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clambo says

I only know a couple of people who still live there

the rest moved to Port St Lucie, Florida :-/

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https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/jock-itch-saturday-march-31-2024

Buckle up, New Yorkers! The mental midgets manipulating the City’s managed meltdown are now planning to turn the convenience of the subway into an invasive and mindless security ritual resembling the Orwellian world of airport ‘security.’ The New York Times ran its ridiculous, narrative-warping story yesterday. It was as impressive a bit of journalistic malpractice as ever saw digital print, headlined “The Challenge of Making New York’s 472 Subway Stations Safer.”

From the first line, the story’s narrative goal was obvious: to disguise the militarization of New York’s subways inside a springtime wrapper of ‘safety’ — a safety that the reporter then described as basically being an irrational, paranoid artifact of New Yorkers’ social media addictions.

Actually, it started even before the first line. The story’s headline picture, floating above the initial paragraph, bore a cleverly deceptive caption: “The effort to protect the subways took on urgency yet again this week after police said a man died when stranger shoved him off a platform.”

See the journalistic sleight of hand? “Police said” somebody got shoved off the platform. Why not report it straight, that some lunatic shoved a guy off the platform in front of a train? Why blur what happened behind “police said?” Wouldn’t the sentence have been more powerful without the confusing “police said” in the middle?

Was the reporter unable to verify whether it happened or not?

Nope. The reporter used those words in that way to sow subconscious doubt over whether it happened, which obscured and softened the impact of what was otherwise pretty terrifying news.

That kind of obfuscation seems to be a Times policy for these attacks. Here’s how the Times reported the original attack in a separate story:




Haha! That headline and subheadline feature at least four different ways they used passive voice and euphemisms to confuse readers about what happened. Maybe the worst one was the Times minimizing a dangerous lunatic violently shoving innocent people right in front of oncoming subways trains, by primly labeling the murderous episodes as merely a “persistent challenge.”

A “persistent challenge” is a not a series of violent, murderous attacks. A “persistent challenge” is a difficult case of athletic itch, or a husband’s perfectly understandable failures to pick up his own gym clothes off the bathroom floor, or possibly trigonometry. Your author feels confident that the phrase “persistent challenge” is perhaps, well, somewhat insufficient as a rhetorical device for describing a string of terrifying subway killings.

Maybe a better story would have been about figuring out why the subway-killer “challenge” is so bloody “persistent.” Maybe if we could answer that question, we could more easily solve the actual problem .

But never mind about all that. Let’s get back to the safety story. Note the reporter’s carefully chosen words and phrases describing the persistent problem (lightly edited for clarity):

"Public officials have sought to tamp fears about a string of frightening crimes in the transit network by flooding it with wave after wave of police officers, mental health workers and cameras. But after every deployment, another violent event has followed. The string of recent subway attacks have been impossible to predict. Some occurred on moving trains and others on platforms far from the center of Manhattan. Some have happened in the still of night and others during busy rush hours."

Notice once again how woefully shrunken was this otherwise alarming story. The very first sentence quoted above explained, “officials have sought to tamp fears about a string of frightening crimes.” Get it? Officials have a goal of tamping your fears. Not arresting criminals. Not stopping crime. Not making the subway safe again.

Nope. Their goal is just to tamp down your unreasonable fears. Which coincidentally, is the same as the story’s goal. (And, how about the twisted, passive-voiced euphemism, a “violent event?” An event? Is that a New York Times code word for ‘killing spree’?)

That framing wasn’t just a one-off accident. Later, the article explained how the mental midgets running the Big Apple have come up with the idea of cracking down on non-violent fare jumpers using mechanical devices that will make it much harder to get through the subway and will slow everything down. But guess why they are doing it:

"Law enforcement experts have said that reining in petty offenses like fare evasion minimizes disorder in the subway, and, as a result, can act as a deterrent and make riders feel less likely to be victimized."

There! Now do you feel better, knowing that they are making the subways a lot more of a hassle that so you will feel less likely to be victimized? Are you feeling safer yet? Or, do you need even more oppressive security features added to your day?

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

In other words, you’ll still face the same chance of getting randomly shoved in front of a moving train, but maybe when it happens, you’ll feel — okay, maybe not better — but you’ll feel less likely to have been victimized. It was just bad luck.

Explain how expensive, high-tech body scanners will stop drug-fevered madmen from shoving people off the platforms...

In other words, they can’t keep you safe. They just can’t. Sorry. It used to be possible, but for reasons we are forbidden from discussing, it is just no longer possible. ...

In other words, New York has stroked checks for well over a hundred million dollars — up to a million dollars per offender — all so as to avoid arresting a few dozen criminally insane minorities. But that’s not all. They’re also surging waves and waves of law enforcement in the problem’s general direction...

Behold with quiet amazement: it’s democrat governance at work! All those soldiers and police and mental health teams aren’t there to arrest criminals. After all, that would be mean. The soldiers and police and mental health teams are there to tamp down on your fears. To make you feel safer, even though everyone knows you aren’t actually safer.

You aren’t actually safer since the criminals are still there. Plus, the criminals know that if they are arrested they’ll be released anyway. They simply aren’t deterred by all the soldiers and police and mental health teams. They are riding in the justice system’s first class section.

Well, the soldiers and police are there to make some arrests. Just not the criminals. They’ll immediately arrest you, if you step out of line. Don’t try anything stupid, like defending yourself or anybody else. Just ask courageous veteran Daniel Penny what happens when you take the law’s inaction into your own hands:




Why are the public officials putting soldiers and police where it’s mostly citizens, instead of in another spot I could think of, a spot where you might cut the “persistent challenge” off at the source?

I'd like to search that account's posts for anything resembling support of the "big lie." I've adored watching low IQ folks believe that Trump's election was stolen but the denizens of cities just really love voting for their homes to be shit.

DhammaStep says

I've adored watching low IQ folks believe that Trump's election was stolen

How many people voted in 2016 versus 2020? What percentage of this is of the population? Did Trump get more or less votes in 2020 than he did in 2016? Do you think people who voted for Trump in 2016 voted for Biden in 2020? What was the increase in registered voters from 2016 to 2020?

You dismiss things without even doing the SLIGHTEST bit of thinking.

Would be a better graph if y-axis started from zero, but still.

Patrick says

Would be a better graph if y-axis started from zero, but still.

and that graph ignores the fact that they stopped reporting crimes in 2020

Patrick says

And on the subway, you may get to be a participant!

https://slaynews.com/news/new-york-city-paying-illegal-aliens-4000-each-move-out-shelters/

New York City Paying Illegal Aliens $4000 Each to Move Out of Shelters

Democrat-controlled New York City is giving illegal aliens taxpayer-funded $4,000 payments to move out of migrant shelters. ...

The NYC Department of Homeless Services (DHS) offered 150 illegal aliens $4,000 each through the Asylee Moveout Assistance (AMA) program.

According to the report, the tax dollar cash gifts are supposedly meant to pay for housing.

The illegal border crossers are also being given up to $1,000 in gift cards for necessities and moving expenses.

richwicks says

You dismiss things without even doing the SLIGHTEST bit of thinking

Can you read? I'm saying that people that believe federal elections are stolen but don't believe local and state elections are stolen are low IQ. I stand by that.

They are giving the new illegals copies of 'Mafia for Dummies' for establishing extortion rackets, protection rackets, gambling enterprises, murder for hire, burglary and car jacking invasions of suburbs, drug sales and prostitution/trafficking so that they can join the American Dream like all the other immigrants. They will get bonuses for providing blackmail against the patrons of their prostitution establishments.

The Jesuits will provide them with advisors, capitalization and blueprints for staking out territories and turfing their fellows for parasitic endeavors, either as victims or recruits.

Independent streams of income will allow them to bribe local boards and politicians and become part of the political process.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/stormy-weather-thursday-sept-26-2024

https://genesiustimes.com/breaking-feds-indict-nyc-mayor-eric-adams-for-unauthorized-complaining-about-federal-immigration-policy/

https://x.com/alldaynightNY12/status/1839222764361650541

@alldaynightNY12
This is exactly why they turned on him.
I just found out tonight that governor Hochul is going to tell him to resign or she will remove him.
He spoke out loud about the devastation of immigrants. And the dems came for him.

https://babylonbee.com/cleanArticle/black-man-faces-punishment-for-disobeying-his-democrat-masters

https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2024-12-14-solving-the-mtas-fare-evasion-problem

The internal link there goes to a chart of MTA data showing fare evasion rates on buses over the period 2019 to 2024. Over that interval, the rate increased from just over 20% to almost 50%. At one million non-paying passengers per day on the buses alone, and almost $3 per ride, this would appear to be approximately a $1 billion per year issue for the agency. A 14% evasion rate on the subways could add another half a billion. It’s real money.

Initially, I was surprised by these very high reported rates of fare evasion. After all, as a Manhattan resident, I regularly use both the subways and buses. Yes, I would observe the occasional rider jumping the turnstile, or boarding a bus without paying. But the rate of fare evasion I would observe was around 5% or less of the passengers. Where did the MTA come up with these very high numbers? ...

If you look on Zillow, you will find that the prices for these types of houses in this area are in the range of about $500,000 to $1 million — well above the median value of a single family house in the U.S. as a whole.

And here are the results of my investigation: On my first trip, I was amazed to observe that on the first half of the bus route (the majority-black neighborhoods), almost nobody paid. Then suddenly, the bus crossed Flatbush Avenue, and the ethnicity of the neighborhood changed. After that, almost (but not quite) everybody paid. But on that first trip, I had not positioned myself to make a perfect count of who paid and who did not. So the second trip, I made sure take a seat where I could get an exact count of payers and non-payers by observed race. This time, more riders were paying, but still, 25 of 44 black riders did not pay, and only 4 of 40 from other races. Yes, I may have mis-identified a few people, but not enough to change the overall gist of the result.

Patrick says

This time, more riders were paying, but still, 25 of 44 black riders did not pay, and only 4 of 40 from other races. Yes, I may have mis-identified a few people, but not enough to change the overall gist of the result.

The race of the bus driver answers all the questions. In Chicago they're almost exclusively black drivers. Female as well. Black males will throw around their weight around. Fact is there are no consequences for not paying anymore.

I don't like it, but we're already funding them anyway in so many realms. I'm raising a black child because his dad is a dead beat, locked up in jail. Black men started failing in the 80's roughly. It's been downhill ever since. A black man has to get with a snow bunny to stand a chance and that's a 50/50 proposition at best to be successful. Another black chick.... hell no. That's disaster.

https://teachersforchoice.substack.com/p/president-trump-responds-to-letter

President Trump Responds to Letter from 250 Unvaxxed NYC Workers!

Aura Moody - coauthor of the letter signed by over 250 Unvaccinated NYC Workers that was sent to Donald Trump last month - has received a response from The Office of President-Elect Donald J. Trump. The response states that Trump has said they will “keep your letter on file to refer to the appropriate federal agency for possible assistance after January 20, 2025” (after Trump officially takes office).

We would all like to thank President-Elect Donald Trump for taking the time to acknowledge our struggles and to reply to us before the holidays; it means so much!

Quite different from the rejection we received from NYC City Council yesterday - December 19 - also just before the holidays.

THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT -ELECT DONALD J. TRUMP
We received your letter and request for assistance. We are so sorry to learn of the serious difficulties you and your
family are enduring. President Trump has received many letters and emails from Americans experiencing extreme and unfair
hardships. He has asked that we keep your letter on file to refer to the appropriate federal agency for possible
assistance after January 20, 2025. He wants you to know that he will freedom with never stop fighting to restore America
as the land of opportunities for all individuals to achieve the American Dream.
He is grateful for your letter and appreciates your kindness and continued support.
Sincerely,
The Office of Donald J. Trump