Well, the current approach has given us a waterfront that is mostly owned by a group of wealthy nonresident investors who dominate our politics, coordinate to increase rents, and expend the absolute minimum they can on repairs, upgrades, infrastructure, neighborhood stores and amenities, buildings outside desirable areas, etc. I think those are some ways the current approach hurts everyone else.

It's not just the idea of development to which people are objecting, but the type of building that is going on, and who pays for and owns it, and who it's being rented and marketed to.

In JC, wealthy real estate investors are building low-quality "luxury" apartment buildings along the shore and in a few key hubs and then using the buildings to extract ever-increasing amounts of cash from a transient class of professionals who commute to NYC from JC for a 5-10 year period in their lives.

You could certainly imagine different funding, different ownership, different occupants, and/or different types of buildings, and I think different people have different preferences in that regard.

Based on precedent in this subreddit, post a list of items but don't include prices, and then when people inquire about the items, demand 70%+ of the original retail price and get offended at lower offers.

I have strong factual disagreements with much of what you wrote, but I think the bottom line is that you cannot reasonably expect people from other racial groups to support programs that discriminate against them based on their skin color. If you ever want to work toward wealth equality for all Americans, regardless of skin color, let me know.

Past wrongs are past and difficult if not impossible to address. Inequality of wealth is a current wrong that could be addressed by redistribution today, in a manner that helps every poor person, but the main barrier to that solution is racial chauvinism like yours that privileges certain poor people over others based on the color of their skin and creates endless conflict that keeps the oligarchy in charge.

For thousands of years, people of every racial and ethnic background have lived similar shameful histories, by creating states with unrepresentative and tyrannical governments, by subordinating and killing dissenters, freethinkers, and minorities, by waging wars of conquest against neighbors, and by keeping members of disfavored groups as slaves. This is the shared history of every human being and every community, regardless of skin color or ancestry. In my view, the only way to move past that history is to treat each other fairly, as individuals, in a new society that rejects the old prejudices and addresses the problems we have today. If doing that is laughable as f*ck, then so be it.

Appreciate that a small number did condemn the tweet as racist, which is why I said "almost all." The vast majority of the comments here say nothing about the actual tweet, or use weak and general language (e.g., "clown"), or attempt to refocus on gentrification, populism, progressivism, and Asian-Americans.

It's a shame it needs to be said, but since almost no one else in the entire thread has said it, it's not OK to be bigoted against white people. This statement should disqualify Mr. Oseguera from any future political office.

For the light rail, you missed a few things:

"explore the region with the element of surprise as there is no functioning exterior car signage or announcement system"

"enjoy the local rainstorms in platforms and benches completely unprotected from the elements"

"share the roads with the considerate and careful drivers of the greater New York City area"

"you didn't want to go to Bergen County anyway"

I think it's a perfectly reasonable comparison, but happy to be convinced otherwise if you think there's an important distinction here. (I'm politely overlooking your unfounded accusation that I'm arguing in bad faith.)

To repeat, I think this thread is filled with hypocrites who believe that a "sovereign citizen" violating vehicle and traffic laws is worthy of condemnation because they've been told to think of of those people as right-wing and contemptible, but the (more common) case of an illegal immigrant violating vehicle and traffic laws is exempt from condemnation because illegal immigration isn't supposed to be criticized.

I agree that it's not good for some cars not to have license plates, but I don't view that as a moral imperative. No one is committing murder here.

Also, I have to note that illegal immigration leads to widespread violations of vehicle and traffic laws - are you equally enraged at those violations? My guess is most of the people piling on in this thread think those violations are unworthy of prosecution.

There are a lot of possible responses, like urging humility and greater respect for others or pointing out we have no idea if the driver is borrowing a relative's car, but I would say the one I feel most strongly about is that when a person is criticizing or considering a political group as a whole, there is a moral obligation to address the group's views in toto rather than dismissing them for particular positions that may be wrong or weak. So, the sovereign citizen movement, while admittedly based in part on various types of bullshit, is also based in part on notions that are harder to dismiss, like the view that the U.S. federal government is dominated by corrupt elitists who have lost any sense of obligation to the citizenry. So I wouldn't dismiss them entirely, again, even though some of their views are bullshit.

Or maybe this person holds some misguided political beliefs but isn't an "asshole." We should be careful about judging others when we have very little information about them.

Just to be clear, I think you're talking about the ferry to midtown - the ferries to other parts of Manhattan only operate for brief windows in the early morning and early evening.

There are lots of problems with the light rail - more so than with the PATH. Nevertheless, it runs regularly enough to be used for commuting. As others have hinted, the number of disruptions in weekend service is distressingly high.

Perhaps, but the practices described corrupt the flow of free information that is necessary for an efficient market, and they are also against Google and FTC policy.

Better raise taxes to teach them better. I'm sure the perpetrators here are just a few tax dollars away from mastering advanced trigonometry.

Doesn't this style of chart run the risk of mischaracterizing the nature of each country's exports because an export good or type of export that represents a plurality of the overall trade will be the only good listed / type of export whose color is shown?

Or maybe, and I know this is a stretch, but just maybe - they're both complex human beings who should be judged based on their actions and character rather than their appearances?

Broadway Diner in Bayonne is very good, if anyone has a hankering.

It's hard to recognize the tunnel without seeing a 1989 Toyota Corolla with its emergency lights on being pushed by two people.

No, you're right and the other takes are bad - it's not shady at all. Auto insurance is a predatory anti-consumer industry that seeks to use every piece of disclosed information as an excuse to raise coverage rates and/or decline to pay for repairs. No one should ever feel bad avoiding the auto insurance system or being careful with disclosures to an auto insurer.

Whether this damage can be excluded from the CARFAX report is a separate question; obviously, the OP doesn't look as good on that front.

EDIT: Lots of auto insurance enthusiasts downvoting in this thread. Anyone with any real experience with these companies knows consumers have to be very careful to avoid getting ripped off.

Watch out guys - looks like there may be LEs trying to stop you from throwing furniture into the Hudson in the near future. Make sure you wear a mask and have a good getaway route - just jumping the turnstile at a PATH station may not get you away quick enough. If you've saved enough from shoplifting, consider investing in a motorcycle with a high-volume aftermarket exhaust pipe.

Just keeping my community safe from police aggression.

I love that Mussab Ali is identified as a leading contender after he masterminded the massive property tax increase and then parachuted off the school board.

Wow! A few years ago, they used to have signs/plaques that they would tape to the obelisks, at least at night.

And then sometimes they would tape the sign to the wrong obelisk, and people would run down the stairs to catch the train at 2:50AM and arrive at an empty platform, miss their train and have to wait 35 minutes for the next train. PATH memories . . .