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A Town Turned Mean: What happened to downtown Minneapolis?
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| Cory Zurowski
Posted on 07/01/2017 5:14:30 AM PDT by dynachrome
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Future Detroit,baltimore, etc.
To: dynachrome
I gave up reading. First and lasting impression is a city filled with and attracting animals. Untamed in the worst sense. Uncivilized. If I were there, I’d be happy to be carrying a concealed weapon and should be asking why I was there.
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posted on
07/01/2017 5:20:51 AM PDT
by
Reno89519
(Drain the Swamp is not party specific. Lyn' Ted is still a liar, Good riddance to him.)
To: dynachrome
It’s just “diversity”, you know, multicultural blessings...
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posted on
07/01/2017 5:21:40 AM PDT
by
wastoute
(Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
To: dynachrome
"She's dead, Jim."
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posted on
07/01/2017 5:22:47 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Islam: You have to just love a "religion" based on rape and sex slavery.)
To: dynachrome
"A Town Turned Mean: What happened to downtown Minneapolis?"Like a never-flushed toilet, the Minneapolis city government got clogged with liberals.
To: wastoute
There is one thing that is not mentioned in the story. very carefully avoided.
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posted on
07/01/2017 5:25:27 AM PDT
by
dynachrome
(When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
To: dynachrome
Didn’t Minneapolis import a bunch of Somalis?
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posted on
07/01/2017 5:26:19 AM PDT
by
Hacksaw
(I haven't taken the 30 silvers.)
To: ClearCase_guy
MTM’s opening was my first thought.
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posted on
07/01/2017 5:27:26 AM PDT
by
exit82
(The opposition has already been Trumped!)
To: Hacksaw
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posted on
07/01/2017 5:28:04 AM PDT
by
dynachrome
(When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
To: dynachrome
Result of decades of Democrats in charge. I saw the same when I went to Green Bay for a concert. Couldn’t wait to get back South.
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posted on
07/01/2017 5:28:33 AM PDT
by
yldstrk
(My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: dynachrome
I figured. Just how many Somalians can you take in before your city looks more like Somalia than American?
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posted on
07/01/2017 5:31:22 AM PDT
by
wastoute
(Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
To: dynachrome
[People shouting, dropping F-bombs for all to hear. Groups running up and down sidewalks, steamrolling whomever and getting into confrontations. Men urinating on the front doors of businesses, day and night.]
Jesus Is The Answer - Andrae Crouch & Singers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9Mz3P1L1w8
To: dynachrome
25 years ago the “problems” were confined to neighborhoods a few blocks from downtown. Emboldened by politically correct policing the “problems” moved a few blocks north into downtown. Areas that were safe for a evening stroll 20 years ago are now no-go zones.
To: dynachrome
They just spent millions redoing the streets and the Nicollet Mall, all so they could turn it over to the ferals and beggars. Hennepin Ave has always been a cesspit, so that's really nothing new.
It's typical Liberalville. Waste billions of taxpayer dollars trying to whitewash over the problem instead of just picking up the trash.
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posted on
07/01/2017 5:38:46 AM PDT
by
IronJack
To: dynachrome
A city run by Democrats. Need I say more?
To: dynachrome
"There is one thing that is not mentioned in the story. very carefully avoided." Hmmm. Could it be ferals, Somalians, muslims, amigos, gibs-me-dats, aspiring rappers, "youths", "teens" "good boys" and "youngsters turning their life around" ?
To: dynachrome
I remember as a teenager growing up in Minneapolis stepping over or walking around bums lying on the sidewalks along Hennepin Ave. Going to the library on Nicollet Ave you had to run the gauntlet of bums congregated between the library and planetarium, which got so bad that they finally stationed a cop permanently in the library. Drunken Indians were a major problem plaguing downtown. In those days there weren’t many blacks. Once the blacks arrived in large numbers from Gary, Chicago and St. Louis, the violence skyrocketed, and venturing downtown became not just unpleasant, but dangerous.
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posted on
07/01/2017 5:47:09 AM PDT
by
euram
To: dynachrome
Minneapolis has always been a Dem stronghold. That's not what has changed. What has changed is the restrictions put on the police. They simply are not allowed to properly control the trouble-makers anymore.
When I was young everyone knew where the bad neighborhoods were. And the police kept those places under control and never let them spread.
Today, the sheep dogs are on short leashes and the wolves are having a blast!
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posted on
07/01/2017 5:48:03 AM PDT
by
Spruce
To: dynachrome
The descriptor he’s looking for, positive-sounding but morally neutral, is “vibrant.”
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posted on
07/01/2017 5:48:50 AM PDT
by
Trailerpark Badass
(There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
To: Reno89519
Great. I have to go there to work the SuperBowl this year. This and Chicago are going downhill while a couple formerly nasty cities are improving.
Massive gentrification in SE section of D.C. (West of the Anacostia River). Philly has nice areas I would have never gone to 20 years ago. I was in Cleveland for the RNC and they have a nice entertainment district, as well.
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posted on
07/01/2017 5:51:17 AM PDT
by
USNBandit
(Sarcasm engaged at all times)
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