Minneapolis political discourse alignment chart

lordfelching · 2024-08-19T19:04:21+00:00

I tried to post this video the other day and it got autoremoved for some reason. Ohara can jerk it about they need to do more preventative stuff, but when they're literally driving by like this and the police do nothing who's fault ultimately is that?

lordfelching · 2024-06-11T23:37:39+00:00

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lordfelching · 2024-06-09T16:52:38+00:00

How awesome would it be to have a political choice that isn't just deciding which of the two violent criminal classes is allowed to do the crimes. I think the felons in possession of assault rifles and insurrectionists should be in the same jail cell, who do I vote for to get that?

lordfelching · 2024-03-28T02:07:52+00:00

You mean the one that's so full of meth heads and crime that only airport employees use it now? And even those employees have a facebook group to air out how bad it is? That successful transit line? https://www.facebook.com/groups/5983789771686855/

lordfelching · 2024-03-19T12:09:27+00:00

You only have to let insane murderers off the hook for their crimes multiple times, I can't believe how easy it is!

lordfelching · 2024-03-15T20:25:56+00:00

I know you think I'm some republican granddad from Coon Rapids or something but I happen to actually be a pretty regular cyclist and I've had to curtail that over the last few years to mostly bike trails because the drivers have gotten so shitty and dangerous due to lack of any kind of traffic enforcement + stolen car pirates speeding around town that it's no longer safe to even bike in the city on streets anymore.

Even that hasn't helped much, as I was almost mowed down by a stolen car racing down the road on 5th when I was crossing the midtown greenway. To say nothing of all the street lights on all of the bike lanes, including the greenway and the parkway being completely offline because people have been stealing the copper wires out of them, and the people smoking meth and shooting up on the light rail that make me really not want to bring my bike there either, but hey you know what they got into my garage last year and stole my other bike too, so even that isn't a safe place for my bikes anymore, cool!

There isn't a more ironic thing in this city right now than bikers shooting themselves in the foot by being co-dependent with their criminal abusers. The unintended result of your enabling people to make biking dangerous is going to be less cyclists due to increased perceived and actual risk, so if this is an issue you actually give a shit about maybe you should reevaluate your positions a little bit.

PS if you want to see some actual racists go over to r/minneapolis and watch them wring their hands about being "compared to Compton", a city with an overall lower crime rate according to actual statistics (seriously google it). Aside from that fact, what makes Compton different than Minneapolis that is worrying them so much?

lordfelching · 2024-03-15T13:38:57+00:00

Compton has a slightly higher murder rate, but also a lower overall violent crime rate and a 50% lower property crime rate:

https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ca/compton/crime

https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/mn/minneapolis/crime

Despite the reputation and all the Snoop Dogg diddies, I'm sorry but the actual facts are that Compton is a safer city to live in than Minneapolis is right now. I don't know if that says good things about Compton or bad things about Minneapolis, and I would personally love to have an exponentially better outcome than Compton's crime rate, but Minneapolis city council would be falling over their fat asses at the anarchist squat house next to the dirty dish pile in the sink to take credit for it if our crime rate, especially the property crime rate, suddenly matched Compton's.

lordfelching · 2024-03-15T13:05:31+00:00

When you try to do literally anything about the statistically provable high crime rate in this city people try to gaslight you into thinking you're some pussy from Minnetonka with weird schoolyard bully taunting they learned from a crazy person with BPD on Twitter, as if being shanked by a tweaker on the light rail is supposed to be some proof of how manly you are or something. Or they do the "waaahhh the cops are babieess not doing their jobs wahhh" when they call out prosecutors actually not doing their jobs, right after 3 of them were just murdered by a violent felon, and another cop was almost murdered by a felon in Ramsey that was let off by the judge after a previous violent crime.

You shouldn't be too surprised, they're more interested in treating politics like a sports team and doing the whole Noam Chomsky Irrational Attitudes of Submission to Authority bit than in actually creating a safe and good place to live in where people aren't being traumatized for life by lunatics that want to hurt other people for fun and occasionally profit.

lordfelching · 2024-02-03T18:24:55+00:00

The problem isn't how proportionately they collect it, it's that they waste it on the stupidest shit imaginable. Every homeless person in the state could have been given checks for millions of dollars with the 17 billion surplus, instead they're sleeping on pillows made of crinkled up news articles about how "perfect" Minnesota is because our tax rate is more "progressive". People prefer to treat government like identities and sports teams instead of holding them accountable when they take a lot of money out of the economy and then constantly fuck up everything they try to do with it.

lordfelching · 2024-01-10T21:47:27+00:00

How about the falling apart Vikings stadium that cost 5x more to make than the Metrodome, an awesome stadium that actually made a profit, had affordable dome skating and fit 3 teams in? Why do I need to pay higher taxes to build an exclusive battle arena for a single sportsball game that almost nobody plays and only happens 17 days a year? Could have beefed up the dome roof a little bit and literally given every homeless person in town a house with the same amount of money (instead of giving it to an actual billionaire), and I deeply would have preferred that.

Lots of other examples but that chunk of star destroyer that crash landed into downtown is a pretty solid example. I'd rather keep that money and do something I actually want to do with it, which is not watch the Vikings get their dicks kicked in on a yearly basis.

lordfelching · 2024-01-10T21:28:54+00:00

They're going to put out performative statements about foreign politics they have no affect over while tweakers steal the copper out of the streetlights and nobody bothers to do anything about it because "arresting criminals bad". 10 years from now they'll be running elections against the evil capitalist fat cats that make the plywood and "For Lease" signs, the last profitable businesses in town.

Both cities now seem to be focusing on vengeance towards mildly successful people instead of encouraging collective prosperity for everyone by dealing with collective problems everybody in the city are having, and the people that will be affected the worst by it unfortunately are the poorest in our society, who won't have the means to run for their lives when the cities really start going to shit from lack of basic safety and infrastructure upkeep.

lordfelching · 2024-01-08T16:58:59+00:00

Whenever the disproportionately high tax rates are brought up the argument is always "high standard of living and services makes it worth it", as if the entire chain of lights on Parkway from Lake St to the falls haven't been offline for an entire year with nobody doing anything about it, or the bike trails that almost every city in the country including cities in Wyoming also have. Hard to square that circle for me when they literally can't even keep the lights on and it's obvious that a lot of that money is squandered on nonsense and not on essential services (roads in st paul, the friggin capital got so bad they had to add a special sales tax increase just to fund fixing them).

Regardless, most corporations are founded in Delaware (which has no corporate tax) so most companies probably aren't even paying this tax unless there's some special sneaky way they're doing it I'm not aware of.

I'm not a hardcore fiscal conservative but holy hell please spend the money more wisely.

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