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Total Members Voted: 11

Voting closed: February 15, 2022, 10:51:36 AM

[Yankguy1]

Make sure everybody on the CTA has weapons cocked and ready to fire, right Bambu? 

[bambu.]

Make sure everybody on the CTA has weapons cocked and ready to fire, right Bambu?

I was thinking more like armed guards with dogs, everywhere.
Proper armed guards, military-like, big American men, with big America muscles, big dogs, ...with the power to order trains stopped mid-journey.
Guards on every train, bus, ferry.

Also "Women-only" carriages.

Serious security.
See who wins the CTA war.

[Espnthree]

Make sure everybody on the CTA has weapons cocked and ready to fire, right Bambu?

Certainly an approach that gives a poor Chicago woman a chance at survival.
Far more than what the Chicago Justice System provides.

[Yankguy1]

Okay.  I'll pass that along to my daughter.

[Espnthree]

Okay.  I'll pass that along to my daughter.

Maybe there is hope for you.
I am more concerned about your daughter.

[facilitatorn]

Can we just control the guns already and get Red moved on to his next bassackward crusade?

[Espnthree]

Outspoken ESPN commentator Stephen Smith says it is time to ask the black community why it is not angry enough to protest and riot over the unending shootings and black on black violence.
If one black person was killed by the police we would raise holy hell, and in some cases, riot in the streets.

But this is not about the police, is it?
It is about blacks killing blacks.
So why the silence?
When will black Americans recognize black Americans are killing each other on American streets without blaming the police.

And damn it, I am not here to sit up and blame anybody for that because I am tired of the nonsense that we have seen going on in the streets aimed at black Americans. That is  not where I am going.

What I am saying is, where is the due diligence when it comes to putting a spotlight on what we are  doing to each other?
Because this shit is pissing me off.
Fifty three lives. Fiftythree! In one weekend!( Chicago)

Where is the noise ? Where are the protests?
Where is the mainstream media talking about that?
Where is it?
 That is what I want to know.

[facilitatorn]

Can we just control the guns already and get Red moved on to his next bassackward crusade?

[Hairy Lime]

has not done enough for native born Black residents?

What evidence do you have that helping one group subtracts from the other?

Get beyond the fear response and show us why migrant housing would not open up housing options for native born residents.

On Elba you can change what you call yourself but you can not change who you are.

Works the same way for men and women.

RedDickJimmEspn calling someone out for using a different screen name will never not be fucking hilarious.

[Oilcandide]

It sure helps keep my wom-battery charged!

[Oilcandide]

And damn it, I am not here to sit up and blame anybody for that because I am tired of the nonsense that we have seen going on in the streets aimed at black Americans. That is  not where I am going.

"Nonsense" seems such an anodyne word choice for the execution of unarmed black citizens by officers of the law.

And that reason that such killings draw protest demonstrations, while gang battles don't, should be obvious.  Gang members acting out their grudges against rivals are not government employees paid by us to protect and serve.  Such street killings have been part of American life, sad to say, since the days of the Five Points wars in the 1800s, and as news fall into the "dog bites man" category. 

[Oilcandide]

Can we just control the guns already and get Red moved on to his next bassackward crusade?

But what about my Constitutional right to tear a mule deer to pieces with an AR-15 fitted with a 100 round magazine?  Or a Girl Scout, if she trespasses on my front porch with diabetes bombs?

[LarryB!]

June 4, 2023

This is a simple question really, a straightforward question from a father who once loved Chicago, to another father who is mayor of Chicago, yet who defends the violent lest they be demonized by those troublesome lawabiding taxpayers:

Mayor Johnson, would you let your daughter ride unaccompanied on the CTA?



https://johnkassnews.com/would-brandon-johnson-let-his-daughter-ride-the-cta/

Johnson has been mayor for a couple of months.
Here is what he said in his inauguration speech.

Too many Chicagoans fear for their safety when they walk down the streets, to get groceries or drive to the gas station, because our citys homicide and violent crime rates have consistently outpace our peer cities, said Johnson. Our public transit is unreliable and unsafe. So much so, that many parents refuse to let their children ride even when the CTA could be the pathway to opportunity and enrichment.

I guess that answers that question.

[LarryB!]

And damn it, I am not here to sit up and blame anybody for that because I am tired of the nonsense that we have seen going on in the streets aimed at black Americans. That is  not where I am going.

"Nonsense" seems such an anodyne word choice for the execution of unarmed black citizens by officers of the law.

And that reason that such killings draw protest demonstrations, while gang battles don't, should be obvious.  Gang members acting out their grudges against rivals are not government employees paid by us to protect and serve.  Such street killings have been part of American life, sad to say, since the days of the Five Points wars in the 1800s, and as news fall into the "dog bites man" category.

[Espnthree]

Gang members acting out their grudges against rivals are not government employees paid by us to protect and serve.

What does that bit of word salad have to do with the violence in Chicago?  Gang Violence in Chicago has gone down in the last decade.
Do you know what is also going down in Chicago since 1950?
Its population.
Why is that happening?
The Mayor knows.

Too many Chicagoans fear for their safety when they walk down the streets, to get groceries or drive to the gas station, because our citys homicide and violent crime rates have consistently outpace our peer cities.
Our public transit is unreliable and unsafe.
So much so, that many parents refuse to let their children ride even when the CTA could be the pathway to opportunity and enrichment.