AnalogNotDigital @ AnalogNotDigital @lemmy.wtf

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Oh cool.

For sure! I just hate that so many people have strong opinions on this shit then do nothing, don't educate themselves on the problems at hand, and then acknowledge that people on the 'other side' of an issue have actual concerns that do need addressed.

I'd fucking love it if we had our homeless problem under control, and I firmly do believe we would if all the fucking red states would stop bussing THEIR problems here.

I've been in LA for 9 years and I've seen the changes that are taking place. Bike lanes are rampant on the west side, and they're starting to come to places like Weho and others as well which is awesome. We're expanding our subway lines, and things slowly are getting better. I wish we would take a big TVA style initiative, and make some dense public housing districts that were affordable, but that's a HUGE endeavor.

I'd love to get involved with local stuff like that, but I'm currently in a new job, and don't have much free time right now. =(

Another thing to think about here is that it's only been about 4 months of this dipshit being in charge.

They are comparing what is happening now to other episodes of revolution or cultural rebellion that took (sometimes) decades to foment enough unrest to cause change.

People are doing things, and we're pissed. But like, what can a person living in LA effectively do? We have blue reps in a blue state that is suing the government multiple times over multiple grievances.

Short of going out and getting kinetic there's not much for people to 'do' yet.

Honestly I wish we had the balls to turn LA into New York West Coast Edition. I'm right by the Wilshire line being built, and I cannot wait to be able to take public transit from my place to LAX to Grand Central in NYC.

Thanks for giving a real answer and not jingoistic slactivism nonsense you see so many people spouting on here. <3

I'll take a look at that video later when I have more time on my hands.

TIL wanting people to not live in homeless encampments that are dangerous is fascist. Thanks for that. Lets see you take in the guy who mumbles to himself and is addicted to heroin into your home and treat him how about that?

Where you going to build affordable housing in west LA?

There's literally no place for it. Should people living in Venice just be given beachfront housing for free to live in?

Whats your SOLUTION to the problem? Because like I said. There are multiple reasons there's a homeless epidemic across the entire country.

The other issue that you forgot to mention is a lot of red states take their homeless people and send them to California.

I live in LA. I've been threatened by people who are homeless. Multiple times. Yes, these people deserve help. But there's a billion reasons why our current system isn't working and part of that is the state can't institutionalize these people to get them clean from drugs and to help start them on the pathway to being a productive citizen again.

I live in the Miracle Mile area, and I do not give a shit about someones 'right' to camp on the sidewalk with a huge ass tent that smells of shit. Sorry, but that's a public health hazard.

Do I want people to get help? Absolutely. Do I think that people who live in these areas also deserve to live in a safe and clean environment? Absolutely.

Something has to be done, at least Gavin is trying things.

HA. So something that harms no one but the players, who voluntarily play said games, is bad.

Dude, I played 2 sports in college, and got the privilege to tryout professionally for sports. Nothing about me is generic. What I can see from this conversation is you have some deep seated psychological hatred towards sports, and people who enjoy them.

I'd recommend you talk to a professional so this doesn't keep eating at you.

Lol sure thing tech bro.

People have a right to leisure activities. You belittling them just makes you look petty.

Yeah exactly. He's clearly just a troll trying to get leftists/liberals to sit out because ISSUE wasn't immediately addressed. Literally that's a right wing tactic. Lol.

Naw I just consider 'people' like you who have selfish and completely shallow values to be holding them in bad faith ;)

I still regularly play baseball and ice hockey. I do martial arts as part of my job (I work in stunts in LA), and I love going hiking and staying healthy.

But sure, watching people actually do things with their body and playing a game somehow is just a foreign fucking concept to people on this site.

Would you rather people watch video game competitions or something in their spare time?

Lmao.

It only looks easy because you clearly have never spent a single second trying to understand it. What would you rather people do? Watch skinny kids with vitamin D deficiencies play video games? 🤣

Brain in a box literally posts like someone doing the exact thing I'm talking about. Funny huh?

Lmao. Sure thing bud.

It seems like the tabletop wargaming groups are really dead, so I feel you on this, haha.

You realize that athletes are exceptionally intelligent in different ways than people pecking at a keyboard all day, right?

Athletes are not dumb. Take a look at a football playbook. You going to remember all of that, be able to recall it, and then also know all the audible changes to a play that you have to make? Are you able to make split second decisions for 60 minutes while wearing knives on your feet like a hockey player? Do you have the hand eye coordination to hit a 94 mile per hour fast ball, but know that the pitcher you're facing also has a 35% chance to throw an 82 mph sinker?

Acting like you have one kind of intelligence and shitting on people who have different kinds of intelligence just makes you look like you're jealous.

I've been an athlete my whole life. I don't get why more tech savvy people have this absolute disdain for people who enjoy sports. Like, I get it, maybe some of the athletes at your school picked on you. Sweet. I was an athlete and ALSO got picked on by people. Constantly. I'm in my 30's now, and stopped dwelling on that shit in college. Move on, you know?

There's an easier way to just say you suck at physical things.

Posting something like this just makes you look really bitter.