Darrell Owens @IDoTheThinking Twitter profile

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Darrell Owens

7 days

Please help my homie Muhammad. Our tax dollars are bombing his family instead of helping them so we got to donate instead. Pisses me the fuck off.

Muhammad Tarek Alameldin

@Muhammad_Speaks

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Please help my family escape Gaza through Egypt, there is nowhere left for them.

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Darrell Owens

@IDoTheThinking

3 years

Nordic prison cells look like $3,000 apartments in San Francisco.

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@IDoTheThinking

3 years

Really makes no fucking sense how taking pictures of yourself without clothes on is "selling your body" but destroying your back permanently at a warehouse in service of investors and shareholders while you get paid minimum wage isn't.

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@IDoTheThinking

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Cant develop a pick pocket culture in a country that doesn't walk.

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@thechosenberg

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Too artful and nonviolent for the American poor

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@IDoTheThinking

1 year

all these pictures are in Capitalist economies

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞 🇺🇸

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which way western man?

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@IDoTheThinking

3 months

This bait where Republicans go to democratic areas and film public issues feels so lopsided. Imagine if Democrats made a habit out of going to the slums of the bible belt or the trailer parks of the midwest with all its suicide and drug abuse and filmed them for content.

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@benshapiro

3 months

I’m here in Kensington, Philadelphia to investigate the fentanyl and tranq crisis. This is the most disturbing thing I’ve ever seen in my country.

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@IDoTheThinking

1 year

The American thing of "cashiers must stand at all times" needs to die.

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@IDoTheThinking

2 years

Me when gas prices are low vs Me when gas prices are high

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@IDoTheThinking

1 year

I dont think Americans realize how dystopian it is to get pulled over and effectively detained by a gov't agent with a gun who runs through your entire criminal history before issuing you a ticket (or worse) for a traffic violation versus just getting a ticket in the mail.

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@IDoTheThinking

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This is a perfect dwelling for 99% of 18 - 30 yr old Americans who are leaving their parents home and have few possessions. But this is basically illegal in most US cities so young people live in a car or share an overcrowded single family home.

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@shaunonsite_

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Would you stay in an apartment in Japan like this for $300/mo?

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@IDoTheThinking

3 years

The Squamish Nation owns many parcels around Vancouver exempt from local zoning. With 87% of the nation voting in favor, they're going to build 6,000 homes at Hong Kong-density, 90% less parking than required by law and beside single-family neighborhoods who cannot stop Senakw.

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@IDoTheThinking

1 month

Lets be real: American men who buy the truck on the left are not the types to haul anything. That shit is empty 99.9% of its life.

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@KiwiEV

1 month

Mildly interesting: these two trucks have the same bed length.

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@IDoTheThinking

1 year

Lapd killing the Black english teacher is another example of why there's absolutely no reason most traffic violations, but especially traffic accidents, need to be respond to by armed cops.

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@IDoTheThinking

9 months

POV: you don't know any Asians.

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@IDoTheThinking

1 month

BART did its job well here, i'm impressed

UrbaniteTransitBird 🐤

@MonarchWolf

1 month

Very cool @SFBART . Yes being homeless isn’t a crime but making it unpleasant for paying riders should be. Normally I don’t care but this time it’s bad. Isn’t this what CIS was made for?

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@IDoTheThinking

2 years

1/3rd of the Supreme Court was appointed by a one term president who the majority of the United States voted against in his only 2 elections.

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@IDoTheThinking

3 years

"Why doesn't the police show up during far-right brawls" is right up there alongside "why does Clark Kent disappear whenever Superman shows up?"

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@IDoTheThinking

3 years

If your goal is to rehabilitate people and steer them away from criminal lifestyles, curious which environment would foster a better outcome. USA vs Sweden

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@IDoTheThinking

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This is what happens when you don't have a national mental healthcare system and close asylums. You never see this in metro systems in Europe because you're not automatically fucked and homeless if you're mentally ill and without a rich family to take care of you.

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This is the state of mental health mental illness and homelessness in NYC good to see son with the black forces had enough and was ready to protect someone

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@IDoTheThinking

1 year

Survey says:

End Wokeness

@EndWokeness

1 year

The people that live here love to lecture you about the environment:

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Darrell Owens

@IDoTheThinking

2 years

Gavin Newsom has signed AB 2097: all parking requirements for new housing are now eliminated within a half-mile of train, ferry and bus-rapid stations and major bus stops in California. The biggest parking reform law in the country.

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Darrell Owens

@IDoTheThinking

3 years

Trick question: US prison system isnt supposed to rehabilitate! Cant keep the money pumping through the criminal justice system, the bloated police budgets and bloated incarceration spending if perpetual criminalization wheel stops churning.

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@IDoTheThinking

2 years

Halloween is coming which is also the deadliest night of the year for American children under 18...because of drivers. Not because of fictional news stories about drugs in candy.

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@IDoTheThinking

2 years

@douglaschu_ The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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@IDoTheThinking

1 year

Thats right, you get em Ted Cruz! Matter of fact I got the geographic breakdown of the Civil Rights vote right he-

Ted Cruz

@tedcruz

1 year

Nonsense. That shameful filibuster was led by Democrats—your party. My party—the Republicans—proudly voted for the Civil Rights Act in much higher percentages than the racist Dems.

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@IDoTheThinking

2 years

Gov. Newsom signs California's biggest zoning reform into law. Multifamily homes 3-6 stories is now legal on every zoned commercial lot adjacent to a wide street and low income homes legal on every zoned commercial and parking lot -- bypassing council approval & immune to CEQA

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Darrell Owens

@IDoTheThinking

3 years

Imagine if during World War 2, a group of assholes kept turning on their lights during a mandatory city blackout in the name of "freedom" and Axis planes found the city and bombed 350,000 people to death. That's anti-maskers today.

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@IDoTheThinking

1 year

That subway laptop tweet just reminds me how sad it is that Americans on all sides of the aisle think public transit is supposed to be an unsafe crime zone despite cars being more dangerous in every way.

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@IDoTheThinking

6 months

This shit is so lame. A smartphone that will be bricked the next day, credit cards that will be deactivated the next day and maybe if you're lucky, a couple dollars. So much of the crime problem is an education problem cause only an illiterate grade school dropout would do this.

El Pasito

@8EightPillars

6 months

Nah shorty was steps away from the blue line probably going to Ohare…better keep ya eyes open

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@IDoTheThinking

11 months

It's unbelievable how blue coastal states are ceding their political power in Congress at a time of growing far-right nationalism because they want to protect single-family neighborhoods from apartments.

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@awong_SF

11 months

California's reluctance to build lots of housing is only empowering Republicans in Congress. It is a local problem with national implications.

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@IDoTheThinking

3 years

Some of yall are saying its too comfortable or that all prison is bad. Imma just point to the fact that 20% of Norwegian prisoners re-offend versus 76.6% in the U.S. A strong system of public healthcare, employment, education and yes, rehabilitation, helps

The Prisoner as One of Us: Norwegian Wisdom for American Penal Practice

The United States has some of the highest crime and recidivism rates in the world, while Norway has some of the lowest. This Comment explores the factors behind these rates, including each country's...

scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu

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@IDoTheThinking

2 months

So much of Trump's support is just loser men who think being a lunatic that makes offensive jokes is masculine,

Hunter!📈🌈

@StatisticUrban

2 months

>Rivera, who is Puerto Rican, said he doesn’t like Trump's plans on immigration, but will vote for him anyway. “Biden? I don’t know. It looks like we’re weak, America’s weak. We need someone stronger.” The American obsession with strongmen will be our downfall some day.

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@IDoTheThinking

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It's a failure of media to not report than San Francisco -- which has now become synonymous with anarchy and petty crime -- had a police force that intentionally ignored crime in order to create popular sentiment to oust a DA who treated police and civilians equally under the law

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@IDoTheThinking

3 years

1) The first 2 photos are cells. The latter 2 are common areas for ~12 prisoners 2) By $3,000 dollar apartments, I just mean modern housing, not inhumane dungeons like American prisons. SF's rent isnt high because the apartments are good but because there's a housing shortage.

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@IDoTheThinking

2 years

SF has always been a conservative city. Its liberal reputation comes from being okay with certain identities in certain neighborhoods. Thats it. Its a city that sequesters its black population to a toxic corner; comically unaffordable for 45 years; the west coast's corporate HQs.

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This is my area neighbor who suffers from chronic pain prohibiting him from bending his legs and he just got surgery. Now hes sitting on the ground in downtown berkeley because @CityofBerkeley and @rideact dont have benches at their bus stops.

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@IDoTheThinking

1 year

UC admissions dont come out till March 1st so how'd your imaginary friend's niece get rejected lol.

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@IDoTheThinking

4 years

@mikes_e Let's list this young nigga's mistakes, we all made em: -Never ask her out with a crowd, peer pressure never works -Never ask out a girl by telling her how much you liked her, tf nigga 😂 Low key ask her out & if she says no, she didn't feel it so get over it. ask out her friends

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1 year

The car break ins are strange because its largely an organized crime ring that easily baitable. The viral glitter bomb Youtube guy easily tracked them with a bait package and figured out where they trade in their goods. Its confusing why SFPD cant just do the same thing.

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@MorgLiv

1 year

San Francisco is such a joke. Gone for 45 minutes. Nothing in the car. Come back to glass all over my kid’s car seat. To file a police report (for the stats, since crime isn’t actually down): call the police, don’t pick up, call again…

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Americans will do shit like drive everywhere with their kid even though car crashes are the number 1 cause of non-disease child mortality, but then fear monger about a kid trick or treating or going to a sleepover cause they saw a dateline episode about one dying 20 years ago.

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I know we’re “breaking generational curses” but our parents got one thing right: don’t let your kids go on sleepovers.

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@IDoTheThinking

4 years

@AIRSTEVEJOBS Whats with these immigrants who are extremely anti-Black?

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@IDoTheThinking

8 months

Theres a little town in the United States called Hawaii.

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@FitFounder

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The Japanese secret to getting lean and living longer There’s a tiny little town in Japan called Okinawa that has the most centenarians (100 year olds) in the world. They also happen to average out at the lowest BMI as well. They are the only population in the world who…

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@IDoTheThinking

1 year

Twitter's having a field day with the subway jerking off tweet but its not funny. LA's decline in female transit ridership found harassment as the primary issue. A UCLA study found most its female and queer riders had been harassed. Its a key impedement to women riding at night

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@IDoTheThinking

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Damn that sucks. My bus fare is 1/3rd federal minimum wage, tho.

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One gallon of gas (Menlo Park) above the federal hourly minimum wage.

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@IDoTheThinking

3 years

The sad truth is that the sudden prevalence of parklets shows the true capabilities of a city when the business and merchant community approves of it and that all those years of approvals and insufferable meetings for housing the homeless, transit & street safety is just theater

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Outdoor dining has gradually escalated into what might reasonably be called a buildings.

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@IDoTheThinking

9 months

Fuck the NYT for this article. The bikes didn't "collide" with sentient cars; bad drivers fucking hit and killed the kids. To call for regulation of e-bikes and not call for cycling infrastructure is just victim-blaming.

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@IDoTheThinking

4 months

I love it when normal people discover what half of San Francisco looks like outside the downtown and painted ladies. Suddenly the 40 year long homeless crisis starts making way too much sense.

Hunter!📈🌈

@StatisticUrban

4 months

This photo reveals so many layers of policy failure it defies belief

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1 year

This is it! HCD will review Bay Area cities to see if they've zoned for new housing in wealthy areas. If a city fails, their zoning will be suspended and unlimited height & density at >20% affordable housing can be approved anywhere. Many are about to fail

Bay Area Cities To Lose ALL Housing Zoning Powers in 2 Days

Old law proposes to turn the Bay Area's zoning system into something like Japan's in just two days.

darrellowens.substack.com

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The viral take that men rarely receive compliments about how they look is true, but if the average dude wore mildly fashionable clothes he'd get complimented way more. Ive been wearing barely fashionable clothes and get complemented by random women about once a week.

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Imagine being a first-gen community college student from the Central Valley opening your UC Berkeley admissions statement and celebrating with your family only to get a follow up letter rescinding your admission because some $2 mil. homeowners don't want apartments by their house

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@IDoTheThinking

6 months

Americans are so addicted to corn subsidies we dont even realize how much food is supposed to cost anymore.

💥 Nurse D, Nurshitsu Black Belt

@TakeThatNurses

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40 fucking dollars. In the middle of nowhere, South Carolina

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1 year

The reason we dont have traffic cameras unlike much of the world is: A) police unions lobby to keep them banned since it replaces police officers and penalizes police officers violating traffic laws & B) US motorists like to violate traffic laws and talk themselves out of tickets

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its kind funny how sfpd is so incompetent it can't catch criminals doing car break-ins that even youtubers track down for content, that to save face their entire apparatus is now focused on cracking down annual events that everyone knows will occur 365 days in advance.

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A crowd of bystanders is shouting “Let them go!” SFPD have brought out boxes of zip ties & officers have begun loosening then, seemingly in preparation for a mass arrest The kids are still on the ground

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It would be Canada's largest housing development. In addition to being a demonstration of land use under Indigenous authority, it'll be a beautiful example of public lands extracting revenue for public good--in this case the good of the Squamish.

Squamish Nation moves Vancouver forward with transformative Senakw project | Urbanized

By the end of 2021, site preparation for construction could begin on the Senakw development on Squamish First Nation's Kitsilano reserve in Vancouver.

dailyhive.com

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This is going to be unpopular but the influx of drug addicts on public transit in California is because they don't have housing to do it privately. You dont see this in West Virginia because there, addicts overdose and die in their homes.

L.A. riders bail on Metro trains amid 'horror' of deadly drug overdoses, crime

Commuters have abandoned large swaths of a Los Angeles Metro train system plagued by crime and the scourge of drugs.

www.latimes.com

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@IDoTheThinking

9 months

Quickest way to reveal you've never served is to complain recruits are in it for money.

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🇺🇸 US soldiers were asked why they joined the army — there answers had nothing to do with duty, service or honor… No wonder Russia is winning this war.

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2 years

This is the primary tool that will increase bus ridership.

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@BrentToderian

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How to significantly increase bus transit ridership. In 5 seconds. Via @Daniela17C #BRT

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@IDoTheThinking

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Farmers are like California's biggest water wasters and every time you call them out on it they act like they're lowly families plowing to feed you essentials when they're mostly growing almonds or in this guys case, grass.

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@francisxwolf

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i have no opinion on the issue at hand here (uninformed) but it seems to me very disingenuous to not mention that ed zuckerman here is a fucking sod farmer. he’s not growing the food we eat, he’s growing fucking grass

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@IDoTheThinking

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Hollywood starving and dehydrating with steroids and laxatives male action stars has been a disaster for men.

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Travis Kelce defends his 'Dad bod' after Chiefs star and Taylor Swift were spotted on the beach together in the Bahamas: 'It's March!'

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It really sucks that California is pricing out our middle class to states that build a lot of homes like Texas because this is the result.

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@IDoTheThinking

1 year

Now that the state has revoked Cupertino's zoning authority, if I were Apple, I would be submitting chinese-style high rise apartment complexes right now on Apple land to deal with the workforce housing shortage. Once in a lifetime chance.

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In an unprecedented coalition of unions and YIMBYs, California Legislature has passes Ab 2011: - upzones for 2.4 million more homes - Mixed income hsg and Low Income from 3-6 stories (density bonus allowed!) on commericial and retail lots - 45% reduction in GHG over sprawl

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@IDoTheThinking

3 years

Framing public transit as a welfare service exclusively for people too poor to buy cars is the #1 reason why its so bad in the United States.

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@IDoTheThinking

3 years

No California city made it on the State Department's list of cities welcoming for refugees because of housing costs. We don't build any housing, other states do, so we're off the list. Take down your stupid Refugees Are Welcome sign--they're not.

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@aaronAcarr

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Here’s the list:

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@IDoTheThinking

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So many Americans in the comments are so lazy and car dependent they have literally never crossed a street before and think the flashing hand means you cant cross. Like holy shit. These are the people who drive their cars a block to see a neighbor.

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@rahsh33m

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The way I would’ve been on the ground laid out…

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@IDoTheThinking

3 years

A Vancouver city councilmember said the density and lack of parking was inconsistent with the "livability" of Vancouver. But NIMBYs have no power here under Squamish Nation's land use authority

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@IDoTheThinking

2 years

In NYT i explained that the fear of crime on transit, both real and imagined, is because public transit is one of the only times the public of all backgrounds, situations and incomes meet. Cars, despite being deadlier, keep people segregated as they exist at home and at work.

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@IDoTheThinking

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The U.S. prison system is one of the biggest public housing programs on earth in a country with massive homelessness. It's wholly corrupt, worsens crime, and only survives because media feeds people a steady supply of "revenge" culture rather than rehabilitation culture.

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My favorite genre of foreign content is Americans driving in foreign countries and learning what civilized, modern traffic enforcement looks like. Traffic cameras everywhere, can't weasel your way out with police stops.

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@Leo_Puglisi6

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this american is upset because she got caught going 20km over the speed limit and didn’t know australia had speed cameras lmao

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@IDoTheThinking

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In comparison, the United States judicial law explicitly prohibits judges from considering rehabilitation when sentencing. The American system only seems to benefit those who profit from free labor which explains the 76.6% recidivism rate. (h/t @AthulKAcharya )

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@IDoTheThinking

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Ok, now the Citi Bike story is 100% clear to me. The teens were riding the bikes and docked them / ended their ride to basically avoid a charge when you take the rent-a-bikes out for too long. Its why I dont use those bikes cause they're strict. 1 /

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@jsmooth995

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FINALLY one of the boys from that bike incident gets to tell their side of of the story. I hope everyone who went off and running with the lawyer's narrative will at least come back and give this a good-faith read.

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@IDoTheThinking

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You say that quarantining has damaged your health, made you depressed and violently frustrated? So you agree then? Prisons can't rehabilitate offenders.

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@IDoTheThinking

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So this begs the question: if 18 U.S.C. 3582(a) prohibits judges from considering rehabilitation when sentencing, what is the purpose of incarceration in the United States? Read The New Jim Crow for starters if you already haven't.

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@IDoTheThinking

1 year

A meme trad account goes to church for the first time and learns what Christianity is actually supposed to be about.

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I went to Church this morning The most Trad Catholic you can get Rural (you pass cows on the way in) 100% White Irish The Priest did a speech during the service celebrating the Christian virtue of taking in Refugees He praised a nearby town that is now 60% immigrants

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@IDoTheThinking

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Prop 22 didn't just strip away the rights of rideshare workers, it has now unemployed delivery drivers at grocery stores and likely all delivery soon. Exceptions to worker rights in one area or franchise is a disease that has eaten away at the institution of unions in America.

Adam Conover

@adamconover

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Vons and Albertsons stores in California just laid off every one of their full-time, union delivery drivers, and will replace them with DoorDash gig workers who receive no benefits as a direct result of Prop 22.

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@IDoTheThinking

2 years

A couple of boomers angry that they live in a college town are on the cusp of getting the nation's #1 public university to reject a whole new generation of Californian college students (who are exponentially Latinos).

Berkeleyside

@berkeleyside

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UC Berkeley must slash new enrollment by a third unless high court intervenes

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@IDoTheThinking

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Hamas doesnt think that filming themselves raping and kidnapping random women is decolonization. No one is under any delusion that this will stop settlements.

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@IDoTheThinking

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One of the reasons why i support open borders is that i see how many people born in this country are so dumb and live in it by sheer luck.

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@IDoTheThinking

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Starting to realize a lot of student debt in the US isnt even tuition, its housing costs. You live off campus and you take out loans to pay rent.

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@IDoTheThinking

1 year

Reducing gentrification to an aesthetic rather than an economic process of household displacement is so damn annoying.

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@ericriveracooks

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never in my life did I ever expect anyone to gentrify saltine crackers but here we are from an expected source. bon appetit

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@IDoTheThinking

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I've been following this for a few months now and what fascinates me the most is, in addition to seeing what Indigenous land use looks like, this is very different by Western standards. You see this in East Asia a lot but not the West.

'Bring our people home': the bold new plan for an Indigenous-led district in Canada

The Senakw development aims to ease the city’s chronic housing crisis – and to challenge the mindset that indigeneity and urbanity are incompatible

www.theguardian.com

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Darrell Owens

@IDoTheThinking

4 years

@mikes_e BTW if your homies know that you like some girl, they told her years ago 😂 She knew this was coming. They were setting you up for failure

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Darrell Owens

@IDoTheThinking

4 years

Just remember, before you start crying for the banks being targeted in Downtown Oakland, these banks caused the foreclosure crisis that displaced thousands of Black Oaklanders from their homes in the last decade.

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@IDoTheThinking

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Oh I'm sorry, I thought conservatives were supposed to be well earning and prosperous hard workers. I didn't realize you guys were so broke that you'd bitch about a 5 - 10¢ price increase.

End Wokeness

@EndWokeness

1 month

California hiked the minimum wage to $20 per hour for fast food workers this week. You'll never guess what happened next.

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Darrell Owens

@IDoTheThinking

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When Census 2030 comes out a whole bunch of nazis are going to flip their lid about a mass decline in white people when in reality Middle Easterners were just removed from the white classification.

Hansi Lo Wang (he/him)

@hansilowang

1 month

BREAKING: The #2030Census and federal surveys are getting new checkboxes for “Middle Eastern or North African” & “Hispanic or Latino” after White House’s @OMBPress approved the first changes to U.S. government standards on racial & ethnic data since 1997

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@IDoTheThinking

1 year

I think Gen Z's issue is simply that every generation reacts negatively to the prior one thats fed to them. So Gen Z reacts to Millennial culture around consent, feminism, hookup culture etc. not knowing of the conservative culture that brought it about in the first place.

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@IDoTheThinking

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I have no hesitation in saying virtually all US prisons should be torn down and that the subsidies to house inmates would be better spent on swift-employment programs, housing and healthcare. Facilities can be construction for the few remaining who need genuine rehabilitation.

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Darrell Owens

@IDoTheThinking

2 years

A lot of people are thinking about buying guns to protect themselves. Statistically, you are far more likely to use it to shoot yourself on a depressed day, confuse your family for a burglar and shoot them, or your kids stealing it, than you are to ever use it in self defense.

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@IDoTheThinking

1 year

lmao big PSA: Don't waste your time playing hero trying to get into a fight to protect merchandise of a $2 trillion company. That's the police and Apple Security's job. Staff acted appropriately and kept customers away like they're supposed to.

K A L E O

@CryptoKaleo

1 year

Society is so broken in California that employees are basically trained to help assist tens of thousands of dollars of merchandise being stolen right in front of them (notice them holding customers back) as everyone else just stands around and watches. How did we get here?

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@IDoTheThinking

1 year

the reactions to this pretty lukewarm shit is why 40,000 Americans die from traffic accidents each year.

Matthew Yglesias

@mattyglesias

1 year

Took a midday walk and did some more freelance traffic enforcement. This Lexus owner has himself some illicit devices to obscure his plates so he can drive recklessly while evading detection by the city’s traffic cameras.

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Darrell Owens

@IDoTheThinking

3 years

I thought this country loves freedom and small business but producing something even 40% of *Christian* men admit to watching weekly and something tens of millions of Americans consume daily is bad.

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@IDoTheThinking

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This man should be prohibited from ever obtaining a driver's license. I dont know why we pretend DL's are in the constitution, they're not. He needs to ride the bus for life.

Kristi Yamaguccimane

@TheWapplehouse

7 months

I hope he got a reckless endangerment charge if not worse for every person in attendance

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@IDoTheThinking

3 years

Also sentencing times in the USA are absurdly long. So those prisoners in Nordic countries are staying usually for a shorter time than the years & decades requirements in the U.S., disproportionately higher for Black inmates than White for the exact same crime and circumstance

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@IDoTheThinking

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Ive already spent more in a single car repair and a month of gas + insurance than I would spend on transit if i rode it every day for a year (~$1,700). Americans do not ride transit because it isnt free, they drive because transit is underfunded, infrequent and slow.

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Darrell Owens

@IDoTheThinking

3 years

How the hell are trucks so large you need a camera out front or else you can't see road legal?

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@IDoTheThinking

4 years

Because the 4-5 story apartments you see in this clip that makes Japanese transit sustainable is vehemently opposed in America by people who love their SUVs & parking spaces. And people replying saying "its funding" have never been to a U.S. transit meeting in their lives.

StrictlyRockers 🇺🇦🌻

@christoq

4 years

How come Japan gets cool shit like suspension monorail trains, and we don't? 😠😖

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@IDoTheThinking

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jjrs

@jjrs

3 months

@IDoTheThinking Kind of odd he's going to Pennsylvania to investigate the drug crisis when the states with the highest OD rates are West Virginia, followed by Tennessee, Louisiana, Kentucky...all red. PA barely makes the top 10.

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@IDoTheThinking

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The homes would be mostly market-rate and affordable for Squamish. The logic from the nation's council is straightforward: A) Vancouver is suffering from a housing shortage and they want Squamish to live there B) Being the owners of these homes generates revenue for the Nation.

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@IDoTheThinking

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I just think about the mothers going through labor at the hospital to produce young sons and the families that dedicate countless days raising their children from infancy into young men, only for all that to be erased in five seconds thousands of miles away from their home.

Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦

@IAPonomarenko

2 years

A Russian helicopter is being downed in Ukraine. Stunning footage.

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Darrell Owens

@IDoTheThinking

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Gavin signed 3 yimby bills today. The third is a prohibition on the demolition of rent controlled homes without RC replacement and right of return for displaced tenants. Additionally no project may reduce the total number of homes thus ending single family conversion displacement

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@IDoTheThinking

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This is also why police constantly oppose automating traffic enforcement in the US. Not only would they get ticketed themselves but then they have to go back to crime fighting and beat walking.

David Roberts

@drvolts

9 months

New report finds: "U.S. police spend much of their time conducting racially biased stops and searches of minority drivers, often without reasonable suspicion, rather than 'fighting crime'."

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