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@WW2Facts Without shelter, without food, without medical help for a long time. The POWs did drink rain-water and eat grass and mouses etc.
One of the greatest war - crimes.
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Yer Outta There!
Independent journalist @choeshow Choe leveraged videos, commentary, and public pressure to get Nordstrom to fire far-left activist Alex Randall. I asked Choe how he felt about his role in the firing, and he gave me this quote:
"This is self-inflicted. Randall's violent actions and rhetoric were too much of a liability for Nordstrom. He would still have a job if he learned how to communicate through civil discourse. I just connected the dots and reported what he was doing to himself.
I hope he learned his lesson and can be rehabilitated back into society, but right now he's still behaving like a feral animal and shows no remorse whatsoever. He's now playing the victim card and blaming everyone but himself."
Jonathan Choe@choeshow
NEW: Far-left activist Alex Randall confirms he got hosed by Nordstrom(@Nordstrom) for his violent actions and rhetoric. We broke the story Wednesday. But in his latest @YouTube post, he claims to be the victim of right-wing extremism and capitalism. 🧵👇
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Idea or organization? Well, punk... What's it gonna be?
Brian Krassenstein's comment points up the major self-contradiction of Antifa.
On the one hand, he claims Antifa's just an idea. On the other, he says Trump doesn't have the authority to outlaw it.
But wait. If it's not an organization, you don't have anything to worry about when Trump cracks down on it...
Do ya, punk?
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@jerkinyourchain @camhigby @KatieDaviscourt @BrandiKruse @honeybadgermom @YouTube In this @YouTube post, Randall encourages people to steal and commit crimes. Hey Nordstrom(@Nordstrom,) this is your employee.
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The Stranger just can't help itself...
As usual, they're bemoaning the fact that our "unhoused neighbors" are being swept again, this time at Seven Hills Park in Capitol Hill. Jonathan Choe has been reporting on this spot since at least the spring of 2022. Search "Seven Hills Park" on Choe's X account, and you'll find a bunch of posts and videos. The Stranger naturally couldn't pass up the opportunity to bash Choe, as well as We Heart Seattle’s Andrea Suarez.
First, let's get something straight about this ridiculous "unhoused neighbors" term the cultural Marxists have invented. They are NOT our neighbors, not any more than people who rent the Airbnb by me for the weekend are my neighbors. By definition, vagrants are not neighbors. Neighbors are people I can have a beer with or feed our pets and watch our house while we're out of town. Would these leftist gaslighters let homeless junkies housesit for them? I doubt it.
And "unhoused?" Like living on the streets for years just somehow 'happened' to them through no fault of their own? And that they don't have a roof over their heads because the taxpayers have neglected them and denied them the free home they're entitled to get high in all day? Spare me.
Anyway, Seven Hills Park has been an on again, off again revolving shitshow of homeless tweakers pitching their tents and harassing the neighbors. All the usual bullshit, like open drug use, violence, trespassing, theft, etc. But to hear The Stranger tell it, they're all welcome and totally "chill" and cause no problems at all.
I guarantee that's not the case. Neighbors most certainly do not want these addicts and criminals camping in the park right outside their homes. Most of them just don't want to say so publicly for obvious reasons.
But The Stranger found some neighbor to interview who sounds like one of those mutual aid dorks who never met a vagrant they didn't want to enable and prop up as a victim of late stage capitalism. And check out what her partner has to say about adjoining property owners who are quite as welcoming of the vagrants:
“Owning property is a type of psychosis,” McCarty’s partner says. “It makes you believe the property is part of your body. So it feels like a violation is a direct harm.”
So you're basically crazy if you commit the sin of owning property. Like it's unnatural or something. He and his girlfriend are people who will likely never own property. Unlike the so-called NIMBY property owners they love to disparage, they will never have skin in the game. They're not tied to the biggest investment most people will ever make in their lives. So they are less likely to care if a dozen homeless tweakers decide to make a drug encampment by them.
Lastly, why would installing lights in the park be considered "hostile" by anyone, unless you're engaging in activities you don't want others to see?
Read the full story here:
tinyurl.com/yak96pk2
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@Brooke_Pinkk Right before the "accident," she's texting with both hands for about six seconds. I guess she was trying to hold the steering wheel with her legs.
Also, is she driving to work in a rental car? (I wonder why...)
Also... is she pregnant?
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What's wild is people who drive like this are all over the place 😵💫
Catarina Senora Gatita@WyattCatarina
When you're a nurse practitioner and think u don't have to follow safety rules of the road. 😬😬😬
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You just ignored my arguments and repeated yours.
You are making excuses for vagrancy, which is not the same thing as homelessness. Vagrants are people who CAN work or CAN get indoors but choose to live outside and take drugs and refuse treatment instead. Unlike legitimately homeless people, vagrants steal to support themselves and they've been getting away with that because folks like you defend them.
Shoplifting by vagrants will end when there are no more stores for them to shoplift from OR all the stuff they were shoplifting is locked up. Hopefully that time will come soon.
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OK, so enforcement might help stop people walking out with bags full of stuff. But my question was whether you can stop people from shoplifting their own toiletries and small food items, even with more "enforcement". Probably not. Which means it will happen as long as there is homelessness.
It's not about whether it's an "excuse", it's about cause and effect. A lot of arguments -- about everything from shoplifting to October 7th -- seem to be caused by one person pointing out cause and effect (October 7th probably wouldn't have happened without Israel's policies toward Gaza) and "justification" (nothing justifies what perpetrators did on October 7th).
But anyway, you didn't answer my first question - why didn't the law-and-order mayor and city attorney do something about it in the four years they had the chance?
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"Crime is down so stop freakin''" –Criminals
Anti-cop / pro-criminal activists like Divest SPD are whining that one of Kroger's stated reasons for closing four local grocery stores – namely, theft – is bogus. Not that Kroger has to justify itself to these parasites anyway, but the activists' attitude shows how poor their grasp of the retail business is. When Kroger says theft is a problem for them, they're not talking about the last year, they're talking about the trend for the last SIX years, or beyond, which shows that theft – and tolerance of theft – is unacceptably high in this area overall.
Moreover, Kroger isn't just looking at dollar losses but also at trends in police staffing and police response times. They're looking at conviction rates and sentencing for shoplifting. And finally, they're looking at trends in local politics, where the Seattle city council has recently lurched back to the left and a modestly law-and-order city attorney and mayor are about to get replaced by socialists.
All those things, taken together, look bad to retailers, and any socialist who doesn't understand that is just being ... well... a socialist.
Think of this "crime is down" nonsense like a serial cheater begging his wife not to dump him. "I only cheated on you a couple times in the last year," he whimpers. "Look! Here's a study showing that my cheating is down 37% over the year before. Why can't you give me credit for improvement?"
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@BearJewSeattle @bennetthaselton I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or naive. Do you really need to have "law-and-order candidate" explained to you, BJ?
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@bennetthaselton @RealSafeSeattle There is no such thing as a 'law and order' mayor, council, etc. All elected into office swear an oath to uphold public safety. What are you suggesting? Public officials oppose the idea that we have laws and our system shouldn't care if someone breaks them?
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>>Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't know how you can reliably catch someone just discreetly slipping something in their pockets in a grocery store if it's not locked up.
–Yes you are missing something, Bennett. A lot of things, in fact.
People aren't just discretely slipping things into their pockets. They're walking out with bags of unpaid for stuff.
>>So when you have enough homeless people who need food and toiletries, it will just happen.
–Being "homeless" isn't an excuse to steal, Bennett. Especially when there are foodbanks and providers who can set people up with toiletries. But it's not just toiletries that are going missing. It's booze, diapers, clothes, etc. And it's definitely not all "homeless" people who are doing all the stealing. Have you ever heard of something called "organized retail theft"? If not, ask your local prosecutor.
Your excuse making won't make a bit of difference to these store owners. The stores will leave, and when they're gone, only online shoppers and people who can drive out of town will be getting groceries. And you helped make that happen.
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Well, did the law-and-order mayor & city attorney & city council stop it when they had the chance?
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't know how you can reliably catch someone just discreetly slipping something in their pockets in a grocery store if it's not locked up. So when you have enough homeless people who need food and toiletries, it will just happen. The only way to stop it is to have fewer homeless people who need food and toiletries.
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When the severely addicted and the untreated mentally ill use our city parks as their personal property, disregarding and breaking the laws and and taking away the rights of all the other Seattle citizens, the city has a duty to step in and end it. Put a Savage on the council!
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"A challenging regulatory environment"
Last week the Kroger corporation announced that it was closing three area Fred Meyer grocery stores, including the one in Redmond. King County tax records show that the taxable value of this property has increased over 40% (from $17 million to $24 million) between 2020 and 2024.
The property is owned by the City of Redmond, so Kroger wouldn't have been paying property tax directly on it. Instead, they'd be paying something called Leasehold Excise Tax. This tax is probably one of things Kroger included under the category of "a challenging regulatory environment" in its stated reasons for closing the store. The other main reason being "retail theft."
This information about tax on the Redmond Fred Meyer property was brought to us by reader Janice R., who agreed to answer some questions about how the store closing will affect her.
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SAFE SEATTLE: Do you go to the Redmond Fred Meyer?
JANICE: We do. For grocery shopping. Plus, I have physical therapy at Premier Physical Therapy 3 times a week.
SAFE: Tell me what losing this story will mean to you.
JANICE: It is a big loss. Fred Meyer in Redmond has a large parking lot with disabled spots. Not every grocery store has that, and for me, having multiple sclerosis at 69, the disabled parking spots are important. As far as shopping goes, right now I can purchase birthday cards, wrapping paper, gifts, household items, socks and plants along with groceries at one store. When the Fred Meyer closes, I'll have to go to 2-3 different stores for items we used to buy all in one place.
SAFE: How much extra time will that take you each time you go shopping?
JANICE: I would say it will take a couple extra hours to get to different stores in the area. That's in addition to the time it will take figuring out the location of all the products.
We have 10 grandchildren, so we often buy toys, clothes, toothpaste, along with salad makings and coffee and milk.
It is a large loss to community. Some people don’t have another pharmacy close by that their insurance uses.
SAFE: What would you say to FM management? Do you expect them to take a loss and keep the store there?
JANICE: No. The State of Washington has sued them twice recently.
King County has raised taxes very high, raised the minimum wage, and added new labor laws they have to adhere to.
The fact that King County doesn’t charge shoplifters, vandals and other criminal behavior means the costs for that fall on businesses.
I can’t fault Fred Meyer for this choice. I may be using Amazon more, too, which isn’t how I like to shop.
But to answer your question, no, they don’t owe it to the community or city to take a loss.
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Steves Offers New 'Unplanned' Travel Program
AP ~ Seattle travel guru Rick Steves has announced a new travel package pegged to celebrity deportee Kilmar Abrego Garcia's itinerary.
Called 'Kilmar & Me,' the package includes airfare, legal fees, and guided tours at the next five destinations Abrego Garcia visits, both in the U.S. and overseas. Base price is $20K with add-ons including one-on-one visits with the prisoner and overnight stays at various detention facilities.
Departure times and length of stay at each stop are subject to change without notice, Steves says, so guests should book now and have their bags packed and ready to go.
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@BrianManzo20 That's unlikely, since her office is independent from Harrell's. Harrell might be a short-timer, too. And for the same reasons.
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@RealSafeSeattle I tell myself she's suing Trump under orders from Bruce Harrell.
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Ann Davison's chances of holding on to the City Attorney's office are looking worse all the time.
If you're going to lose anyway, you might as well go out fighting. Not simping.
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@Kittiegramfrfr One's an orang and one's a chimp. It's probably a regular chimp and not a bonobo because there are far fewer bonobos.
That 1% makes a lot of difference, doesn't it?
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@RealSafeSeattle I don’t know what species of chimps those are but, the Bonobo chimps share 99% of our dna.
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Pigs and Monkeys
In 1906, the newly opened Bronx Zoo exhibited an Mbuti pygmy named Ota Benga in the primate house along with chimpanzees and orangutans. The zoo sold thousands of picture postcards like the one on the left suggesting a close likeness between the species. These images appealed to white America's racism and ignorance of evolutionary biology.
One hundred and nineteen years later, the Slip Art Gallery in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood is exhibiting a similar image. This time it's pig a police uniform.
Both images are rooted in well-known slurs. One is racial in character, the other political, but both are designed to evoke feelings of disgust and hatred and by equating a certain class of people with animals. Defenders of anti-cop hatred have said that equating cops with pigs is different than equating black people with apes, because no one chooses to be black, whereas people do choose to be cops and that makes them fair game.
Well, huh. Do you think that distinction would matter to a cop who's just risked his life to defuse a domestic violence situation or talked someone out of jumping off a bridge when he walks by this painting? Would it matter to the cop's young son who sees the image on his way to school one morning?
("They're calling my daddy a pig.")
Let's not kid ourselves. Hate is hate, whether it's dressed up as art in a gallery or as a scientific exhibit at the city zoo.
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Nancy Drew and the Case of the $8 Pizza
~ A Socialist Mystery Adventure™ ~
Something weird is going on in Harrellsville. The price of restaurant food has shot up, and none of the grown-ups know why. The pizza man suspects it's taxes, labor regulations, and the minimum wage, but Nancy knows it can't be that simple. Taxes and regulations are good things, after all. What could they have to do with the cost of stuff?
See how Nancy tracks down the REAL culprit as she strolls down the sidewalk chewing on socialist economic theory and a slice of pepperoni.
h/t @thehoffather
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