I’m not a liberal and I also encourage you to keep voting for more and more fash politicians. That’ll really show me!

Back in December it was just at the front entrance

I have some breaking news for you, kiddo.

Wut

Are you implying Hopkins researchers fudged the numbers? If anything, my gut instinct would be that any study affiliated with Hopkins would be biased in the opposite direction so I’m not sure I agree with that.

“Baltimore’s flagship community violence intervention program, Safe Streets, has led to reductions in nonfatal shootings and homicides, according to a Johns Hopkins analysis of nearly 15 years of data.

In the neighborhoods served by the five Safe Streets sites that have been open four years or more, the analysis indicated there was an average of 22% fewer homicides than predicted. And across all sites, Safe Streets was associated with a 23% reduction in nonfatal shootings, researchers found.”

There have been a lot of people in this sub very critical of any approach to violence reduction that strays from dumping money into more police, so I’m curious how people feel now. Thoughts?

Yea it seems that a lot of development was always around the corner for that section Howard, but I think the redevelopment of Lexington Market and the new Arena are prob some kinda “signal” that it’s Go Time lol. And tbqh it’s a very good thing since it’s all oriented around our existing transit of the light rail

Yea he’s just asking for money. His pitch is convoluted but he’s not abrasive.

Yes! The CityLink buses are those named after colors, and the LocalLink buses use numbers. The CityLink run 24/7 and LocalLink usually have a period of inactivity between evening and early morning. Also, if you aren’t aware, the CharmPass app is used to buy tickets and the Transit app is used to track the buses in real time so you don’t have to wait outside not knowing when they’ll arrive!

N Charles is fine to walk on but if you feel uncomfortable, the buses between that stretch are pretty reliable and the silver and green city link both run 24/7

Basically, they fired this young guy from the kitchen and on his way out he was just roasting everyone else who worked there. Then he came back like 10 mins later and was arguing with the management, and then the other kitchen staff was kinda lightly escorting him out when he said something to a bigger dude who turned to him and was like wtf did you say, and then they literally threw hands and it spilled out into the outside area in front but no serious blows were landed. Then the bigger dude came back in and we were all staring like wtf is going on and he was like “he called me an African slave!” And we were like gotcha. Then the little guy came back AGAIN like ten mins later but just needed to use a phone and then left and then came back AGAIN a final Time cuz he left his bag lol. Then Kim bought us drinks. Overall, very strange situation and I was convinced it was gonna escalate into something even worse but instead it was just good entertainment.

That’s fine - everyone has a different comfort level. I’d def recommend checking out Heritage Smokehouse though.

Nah nah there’s good stuff. The Senator, zen west, clandestino, Swallows, Heritage smokehouse. I get that walking in the middle of the night alone down by like woodbourne might feel a little sketchy but everything from Full Tilt going north is fine. Also the city link red runs along there 24/7 so that’s always an option if you feel uncomfortable walking. Idk just my 2 cents

Probably Kim. She was so manic the last time we were there, it was bugging us out tbqh lol

Agree on the food comment but I liked the location. York has a good stretch of stuff goin on and I liked having a brewery there

Extremely unsurprising news lol. Their beers were mediocre and the last time I was there, we witnessed a full on brawl between staff. Entertaining but sounds like a disastrously managed place. Hope a better spot opens there cuz it’s a cool location

BMORE community food, and the Franciscan center come to mind

Hampden and Mt. Washington fit this criteria. Mt. Washington is more expensive and has more detached homes. Both are walking to light rail. And both have walking to a commercial section with bars and restaurants. Hampden feels less suburban too.

The area is not rough, that’s a strange thing for someone to say.

But Baltimore is small enough that you can stay at any hotel down in the harbor or whatever and be able to get to Ottobar pretty fast so just do that if you’re nervous. There’s lots of nice hotels in Mount Vernon too and that’s even closer.

I mean, thank you for curating the definitive Baltimore music calendar.

Wait hasn’t snail Mail been sold out forever?!

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There are so many falsehoods here man, jesus.

First of all 60 million (wherever you got that number from) is nothing compared to deaths caused by america, colonial Europe, mid century fascists, famines in India and Ireland caused by Britain, American sponsored genocide in the Philippines, millions dead in the Middle East, etc. then start throwing in the millions who die each year from starvation, homelessness, lack of healthcare/health insurance, unsafe work conditions.

Again, deaths in mid-century communist states were bad (literally any communist or socialist will agree), but this is a fraction of deaths attributed to capitalist countries.

Saying that both systems will leave “fat cats and starving dogs” is true but still not 1 for 1. In the Soviet Union, even the most elite politicians lived in humble apartments. While they certainly enjoyed things that others didn’t, it’s pretty inaccurate to compare this to the inequalities of America or the western capitalist world. I don’t think I need to explain to you how well our wealth and elite live versus how those left behind live. I mean just take a look around our city to see the height of poverty.

Also, we’ve had many good studies comparing “socialist” states to capitalist ones at similar stages of development, and the socialist ones consistently outperformed their peers and usually had qualities of life on par with far MORE developed capitalist nations. The CIA even had a study in the 70’s or 80’s where they compared nutritional intake in the USA to the USSR and the average Soviet citizen was receiving a higher caloric diet than an American. Additionally, in the USSR, China, Cuba, even the DPRK, post-revolution reforms led to massive increases in literacy and life expectancy, guaranteed housing and jobs, and other QOL markers. We only need to look to the dissolution of the USSR to compare systems. The fall of the USSR led to the greatest decrease in life expectancy in modern history in a non war period. Many Eastern European countries are literally just now getting back to the level of GDP they enjoyed pre-collapse.

I know that’s a lot of text, but bottom line, we have data to compare systems and we have a century of political experiments to observe, and the overwhelming evidence is that socialist and communist states have the average citizen a better life than they would have had under capitalism. If you want a good starter text on this stuff, “Blackshirts and Reds” by Michael Parenti is a really informative read and touches on a lot of these comparisons.