The Scarface hotel is now a CVS

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We need a term for what I’ve mentally been dubbing “corporate gentrification”, or the phenomena of the rapid death of small independent business combined with their replacement with sterile corporate “boxes”. You know these boxes. You’ve probably been inside one. They pop up all over town. Brick-shaped, devoid of character, sucking the souls out of communities. Brick-shaped chain restaurants, brick-shaped chain vape shops, brick-shaped chain yoga studios. ET. CETERA. They’re nightmarish, an abyssal, soulless box. A corporate corpse that communities are supposed to just accept, do business with, download their “apps”, and pretend that local businesses don’t matter. Suddenly, these box businesses are everywhere. They line our streets, invade our space, demolishing legacy structures to make way for their commercial rectangles, buildings that amount to social pollution, shapes and colors that negatively affect the psyches and spirits of those forced to look at them on a daily basis.

 

Foreign-born population in the US now stands at 49 million

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This staggering number is up from 31 million foreign-born citizens as shown in the US census in the year 2000. In 1990 that number was just 19.8 million.

I don’t object to immigrant citizens at all, but I do object to how they enter, and how they behave once they’re here. Forcing immigrants to abide by certain rules means that, on the whole, decent people will immigrate. But make our immigration system into a dysfunctional international joke, and people who are not decent will flood our Southern border, taking the place of decent families who follow the rules.

COVID-era horrors: daughter killed by lethal cocktail administered by doctors

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She was labeled as “Do Not Resuscitate” without her parents’ permission, given no help in her battle with COVID, and soon given a lethal mix of drugs which killed her. Now her parents are suing.

We lived through an era of true monsters, not of the historic, far off variety, but of the kind that live next door. Mundane inhumanity ruled the COVID era, but will these stories be lost to history?

Biden plans to use national parks to house illegal immigrants

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We are governed by people who hate us.

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Israeli sniper murders teenager waiting for release of hostages

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Seemingly random, sadistic violence is apparently a common occurrence at the hands of the IDF. I post this particular instance because they admit doing it, and give a clearly made-up-on-the-spot excuse for it. Here is a strange aspect to these random killings and terrorizations of Palestinians: the behavior seems to mimic the behavior of the cinematic portrayal of Nazis. Not merely the actual behavior of Nazis, but the way that the Nazis have been portrayed on the silver screen. Snipers killing random concentration camp inmates, random kidnappings, beatings, et cetera, its almost as if the IDF is reenacting scenes from Schindler’s List or other Holocaust-centric films. When I say that Israel is the most Freudian nation to have ever existed, I also mean strange phenomena such as this. There’s no way to know how deep this collective psychosis goes. We only know that we’re dealing with a deeply racist, ideology-driven nation. They’ve mastered the art of indoctrinating their youth, creating a self-perpetuating cycle of hate, death, and war. A monstrous ideology the core of which lies a false victimhood that is used to justify an unbroken sequence of all-too-real atrocities.