Pol Stiller

Aah I get it now, I thought, well obviously bigger counties would get more voting power but then you’d risk other areas getting completely outnumbered by the large counties and we’d end up in the “51% is taking the rights of the 49%” the very reason why the electoral college is a thing and all of that. Now I see the need for voting districts

@polstiller @TheIowaDemocrat like four counties in michigan consitute half of michigans population, why would keewenaw county with 3000 people have the same voting power as wayne county with 1.7 million people

The long term of this redistricting war is incredibly bleak. Every state that isn't purple is gonna have rigged maps after 2030, and none of the incumbents are gonna vote themselves out of a job through a national ban. It's a race to the bottom and we're gonna lose the shovel

“Changing demographics”, not consumer habits I worked at a fast casual place for a while, and certain groups would ask for a water cup and get soda instead (I know soda is cheap, but I'm sure it adds up) Never saw a white person stealing soda, not one time

@Polymarket “Changing demographics”, not consumer habits I worked at a fast casual place for a while, and certain groups would ask for a water cup and get soda instead (I know soda is cheap, but I'm sure it adds up) Never saw a white person stealing soda, not one time

JUST IN: McDonald’s to eliminate self-serve soda stations nationwide by 2032, citing “changing consumer habits”

I will not drink coffee for a month, starting today. I realized I was not a coffee drinker for most of my life, and now I have a mild addiction to it, hahaha. If I don't drink coffee in the morning, I get a headache, and I never get those. And on top of that, I'm trying to buy all my food from American producers, and as you know, coffee doesn't grow in this beautiful land. I don't want other countries to have my money; I want my dairy farmer in Minnesota, my rancher in Wisconsin, and my rice farmer in Arkansas to have my money. I love America, and I want Americans to have my money, not some random country over there growing coffee. I wish all countries well, but my coffee money will stay here this month, and then I'll decide if I keep drinking it every day or just once in a while.

@annemulholland2 @Eric_Erins Ohio has great architecture. I love Shaker Heights and Cincinnati

@Eric_Erins Akron as well--actually, Hudson, Ohio, a suburb, where most of the executives of the tire companies lived. Just a beautiful town with lovely homes.

Acres and acres of 1920’s Tudor style houses with paneled libraries, high end tile work and leaded glass casement windows. Houses in Detroit really are something. Americans however don’t really have much curiosity about their own cities or country.

Some of the problems I see in many downtown areas are: 1) It's more expensive than other parts of the metro, like parking is not free downtown but it's free at the mall 2) Lack of safety or the perception of it is a concern for many people so they choose to avoid it 3) Many cities built public housing projects around dowtown or section 8 buildings so the reputation got hit, and the consumer base got weaker because of low incomes 4) The benefits of public transportation are ignored if it's dirty or unsafe. In Minneapolis there is a light rail that almost nobody use, not because is not convenient, but because is dangerous and chaotic, like real dangerous, I saw horrible things the few times I used it I think some downtown areas will be fine, but we'll see many declining to a point of no return

A brief history of the rise and fall and rise and fall and rise and rise and then fall and maybe rise again of the American downtown: Before roughly the middle of the 20th century, downtowns were central to almost all aspects of metropolitan life — services, business, retail, governance, even housing. Anything that relied on scale had to be downtown because that was where the most people had access to in walking, streetcar, and rail-oriented cities. You couldn’t get a critical mass of people to go anywhere else, except factory districts. With the spread of the automobile and subsequent buildout of the first gen urban freeway networks, many of those uses were able to decentralize out of downtowns and into secondary nodes where land was cheaper but access was nearly as good. Shopping malls and strip center banks are two good examples. Only uses that truly relied on scale remained downtown. This could have been a knife in the heart of downtowns but for a parallel phenomenon: the rise of the modern corporation. Companies that increasingly employed hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of desk workers became the most scale-dependent entities in history. Being downtown let them draw on employees from across the outwards-moving metropolitan areas, which had built out freeway networks centered on their downtowns. Most US cities went through multiple rounds of office tower construction in the ‘60s-‘80s. But then as the population kept moving outwards, two more changes again imperiled downtowns. First, freeway networks began to decouple from the old core-centered model and towards suburb-to-suburb connections. Second, workers increasingly sorted themselves across the vast metropolitan landscape. There came to be white collar suburbs and blue collar suburbs, back office and creative class suburbs. The growing scale and auto-orientation of the metropolitan areas — as well as growing inequality in wealth — allowed this to happen more sharply and more universally than ever before. These two changes helped to nurture a change that was slowly gathering steam even in the previous era: the buildout of the suburban office economy. It came to be the case that downtown was no longer the center of gravity for many white collar firms whose employees had all clustered in one affluent section of the metropolitan area. They moved out to corporate office parks along the freeways, helped along by generous tax incentives and pushed by deteriorating social and physical conditions in the downtowns they (and their workers) were fleeing. Once again, downtowns found themselves in trouble. Anchor institutions like government, nonprofits, and law firms remained tied to downtowns, which — for many reasons, including a lack of any clear alternative arising to replace them — remained the spiritual and cultural center of gravity of their regions. To make up for the losses, cities tried to pivot to entertainment and visitors. In the ‘90s and 00s, many lavished money on convention centers, large hotels, sports arenas, and even (in cities like Detroit) massive casinos. They hoped to create a new class of users for their centers. This era had been much criticized, but it was at least partially successful, for it set the stage for the next great era of the downtown. But that’s the end of my bus commute for this morning so the rest of the story will have to wait for another day.

@CarlZha No they don't. Actually, most mexicans can't even afford to buy an old car

Mexicans have more freedom than Americans

@SDSLLC_USA Yes, eventualy it'll be a requirement to drive. If you dont have it, no driver's license, no inurance, no car purchases, nothing for you They can force you to install an AI- facial recognition camera in your old car too, or no driving for you

Will auto insurance companies start cancelling the policies of people who don't have these kill switches in their vehicles? How will they force compliance?

@neipate96 Is not east Asians (Japan, Korea, China) Is west Asia, middle east and south Asia (india, pakistan, bangladesh, afghanistan, iraq, mianmar, laos, indonesia and all of those countries)

NYC has gotten way more Asian recently, which hasn’t been discussed much

At least where I live many groups are to blame, voters, churches, corporations, non profits, media, the welfare system, muslims organizations, catholic charities, the lutheran church, is not one group to blame But the most muslim loving group is clear: white wealthy progressive left virtue signaling obssesed boomers and millennials

@danielgothits Weird how "they" (whoever doing it) are flooding every prosperous nation with muslims

@AgroNationalism Food prices are about to skyrocket, so theft is certainly gonna increase, specifically in “diversity” areas (our stronger areas according to the media)

Bombshell: Walmart removing self checkouts across the country. Other supermarket chains sure to follow. Is this a sign they expect theft to skyrocket in coming years?

@FR0TTAGEC0RE Have you ever been outside of Minneapolis?

@MarioNawfal Last week they made it mandatory to have facial recognition and biometrics, AI, eye tracking and remote turn off for every car… so yeah they track you outside and inside your car

🇺🇸 The Flock/Palantir AI surveillance camera network used by the U.S government is actively growing by 200+ cameras per day. It enables real-time tracking, including vehicle, make, model, and behavioral profiling... wait... what... behavioral profiling??? Welcome to pre-crime, and you thought Minority Report was just science fiction. Source: DeFlock Maps

I took this photo on January 1st in Wisconsin Things are different now ☹️

@ExistentialEnso Being generous with other people money is not virtue

the horror, poor people will be able to get basic, ready-to-eat lean protein

It's a completely different culture. Someone from Germany or Britain is not culturally the same as someone from Mexico, or Russia. Same applies to black Americans and somalians, both black, different ethnic groups Skin color is not ethnicity, that's why the census makes a distinction

@polstiller @SidKhurana3607 But at the same time, Hispanics that are upwards of 95% Spanish are still considered not white, it's mostly relative. You could take out the 2-3% of Jews and Arabs, add in 6% for white Hispanics.

Top places (min. 50k) by non-Hispanic white %, 2024 ACS: The Villages, FL (95%) Mount Pleasant, SC (89%) Kingsport, TN (89%) St. Clair Shores, MI (87%) Dearborn, MI (87%) Newark, OH (87%) Duluth, MN (87%) La Crosse, WI (87%) Ankeny, IA (86%) Eau Claire, WI (86%)

@Javve390590 @SidKhurana3607 There are 3 million arabs in the country. I don't believe they all live in Dearborn

@polstiller @SidKhurana3607 Only for Dearborne. All the other places are European white. You think Duluth or a tow in Tennessee has a large Arab population?

@CJMAGAMom Nice combination you got there 😂

4.07 gas here in St Cloud and Somalians everywhere