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@annbauerwriter What's he so angry about? Guess I'll never know.

Every year for the last decade, New York publishing has picked one straight white male author to be ok with. Richard Powers, Jonathan Franzen, Nathan Hill. This year, it's Ben Lerner's turn again.

@churrascooooo Get used to it, fashion's been dead for years.

the streets are visually disjointed these days because peoples clothes are completely detached from their environment thanks to internet

@feelsdesperate This is why the smoking ban was so devious - it was an asshole filter.

NYC is a city that’s healthiest when serving the overindulgent that have become inured to it. When ‘urbanists’ and ‘city enjoyers’ who savor every moment move here they release toxins that degrade and slowly poison the environment.

@the_enrightened That's the point, isn't it? Blank-slatism, people are completely interchangeable, etc. Force whole populations to relocate due to economic pressure (while favoring their replacements), and presto - you've shaken the earth like a snow globe, and now nobody has roots. Equity!

Do the Americans get how little America offers them at this point?

@PaxTubeOfficial It was still a sporting game then, just beginning to become corporate. You listened on the radio, maybe you went to a few games a year, but you didn't build your life around it.

This type of depoliticized, rootless capitalism (sportsball worship) is precisely what brought about the end of a majority-White America. All conservatives do is cry about how it's gone, without even beginning to understand why it disappeared.

@vicale "Good America is gone forever !" Nonsense.

Good America is gone forever ! Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, from 1957. It was like this all the way up to the 1990s

@DTalay27786 @atlanticesque How they thought replacing industry with coders and tourists would work in the long run is beyond me.

@atlanticesque Counterpoint: NYC already lost its industry to Jersey City, Connecticut etc

The problem with NYC or San Francisco being governed badly and driving out industry isn’t that there’s some peer city waiting in the wings, ready to become the new hub… it’s that there *isn’t* Industry just disperses. Agglomeration benefits disappear, to everyone’s detriment.

@editaurus Junior Murvin was pretty good too, but this line is silly.

The Clash's most important function was to turn people on to the Equals, Willi Williams, Mose Allison, and Toots & The Maytals.

@joshstrength @FWPlayboy "You walked in green & stayed invisible till you earned it. Show up. Shut up. Move iron." Yes, but that is romantic. A temple, not a social club.

Romanticizing old school gyms like some big happy brotherhood handing out free advice? Bullski shitski. TRUTH is You walked in green & stayed invisible till you earned it. Show up. Shut up. Move iron. Months later some grizzled bastard finally nods mid bite of chicken and rice!

@wvistheduck @PhilipAllison There is no future with you - so much for society.

@PhilipAllison Every single YIMBY I know wants all the things we're fighting for in our backyard, bc we live in a society

The hill I will die on is that YIMBY stands for "Yes in my backyard" which means public housing, upzoning, market rate, bike/bus lanes, drug treatment clinics, half way houses, etc. You're not a YIMBY if you're a "no" on all that prosocial stuff, the Y stands for "yes"

@TonyG_in_LV @callme_Chari Even the poor had their Sunday best. With the industrial revolution came the middle class, and for a time we had the best of both worlds - high quality domestic mass production, and the handmade bespoke tailoring inherited from old-world craftsmen.

200 years ago there were 2 classes of people; the rich and poor. Dressing up for any occasion was only an option for the wealthiest nobility. It was a clear marker of one’s social class. The change came in the 18th century with the Industrial Revolution. Fine clothes because more affordable and the middle class was born. To demonstrate their newly improved status, they were now able to dress up for social events just like the “well to do.” Something we may have thought was always the norm has caused us to think the way we do now. But it’s always been about trying to look classy no matter what our financial status might be.

Look at how nice and clean everything was back then. The men in suits… What happened?

@pmclauth Every day I see things that my grandparents would have thought unimaginable in the same neighborhood they and their grandparents grew up in.

I've watched this in real-time as my area became enriched. A decade ago my street would meet up at least once a year and we'd all go out to a restaurant. We'd have street parties for some national event. Having only lived in "enriched" areas in the previous 35 years, I'd never seen this kind of behaviour. But now I can walk to the station and encounter only immigrants (including sometimes seeing them shitting on the pavement). After a decade of "enrichment" the neighbours on my street now have almost nothing to do with each other.

@alwaysalanna @butleriano It's no effort, pedant; see? The Irish and the Anglo had ethnic, national, and class conflict, and for good reason - but not racial conflict. "NO BLACKS, NO DOGS, NO IRISH"

@BLASTorBLESS @butleriano making the effort to use a semi colon but then completely bonking the grammar otherwise... i guess you're right.

Boston was a city where white people beat each other to death in the street with ball peen hammers in 1950 and now it’s Palo Alto with a subway and museums.

@alwaysalanna @butleriano That's silly - besides, Marcus Garvey once called W.E.B. DuBois a miscegenated house negro; we're none of us perfect.

@butleriano also, up until like the 60s or so, the Irish weren't even considered white and were very much seeing a ton of discrimination. So it's sort of anachronistic to count them as white today.

I’m gonna start calling out fellow actors as well. Here goes: Vincent Gardenia was a flibbertigibbet!

@JohnSurico Deport!

New York City’s first-ever deliverista hub — which will give couriers a place to rest and recharge — is really taking shape in front of City Hall.

@Heliogabaule @butleriano ...and they were scammers. The Valachi papers ring a bell? So were every other ethnicity, in their own right. Does that mean it should be encouraged?

@BLASTorBLESS @butleriano They were actually Italians that’s who the “scammer” ethnicity was, but let’s not discount the actual Senegalese in the city at the time - the freed African slaves.

Senegalese guys have been selling counterfeit goods in Lower Manhattan for four centuries. If you don’t like that you can go back to England.

@Heliogabaule @butleriano 19th century Bavarian pretzel-sellers and aggressive Senegalese hocking phony Prada are not the in the same universe.

@BLASTorBLESS @butleriano In a very literal way, yes. Most of the markets in New York were barely covered sewage pits damn near into the 20th century, the only difference is they had oysters instead of hummus.

@TheAutumnalFire It's all so diminished. I see these junior bankers in their mediocre shoes and Patagonia vests on line for the slop bowl just like any other asshole.

This seems great until you hear stories from older bankers, lawyers etc about the pre-08 days. Each generation receives successively fewer amenities during their respective, brief periods of economic excess.