[-] Jerkules_Jerkules@lemmy.world 40 points 8 months ago

I read something about the Carnegie libraries in Pittsburgh basically doing this way back when. Apparently it was popular for people to get off work, go home, clean up, eat, then head out to the library. There was stuff there for kids like story tellers, tutors, art workshops, and more. For adults, quiet places for people who just wanted to read, places for study, areas for people to discuss various subjects, classes on various skills (painting, pottery, carpentry, etc) and the ground floor main area had a general social space. They served coffee, food trucks set up outside, and some inside. It was a popular place for people who didn't want to go to the bar.

[-] Jerkules_Jerkules@lemmy.world 27 points 8 months ago

Listen, all I am saying is that if all the billionaires disappeared over night, if you avoided mass communication media you would probably not know. If you took that same amount of collective wealth from the bottom up human society would collapse.

[-] Jerkules_Jerkules@lemmy.world 49 points 8 months ago

That or the far right has gotten to a point where they will openly condemn anyone who isn't racist regardless of their other political stances.

[-] Jerkules_Jerkules@lemmy.world 32 points 8 months ago

While I like Arny a lot more than anyone else I have seen looking for the position please, no more celebrity politicians.

[-] Jerkules_Jerkules@lemmy.world 29 points 8 months ago

I can remember when crime actually was out of control in the US. In the 80s and 90s violent crime was far, far, worse than today. It was during a time where republicans had been at the head of federal government for most of 20 years, and the majority of roughly 40. to top it off, while the exact reason the decline happened is still debated on some points, most agree a series of progressive legislation passed in the 70s are amongst the primary factors that drove the decline in criminal activity.

Seriously, look for pictures of poor areas of major cities all over the US during that time, and the same for now. It is a night and day difference. We used to have large areas of major cities that looked like they had been bombed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtI-En92Xso

[-] Jerkules_Jerkules@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago

Where did this happen, if you don't mind saying. Just would like to read up on the incident.

[-] Jerkules_Jerkules@lemmy.world 51 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yeah, my experience with youtube ads

Buy a Chromebook

PragerU

Right wing Youtubers

Don't vote to make abortion a protected right by the state constitution

Buy a ford

Here's a pornographic/semi pornographic anime game we are paid to show you

BUY A CHROME BOOK!

Hey, check out this person's scam! They paid us to force this scam on you!

Look at these cable news channels' youtube channels

Listen to this mom who is totally concerned about some bill that will kill or save all the children

BUY

A

CHROMEBOOK!

buy a jeep

Listen to this prepper try to hock you "survival" gear and shelf stable food

Don't you remember when families did things? wasn't that fun? Families, doing things?

Soon it will also be flooded with THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE WILL EAT YOUR CHILDREN!

I am interested in none of these things

[-] Jerkules_Jerkules@lemmy.world 45 points 9 months ago

central city porn distributors? Honey, we have the internet. Also the government controlled, tax paid, abortion clinic has a sales sign, so it's still charging even though taxes are paying for it? I mean, I could totally see the US doing this but, leftists would just have the national healthcare system pay for it with the taxes and leave it at that.

[-] Jerkules_Jerkules@lemmy.world 92 points 9 months ago

So their two best candidates are a, multiple court case proven conman, and the man who protected a high profile pedophile for years? The US is doing really well at the moment.

[-] Jerkules_Jerkules@lemmy.world 29 points 9 months ago

They sure do. Like the time I saw this Newsmax host, on his knees, in an alley just of Kensington, getting bukkaked by Trump and David Koch while at least 4 under aged boys were pissing on him.

[-] Jerkules_Jerkules@lemmy.world 129 points 9 months ago

When I worked for Allegheny County I attended a bunch of meetings that included Fetterman. He seemed like a genuine dude. Spent a lot of his time as mayor of Braddock living in the rear of the town offices, he got nasty with established politicians in the town to get a number of his reforms passed and was a constant hound on the county execs until they granted funding to several of his projects.

Braddock, for those not from the Pittsburgh area, has been a really rough place for decades. It has been on the list of most dangerous places in the US repeatedly. His mayoral policies have been tied to a general decrease in violent crime, as well as several major improvements in the QOL stats in Braddock. The dude got to know the local gang youth and personally worked with a bunch of them to help them leave the life style. When one would get killed he would get their name tattooed on himself.

I would have preferred having his corpse in state office than that celebrity snake oil salesman.

[-] Jerkules_Jerkules@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago

our police/courts/corrections is an industry, unfortunately. Who knew that placing ever more profit motives on arresting, processing, and jailing people would end up leading to bad outcomes.

But, hey, it's just the unwashed the masses, so who cares, I guess.

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