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IrishAyes

(6,151 posts) Mon Jul 21, 2014, 08:20 PM Jul 2014

May I invite your attention to a particularly vexing thread in GD, please? [View all]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025271454

It's about NYC giving a permit for an apartment building that will have a separate entrance IN THE ALLEY for those subsidized folks graced by the privilege of living anywhere near their betters who are paying top market rate. Only the rich fat cats will get to use the front door.

There's a whiff of agreement or at least acquiescence to this, and of course when I said it's incumbent on the poor to fight for their rights, I was accused of poor-bashing by a person who prefers the indirect condescension of insisting the poor are incapable of dutiful resistance to their economic overlords.

I hold otherwise.

What say you?

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May I invite your attention to a particularly vexing thread in GD, please? [View all] IrishAyes Jul 2014 OP

It takes money to fight an atrocity such as this. That is the lack of which shraby Jul 2014 #1

money...or numbers and determination. ret5hd Jul 2014 #2

I don't know how that is even legal. Starry Messenger Jul 2014 #3

As the person you are accusing F4lconF16 Jul 2014 #4

'When' certainly leaves the door open for 'if'. IrishAyes Jul 2014 #5

I'd ask you to look at my last post to you in the other thread. F4lconF16 Jul 2014 #6

Yeah I posted in that ridiculous thread. TBF Jul 2014 #7

Thanks for the tip - I was going to visit again anyway for updates, but IrishAyes Jul 2014 #8

And Piketty! How could I have left him off my list? IrishAyes Jul 2014 #9