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Seriously, have you loving morons ever visited any other city where literally half the infrastructure isn't crumbling/burning/collapsing on a daily basis? Congrats though that downtown Detroit is full of activity. Its almost as if everyone has moved into the city center to escape the barren post-apocalyptic wasteland that is the majority of suburbs. I can literally drag the google streetview icon/man to any block and find multiple burned out buildings.
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Our man live on google street view says he can see multiple burnt buildings, what do you say to that governor?
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its funny when i use detroit as a reference for a post apocalyptic city and someone is always like "woah, hey now" and comes to the defense of detroit because i live in a city full of stupid white yuppies. i kindly ask them how comfortable would they be living at least 5 miles from the nearest functioning police station or substation while they're still technically in city limits.
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Jul 7, 2014 07:26
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burn detroit to the ground. raze it and start anew. i remember there being an A/T probably ~8-10 years ago from an ambulance driver in Detroit and they'd say how dangerous it was since people would even shoot at the loving ambulance. it's probably worse now does anyone actually unironically defend detroit?
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Jul 7, 2014 07:29
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more like failed lovely
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Jul 7, 2014 07:30
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I'm going to move to detroit and make it big by committing arson for money
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Jul 7, 2014 07:31
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Corey Plumper posted:I'm going to move to detroit and make it big by committing arson for money i don't think jewish lightning works in a place where destroying what's there is considered a public service
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Jul 7, 2014 07:37
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The Brown Menace posted:jewish lightning Hoyl gently caress
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Jul 7, 2014 07:38
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what music nerds think detroit is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSXI7gnOpo0 the reality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xzJi4ZnzHQ
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Tsinava posted:its funny when i use detroit as a reference for a post apocalyptic city and someone is always like "woah, hey now" and comes to the defense of detroit because i live in a city full of stupid white yuppies. i kindly ask them how comfortable would they be living at least 5 miles from the nearest functioning police station or substation while they're still technically in city limits.
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Jul 7, 2014 07:59
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its not so bad
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Jul 7, 2014 08:02
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montreal is pretty poo poo
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Jul 7, 2014 08:19
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detroit isn't mogadishu 2: black hawk downer like most people seem to believe, and its really just the natural end result of the american attitude to the city; suburbs killing the city and replacing nothing of what urban life brings. hopefully oil depletion and global warming burn that out of us
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Jul 7, 2014 14:28
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nuke detroit
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Jul 7, 2014 14:49
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that's what you get when your entire city is employed by a single industry
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Jul 7, 2014 14:49
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Chinatown posted:Seriously, have you loving morons ever visited any other city where literally half the infrastructure isn't crumbling/burning/collapsing on a daily basis? If you live in Michigan the chances are pretty good that you haven't. Tsinava posted:its funny when i use detroit as a reference for a post apocalyptic city and someone is always like "woah, hey now" and comes to the defense of detroit because i live in a city full of stupid white yuppies. i kindly ask them how comfortable would they be living at least 5 miles from the nearest functioning police station or substation while they're still technically in city limits. Why rebuild it? The reason it's collapsing is that there isn't a reason to have a city there. The industry that grew the city is gone and it's not going to come back.
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Jul 7, 2014 14:54
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I drove there a couple of months ago. There is a giant abandoned building full of graffiti welcoming you into the city. The place is hilariously bad.
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Jul 7, 2014 14:54
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no we totally did not know this thanks for revealing this information
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Jul 7, 2014 14:56
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We should use Detroit as an experimental city to test social welfare reforms we're too conservative to attempt nationwide. Socialize medicine, socialize education, legalize drugs--turn Detroit into the center of real-world progressive politic, then chart the numbers for a decade.
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BottledBodhisvata posted:We should use Detroit as an experimental city to test social welfare reforms we're too conservative to attempt nationwide. Socialize medicine, socialize education, legalize drugs--turn Detroit into the center of real-world progressive politic, then chart the numbers for a decade. actually do the exact opposite and blame socialism when it fails
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Jul 7, 2014 15:05
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Nonsense posted:actually do the exact opposite and blame socialism when it fails but that doesn't make sense...!!!
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America is like that hunger games place and everywhere is district 12.
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BottledBodhisvata posted:We should use Detroit as an experimental city to test social welfare reforms we're too conservative to attempt nationwide. Socialize medicine, socialize education, legalize drugs--turn Detroit into the center of real-world progressive politic, then chart the numbers for a decade. They already tried that in the wire and it failed so it's not going to work. QED
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Bedshaped posted:They already tried that in the wire and it failed so it's not going to work. But it worked in the Wire?
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Visit Pakistan some time. A failed city? Try a failed country.
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Jul 7, 2014 15:15
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the universe is desperately attempting to make Robocop into a documentary
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 All good n well for this hepcat & his makeshift dwelling until a raider or ghoul comes along
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why would you hang a bicycle on a tree
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Chinatown posted:Seriously, have you loving morons ever visited any other city where literally half the infrastructure isn't crumbling/burning/collapsing on a daily basis? the only other major city that suffered similar population loss is st louis. detroit's unique position comes from being so spread out with existing infrastructure that costs tons of money. other cities are bigger, like indy and jacksonville, but they have large areas that are undeveloped and don't cost money to maintain. detroit was built to accommodate nearly 2 million people in mostly single family homes, and now less then 700k people live in the city. once the auto industry shrunk, it took the capability of the city to maintain itself with it.
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I did what the op suggested and randomly went into streetview in detroit looks nice, got a park and schoolkids wearing their uniforms + clean buildings and you can tell its economically viable because of the ups van the evidence clearly shows that detroit is lovely
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cock hero flux posted:the universe is desperately attempting to make Robocop into a documentary at some point people are going to make it a reality thinking the movie had some good ideas
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Crewmine posted:I did what the op suggested and randomly went into streetview in detroit thats the Wayne State University campus
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Detroit makes Kabul look nice. People are more friendly in Kabul and speak better English too.The Brown Menace posted:jewish lightning I'm gonna find a way to use this in conversation if it kills me.
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WoodrowSkillson posted:thats the Wayne State University campus alright i'll try somewhere else
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Bedshaped posted:They already tried that in the wire and it failed so it's not going to work. Hampsterdam could have saved that city. But it was doomed before it ever started.
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Crewmine posted:alright i'll try somewhere else Its gotten significantly worse in the last 5 years. The city is hitting the breaking point. http://www.digitaltrends.com/photography/google-street-view-shows-decay-of-detroit/#/10
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Chinatown posted:escape the barren post-apocalyptic wasteland that is the majority of suburbs. This is my fav. part of your post because it's funny.
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BottledBodhisvata posted:Hampsterdam could have saved that city. But it was doomed before it ever started.
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