TEXnSEATTLE
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[Name calling removed, user banned for repeated violations]This...
and this...
There it is...the hate for city...the hate for an entire group of people. The nastiness for the "other" that you don't even know, don't care to know. The hate invective that landed at insulting my son simply for sharing his perspective on a daytrip to Chaz. I feel sorry for you. The mere surroundings must make you miserable based on your SLEEPLESS in SEATTLE posts.
Seattle isn't all Rainbows and Gumdrops and the real-live Socialists on the City Council need to go. There are many problems which go with an immense injection of wealth that comes with the growth the last 30 years where Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks, Costco, T-Mobile, REI and others have come out of nowhere. It's breathed immense wealth into the economy while it's also left many by the wayside. The value of housing is too expensive for those not in White Collar jobs. The homeless problem is the most obvious blight on the city and it goes part and parcel with the drug problem. As a resident of Seattle and surrounding suburbs for 30 years I've witnessed the evolution first hand and been the beneficiary of working for multiple companies on the aforementioned list. I was there in the 90's when companies were abandoning downtown Seattle until the City made a big investment to cleanup the downtown corridor resulting in the areas around NikeTown and Pacific Place. The Pandemic has kept the Seattle problems outside the view of most that work downtown and likely gave room for the protests since the corporate workforce wasn't there. Recent trips I've seen the garbage piles from homeless on the side of freeways, the smells that 20yrs I boasted Seattle was free from yet were commonplace in large metropolises back East. No longer. Seattle has arrived with all those major problems and the pace we got there has made them exponentially larger. The city is torn between empathy and enforcement. There is too much empathy currently. The pendulum is already beginning to turn but likely won't do so at a pace acceptable to you.
To restate my position on protesting I'll simply say it is fine as long as there is no destruction of property nor harm to individuals. I called for arresting each and every person that looted downtown Seattle stores during the initial protests. At that point you've surpassed protesting and moved to criminality and undercut any original anger. I don't blame all the protesters but there were too many that took advantage of the numbers and willingness to loot.
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