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Leftist Reporter: It is “Bourgeois” to Want to Feel Safe on Public Transit


The New York Subway system is one of the scariest places to be in NYC.

Last week, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced an investigation into the death of 30-year-old Jordan Neely who died from “compression of neck (chokehold)” after another passenger subdued him.

Over the weekend, protestors marched in the streets and others climbed down and blocked the subway tracks.

But, reporter Emma Vigeland shared that the desire to feel safe on public transit is “bourgeois.”

[b][i]The last time I heard that word was when I was reading a story about the Russian revolution.[/i][/b]
graphite · 61-69, M
I take public transit regularly, and quite often you find yourself sharing a car with someone who is inebriated or mentally ill. It's kind of scary. Had a guy come up to me in a train once and challenge me to a fight. Another time, a man carrying a large bottle of liquor was shouting the N word at someone else a few feet way. Nothing to worry about here, folks.
No biggy for the rich Democrats, though - their limos will always be waiting for them under the portico, to take them to their private jets on the runway.
graphite · 61-69, M
@JPWhoo In bowing before the Democrats, you are bowing before America's Rich Elite. Have at it. Enjoy serving them. Personally, I can't really relate to the mega-wealthy (Democrats) much. (What did dimwit Biden do on Day #1? Destroy lucrative blue-collar pipeline jobs on the Keystone Pipeline at the behest of rich Democrat environmental fanatics, who are too rich to be bothered with the plight of the struggling working class.)
JPWhoo · 36-40, MVIP
@graphite Wtf are you talking about? I just showed you that the richest 1%, the “mega-wealthy” are overwhelmingly Republicans.

Average Democrats are wealthier than average Republicans because they have more education and are more open to new experiences, which is why they live in big cities. And yeah, most big cities have bad parts where homelessness and crime are common, but on average cities are doing better than rural areas.

The richest of the rich are overwhelmingly Republicans because Republicans represent the “I’ve got mine, screw you” attitude. Republicans who aren’t rich think they’re just temporarily embarrassed and that when they do get rich they don’t want to have to give a shit about anyone else either. Especially once you’ve got more money than you’re able to spend it becomes difficult to relate to or even sympathize with people who don’t have a lot of money anymore, and the Republican Party is the one catering to that disposition.
graphite · 61-69, M
@JPWhoo An. 8-year-old article? Why even bother looking? Democrats are the party of billionaires these days. Tom Steyer, Soros, Michael Bloomberg, Laurene Powell Jobs, and and on and on.

re: Average Democrats are wealthier than average Republicans because they have more education and are more open to new experiences, which is why they live in big cities. 🤣

...What breathtaking elitist snobbery. Yes, Democrats are so smart - just check out the cities they are destroying with their crash-and-burn policies (Chicago, San Francisco, New York, etc.) 🤣

re: Republicans "Ive got mine, screw you" 🤣 As rich elite Democrats destroy the petroleum, mining, etc industries, where blue collar people can actually earn a decent living, with Democrats' environmental fanatic nonsense. "Learn to code!" Democrats don't give a sh** about the working class. It's obvious.

https://www.outkick.com/democrat-actress-calls-san-francisco-a-shole-says-liberals-are-ruining-cities-after-prominent-murder/

Excerpt: Progressive prosecutors and liberal mayors have ruined what should be signature cities in the United States. All with the support and encouragement of fanatical voters who won’t admit their policies have failed.
Richard65 · M
Ok, I saw the report myself. Vigeland's point is that people are more concerned with the potential of being attacked by a mentally ill person than the system itself that allows such a person to wander about on public transport with no support structure that helps them to live an active, productive life. It's the equivalent of fearing a mentally ill person with a gun, when the real issue is the availability of guns to mentally ill people. As usual, the right employs its reductive, simplistic tactic of throwing around straw man arguments. Put another way, the right seeks monochrome answers to rainbow questions. There's no place for nuance, context, complexity and depth, just simplistic point scoring.
Richard65 · M
@Budwick, SAGE journals report that Democratic state legislators sponsored approximately 10,000 bills that included the words “mental health,” and Republican state legislators—despite their historical support of deregulation and privatization—sponsored just over 5,000, half that of Dems. So Reps can hardly claim superiority in their drive to treat mental health. If anything your reply actually confirms my main point, so thanks for that, "Sparky".
Budwick · 70-79, M
@Richard65 [quote]10,000 bills that included the words “mental health,[/quote]

So, that would include bills to dump mental heath programs.
Richard65 · M
@Budwick if you say so. Every unresearched guess you spout reinforces my point. Thanks again.
So, the desire to feel safe is bourgeois, huh? Yet the 2nd Amendment is appalling to these same people. Maybe it's time these people to understand that a well armed society is a polite society.
Bill1372 · 51-55, M
NYC turned into an absolute disaster under Deblasio.. it’s going to take years to recover
So the term pretty much applies to middle class people .Is she some angry, poverty stricken person or more likely a well to do “ left wing, malcontent? The world isn’t kissing her behind!
I wonder too if she rides the subways in NYC.
JPWhoo · 36-40, MVIP
Time to expand your vocabulary, it basically means “for rich people”. And she’s wrong, with the heavy proliferation of guns in the US even money can’t buy you safety in public anymore.
Budwick · 70-79, M
@JPWhoo I am in a state of consciousness.

You are simply an ass hole.
JPWhoo · 36-40, MVIP
@Budwick Great, you resort to name-calling because you have no substantial argument.
Budwick · 70-79, M
@JPWhoo Calling you an ass hole is not name calling.
It is a statement of fact.
Nobody thinks it's an accident when one of the housed kills one of us out of fear or hate or what you like.
Americans are easily turned into a killing force but nobody can stop them or reason with them.
Housing one another is unthinkable for such sadistic, hateful and murderous people as these people with jobs and apartments really are.
SusanInFlorida · 31-35, F
i'm betting that - dumb as Emma is - her sentiments are NOT shared by the mayor, the city council, and district attorney.

that said, this guy has been arrested 43 times. who keeps letting him out?
Zonuss · 41-45, M
Lots of mentally illed people where I am. Lots of homeless. Lots of people on drugs. But they are not really a threat. They are just crying out for help and it's time we started hearing them..Not pass judgment. Thank you .
Budwick · 70-79, M
Zonuss · 41-45, M
@Budwick It must be hard looking in the mirror at yourself. 😂
Budwick · 70-79, M
@Zonuss I am surprisingly good looking!


 
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