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re: Vermont Resettled Somalis, Shootings Are Up 185%
Posted on 1/22/24 at 10:36 am to imjustafatkid
Posted on 1/22/24 at 10:36 am to imjustafatkid
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Come on now. Liberal policies can't be to blame. It's the guns!
I have been reliably told that Diversity is our Strength. Man we are strong!!!
Posted on 1/22/24 at 10:37 am to Auburn1968
Mini Soros said that violence has largely evaporated. Hmmmm
I just don't believe the stats you have provided.
I just don't believe the stats you have provided.
Posted on 1/22/24 at 10:39 am to dafif
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Reminds me of a Rush song
First thing I thought of too.
Posted on 1/22/24 at 10:41 am to Auburn1968
Diversity is our greatest strengf
Posted on 1/22/24 at 10:48 am to Gifman
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The average IQ in Somalia is 68.
And that’s the issue. You aren’t helping people (increasing their well-being and perceived satisfaction with life) by taking them away from environs in which they are comfortable and normal and resettling them in a place that will make them painfully aware of their relative lack (of intelligence, of material possessions, of ability, etc).
Posted on 1/22/24 at 10:52 am to Auburn1968
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Vermont Resettled Somalis, Shootings Are Up 185%
Posted on 1/22/24 at 10:53 am to Auburn1968
Sure but let's ignore the second largest cause of deaths in Vermonth. #MapleSyrup kills
Posted on 1/22/24 at 10:53 am to Aubie Spr96
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I always enjoyed these types of discussions while in Utah once they found out I was from Alabama.
i mentioned this a few times, but i'm not a well known poster or anything, so it won't sound repetitive.
my wife and i went up to MA, NH, MN, and VT for a trip this fall. Portsmouth, NH and Portland, MN were very proud of their rainbow flags and BLM signs everywhere. never mind that i saw a total of one black person in NH and maybe half a dozen in Portland and all of them were working.
i also noticed very clean downtowns, no homelessness, no panhandling, etc.
it's very easy to be "for" diversity, immigration, gay rights, etc. when it doesn't affect you at all. i had an acquaintance in Vermont (from Texas) during the last election that was making fun of Beto and Abbott going after each other on social issues and the border. He was proud that his governor's talking point was "we're #4 in education and we're going to work to get to #1." no shite sherlock. when you don't have to worry about inner city youth, poverty, immigrant students, and crime, it's really easy to focus on first world problems and champagne issues.
also, i came away understanding why they're all socialist up there. i had 20 and 30 year olds waiting on me at these great little places in beautiful downtown Portland and Portsmouth that were all picturesque and exactly what you think of for a nice little coastal town. For fun, we looked at Zillow and everything within 3 miles of downtown was $500k+... on the low end... for dumps that i wouldn't live in.
we drove up the coast instead of the interstate from Portsmouth to Portland to see some light houses. We went through this community called Cape Elizabeth. Gorgeous homes, drove by tons of young women in their LL Bean gear picking their kids up from school buses and walking them back up to pristine colonial homes.
for fun my wife and i looked up the town.
LINK
interesting stats:
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The median income for a household in the town was $72,359 (2007 est. 92,604 aol.realestate.com), and the median income for a family was $106,126 in 2000. Males had a median income of $61,128 versus $32,500 for females. The per capita income for the town was $47,983. About 1.3% of families and 3.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 1.5% of those under age 18 and 8.1% of those age 65 or over.
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As of the census[13] of 2010, there were 9,015 people, 3,616 households, and 2,620 families living in the town. The population density was 613.3 inhabitants per square mile (236.8/km2). There were 3,963 housing units at an average density of 269.6 per square mile (104.1/km2). The racial makeup of the town was 96.6% White, 0.5% African American, 0.2% Native American, 1.4% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 0.3% from other races, and 1.0% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.4% of the population.
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Cape Elizabeth voted for all Republican presidential candidates from 1968–1988 by double digit margins, then voted Republican narrowly in the three way election of 1992, and has voted for each of the seven Democrat presidential candidates since 1996; five of them by double digits.
here's the houses available for sale in CE.
again, i get why they're all socialist. how in the hell is the median income of the household $75k, but you can't buy a house for anything just short of a million?
oh right, because you're an entirely white town with 0 diversity or poverty and you're all sitting on generational wealth and anything you vote for will never effect you.
anyways rant over about New England. Eastern Maine and central NH were based AF. my type of people.
This post was edited on 1/22/24 at 10:57 am
Posted on 1/22/24 at 10:56 am to Aubie Spr96
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After spending time up there this last fall, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, etc. welcome diversity and immigration only because they haven't had it yet.
I always enjoyed these types of discussions while in Utah once they found out I was from Alabama.
There's so much truth in that stance, I think many simply overlook it.
A couple of decades ago I lived in Alex/Pville. I met and became friends with a couple who had just moved down from Canada, they were in an apartment but were looking for a house and had found a decent-sized one in their price range. When they told me where it was (Lower Third) I told them they should pass and then explained why.
They were aghast at what they thought was my racism and it pretty much soured them on our friendship for a while. A year later the husband took me aside at a group function and apologized for their reactions. They had had no frame of reference for how the street-thug culture operates so anything like I tried to describe to them was simply the ramblings of some white, Southern racist. They quickly learned otherwise.
This post was edited on 1/22/24 at 10:58 am
Posted on 1/22/24 at 11:05 am to Bard
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They had had no frame of reference for how the street-thug culture operates so anything like I tried to describe to them was simply the ramblings of some white, Southern racist. They quickly learned otherwise.
it's a sucky situation, because most people i know on either side of the aisle abhors racism and hating people simply for their skin color, but when you point out problems from certain (not all) areas regarding certain (not all) people have certain (not all) bad behavior that's negative for all (all) society, it's racism.
when i talk about thug life behavior in inner city Dallas, Atlanta, Austin, Houston, NOLA, I am not referring to Van Jones, Obama, Lebron James, Ben Carson, etc. or their children. i am referring to the specific bad behavior of individuals in that area.
Posted on 1/22/24 at 12:25 pm to Auburn1968
"Abdiaziz Abdhikadir, 19, shot and killed Hussein Mubarak, 21."
Muslim kils Muslim. No harm done. Move on.
Muslim kils Muslim. No harm done. Move on.
Posted on 1/22/24 at 12:27 pm to Auburn1968
You knew I was a snake when you took me in
Posted on 1/22/24 at 12:48 pm to Auburn1968
But but dats waycist....
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