Trip through NYC in 1911

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

check out the rack on the broad at 2:55

[Softball Bat]

Back when horses used to shit in the streets, not humans.

[L45B]

Check out what NYC looks like today on a regular commute, roughly same area as the skin (Flatiron).



Still not as bad as San Franshitsco.

[Dr_Phibes]

No shortage of hats back then. Lots of hats.

[Mikey]

[Carson]

No shortage of hats back then. Lots of hats.

so, they didn't do the safety dance?

[smackaholic]

4:00-history's first car-jacking.

[smackaholic]

Compare this to life in NYC 20 years earlier and you'd be amazed. Advancements in technology were changing life at an amazing pace. I am fairly sure that in 1911 America, especially in NYC, everyone probably thought, the 20th century is gonna be awesome!

How'd that work out for ya?

[Innocent Bystander]

Compare this to life in NYC 20 years earlier and you'd be amazed. Advancements in technology were changing life at an amazing pace. I am fairly sure that in 1911 America, especially in NYC, everyone probably thought, the 20th century is gonna be awesome!

How'd that work out for ya?

We're distributed all around the world and can 'talk' to one another in real time whether at home, work, a bus, a plane, a boat or a train.

Central cooling and heating exist. We can eat strawberries and oysters out of season. We can take a shit after gorging on strawberries and oysters and have a warm stream of water automatically wash our asses pink.

And there's porn, more porn than any one person can take in in a lifetime.

We have jetpaks and hoverboards for the military. The Chinese have perfected organ donations. It's a utopia.

[smackaholic]

Cool shit happened for sure. Just would have been nice if we didn't spend a good chunk of the first half of it in all out war and the second half in cold war with the commies.

And now we get to deal with the resurgence of Islam along with the Chinks who didn't get the memo that Communism was dead.

[Innocent Bystander]

Cool shit happened for sure. Just would have been nice if we didn't spend a good chunk of the first half of it in all out war and the second half in cold war with the commies.

And now we get to deal with the resurgence of Islam along with the Chinks who didn't get the memo that Communism was dead.

First War crippled the European system of nobility. Gavrilo did the world a solid.

Islam is stage-managed opposition for the Great Satan Israel's war on gentiles.

The Chinks have no morals, no ethics, no empathy and no reason to develop the three. They are Communists in name only. Israel is dealing with them.

[Kierland]

The Chinks have no morals, no ethics, no empathy and no reason to develop the three.

Yeah you’re not a racist.

[smackaholic]

First War crippled the European system of nobility. Gavrilo did the world a solid.

Islam is stage-managed opposition for the Great Satan Israel's war on gentiles.

The Chinks have no morals, no ethics, no empathy and no reason to develop the three. They are Communists in name only. Israel is dealing with them.

That first bit is one of the dumbest things ever posted here. Given the competition, that’s saying something.

The European Royal families were already impotent and in place for ceremonial purposes.

The first WW set the table for the second and it also allowed the Bolsheviks to grab power in Russia.

As for the rest of your incoherent babbling about crackpot Zionist conspiracies, stifle it.




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[Innocent Bystander]

The Chinks have no morals, no ethics, no empathy and no reason to develop the three.

Yeah you’re not a racist.

There are no exceptions, Kierland. You are definitely not one, and never have been. But you decided to use your powers for good instead of evil, and that was the gamechanger. I hope it's internal, and not just an overcoat.

I've clicked on one too many Faces of Death style industrial accident videos from China. That country has zero quality control and should be the impetus for permanently funding the EPA, the FDA and OSHA with whatever they want. Watching a bunch of people ignore hit and run victims or dying children is also unnerving. The old video of Asian woman dropping trou to squat in the middle of a busy market street to have her baby, and the aftermath, put things over the top.

The explanation I heard was that saving a life means taking responsibility for that life. No one wants the responsibility of another's life. So people die, and are replaced, and life goes on. It's a major change from owing your life to the person who saves you. In Christian countries, failure to help is a moral failing -- and many people fail morally, but many others do not because socially it would be wrong.

There are no social credit points in China for saving a life. There would be negative points in the West. None of this matters because I've never been. What did you see?

[Innocent Bystander]

First War crippled the European system of nobility. Gavrilo did the world a solid.

Islam is stage-managed opposition for the Great Satan Israel's war on gentiles.

The Chinks have no morals, no ethics, no empathy and no reason to develop the three. They are Communists in name only. Israel is dealing with them.

That first bit is one of the dumbest things ever posted here. Given the competition, that’s saying something.

The European Royal families were already impotent and in place for ceremonial purposes.

The first WW set the table for the second and it also allowed the Bolsheviks to grab power in Russia.

As for the rest of your incoherent babbling about crackpot Zionist conspiracies, stifle it.




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Why were so many European countries drawn in so rapidly, in the first place?

As for the other,

https://www.jta.org/2017/11/06/global/w ... ll-picture

https://m.jpost.com/Magazine/Was-the-Ru ... ish-514323

https://www.timesofisrael.com/trotskys- ... evolution/

The Russian Revolution was fed, led and financed by a certain demographic in New York City. Russia was home. Like the Irish of Boston, or the Chinese of San Francisco, or Germans who fought for the Vaterland, or the Mexicans of (insert here), the immigrants were concerned about home -- and willing to raise money to help home. Even if people died. Basic human nature -- and the reason why the Founding Fathers hard coded in the Constitution that only someone born on American soil could be President.


So what goes wrong in telling this tale, that it's been forbidden for 100 years?

[smackaholic]

The Chinks have no morals, no ethics, no empathy and no reason to develop the three.

Yeah you’re not a racist.

There are no exceptions, Kierland. You are definitely not one, and never have been. But you decided to use your powers for good instead of evil, and that was the gamechanger. I hope it's internal, and not just an overcoat.

I've clicked on one too many Faces of Death style industrial accident videos from China. That country has zero quality control and should be the impetus for permanently funding the EPA, the FDA and OSHA with whatever they want. Watching a bunch of people ignore hit and run victims or dying children is also unnerving. The old video of Asian woman dropping trou to squat in the middle of a busy market street to have her baby, and the aftermath, put things over the top.

The explanation I heard was that saving a life means taking responsibility for that life. No one wants the responsibility of another's life. So people die, and are replaced, and life goes on. It's a major change from owing your life to the person who saves you. In Christian countries, failure to help is a moral failing -- and many people fail morally, but many others do not because socially it would be wrong.

There are no social credit points in China for saving a life. There would be negative points in the West. None of this matters because I've never been. What did you see?

There is definitely something to what you say about Chinese culture. They are culturally very communal. Westerners tend to be more independent.

There was an interesting article I read recently about Japan. It talked about their highly communal culture with the exception of their northern most island, which is kind of their “Wild West”. The inhabitants there while ethnically Japanese are culturally more like westerners.

The article basically said that dense populations tend to be communal because they have to be and sparse populations are individualistic, also by necessity.


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[EAP]

Yeah you’re not a racist.

There are no exceptions, Kierland. You are definitely not one, and never have been. But you decided to use your powers for good instead of evil, and that was the gamechanger. I hope it's internal, and not just an overcoat.

I've clicked on one too many Faces of Death style industrial accident videos from China. That country has zero quality control and should be the impetus for permanently funding the EPA, the FDA and OSHA with whatever they want. Watching a bunch of people ignore hit and run victims or dying children is also unnerving. The old video of Asian woman dropping trou to squat in the middle of a busy market street to have her baby, and the aftermath, put things over the top.

The explanation I heard was that saving a life means taking responsibility for that life. No one wants the responsibility of another's life. So people die, and are replaced, and life goes on. It's a major change from owing your life to the person who saves you. In Christian countries, failure to help is a moral failing -- and many people fail morally, but many others do not because socially it would be wrong.

There are no social credit points in China for saving a life. There would be negative points in the West. None of this matters because I've never been. What did you see?

There is definitely something to what you say about Chinese culture. They are culturally very communal. Westerners tend to be more independent.

There was an interesting article I read recently about Japan. It talked about their highly communal culture with the exception of their northern most island, which is kind of their “Wild West”. The inhabitants there while ethnically Japanese are culturally more like westerners.

The article basically said that dense populations tend to be communal because they have to be and sparse populations are individualistic, also by necessity.


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I've always maintained that "communal" is cult like.
Not normal from a psychological standpoint.

That's why cults are so dangerous to the human spirit.

Communism and socialism are that same kind of thinking, only on a much larger scale.

No individual liberty. Control from the top down.

The OPPOSITE of the brilliant republic given to us by our founders.

Think about it?

[smackaholic]

We are herd animals. Being communal can be very beneficial, so long it is kept at the smallest levels possible.

In such arrangements, people remain accountable.

In the areas where communal cooperation is beneficial, almost all of them could and should be handled at the town or county level.

Somethings make sense at the state level.

National defense and very little else should be done by the feds. The country is simply too big and these people too disconnected to do a good job.

The beauty about handling things at the lower levels is you have more direct input and if you decide you don't like the way your community does things, you can move to a place that runs things more to your liking.

For those that want single payer, do it at the state level. Bernie likes to go on and on about how fukking awesome Norway is. Norway has a bit over 5 million people. We have 22 states with larger populations. Why don't any of them take a crack at it?

[BSmack]

.For those that want single payer, do it at the state level. Bernie likes to go on and on about how fukking awesome Norway is. Norway has a bit over 5 million people. We have 22 states with larger populations. Why don't any of them take a crack at it?

If California was allowed to manage their own Sovereign Wealth Fund to the tune of a trillion dollars, they could replicate Norway.

[Innocent Bystander]

.For those that want single payer, do it at the state level. Bernie likes to go on and on about how fukking awesome Norway is. Norway has a bit over 5 million people. We have 22 states with larger populations. Why don't any of them take a crack at it?

If California was allowed to manage their own Sovereign Wealth Fund to the tune of a trillion dollars, they could replicate Norway.

You're serious. Let me laugh harder.



Smackaholic, if you can find the article on upper Japan, please post it.

[smackaholic]

.For those that want single payer, do it at the state level. Bernie likes to go on and on about how fukking awesome Norway is. Norway has a bit over 5 million people. We have 22 states with larger populations. Why don't any of them take a crack at it?

If California was allowed to manage their own Sovereign Wealth Fund to the tune of a trillion dollars, they could replicate Norway.

What's keeping them? They do have the ability to tax things in their state.

And I am certain Cali could pull off single payer....had they not allowed many millions of illegals into the state over the last 30 years.