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Posted: 3/18/2019 8:01:18 PM EDT

Seems this video is blowing up. Interesting to see the difference between the Facebook and Youtube comments.

It's fucking true and it's sad what they've done to that place. This is the govt they vote for. This the govt they've been working so hard to take over Olympia as well. I'm tired of it and a lot of people are too, I just hope it starts to affect the poll numbers before it's too late.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=450547018819467

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b53uiRFq4Ds

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TL;DR: Homeless people do drugs, Seattle dgaf. Seattle castrates its police dept, and businesses and people get pissed.

I'm actually surprised KOMO didn't do more covering for the city in this thing, they always seem like such buddies to the local govt.

Posted: 3/18/2019 8:07:21 PM EDT

[#1]

Maybe Benchmade can come in and help out somehow?

Posted: 3/18/2019 8:07:58 PM EDT

[#2]

Socialists and commies will get it right NEXT time. For sure. Definitely.

Posted: 3/18/2019 8:09:30 PM EDT

[#3]

Born and raised there.

Lived there for 30 years.

Work took me away. However, I always looked forward to visiting home. I used to go back 2-3 times a year.

Each time I came back it was worse and worse. The people were different (non natives), the feel of the town was different (post grunge), the government became even more liberal (hard to believe).

I haven't been back for 5 years now. Sad because I love the land.

Posted: 3/18/2019 8:10:09 PM EDT

[#4]

Good.

Posted: 3/18/2019 8:11:01 PM EDT

[#5]

You can't buy up and gentrify shitty neighborhoods if they don't get shitty in the first place. Circle of life, my friend.

Also, I am sick of hearing this while "affordable housing" bullshit. Where is anyone guaranteed the right to live where they want, for the price they want? If I want to live in Medina and pay Everett prices, is that a "right"?

Posted: 3/18/2019 8:13:35 PM EDT

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Posted: 3/18/2019 8:19:36 PM EDT

[#7]

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You can't buy up and gentrify shitty neighborhoods if they don't get shitty in the first place. Circle of life, my friend.

Also, I am sick of hearing this while "affordable housing" bullshit. Where is anyone guaranteed the right to live where they want, for the price they want? If I want to live in Medina and pay Everett prices, is that a "right"?

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Yeah, the affordable housing line gets old. Its one thing if you have massive earning potential, but if you're gonna make 30-4k a year anyhow? Why not live further out where its sustainable? They insist on living in cities and then complain when its too expensive.

Posted: 3/18/2019 8:21:40 PM EDT

[#8]

can we not just convince the liberals to give them unlimited free alcohol and drugs, and a free paupers grave?

Posted: 3/18/2019 8:24:48 PM EDT

[#9]

I watched that earlier today. The City Coucil, the Mayor, and anyone in leadership should be arrested and thrown in jail. They really have ruined a beautiful city.

Posted: 3/18/2019 8:25:35 PM EDT

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Posted: 3/18/2019 8:26:28 PM EDT

[#11]

America is dying.
Seattle, Chicago, L.A. are just the festering boils.

America is dying of liberal progressivism and unchecked immigration.

This is what happens when you coddle and give bums and illegals more rights then citizens.

Sickening.

Posted: 3/18/2019 8:26:43 PM EDT

[#12]

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You can't buy up and gentrify shitty neighborhoods if they don't get shitty in the first place. Circle of life, my friend.

Also, I am sick of hearing this while "affordable housing" bullshit. Where is anyone guaranteed the right to live where they want, for the price they want? If I want to live in Medina and pay Everett prices, is that a "right"?

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SOOOOO FUCKING SICK OF THAT BS. It's not just that they don't understand how markets work, it's that they just don't care. Blows my fucking mind.

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That's actually a good point, the "socialists" for a while have been complaining about the percentage of single family home zoned parts of Seattle. Maybe they just figure if they let them get shitty enough and people move they can get them rezoned for their pet high rises they'll make million on?

Posted: 3/18/2019 8:27:22 PM EDT

[#13]

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Socialists and commies will get it right NEXT time. For sure. Definitely.

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It'll totally work next time. We've got top men working on it.

Surprised to see Indianapolis way up on the list of property crimes . . . guess no inner city run by Democrats is safe. Never had a problem up there, yet.

Posted: 3/18/2019 8:36:57 PM EDT

[#14]

It won't go away and it's going to get worse. When silicon valley decides to fragment more, Seattle will be Detroit.
Silicon valley grew and fragmented a bit into Seattle but if that doesn't last then that city is doomed.

Posted: 3/18/2019 8:39:26 PM EDT

[#15]

Don't worry; be happy. The Seattle city administrators have figured out a solution:

Minimum wage climbs to $16 per hour for Seattle's largest employers

Minimum wage in Seattle is soaring to $16 per hour in 2019 for the city's largest employers. The wage increase affects companies with more than 500 workers worldwide.

Companies with less than 500 employees will pay at least $15 per hour as of January 1. According to Seattle's Office of Labor Standards, "Small employers can meet this requirement by paying no less than $12.00 per hour in wages and contributing at least $3.00 per hour toward an employee's medical benefits and/or reported tips."

Seattle's new minimum wage is more than double the federal minimum of $7.25 per hour, a rate that went into effect in 2009.

Seattle, the fastest-growing large city in the U.S., has been at the forefront of the movement for higher minimum wages. A local ordinance raised the minimum wage to as much as $11 an hour in 2015, then as much as $13 in 2016, depending on the size of the employer and whether it provided health insurance.

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https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/minimum-wage-climbs-to-16-per-hour-for-seattles-largest-employers/281-38add31e-76be-4db5-bad4-fa580c8c525a

Posted: 3/18/2019 8:40:21 PM EDT

[#16]

The planet is dying. There is this guy who will come and hit the reset shortly.

Posted: 3/18/2019 8:40:21 PM EDT

[#17]

If it's anything like LA it's already dead.

Posted: 3/18/2019 8:40:32 PM EDT

[#18]

It's what happens when you let nutball leftists run a city(s). KOMO gonna get some heat for that.

Posted: 3/18/2019 8:40:53 PM EDT

[#19]

Unfortunately Texas is next in their sights.

Posted: 3/18/2019 8:43:04 PM EDT

[#20]

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SOOOOO FUCKING SICK OF THAT BS. It's not just that they don't understand how markets work, it's that they just don't care. Blows my fucking mind.

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That's actually a good point, the "socialists" for a while have been complaining about the percentage of single family home zoned parts of Seattle. Maybe they just figure if they let them get shitty enough and people move they can get them rezoned for their pet high rises they'll make million on?

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Think of it as "they don't like how markets work."

Posted: 3/18/2019 8:43:49 PM EDT

[#21]

Vote for Jay Inslee as he's the only name on the ballot

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Posted: 3/18/2019 8:44:09 PM EDT

[#22]

Liberal shitholes..... tards

Posted: 3/18/2019 8:44:19 PM EDT

[#23]

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SOOOOO FUCKING SICK OF THAT BS. It's not just that they don't understand how markets work, it's that they just don't care. Blows my fucking mind.

ETA:
That's actually a good point, the "socialists" for a while have been complaining about the percentage of single family home zoned parts of Seattle. Maybe they just figure if they let them get shitty enough and people move they can get them rezoned for their pet high rises they'll make million on?

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The best part is they want it both ways: tax us out the ass to have "affordable housing" INSIDE city limits, and tax even us more out the ass through the legalized extortion of Sound Transit to pay for buses/trains to bring people in from OUTSIDE city limits.

Posted: 3/18/2019 8:44:56 PM EDT

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Vote for Jay Inslee as he's the only name on the ballot

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Lisping retard needs to go fuck an Orca and leave WA alone.

Posted: 3/18/2019 8:47:35 PM EDT

[#25]

I see family members of former H1Bs asking for fast food applications.

Immigrants are cheap because the whole "taxpayer funded citizenship package" is included and Amazon or Microsoft is not having to pay damn near any of the cost.

One generation in these folks are just another American and their kids are no more desirable to these exploitative employers than any other American kid.

Waves of easily exploited labor is a big part of the story of the US and it is catching up to us because past waves don't just disappear in the wind.

Seems the families of former H1B types are the foundation of the furthest left socialists in Seattle and in the WA legislature.

Posted: 3/18/2019 8:49:08 PM EDT

[#26]

There isn’t a single urban population center that isn’t dead, not dying, dead.

Posted: 3/18/2019 8:51:06 PM EDT

[#27]

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I see family members of former H1Bs asking for fast food applications.

Immigrants are cheap because the whole "taxpayer funded citizenship package" is included and Amazon or Microsoft is not having to pay damn near any of the cost.

One generation in these folks are just another American and their kids are no more desirable to these exploitative employers than any other American kid.

Waves of easily exploited labor is a big part of the story of the US and it is catching up to us because past waves don't just disappear in the wind.

Seems the families of former H1B types are the foundation of the furthest left socialists in Seattle and in the WA legislature.

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Surprised at the hospital on the east side and literally half of the babies that were born the same day as mine were Indian. Half. At least those families aren't begging for hand outs yet as long as their parents are employed, but damn if it hasn't drastically changed the make up of the region. And as you said, we know how they vote.

Posted: 3/18/2019 8:51:10 PM EDT

[#28]

Thank a Democrat. They are the reason.

Posted: 3/18/2019 8:53:03 PM EDT

[#29]

Liberals=locusts. It's scary effective because the richest and most influential get the policies instituted and then when the inevitable happens only richest and most influential are able to afford to move to a different and thriving area. As soon as they get there they immediately start to institute the same crap that killed their last home.

Posted: 3/18/2019 8:54:16 PM EDT

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Thank a Democrat. They are the reason.

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Seattle Republicans are typically farther left than Nancy Pelosie.

Posted: 3/18/2019 8:57:40 PM EDT

[#31]

Seattle is Dying

Posted: 3/18/2019 8:57:58 PM EDT

[#32]

Oh well.

Posted: 3/18/2019 8:58:05 PM EDT

[#33]

Sad to claim I'm even from there, even though I've been removed since 1968.

Posted: 3/18/2019 9:06:00 PM EDT

[#34]

Seattle's chickens...coming home....to roost.

Posted: 3/18/2019 9:07:57 PM EDT

[#35]

Oh wait, this is a product of Socialism gone beyond stupid. Declare Seattle a garbage dump site and the problem is solved. I used to live in WA in the 80's and early 90's. It was a cesspool back then too.

Posted: 3/18/2019 9:08:45 PM EDT

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One thing I don't understand is where the homeless drug users living on the sidewalk get the money to buy drugs with.

Yeah, I saw that they rob and steal, but to fund the level of drug use that the video shows, there would have to be way more robbing and stealing than is possible in that environment.

I.e., there aren't that many victims who have stuff to be stolen within the homeless people's walking distance.

Makes me think that Seattle is giving welfare money to the homeless people every month somehow.

Posted: 3/18/2019 9:10:06 PM EDT

[#37]

I live about 7 miles from downtown.

Seattle is a perfect example of what happenes to a city when progressives have complete control.

Once work slows down in the city I'm moving the fuck out.

Posted: 3/18/2019 9:11:24 PM EDT

[#38]

... sad

Posted: 3/18/2019 9:11:33 PM EDT

[#39]

WORTH WATCHING

Posted: 3/18/2019 9:12:55 PM EDT

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One thing I don't understand is where the homeless drug users living on the sidewalk get the money to buy drugs with.

Yeah, I saw that they rob and steal, but to fund the level of drug use that the video shows, there would have to be way more robbing and stealing than is possible in that environment.

I.e., there aren't that many victims who have stuff to be stolen within the homeless people's walking distance.

Makes me think that Seattle is giving welfare money to the homeless people every month somehow.

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Property crimes and begging for change. The police literally don't enforce the law because their hands are tied.

Ive had job sites broken into and the cops have literally said "please vote if you want change". They've even no-showed the first day I called them because their was no suspect or violent crime committed.

Its horseshit.

Posted: 3/18/2019 9:15:48 PM EDT

[#41]

Portland’s not far behind.

This Sunday we were downtown for the shamrock run

Crazy topless homeless crack whore was screaming at everyone heading to the run.

Her friend was passed out blocking the sidewalk

Posted: 3/18/2019 9:16:04 PM EDT

[#42]

Its almost like progressivism doesn't work and no matter how hard you try, and keep trying, and keep spending, and keep denying, nothing will make it work and all you do is dig a great big hole full of debt and shit and used drug needles.

Posted: 3/18/2019 9:16:19 PM EDT

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Posted: 3/18/2019 9:17:21 PM EDT

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Im shocked that komo put that out, usually they are swinging from the nuts and gargling the liberal mayonaisse.

Posted: 3/18/2019 9:17:23 PM EDT

[#45]

What's the answer? People that won't work, won't follow laws, won't contribute to society? Jail them? That's expensive probably too expensive. Warehouse them? I guess the answer is ........

Posted: 3/18/2019 9:17:25 PM EDT

[#46]

Good story, but shows how the homeless with criminal tendencies drag things down.

Posted: 3/18/2019 9:22:39 PM EDT

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Just watched the whole video.

At the end they use Rhode Island as an example of a state that is strict about arrests and jail time but offers inmates medication and counseling to treat addiction.

Interesting.

I always thought RI was a backwards state run by the mob.

Worth watching the whole thing for the use of word “retahded” by the inmate towards the end.