The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

[OccultHawk]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/17/b...-they-pay.html

Crystal Thompson was at home watching the Rose Bowl parade when a county sheriff came to arrest her for shoplifting from the local Walmart.

Ms. Thompson, 43, was baffled and scared. An agoraphobic, she had not shopped at a Walmart in more than a year. She was taken to a Mobile jail, searched, held in a small room and required to remove her false teeth, something she didn’t even do in front of her husband.

[OccultHawk]

Slain Colorado family’s friends reflect on their ‘perfect’ marriage | Fri, Aug 17
Friends of the slain Colorado family reflect on Chris and Shanann Watts’ relationship, describing them as the “perfect couple.” Chris Watts’ was arrested Thursday for the murder of his wife and their two daughters. The Watts’ friends express their shock over the tragedy.

Frankie Teardrop

[OccultHawk]

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...y-homelessness

People aren’t pooping on the streets because they unlearned basic hygiene. Rather, the incidents reflect shameful levels of inequality in the city

3 stories in a row that illustrate the devastation of capitalism

[Anteater]

Originally Posted by occulthawk

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...y-homelessness



3 stories in a row that illustrate the devastation of being a democrat-run city that can't manage a budget.

ftfy

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Anteater

ftfy

a democrat-run city that can't manage a budget = capitalism

[DwnWthVwls]

I'm gonna start blaming physics when engineers fail. Seems smart.

[Anteater]

They get millions in federal funding but implement poor policies. Must be capitalism's fault.

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Anteater

They get millions in federal funding but implement poor policies. Must be capitalism's fault.

Church

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by elphenor

whos fault would it be if the city were governed red

the conservative answer is generally to just not govern at all

let individuals un-inequality themselves

I feel like the “conservative” answer is to waste the same amount of money or more except on **** that is actively designed to hurt people instead of help them (I mean poor people of course- they work out mutually beneficial **** with other rich *******s)

I wish their move was to not govern at all

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by elphenor

I want to make a joke about how red states don't have inequality because if anyone makes any money they move directly the **** out, to a rich blue state, like say, California

but it ultimately wouldn't be true, given my state of Texas has one of the highest levels of income inequality in the country

However it is true that blue states are becoming more and more prohibitively expensive-

Can’t have much respect for the Bay Area PDX and Seattle when their “liberalism” = be rich or move on