

That was horrible. And the yelling at diners in restaurants, pounding on cars, intimidation. awful.

The crazy thing is that the city leadership let them do it. Imagine if mobs of MAGA folk smashing businesses in the city night after night, or if a mob of MAGA people going into restaurants in Adams Morgan and forcing the diners to say they support Trump. The Council would be out there demanding these people be brought to justice immediately. But they’re fine with people doing this as long as they see the violent mobs as being on their side.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s incredible to me how Trump voters have no memory of 2020, Charlottesville, anything. DC has a real crime problem but it’s still calmer than 2020.

Agreed. I will never forget 5 months and $4 billion in damage caused by the BLM riots.

+10000

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC NEEDS gentrification.

There, I said it.

Umm...okay.

DC has had gentrification for 25+ years. A lot of wealthy mostly white people moved in and subsequently pushed a lot of lower-income mostly black and brown people out of neighborhoods across the city.

DC doesn't NEED gentrification. DC NEEDS new leadership.

DP... it needs both. And as for people being displaced, change happens. For hundreds of thousands of years humans have known that when they can't find a place to live and a way to sustain themselves, they needed to move on.

On the one hand we bemoan supermarket deserts and on the other hand we bemoan gentrification. A middle class brings supermarkets, safety, invested parents in schools and all the things people "want". That's why the DC government basically schleps as many low SES students and families to higher SES schools and neighborhoods as they can, rather than focus on improving services in ALL neighborhoods. If they wanted to they could put police sub stations in supermarkets or double down on investment in schools, but instead they rely on gentrification for the little help it can offer.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC NEEDS gentrification.

There, I said it.

Umm...okay.

DC has had gentrification for 25+ years. A lot of wealthy mostly white people moved in and subsequently pushed a lot of lower-income mostly black and brown people out of neighborhoods across the city.

DC doesn't NEED gentrification. DC NEEDS new leadership.

DP... it needs both. And as for people being displaced, change happens. For hundreds of thousands of years humans have known that when they can't find a place to live and a way to sustain themselves, they needed to move on.

If Trump really is seeking retribution then he's more likely to play the fiddle while DC burns. Assuming a rich kid like Trump was forced to learn an instrument at some point.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Trump 2024-2050

He's the only one that can get us out of this mess. I can't belive "mean tweets" got this man out of office. Now look.

+100

+200

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC NEEDS gentrification.

There, I said it.

Umm...okay.

DC has had gentrification for 25+ years. A lot of wealthy mostly white people moved in and subsequently pushed a lot of lower-income mostly black and brown people out of neighborhoods across the city.

DC doesn't NEED gentrification. DC NEEDS new leadership.

Having lived in some of the neighborhoods that were gentrified (pre and post) I don't fully agree with your summation. For example, some of whom moved in were LGBTQ singles and couples seeking to build a safe community in a country that wasn't as hospitable 40 odd years ago, single professionals and families of all hues. Not all wealthy - maybe comparatively, but more professional/middle class. A lot of the houses that were gentrified were occupied by families on welfare (those were our neighbors pre). They weren't pushed out of DC, rather moved to other welfare receiving rentals. Since the neighborhoods and schools that they had been in weren't gentrified, it's not like they were moved from a better to a worse area. If you think some amazing community was disrupted your wrong - the welfare families were fragile and transient, as they continue to be. And even with gentrification, section 8, group homes and subsidized housing complexes remains throughout "better neighborhoods" like Logan Circle and Columbia Heights- they are all over the city, because they were city owned. What did change with gentrification was many boarded up buildings (due to the riots) were restored and primarily filled with businesses again. What you are probably lamenting is that some working/middle class black and brown families did sell their homes and moved to the burbs - not the worst move, for them and not something forced upon them. You can't micro manage a family deciding they want more space or better schools or to use their home as capital. Also, remember that the homestead act incentivizes hanging on to your home and there are many programs to help. No one was "forced out" by cruel gentrifiers. Historical black churches remain and a lot of DC culture and history that was decaying was restored. In some cases just the facades, but overall a nice job was done preserving the integrity except I would argue with the big box stores in Columbia Heights and some of the newer development in Ward 3. I agree we need new leadership, as the gentrification that benefited the whole city is being jeopardized - especially in more fragile, transitional neighborhoods, but also in places where our leadership seems to want to dismantle the safety with poorly administered vouchers, like the apartment buildings on CT Ave. Please don't fool yourself that DC was full of sort of a wonderful Harlem arts scene in the late 70s/80s that got "pushed out" by millionaires. If anything, these neighborhoods were pretty shuttered and limping along - and got new life from a middle class wave of interest and investment. The vibrancy is from the gentrification. I've lived in both eras and the simplified gentrification slings and arrows are annoying.

Anonymous wrote:DC NEEDS gentrification.

There, I said it.

Umm...okay.

DC has had gentrification for 25+ years. A lot of wealthy mostly white people moved in and subsequently pushed a lot of lower-income mostly black and brown people out of neighborhoods across the city.

DC doesn't NEED gentrification. DC NEEDS new leadership.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Trump 2024-2050

He's the only one that can get us out of this mess. I can't belive "mean tweets" got this man out of office. Now look.

+100

Anonymous wrote:Neither.

Biden will continue to dither and shuffle about giving his left wing loonies full reign while our cities continue descending into chaos.

Trump and his goons will be focused on dismantling our country’s democratic institutions.

Depressing.

This. We’re screwed.

Anonymous wrote:Trump 2024-2050

He's the only one that can get us out of this mess. I can't belive "mean tweets" got this man out of office. Now look.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s incredible to me how Trump voters have no memory of 2020, Charlottesville, anything. DC has a real crime problem but it’s still calmer than 2020.

Agreed. I will never forget 5 months and $4 billion in damage caused by the BLM riots.

That was horrible. And the yelling at diners in restaurants, pounding on cars, intimidation. awful.

Neither.

Biden will continue to dither and shuffle about giving his left wing loonies full reign while our cities continue descending into chaos.

Trump and his goons will be focused on dismantling our country’s democratic institutions.

Depressing.

Anonymous wrote:It’s incredible to me how Trump voters have no memory of 2020, Charlottesville, anything. DC has a real crime problem but it’s still calmer than 2020.

Agreed. I will never forget 5 months and $4 billion in damage caused by the BLM riots.

It’s incredible to me how Trump voters have no memory of 2020, Charlottesville, anything. DC has a real crime problem but it’s still calmer than 2020.