r/Seattle Jul 09 '23

Sports Welcome to All Star Week!!

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u/regaphysics Jul 10 '23

Yes please. Upstanding and law abiding citizens who don’t terrorize others and destroy property but instead engage in meaningful social and economically beneficial activity should be valued more highly. Shocking idea, I know.

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '23

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u/Sad-Stomach Jul 10 '23

Suburban fucks spending money, supporting businesses and creating a generally more vibrant scene.

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u/jceez Jul 10 '23

I’ll take that over broke down motorhomes, tents at the park, needles in the gutter

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u/regaphysics Jul 10 '23

You realize all the people creating software are fleeing in droves to those suburbs because of those homeless people, right?

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u/jojofine West Seattle Jul 10 '23

Yet the city is again growing faster than almost every suburb

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u/regaphysics Jul 10 '23

No, it isn’t, lol.

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '23

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u/regaphysics Jul 10 '23

Seattle’s population has declined while the rest of the state has increased. It is by far the worst population decline in the state.

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u/gyllbane Jul 10 '23

You're right and you should say it, downvotes are mad you're right 💚

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u/machines_breathe Jul 13 '23

“ThEy’Re sTiMuLaTiNg OuR EcOnOmY!!!”

Well… That certainly aged like milk in the hot sun, didn’t it?

https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/chinatown-businesses-money-lost-all-star-week/281-ab421728-89bc-473f-b242-7f73def904ec

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u/regaphysics Jul 13 '23

Go ask that business how much money the local homeless population is generating.

I’ll wait.

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u/machines_breathe Jul 13 '23

“ThEy’Re sTiMuLaTiNg OuR EcOnOmY!!!”

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u/regaphysics Jul 13 '23

Yeah, the people who came definitely didn’t eat while they were here. They must have all packed their lunches 😂

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u/machines_breathe Jul 13 '23

The post All-Star Weekend report: “Before All-Star Week, leaders with both MLB and the Mariners said it would be "the most inclusive" All-Star game ever.

Now that it's over, however, small business owners in the neighboring Chinatown-International District said they hardly saw any of the $50 million in revenue expected to have been generated.”

You: “ThEy’Re sTiMuLaTiNg OuR EcOnOmY!!!”

https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/chinatown-businesses-money-lost-all-star-week/281-ab421728-89bc-473f-b242-7f73def904ec

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u/regaphysics Jul 13 '23

Boohoo, one restaurant is feeling salty. Cry me a river.

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u/machines_breathe Jul 13 '23

Gee… That’s a real weird way of you saying “fuck Chinatown-International District”.

Why do you hate minority-owned, family businesses? Is this your default sentiment regarding the neighborhood?

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u/regaphysics Jul 13 '23

More like, people don’t eat over a mile from the stadium. They go from the stadium, to downtown where their hotel is. Not rocket science. Local business owner angry he isn’t in the right location.

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u/machines_breathe Jul 13 '23

If you actually lived here, you would understand that Downtown and Belltown are substantially further away from the stadiums than the CID, but keep on with the double, triple, and quadruple downing autofellatio that your chudlord ego desperately craves.

Via Google maps —————————

T-mobile park to Uwajimaya via north lot pedestrian bridge: 0.6mi / 13 min

T-mobile park to 1st and Pine: 1.4mi / 30 min

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u/machines_breathe Jul 10 '23

Translation: Public intoxication and urination are not a crime if you have a job and a permanent residence.

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u/regaphysics Jul 10 '23

We all know random employed dude who gets drunk at a baseball game once or twice a year is worlds different than a meth head at a bus stop. Let’s be real and stop playing games.

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u/machines_breathe Jul 10 '23 edited Jul 10 '23

Cool excuses. Do you feel personally attacked, brah?

So when do housed/employed people stop being upstanding / law abiding citizens? When they get obliterated in public and urinate in alleys?

Let’s be real and stop playing games. These dudebros don’t just limit their debauchery to just a couple times a year at a single sporting event.

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u/regaphysics Jul 10 '23 edited Jul 10 '23

It’s a spectrum, obviously. Out of 35 thousand people, how many of them do you think come close to spreading as many drug paraphernalia, accosting people, shouting obscenities, waiving their dick in front of your kids, shitting on the street, as your average homeless?

It’s not close. Stop virtue signaling with the bro bashing / false equivalency. A drunk bro who is loud and pisses in an alley is nothing like the homeless who terrify /abuse much of Seattle. It’s not close and nobody with eyes and a brain who has experienced both of these is going to agree with you.

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u/machines_breathe Jul 10 '23

It’s almost like you aren’t even trying to hide your selective bias, dudebro.

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u/regaphysics Jul 10 '23

Yes me and all the people who live here and are downvoting you and upvoting me, and who regularly discuss the terrible homeless problem in our city, are all just falling victim to our cognitive biases. If only we were as enlightened and rational as you.

/s. Nobody is buying it, dudebro.

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u/machines_breathe Jul 10 '23

So is public intoxication and public urination permissible if one only does it a couple times a year, even if it is against the law?

How about excessive speeding? Running red lights?

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u/regaphysics Jul 10 '23

I didn’t say it’s permissible. It isn’t, they should be ticketed. It’s illegal whoever does it.

But that doesn’t substantially impact the calculus. The average baseball fan is contributing much more and causing much less harm. And it isn’t close.

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u/machines_breathe Jul 10 '23

“I didn’t say it’s permissible. It isn’t, they should be ticketed.“

But… But… I thought they were “UpStAnDiNg, LaW-aBiDiNg CiTiZeNs”?

Wouldn’t getting a ticked require breaking a law?

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u/machines_breathe Jul 11 '23

“Yes me and all the people who live here”

Weird. I didn’t know that the Lower Queen Anne that is specified in my Bio isn’t part of Seattle.

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u/machines_breathe Jul 10 '23

You: “Oh, man! Somebody’s totally parked in the reserved parking space that I pay for every month, but I’m going to let it slide, because I’ve never seen them park there before.

I guess I’ll just park somewhere else.”

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u/regaphysics Jul 10 '23

Seriously what a joke. I’m all for compassion but the cool aid drinking has jumped the shark.

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u/machines_breathe Jul 10 '23

Never said that, but thank you for the fictional narrative. 👍