All my life the left has been slicing the throat of its best talent…for reason but still….at one time Spitzer, McGreevy, Cuomo, Edwards, Grayson, Franken, OMalley, Dean, Newsom, we’re considered the future.

The fallacy of the left is expecting the other side to do something because you did it. They play the long game; that’s why they’ll have the SC for decades 😫

It makes more sense that the downtown was built. And then a less dense area to support that. And instead of replacing all that low density (and the best neighborhoods in hindsight) they just expanded above that area. Explains the age too; lower Manhattan is 400 years old while midtown started building up in the late 1800s.

It’s so poetic that a grand city was built on top of all that schist.

As if it was always meant to be.

30th street in Phillys main hall is still full of benches…surprisingly not filled with homeless either.

Therein lies the contradiction though.

The neighborhoods got safer because certian people got pushed out (not all).

So it’s a double edged sword.

Paris still has them in spades. All along the champs elysees and more. The grand streets should have them still imo. It adds so much

Same here in Philly. Cobblestones are round stones. We have brick street pavements. Those are bricks.

Maybe, Pitt is large and it doesn’t have problems in Oakland. Because people see the benefit of having a major research and health institution at your doorstep.

Temple is more important to the region as a whole and does more for the region than not (they are state related so they’re private in administration in exchange for discount tuition for local) (they provide healthcare for the neighborhood victims regardless of insurance) (they provide jobs; many of which are accessible to people of the neighborhood) (they offer services like free computer use and tutors and other stuff when I was there) (because of them amenities like movie, markets and shops/restaurants are there to the benefit of everyone that wouldn’t be there were it not for temple) (they enroll more African Americans than most schools in the state not an HBCU and have the legacy of one of the first afam programs in the USA)

Because all of this I am jaded about the delusional residents and if I’m selfish I want temple to be the best it can be, rise in the rankings and be this side of the state’s Pitt…the safety of the neighborhood gets in the way; the neighbors complain about temple but don’t complain enough about their children and their brothers and cousins shooting and being shot and other acts of crime….if it was up to me…TUs survival is essential…..ram through their program; stadium and all 😬😂….fu*k what anyone thinks.

NYC jr is a stupid thing. What we have in common is due to 400 years of interconnectedness. 90 miles distance and two of the most densest and oldest cities in America.

They have row houses too

There are just as many examples of it changing cities for the better.

I mean DC, has the Verizon center, the movie theater, the portrait gallery all right there which makes for a damn good setup; all on top of metro center where the two lines connect and right near Union.

Then you have LA which built a whole entertainment center at Staples.

Then you have places like Minneapolis and Denver and Detroit where all their stadiums are downtown even the large ones…and they’re the better for it.

Boston, which created an entertainment center at their arena on top of north station….for the better of that area.

Atlanta has their arenas and stadiums downtown and it would be dead if not for that. I just don’t see how Philly is some special case; I don’t see us screwing up what so many lesser places has gotten right. Only thing I would concede is yeah, our streets are pre-car tiny but the transit access is amazing and the direction we should be going. I mean from a consumer standpoint what’s better than parking at your local patco/subway/regional station and commuting in; you save a ton of money, a ton of headache, and no traffic. This will be popular if Septa gets the trains timed right. This area should be the absolute center of our entertainment district; the celebrations should be on Market not South Broad. Wit all the ads and screens and add this; and a few hotel towers ths will be a poppin area; jus gotta have the vision to do transformative things.

Right, and right. But they’re clever enough to use that anecdotal case knowing the left will fall for the bait and oversell. So then that little issue becomes a big issue.

U gotta admit the Rs are smart. They have the left defending drag shows for kids when there’s no way in the world that’s a winning proposition for mainstream. They could get Trump elected just with this issue alone. Yea the Ds will feel morally correct and inclusive and self righteous; the .0001 percent that cares about Drag will like them, they’ll feel like they did something right because someone convinced them that drag is important to most gay people and it’s central to gay life when it’s not at all (I’m gay btw), but they’ll be wondering why 7-9 of the seats on the SC are conservative..because they fell for another trap and spent all their capital on another issue that’s hopelessly unpopular with the mainstream. 😂.

All while trying to spin it as an attack on drag when it’s clearly an attack on children participating in adult content and most people can see right through that. While dissing and talking down people that disagree with them.

I don’t understand and probally will never understand my fellow lgbts obsession with mainstreaming the culture🤷🏽‍♂️. I get the sharing of accounts, hospital visits and all that but….he best parts of being gay is the countercultural ness of it all. Why sanitize the art of drag to make it palatable for kids….like why even go there….why can’t it just be what it is, why can’t it be for us, adult and raunchy and funny. Ultimately, it parents want to take their kid to a show that’s on them….they should have a choice in that matter tho.

This is exactly my stance..like what’s the point.

These are the kind of issues that get Dems elected to major office, amirite 🤦🏾.

That’s exactly my point. Why would you want to even do it? Like, what’s the point.

I’m perfectly fine with a form of entertainment being for adults; keep it in its lane.

Yep yep.

Ok. And the people in packer park hate the sports comp. But it gotta go somewhere. Why not a place where density is expected.

They can’t. Only Chinese people can live in Chinatown. It’s like Israel; if others move into Chinatown it’ll loose it’s “character” more than any stadium would do

It’s legal and liberal supported segregation.

NYC jr. 90% of the nba arenas are downtown. Running the gamut from Detroit to Los angles.

Nothing like believing two minorities are supposed to believe in the same thing just because they are minorities.

Who still hate them

Idk why do people pick on Temple so much. Literally all colleges are in some kind of neighborhood. But we don’t expect them to “pay off” the neighborhood residents the way ppl often say with Temple. LaSalles in a poor neighborhood

The community didn’t riot during the MLK death; you’re talking about the 1964 riots.

And what should Temple be offering to the community aside for what they already do? Genuine question.

Lots of generational homeowners…some go back 50-60 years.