EmanuelaOrlandi posted:ya. the rural cities, dude.
Welcome to rural Atlanta, The Big Easy, Birthplace of Rock & Roll
TG posted:is this thread just here so someone can point out the energy inefficiency and ecological damage that surburban living entails just so iwc can go "aha, global climate change is a fraud, check out this article about growing as opposed to shrinking islands, suburban living is alright, keep driving 80 miles a day and burning fossil fuels at ridiculous rates"?
Ironicwarcriminal posted:I didn't say "please outline the economic injustice behind suburbia", i said why should people reject it if they can afford it?
for example affording alcohol and drugs is an excess luxury that could be spent helping others but you still indulge in it, it's the same with suburbanites
no its so we can talk about how if you're a sociopath there's no reason to do anything. as mr. reznor put it: god is dead and no one cares if there is a hell i'll see you there. hey pigg
TG posted:is this thread just here so someone can point out the energy inefficiency and ecological damage that surburban living entails just so iwc can go "aha, global climate change is a fraud, check out this article about growing as opposed to shrinking islands, suburban living is alright, keep driving 80 miles a day and burning fossil fuels at ridiculous rates"?
No it's to critique the busybody mentality that chides people for wanting to do their own thing.
Urbanists and other anti-suburban demagogues are like a prissy, insecure version of the organizers of a high school pep rally
thirdplace posted:fuck you dad
Exactly
animedad posted:yuppies can do what they want with their money, who cares. this shit doesnt fight capital
thirdplace posted:cities aren't dangerous at all, i bet dollars to donutz that if you worked out the statistics the increased risk from all the extra driving living in suburbs requires dramatically outweigh whatever the increased crime rate is in city, and that's not even considering that only a small fraction of violent crime is committed against strangers
*beep boop must process crime statistics to determine rational course of action*
Why live your life in fear if you can avoid it by moving somewhere that feels safer?
can you see the milky way in the suburbs?
thirdplace posted:cities aren't dangerous at all, i bet dollars to donutz that if you worked out the statistics the increased risk from all the extra driving living in suburbs requires dramatically outweigh whatever the increased crime rate is in city, and that's not even considering that only a small fraction of violent crime is committed against strangers
ok let me listen to a man explain to me through empiricism how things are safe because of x metric over y axis instead of girls I know who don't feel safe riding the bus after dark
thirdplace posted:yea let's just trust our gut instincts on the issue there are certainly no social phenomena that may have "colored" them in an particular way
yeah those crazy bitches need to get over their "irrational" fears huh. Just because they were once raped doesn't mean everyone is going to rape them! Heh, epic vapidity
littlegreenpills posted:iwc has successfully managed to call into question the value of knowing or examining anything at all
iwc: the derrida of the 21st century? he's a gay jew born on colonial land so Probably
littlegreenpills posted:of course, I realize now that this opens me in turn to the "beep-boop-borp-statisticsbot" accusations as well. people have real fears. their fears are real. the hubris of the method that gave us thalidomide and radium watchdials cannot be allowed to pass a binding verdict over measles vaccines or black men on the bus
any statistical "evidence" of such fears being founded would just be handwaved away as either the product of being victimised by capitalism or just rejected entirely, so why even take that approach. to suggest that a woman in the kind of dangerous environment often found in cities isn't entitled to feel at the very least a bit of apprehension is almost stunningly out of touch with reality
littlegreenpills posted:who gives a fuck about derrida. i read a book by francis wheen (man he's funny! Big up the Guardian) where he totally skewered derrida in the third chapter for being a cock. no thanks. now lets make jokes about the french. euuughhh. camembert snails
how mumbo-jumbo conquered the world? lol that things great, i love the bit where he takes a bit of deleuze out of context and mocks it for using a specialised vocabulary, as if he could do the same to a work of conceptual physics and understand it perfectly. proof that 'british philosophy' is an oxymoron
Groulxsmith posted:littlegreenpills posted:
of course, I realize now that this opens me in turn to the "beep-boop-borp-statisticsbot" accusations as well. people have real fears. their fears are real. the hubris of the method that gave us thalidomide and radium watchdials cannot be allowed to pass a binding verdict over measles vaccines or black men on the bus
any statistical "evidence" of such fears being founded would just be handwaved away as either the product of being victimised by capitalism or just rejected entirely, so why even take that approach. to suggest that a woman in the kind of dangerous environment often found in cities isn't entitled to feel at the very least a bit of apprehension is almost stunningly out of touch with reality
It's like some people get visibly angry and outraged about how others want to interact with the community or others. Truly bizzare
The crimes of history are a record of crowds, mobs, armies...."participation" and "masses" in general. The 20th century gives us about 100 million reasons why people wouldn't want to live around that.
Impper posted:crowds of ppl r scary
i don't understand the appeal of crowds
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