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Nah just peeved and skeptical of anyone who trashes my city while ludicrously yearning for an imaginary pre-capitalist 17th century utopia under the auspices of the colonial Dutch, who literally invented capitalism, largely in New Amsterdam and at that exact moment in history, and also claims NYC has no green space when it has over 7,000 square feet of parks and green space per capita, the most for any North American city with over 3 million people.

I’m sorry you hate it here to much. Leave.

That’s stupid

some say the ship still sank but all the shit just collected on top

Born here, Ma'am. I'm quite familiar with the pollution and lack of gardens and nature predominating most parts of the city. Apparently someone advocating for quality of life is triggering for you.

Look at all that parking space

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Well, regardless of past bad decisions, we now have the technology to do the right thing and unpave every other street, creating something the rest of the world calls "neighborhoods", and "necessary" for being "healthy" and "human". Maybe we should unpave 2/3rds of the streets, and modernize public transportation. And ban unnecessary things like commuting for the 90% of jobs that can be done from home or the beach. At some point we have to evolve and learn how to use technology for the benefit of society, without using that as an excuse for perpetuating unnecessary destruction for profits sake. But I'm an optimist, which seems to offend a lot of people on here. Peace ye soulless zombies.

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This would make a great digital framed artwork pieces. Imagine timing out the changes to match the day.

You watched too many movies.

Completely untrue. You sound like somebody who’s only seen New York in movies.

Honestly I just hate the healthcare system. It’s disgusting that we don’t do better when we easily could.

Believe it or not, the personnel vehicle was essentially decided as the main method of transportation, because people were sick of dealing with the railroad oligarchs.

I think the US gets too much shit for its reliance on personal cars. If you were a middle income American in the early 20th century, the car would make too much sense not to adopt it. Today, we can clearly see the problems which that decision made, but at the time, it was a no brainer. If city overpopulation and climate change were not a thing, then the personal vehicle would have no criticism.

That's interesting, truly. But in this modern world with unprecedented technology it seems rather chimplike to not fix the unnatural monstrosity that is NYC. Plus, cars were given far too much dominion, vastly more than actual human residents. Gee, I wonder if oligarchs got rich off of these decisions at the sake of society and the planet and all around safe, pleasant neighborhoods.

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Well sure, if that's how you cherry pick your definition of reality. But the vast majority of NYC neighborhoods are nothing like you describe.

What does that have to do with letting a stranger use your personal cell phone ?

I initially had the same impression as you, but I just did some eyeballing based on the size of the people and horse carts - it looks pretty dead on to me, especially once you account for medians, sidewalks, bike paths, etc.

yes. i'm also not carrying a gun, bulletproof vest, handcuffs, nor am i legally supported in doing whatever i want so long as i say it was justified

Don’t hate the country — hate the idiots who voted the city and union reps in!

the moment we let cops break laws with impunity, it only became natural every other civilian would want in

you're not on the left if you're arguing this way man. what he did is clearly assault, there's no reason to give a free shoeshine with your tongue for a people who not only tackle innocent people daily, but shoot, tase, and beat them. the courts will fuck this guy enough, and we'll be paying the cop's disability suit, he doesn't need reddit """""leftist""""" virtue signaling.

people just liked it better that way.

frontrunner for supreme court position massacres PEACE OFFICER in front of cheering crowd