Hey it's my city too and I Iove it, but I can't agree more. I don't feel safe there anymore, even to the point that this pacifist got his concealed carry license. How did it come to this? Gradually, then suddenly.
I truly wish I didn't feel the need to protect myself and those around me, I never did 5+ years ago. Until we can get a handle on violent crime, I don't see another solution.
The sole problem is the usa, which embraces violence, has made violence its central tenet, both at home and ESPECIALLY abroad. How many usa illegal invasions/military incursions JUST since 1991? Since 1798?
Hey Matt, that piece might be exactly what you need to KEEP the peace. Hopefully you’ll never need to do more than show it to prevent any violence. Best of luck.
“Chicago Voted Best City in U.S. for Seventh Consecutive Year” reminds me of how Democrats in California routinely Fail Upwards into Federal positions of power.
San Diego has become a tech shithole city, a vehicle for elites to import the entire Sino-sphere into the West. That was one of the purposes of “COVID.”
That greedy elite means the Founding Liars/Founding Genocidists/Founding Terrorists/ ... . And all their after greedy elites down to this day in Gangster Nation usa.
"10% off groceries with every immunization" - does this mean that you get everything half price if your family of 5 each takes a shot?
or that next year you'll pay 50% more if you don't take whatever shot is required?
so many good memories of chicago - art institute, the southside blues clubs, old town music school, wrigley before they started scalping their own tickets, pizza to rival nyc. i may never get to experience any of that again, and i won't be the only one.
Yes indeed, the great challenge is to get the stupid urban refugees upgraded to people who can work with land, grow food and take care of themselves, help others and live WITH nature..not in spite of it. Food shortages and financial collapse may speed up the process. 🤷
To add to that many uban people are moving into this area which is bear country. When they see a bear in their yard they call Fish and Wildlife. The bears were here first and people who move to bear country need to learn to live with them.
That’s gonna be me soon. 😂 but, don’t worry, I’m eyeing Eastern Europe for my move. Where I’ll be greeted with the exact sentiment you decry. But hoping I can contribute to the community anyway.
C40 is bent on becoming the nightmare existence of every large city -- not just 40 anymore. There are now 96 "member cities" that are promoting the development of "Climate Action Plans" to save the planet -- if anyone wants to continue living in such a world where you cannot have vehicles (ICE or EV -- especially EVs because there won't be enough energy to supply electricity for your EV due to the dependence on wind and solar) and we'll be in the same boat as South Africa with a mere 4 hours of electricity per day.
Phoenix is listed as a C40 city. I downloaded the "Guidelines" to establishing Climate Action Plans, and there on page 3 of the 142-page booklet -- is our lovely mayor, Kate Gallego (she is a very pretty woman -- thin, blond and a nice smile) whose looks belie her evil intentions for our wonderful city. The most recent effort is in my neighborhood in which over the past two years saw the destruction of the 40-year-old PV Mall in our once aptly named Paradise Valley area, demolished and in its place is the ideal 15-minute city development: 400 apartment units above ground floor shopping and dining -- Whole Foods, a luxury movie theater, luxury dining, bike paths, and EV charging stations if they actually allow you to go anywhere in a vehicle. Currently, this building is a massive structure of wood (mostly plywood) that -- God forbid -- if it should catch fire due to the spontaneously combustion of an EV or eBike in someone's unit, will burn like a tinder box! Not a fire-wall in the entire structure.
Obviously only the wealthy will be able to afford to live in this new structure called "PV Reimagine" -- I can only "imagine" the life that these evil rulers like our own mayor have planned for us. Oh, and there will be no meat available in Phoenix which I suppose means that the "fine dining" at PV Reimagine will not include any steak houses. All in the name of prevent global warming and saving the planet -- a planet that no one will want to live on in these tightly controlled 15-minute cities with no private transportation. The whole mandate to buy an EV is just a ruse to confine us -- no electricity means you will be happy to have a Whole Foods on the ground floor of your luxury apartment because you won't be able to drive anywhere. Arizona Public Service (APS) knows there's no way they can possibly provide enough energy from wind and solar (they do own a nuclear power plant west of Phoenix but they caution us that we will need to use less electricity) to supply us with what will be needed to live in a modern environment. Download the C40 Guidelines (C40.org) and read what is in store for us.
We will own nothing and like it.
And lovely Mayor Gallego will be smiling sweetly, thrilled to be in control of Phoenix.
Thats why I am perfectly happy to live in a red state and a red county where I can raise and grow most of my own food on my 5 acres of heaven without all the BS. If this garbage ever comes my way, I will be the first to get out. Can't understand why anyone willingly lives in these s**t holes.
You are right. It is not red or blue. I should have phrased that differently. I don't want to make assumptions about people. I am going to delete my comment. The reason I wrote that was I wondered what motivated these individuals since I didn't know any of them.
Someone recommended the book "Lost Rights" by James Bovard. Published in the mid-90s, I would have scoffed at its Libertarian views back then. No more. He was showing the future better than Nostradamus. Government authoritarian programs make us "sharecroppers of our own lives." What an incredible sentence.
Detroit is pretty far ahead of the other cities in terms of ruins, but now it is a WEF center for urban transformation, no doubt because transmogrifying the "motor city" is supposed to be symbolic or something. Lots of plans for bike lanes, though there are no sidewalks, and winter lasts 7 months. They don't plow anything but the main streets and downtown, but I bet they'll allocate money to plow just the bike lanes. It was actually becoming very green, with overgrown abandoned lots and wildlife, like foxes and raccoons and white tailed deer and coyotes, but they are poisoning them and gentrifying, with a ridiculous numbering of shelters in parks (order, ordure), and now our dogwalker friend is scouting abandoned lots for solar panel plots, a new big green push. Billboards for pride MILeap globalist "education," no doubt with required vaccines, and grinning minority people all excited to sign up for clinical trials for liver and kidney drugs. If I weren't an osteoporotic crone, I'd climb that one and hang a banner "Google Maddie de Garay" Tragic about these great cities.
It's a cycle of boom and bust, brought to you by rentier/finance capitalism.
It's happened in the 70s when the corporations needed to save their markets, taking work away from the people and the governments cutting social services.
The real estate boom ERR HUGE INFLATION THAT PEOPLE DIDN'T COUNT AS INFLATION lead to absentee landlords who try to make money on money.... Rentier capitalism...
Cities were never great. They have always been islands of artificial unsustainable population density which will collapse immediately if not for food, water, energy sources derived from rural areas. But Mark is quite correct in that we can now see cities for what they are, shit holes. The great unveiling is upon us.
Now I wonder if the move to cities has anything to do with the depopulation centre ... yes over and above the control, power, asset stripping, wealth transfers etc ?.
You guys ever seen this ?; it does explain a lot, if you think about it !. PLEASE WATCH UNTIL THE END ... .... video = 08:22
The Mouse Utopia Experiment (original 1970 Documentary)
Hey it's my city too and I Iove it, but I can't agree more. I don't feel safe there anymore, even to the point that this pacifist got his concealed carry license. How did it come to this? Gradually, then suddenly.
Me too! I left 6 years ago. I miss it sometimes, but mostly I’m so glad I’m very far removed from the insanity. Rural Ohio suits me much better
Congrats on your CCL!
Exactly what is sooooo bad, wrong, ... about the usa, one of myriad things.
I truly wish I didn't feel the need to protect myself and those around me, I never did 5+ years ago. Until we can get a handle on violent crime, I don't see another solution.
Agree 100. We finally had to flee Chicago after spending decades on the north side, by West Ridge. The city is finished.
The sole problem is the usa, which embraces violence, has made violence its central tenet, both at home and ESPECIALLY abroad. How many usa illegal invasions/military incursions JUST since 1991? Since 1798?
Hey Matt, that piece might be exactly what you need to KEEP the peace. Hopefully you’ll never need to do more than show it to prevent any violence. Best of luck.
“Chicago Voted Best City in U.S. for Seventh Consecutive Year” reminds me of how Democrats in California routinely Fail Upwards into Federal positions of power.
The urban Peter Principle at work!
Intentional destruction. Chicago is one of many Karenland FUPAZ: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/throwback-thursday-cities-fupaz-boblee
Any chance you can unlock the link you share?
San Diego has become a tech shithole city, a vehicle for elites to import the entire Sino-sphere into the West. That was one of the purposes of “COVID.”
Created by the greedy elite.
That greedy elite means the Founding Liars/Founding Genocidists/Founding Terrorists/ ... . And all their after greedy elites down to this day in Gangster Nation usa.
unfortunately, seems like we have a sh*t hole WORLD on our hands... https://eccentrik.substack.com/p/4-subtle-signs-were-absolutely-f
"10% off groceries with every immunization" - does this mean that you get everything half price if your family of 5 each takes a shot?
or that next year you'll pay 50% more if you don't take whatever shot is required?
so many good memories of chicago - art institute, the southside blues clubs, old town music school, wrigley before they started scalping their own tickets, pizza to rival nyc. i may never get to experience any of that again, and i won't be the only one.
william butler yeats visits lincoln park and escapes with his life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni_gNo_A-gQ
Yeah, it’s a big shithole, but it’s the best big shithole in America! Out of all the big shitholes, there is no other big shithole I rather live in.
I don’t live in a city by choice. Unfortunately, stupid people are migrating to non uban areas and are starting to turn them into shitholes.
Yes indeed, the great challenge is to get the stupid urban refugees upgraded to people who can work with land, grow food and take care of themselves, help others and live WITH nature..not in spite of it. Food shortages and financial collapse may speed up the process. 🤷
To add to that many uban people are moving into this area which is bear country. When they see a bear in their yard they call Fish and Wildlife. The bears were here first and people who move to bear country need to learn to live with them.
That’s gonna be me soon. 😂 but, don’t worry, I’m eyeing Eastern Europe for my move. Where I’ll be greeted with the exact sentiment you decry. But hoping I can contribute to the community anyway.
lol, and it does have that magnificent lake
And cold as s***!
lol but good excuse to eat more deep dish pizza
"San Francisco secured fifth place, renowned for its iconic landmarks and cultural diversity."
SF is #5??? Now that is really funny.
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2023/11/08/san-franciscos-post-apocalyptic-hellscape-is-on-full-display-in-this-viral-tiktok-video
C40 is bent on becoming the nightmare existence of every large city -- not just 40 anymore. There are now 96 "member cities" that are promoting the development of "Climate Action Plans" to save the planet -- if anyone wants to continue living in such a world where you cannot have vehicles (ICE or EV -- especially EVs because there won't be enough energy to supply electricity for your EV due to the dependence on wind and solar) and we'll be in the same boat as South Africa with a mere 4 hours of electricity per day.
Phoenix is listed as a C40 city. I downloaded the "Guidelines" to establishing Climate Action Plans, and there on page 3 of the 142-page booklet -- is our lovely mayor, Kate Gallego (she is a very pretty woman -- thin, blond and a nice smile) whose looks belie her evil intentions for our wonderful city. The most recent effort is in my neighborhood in which over the past two years saw the destruction of the 40-year-old PV Mall in our once aptly named Paradise Valley area, demolished and in its place is the ideal 15-minute city development: 400 apartment units above ground floor shopping and dining -- Whole Foods, a luxury movie theater, luxury dining, bike paths, and EV charging stations if they actually allow you to go anywhere in a vehicle. Currently, this building is a massive structure of wood (mostly plywood) that -- God forbid -- if it should catch fire due to the spontaneously combustion of an EV or eBike in someone's unit, will burn like a tinder box! Not a fire-wall in the entire structure.
Obviously only the wealthy will be able to afford to live in this new structure called "PV Reimagine" -- I can only "imagine" the life that these evil rulers like our own mayor have planned for us. Oh, and there will be no meat available in Phoenix which I suppose means that the "fine dining" at PV Reimagine will not include any steak houses. All in the name of prevent global warming and saving the planet -- a planet that no one will want to live on in these tightly controlled 15-minute cities with no private transportation. The whole mandate to buy an EV is just a ruse to confine us -- no electricity means you will be happy to have a Whole Foods on the ground floor of your luxury apartment because you won't be able to drive anywhere. Arizona Public Service (APS) knows there's no way they can possibly provide enough energy from wind and solar (they do own a nuclear power plant west of Phoenix but they caution us that we will need to use less electricity) to supply us with what will be needed to live in a modern environment. Download the C40 Guidelines (C40.org) and read what is in store for us.
We will own nothing and like it.
And lovely Mayor Gallego will be smiling sweetly, thrilled to be in control of Phoenix.
Thats why I am perfectly happy to live in a red state and a red county where I can raise and grow most of my own food on my 5 acres of heaven without all the BS. If this garbage ever comes my way, I will be the first to get out. Can't understand why anyone willingly lives in these s**t holes.
That s wrong and thankfully doesn't happen in my county. Honestly human rudeness isn't red or blue, it's just evil and stupid.
You are right. It is not red or blue. I should have phrased that differently. I don't want to make assumptions about people. I am going to delete my comment. The reason I wrote that was I wondered what motivated these individuals since I didn't know any of them.
Someone recommended the book "Lost Rights" by James Bovard. Published in the mid-90s, I would have scoffed at its Libertarian views back then. No more. He was showing the future better than Nostradamus. Government authoritarian programs make us "sharecroppers of our own lives." What an incredible sentence.
Detroit is pretty far ahead of the other cities in terms of ruins, but now it is a WEF center for urban transformation, no doubt because transmogrifying the "motor city" is supposed to be symbolic or something. Lots of plans for bike lanes, though there are no sidewalks, and winter lasts 7 months. They don't plow anything but the main streets and downtown, but I bet they'll allocate money to plow just the bike lanes. It was actually becoming very green, with overgrown abandoned lots and wildlife, like foxes and raccoons and white tailed deer and coyotes, but they are poisoning them and gentrifying, with a ridiculous numbering of shelters in parks (order, ordure), and now our dogwalker friend is scouting abandoned lots for solar panel plots, a new big green push. Billboards for pride MILeap globalist "education," no doubt with required vaccines, and grinning minority people all excited to sign up for clinical trials for liver and kidney drugs. If I weren't an osteoporotic crone, I'd climb that one and hang a banner "Google Maddie de Garay" Tragic about these great cities.
Sounds like Detroit would be better without that transformation.
Go away, Global Vultures!
It's a cycle of boom and bust, brought to you by rentier/finance capitalism.
It's happened in the 70s when the corporations needed to save their markets, taking work away from the people and the governments cutting social services.
The real estate boom ERR HUGE INFLATION THAT PEOPLE DIDN'T COUNT AS INFLATION lead to absentee landlords who try to make money on money.... Rentier capitalism...
https://michael-hudson.com/2021/01/the-rentier-resurgence-and-takeover-finance-capitalism-vs-industrial-capitalism/
It is astonishing to think that Chicago was the 4th largest city in the world a century ago.
See my substack for my collection of historical Press photos, mostly from Chicago.
Cities were never great. They have always been islands of artificial unsustainable population density which will collapse immediately if not for food, water, energy sources derived from rural areas. But Mark is quite correct in that we can now see cities for what they are, shit holes. The great unveiling is upon us.
Now I wonder if the move to cities has anything to do with the depopulation centre ... yes over and above the control, power, asset stripping, wealth transfers etc ?.
You guys ever seen this ?; it does explain a lot, if you think about it !. PLEASE WATCH UNTIL THE END ... .... video = 08:22
The Mouse Utopia Experiment (original 1970 Documentary)
https://archive.org/details/the-mouse-utopia-experiment-original-1970-documentary
...
Similar to the film "Escape from LA" ? = https://revuecinema.ca/films/escape-from-l-a-4k-restoration/
Glad we humans don’t live in a Utopia!