Posted on 08/23/2022 8:35:21 AM PDT by Drew68
I’m in Bulgaria. It’s the poorest country in the European Union—and the most corrupt. My friends get livid recounting how agency A was supposed to build some bridge, and then just siphoned off tax money to a mafioso and the bridge is never built.
But I took the Sofia subway today. It’s clean. It’s on time. The intercoms work perfectly and the announcements come in Bulgarian followed by slightly accented English.
To prevent people from falling or being pushed onto the tracks, in busy stations a light metal barrier descends when the train approaches and leaves.
To help prevent fare evasion, train employees do occasional walk throughs and check people’s metro cards. But they are not police and do not have guns. If they find someone without a ticket they issue a fine.
Again. This isn’t a Nordic nation. It’s a former Soviet bloc country, rotted through with corruption and government malfeasance and abuse during the communist era, and then ravaged by rapacious capitalism in the 1990s. My parents and I were in the US by then and I remember grandparents who proudly, reluctantly, asked for money because their pensions had been gutted and they couldn’t afford heat. Then rose the Mafia state and decades of corruption that continues today. After lifetimes of this, the people are not prone to trusting elected officials—the conspiracy theories that circulate, especially among older people, would make Q-Anon believers blush.
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New York City is the financial capitol of the world, and in a deep blue state.
A man was shot on the train between Park Slope—one of the richest neighborhoods in the city—and lower Manhattan, where he was meeting friends for brunch.
A woman was pushed onto the tracks and killed this year, because unlike in Bulgaria, there are no barriers between the platform and the tracks. Her assailant suffered from schizophrenia and had cycled in and out of the city’s inadequate mental health services, jails, and the streets. He had once told a mental health provider that he was worried that he would push a woman onto the tracks. A few years later, he did.
The intercoms go “CRACKLE CRACKLE CRACKLE!” and suddenly you’re on an express train to a stop 15 stops from your destination. We all know the trains run late, stop in the middle of a terrifying dark tunnel and the intercom goes, “CRACKLE CRACKLE CRACKLE!” and you don’t know if you’ll be sitting there for 20 seconds or 20 minutes.
To prevent fare evasion, NYPD officers station themselves at gates and manhandle teenagers who jump the turnstile, which not infrequently leads to violent, traumatizing altercations. Recently, Mayor Eric Adams has ramped up efforts to make the subway “safe.” Yet, when a shooter attempted to turn a morning commute into a blood bath, he slipped away once police came to the scene and was only caught thanks to eagle-eyed bodega clerks and also the fact that he called and told police exactly where he was.
That’s in part because the Mayor’s plan is not about public safety—it’s about hassling homeless people who sleep on the train, because their only options are, the train, hellish shelters, or the streets.
Bulgaria has many problems. The way the country treats its Roma minority population would make Tucker Carlson blush. Seemingly sane people turn into … well, Tucker Carlson, if you point out that maybe some Roma might steal, not because it’s “in their nature” but because they’re locked out of every legitimate avenue for success or survival since birth. The corruption is in fact, rampant and insane.
It’s definitely not perfect! (though FWIW it’s beautiful and cheap and the food is delicious and the people are good-looking and there are Greek, Roman and Thracian ruins scattered all over the country, so tourists should come! But not too many—it’s also great because there are very few tourists).
I guess I wonder why the poorest country in the European Union managed to invest in a light metal barrier to prevent people from falling or getting pushed onto the tracks of their subway. While, New York City, one of the richest, richest places in the world, seems to respond to problems by throwing more armed police at them.
Priorities?
The comments on her substack and over on her Twitter thread are probably not the answeres she wanted to hear.
“Why does Bulgaria, the poorest country in the EU, have a safer train system than NYC, the richest place on the globe?”
Simple, Dem-commies run NY justice system.
Tana Ganeva. Stupid autocorrect.
No Amish ?...................
Because that’s the way “progressives” want it.
Because the rich in NYC don’t get anywhere close to the subway — or public transport, in general.
Well, they've got Gypsies but the Bulgarians don't take any sh*t from them, certainly don't allow their Gypsy underclass to commit rampant crimes with zero consequences.
In Bulgaria, if you beat up a criminal, you won't go to jail.
“This isn’t a Nordic nation.”
Joseph Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler live!
Simple reason: Civilized users. With this rap generation, it is to show weakness to be civilized.
because they do not worship the false idol of diversity
Um ... because the 8th Air Force provided them with bare earth to build on???
I can’t speak to the Bulgarian system, but NYC has been run by incompetent criminals for years and is fast becoming a third world $hithole.
That may have something to do with it
The funny thing is if you read the article, the author makes it sound like the problem is NYC is not Liberal enough and needs to spend more money on social programs and less on police.
“Rolling Stone, Business Insider, The New Republic, The Nation, Reason”
those are all lefty sources. I’ll just take a guess on why it’s safe (more white people? and less ghetto animals)
You are presumed guilty if arrested. There is no 4th Amendment.
Having lived in Germany, this is how it works. You must have a national id. Fail to carry one or fail to update your address and instant jail and/or huge fine.
If neighbors see someone suspicious, they call the cops. The cops lookup who lives at that address. No one listed? They come and pick you up to ask why you're not listed. If someone is listed, does it match the description? If so, they check the national tax database. Does the person work? Have an income from disability/unemployment? If no, they come and pick you up and ask how you are paying to live there. Does the person have a record? Any similar crimes in the area? They come and pick you up. On probation? They come and pick you up.
It's all very neat, tidy and omnipresent.
And Americans wouldn't tolerate it for 5 seconds.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2022/08/18/the-myth-of-overpolicing-and-mass-incarceration/
Hi Tana!
The answer to your question is the inability and unwillingness to address the problem of violent, impulsive, low IQ blacks.
How else may I help you today, Tana?
I read that Twitter thread. Too funny! And certainly not what this gal wanted to hear. Given her slams against Tucker and his audience, and her lies about the poor beleaguered "Roma," it's pretty clear we're dealing with a commie here.
Yet London and Paris have become practically Third World slums. Same with Rome, Rotterdam, Malmo, etc.
While it's not illegal to be in public in America without ID, I'd say virtually 99% of Americans won't leave their house without one.
Bulgaria...some of the most beautiful women I have ever seen.
“ In Bulgaria, if you beat up a criminal, you won’t go to jail.”
Gypsy Lives Matter, man
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