Remember when judges said we couldn’t keep giving “free money” to all these corporations over and over? Yeah me neither. Why is it that we always have to fight helping our own people but will walk through broken glass, nails, lava, etc., to help billion dollar companies and other countries?

Wow, what heartless assholes these fascist pigs are.

Yep. Cops don’t protect and serve the people. They protect and serve capital, i.e. corporations, the rich, oligarchs, etc.

I could’ve said that was the reason before even reading this lol. It’s obvious to anyone who lives here. Unless you want to join the military or get lucky with the shipyard or something like Ferguson, there’s not much here. But hey if you want to work 10-20 hours/week for minimum wage with a random schedule, boy do we have something for you! Sure, you’ll need to work 4-8 of these jobs to afford a 1 bedroom apartment on your own, but hey, you don’t need time to do anything else like eat or sleep right?

They’ve been gentrifying the hell out of the region for years and years, letting rent skyrocket and wages stagnate at best and then act surprised when this is the outcome. No one can afford to live here, it’s a joke.

I’ve heard people say that they know it’s unconstitutional and their goal is to get someone to sue over it and take it to SCOTUS so SCOTUS can rule in their favor and give them free reign to violate the 1st amendment all they want.

Probably because they know Trump is full of shit.

Gentrification: the process whereby the character of a poor urban area is changed by wealthier people moving in, improving housing, and attracting new businesses, typically displacing current inhabitants in the process.

It literally is gentrification. And yes they are NIMBYs too. It’s both. It’s the same coin.

Pretty much. Gentrification in action. They’re pricing out workers who work these jobs and then the rich people who move in pitch a fit about how there’s long waits and “no service” and how “no one wants to work anymore.” You all did this to yourselves. You chased away the workers. If you have a problem with the environment you created, perhaps you should stop doing that or go work these “great” jobs yourselves?

Good. Let’s issue warrants for all current and former presidents too as they’re all war criminals.

I hope they fine all of them trillions and jail the top level people. They shouldn’t be allowed to get away with this BS. There’s been rampant price gouging, fixing, and collusion going on in this country for a long time now across industries and it sure would be nice if someone would do something to stop it.

Yeah that is some odd phrasing on their part.

Seriously. I lived in NOVA briefly many years ago and it took me legit over an hour to go 5 miles on the interstate. Tolls do nothing to alleviate congestion and only punish people by making them pay more money for no reason other than to make the toll collectors profit.

That’s correct. Hampton Roads is a major military area, particularly for the Navy and because of that when the water crossings were built, they wanted to use tunnels specifically because they didn’t want the harbor to be blocked during a war. The original version of the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel (HRBT), opened in the 1950s, so World War 2 was likely still pretty fresh in people’s minds.

Don’t you just love rent/housing? Oh, sorry you don’t make enough money to qualify for a mortgage. But hey you can pay $1,500/month+ to pay your landlord’s mortgage!

It’s almost like we have no money and don’t have a choice because having ridiculous luxury items like FOOD, requires you know, money.

Hmm, interesting. Maybe I should try that sometime.

On lemmy.world you click the little clipboard looking thing underneath your community’s name on the right side of the screen.

Where exactly did I say to vote for Trump?

My saying doing the same thing over and over and over was perhaps too vague. I meant we shouldn’t keep voting for Republicans AND Democrats and expecting them to fix things because neither have any interest in doing so. They only care about making themselves rich and their donors rich.

Venus? Neptune? Alpha Centauri?

If this doesn’t help convince people that Democrats are Blue Republicans, I don’t know what will. She’s literally part of the other party.

Keep on licking boots. That’ll fix things. You’ve been doing the same song and dance for 40+ years and what’s happened? The rich keep getting richer and everyone else keeps getting worse off. You’re not going to get the results you claim to want by doing the same thing over and over and over and over.