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Violent, unprovoked attacks have New Yorkers on edge: ‘There is something profoundly wrong’
American Military News ^ | 10/02/22 | KERRY BURKE - NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, THOMAS TRACY - NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, TIM BALK - NEW YORK DAILY NEW

Posted on 10/03/2022 11:04:14 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal

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To: Jim Noble

You are right, be safe.


81 posted on 10/03/2022 1:34:49 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: T.B. Yoits

When I graduated high school in the early 1970s, there were good full-time jobs everywhere for darn near everybody. Maybe you dropped out of high school. Maybe you just barely graduated with a C- average.

It didn’t matter. The mills were hiring. Factories were hiring. The railroad was hiring.

Those are the jobs I’m talking about. They are just not there anymore for urban black kids who are not college material. Yes, you are correct that companies are look big to bump their minority representation. But they are looking to hire a few college types.

Oh, they’ll hire that decent C- black kid. But it won’t be full-time, and it won’t be at good wages.

One reason I’m so passionate about this is that I taught in an urban high school for decades. I had many good and decent black students who were simply not college material. There was nothing for them after high school. They didn’t have the many choices my generation had.

Trump’s policies would have changed all that. The factories would have come back. It’s a real shame he was derailed.


82 posted on 10/03/2022 1:35:13 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Just another subfolder in the main folder named “The Great Culling”.


83 posted on 10/03/2022 1:35:39 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

“There is something profoundly wrong”

Still too many police?


84 posted on 10/03/2022 1:38:11 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself.)
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To: Leaning Right
There was nothing for them after high school.

If they're not "college material" then they're missing out on jobs going to replacements that have a grammar school education and don't speak English.

85 posted on 10/03/2022 2:04:09 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Yardstick
I’ve noticed the disrespectful driving. There has a been a shift in the culture since Covid and the BLM/Antifa riots.

Government fully and publicly de-legitimized themselves with illegal lockdowns, company shutdowns, eviction moratoriums, etc. and at the same time took a knee to a criminal Communist organization known as Black Lives MatterTM, all to steal an election.

They supported Communist rioters burning down businesses. They told everyone their votes didn't matter. They told everyone their jobs and school didn't matter.

They told everyone they were going to die... except they didn't and now no one gives a damn.

I see it with younger kids and I don't think it's a bad thing. Step one is lose the outright falsehoods that have been pushed by an illegitimate government and the Propaganda Media for decades. Give the kids time and they'll find their way without getting caught in the sick lies.

86 posted on 10/03/2022 2:14:00 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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> If they’re not “college material” then they’re missing out on jobs going to replacements that have a grammar school education and don’t speak English. <

I live in an area that was once a great steel mill region. So maybe what I’m seeing is not true elsewhere. But there are literally no good jobs left here for that average kid, black or white or brown.

Sure, the fast food places are hiring. And it’s honorable work. But you won’t be able to rise to the middle class like the mill worker of 50 years ago could.

We were sold out be the globalists of both parties. Instead of making things in our cities, we import them from China. I dunno. Maybe I’m wrong. But I think a country should have a policy that gives that average kid a decent chance. Not just a chance, but a decent chance. Like when I was 18.


87 posted on 10/03/2022 2:14:11 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

“ There’s something profoundly wrong with New York”

It’s your government.


88 posted on 10/03/2022 2:15:32 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: blackdog
Years later my dad told me the charge was 10%.

Are you sure that wasn't a week?

89 posted on 10/03/2022 2:15:55 PM PDT by Fido969 (45 is Superman! )
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Survival of the fittest. These whiners are standing in the way of evolution to a higher form. Imagine how great we will have it then. In my lifetime I have seen nothing less than better by the day. Look how much better off our children and grandchildren are.


90 posted on 10/03/2022 2:20:58 PM PDT by momincombatboots (QEphesians 6... who you are really at war with.)
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To: Leaning Right
I live in an area that was once a great steel mill region. So maybe what I’m seeing is not true elsewhere. But there are literally no good jobs left here for that average kid, black or white or brown.

The key word is "once". There are places all over the world that no longer support industry that was once there; mines are depleted, harbors are too small, rivers are to shallow and narrow, narrow winding roads over mountain passes aren't as efficient as multi-lane highways on flat land, new technologies supersede the previous ones, etc.

Our ancestors came all the way to America for opportunity. These kids need to get out of these "once was" towns, learn some new skills, and don't look back. Democrats want to keep them on urban reservations but these kids have to open their eyes and their minds.

There are companies hurting for drivers, skilled technicians, and even assemblers but those same companies got out of decayed areas decades ago.

91 posted on 10/03/2022 2:24:21 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: T.B. Yoits

My region was destroyed by the globalists, with some side help by greedy and irresponsible unions.

Anyway, you make a VERY good point about having to move. The jobs are no longer here. So young folks need to roll the dice, and look elsewhere.

My concern is about the quantity as well as the quality of the available work. Here’s what I mean. Back in the day, in my region there were tons of well-paying jobs just for the asking. Sure, there are good jobs elsewhere. But can they match the mills, which once employed tens of thousands?

Oh, and one more thing. I’ll be signing off now as there are weeds to pull in my back yard. Those weeds mock me daily. I have enjoyed our conversation. It is a pleasure to exchange ideas without the name-calling too often seen on other threads.

Regards,
LR


92 posted on 10/03/2022 2:37:28 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Fido969

No. It wasn’t that kinda place. This used to be common in every small neighborhood. In the city it was many times an ethnic group club. The Italian Club. The Polish Club. The Bacci Club. Access to needed capital among a community was a good thing. It supported the local merchants and residents.


93 posted on 10/03/2022 3:01:44 PM PDT by blackdog ("That's an applause line you useful idiots" )
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Libtards aren’t the brightest are they?

Do they hold their breath and wonder why they turn blue and breathe?

Same thing


94 posted on 10/03/2022 3:24:26 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Embrace the suck NYC - you voted for it.


95 posted on 10/03/2022 5:17:31 PM PDT by WMarshal (Neocons and leftards are the same species of vicious rat.)
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To: WMarshal

i WILL BE so happy when my son moves back to Phoenix, he has a transfer to SLC thru his airline that he is a flight attendant for. He will commute up to SLC and live at home atleast for the foreseeable future. but will be so happy to have him out of the ROTTEN QPPLE!


96 posted on 10/03/2022 5:36:08 PM PDT by princess leah
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
Biden was considering AC for US Att'y General while the #metoo roof was falling in on the guvnah.
from the Cuomo search results (over 2000 topics, going back only to 2014 as always):

97 posted on 10/03/2022 7:21:48 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Leaning Right

What is different here is A) whites outnumber blacks 5 or so to 1, and 2) 2A.

Should be interesting.


98 posted on 10/03/2022 7:39:37 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

The latest terrifying attack took the life of of a veteran city EMS lieutenant on her way to grab lunch in Astoria this past Thursday, with a schizophrenic stranger knocking her to the sidewalk before stabbing her 20 times for no apparent reason.
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I saw the video. He stabbed her 46 times if I recall correctly. It was way more than 20 times. People just walked on by.


99 posted on 10/04/2022 3:07:01 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

evolution completed and is now reversing...


100 posted on 10/04/2022 3:10:10 AM PDT by sit-rep ( )
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