March 26, 20241 yr 38 minutes ago, mikemack8 said: Going to have to call in our resident expert on bigotry (and smoking crack) - @Tnt4philly, what say you? Do you have a footlocker, for all the grudges you seem to carry?
March 26, 20241 yr 3 minutes ago, DrPhilly said: This is a good example of just how stupid and silly the Dems can be sometimes. it feeds the left fringe and fires up the right loonies.
March 26, 20241 yr He's referring to building decisions by Robert Moses, who was a major builder in old New York, as described by author Robert Caro in The Power Broker as being heavily motivated by boob thinking. It's not an entirely baseless criticism of Moses, but probably not one I'd bring up as it's relatively obscure and easily pilloried.
March 26, 20241 yr 1 minute ago, JohnSnowsHair said: He's referring to building decisions by Robert Moses, who was a major builder in old New York, as described by author Robert Caro in The Power Broker as being heavily motivated by boob thinking. It's not an entirely baseless criticism of Moses, but probably not one I'd bring up as it's relatively obscure and easily pilloried.
March 26, 20241 yr 49 minutes ago, DrPhilly said: This is a good example of just how stupid and silly the Dems can be sometimes. yeah just sometimes and isn't the central tenet of their belief system.
March 26, 20241 yr 9 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said: He's referring to building decisions by Robert Moses, who was a major builder in old New York, as described by author Robert Caro in The Power Broker as being heavily motivated by boob thinking. It's not an entirely baseless criticism of Moses, but probably not one I'd bring up as it's relatively obscure and easily pilloried. Great timing right after a tragedy. Boat loses power, knocks into bridge in Baltimore causing it to collapse & lives are affected...let's talk about racism from a NY builder from the 1950s.
March 26, 20241 yr 2 hours ago, NOTW said: Honestly, if there's a chance the Key Bridge was boob, I'm glad it's gone. You can never be too careful.
March 26, 20241 yr 2 hours ago, NOTW said: I heard this on The Food That Built America this weekend. The claim is that most black people in black neighborhoods couldn't afford cars, and couldn't afford to move, and the government built the bridges just low enough so that buses couldn't fit underneath making it near impossible for black people to access transportation to get to different parts of the cities to work. Given the history of Democrat oppression and racism I wouldn't completely discount the claim.
March 26, 20241 yr 3 minutes ago, Alpha_TATEr said: im sorry, but that was virtue signaling at its finest. That was my thinking but happy to be proven wrong if indeed builders built overpasses low on purpose to prevent buses from going under them as a means to stop the transportation of African Americans.
March 26, 20241 yr 4 minutes ago, DrPhilly said: That was my thinking but happy to be proven wrong if indeed builders built overpasses low on purpose to prevent buses from going under them as a means to stop the transportation of African Americans. not even saying that wasn't the case, but those underpasses haven't been stopping anyone from getting anywhere for decades. but at least someone is pandering to the suburban white kids who need to feel good about themselves.
March 26, 20241 yr 3 minutes ago, Alpha_TATEr said: not even saying that wasn't the case, but those underpasses haven't been stopping anyone from getting anywhere for decades. but at least someone is pandering to the suburban white kids who need to feel good about themselves. Yeah well that too
March 26, 20241 yr 19 minutes ago, The_Omega said: I heard this on The Food That Built America this weekend. The claim is that most black people in black neighborhoods couldn't afford cars, and couldn't afford to move, and the government built the bridges just low enough so that buses couldn't fit underneath making it near impossible for black people to access transportation to get to different parts of the cities to work. Given the history of Democrat oppression and racism I wouldn't completely discount the claim. I can envision some little slight like that back in the day, which would be practically impossible to really prove, but what about buses for White people? Surely there were more than just subways in NYC for Whites to use. Did buses for any type of people get underneath? Would they sabotage an entire network of buses just to keep Blacks in certain areas? Do buses and trucks fit underneath nowadays?
March 26, 20241 yr I live about 70 mi south of Baltimore but never realize how important that port was. Hopefully this doesn't have any supply chain ramifications.
March 26, 20241 yr 1 minute ago, pisceschica said: I live about 70 mi south of Baltimore but never realize how important that port was. Hopefully this doesn't have any supply chain ramifications. i have a feeling we are going to see same type of effort and pace that we did with the I95 situation. hopefully.
March 26, 20241 yr Just now, Alpha_TATEr said: i have a feeling we are going to see same type of effort and pace that we did with the I95 situation. hopefully. This is far worse though..hopefully they find the remaining missing people alive. The worse unaccounted for were filling pot holes on bridge
March 26, 20241 yr 31 minutes ago, Alpha_TATEr said: im sorry, but that was virtue signaling at its finest. Got to keep racisim alive and well to fire up his base.
March 26, 20241 yr 57 minutes ago, NOTW said: Great timing right after a tragedy. Boat loses power, knocks into bridge in Baltimore causing it to collapse & lives are affected...let's talk about racism from a NY builder from the 1950s. The video is from 2021, not in response to the bridge. That Twitter account is intentionally misleading.
March 26, 20241 yr 5 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said: The video is from 2021, not in response to the bridge. That Twitter account is intentionally misleading. Aw, boob. I shouldn't have trusted @bubblebathgirl! 😭
March 26, 20241 yr 4 minutes ago, NOTW said: Aw, boob. I shouldn't have trusted @bubblebathgirl! 😭 starting to sting down there, is it ?
March 26, 20241 yr Here's a decent writeup about the origins of what Buttigieg is speaking to: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-09/robert-moses-and-his-boob-parkway-explained The author here is skeptical of the claims, which were relayed by one of Moses' chief engineers. And to be sure in the decades since The Power Broker was written Moses there's been pushback to many of the claims it contained. The author did, however, determine that the underpasses in parkways built by Moses were indeed significantly shorter than others.
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