Yeah, like that time that George Floyd pushed his neck under that cop’s knee.
Let me know when that sarcastic font is located.
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I agree all those factors are definitely contributing to the overall unrest generally, especially on airplanes, those are basically 100% pandemic related and caused. But nearly every country globally had some form of pandemic restrictions, some a lot more strict than the US, who didn’t see similar numbers we did.
I honestly wish I didn’t respond, people always have to pick sides with this issue where someone can’t criticize one position without being labeled for another position.
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Last time I went to Carolina Ale House they were searching everyone for guns with a metal detector wand at the entrance. I was surprised because evidently I don’t go there often enough. I asked the bartender and he said it does get pretty rough at night.
I’ve always felt safe, but never got to the point where I tried picking a fight with someone.
I’ve also seen that video and thought it was crazy. There was too much going on.
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Glenwood would not be Glenwood without something like this happening. #bravo
My partner walked home from Five Points through Glenwood South last night around 9pm. He said it was as crowded as a busy Friday or Saturday and RPD had mounted officers in the area.
We lived there from 2007-2012 and I’d say things have definitely escalated since then. I attribute it to the types and concentration of drinking establishments (Cornerstone, anyone?). Add the pandemic and plenty of alcohol, shake, and you have a 
show.
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Cornerstone will be gone somewhat soon, but the toothpaste in that tube will just “squeeze” to somewhere else.
It’s hard to tell where the next place will be, but it will happen. This patterns happens all over the country.
After watching this several times, it looks “staged” 
Dude… that guy hit the ground HARD. If it was staged, he is the most dedicated TikTok actor I’ve ever seen.
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If I’m not mistaken, but I feel the Cornerstone guy opened a new place on the other end of Glenwood South next to the Willard hotel. The name of that place is leaving me…
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The Avenue. It’s not nearly as substantial of a property though.
That’s it. Clearly I haven’t been in there…I don’t think a married guy in his 30s is the crowd they’re shooting for.
Agreed on the sentiment overall sentiment too. The hip, ‘cool’ bar of the moment when I was at State was the former Stool Piegons/Downtown Sports Bar place. That closed up and then Cornerstone took the baton.
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Glenwood South is very mild. It’s 1/97th as wild as Sixth Street in Austin or literally any party street in any other city in the entire US. There’s probably cities deep in Mormon country that would knock GS’s socks off.
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We live in a divisive time that casts suspicion on other citizens and blatantly disregards truth and morality. This is where we are and it’s dangerous. We walk from St Marys to Five Points, down Glenwood (Speed Limit 35). Multiple cars have passed us, pedestrians - maybe 5-6 feet away, going at least 80. Easy pickings if RPD was present. One night a vehicle was chased, turned down The Circle and parked in someone’s driveway. They did get that one.
Yep. 21ish year old morons do dumb shit on St. Patrick’s Day weekend on the main drinking drag in a city with a major university. News at 11.
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Personally I think the worst side effect of the pandemic, and the reactions to the pandemic, and the reactions to the reactions of the pandemic, and so forth, is this chronic paranoia of and addiction to breaking news.
If I’m going to be honest with myself, this site is probably my biggest tech addiction, but it used to be Twitter. I had to divorce myself from that knee-jerk, emotionally driven online universe. If I may extrapolate a bit, the media and tech addiction is making us all a little more animal-brained… Driven by emotional limbic system, and quick to establish an us/they relationship on many topics. It has eroded faith between strangers, and thus the whole social fabric and safety net is more fragile. Douse economic and personal health struggles onto this fragile social fabric, and you have many more people slipping into the fringes of society. I mean health clinics and non-profits closed their doors to those truly in need out of respect for their safety, which is ironic as all get-out to me.
Many people like to blame one particular leader or another for this divisiveness, but if that person wasn’t in power, it would just be someone else filling that same role. The heart of the issue lies with the information addiction machine of mass media and commoditzation of our thoughts and feelings. A personal solution is to quit identifying with thoughts and feelings, which is one of the liberations of ancient wisdom.
Happy Friday all!!
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Is it okay to say that I don’t even understand Twitter?
From what I keep hearing, it’s not a bad thing that I don’t have a clue.
Maybe I missed it, but did that guy live after falling off that roof?
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Not a bad thing at all. I joined at beginning of pandemic as a way to stay informed. Turned out it’s a better way to stay frustrated with strangers.
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Sounds like that NextDoor app that I can’t get my mother off!
I owe you beer. Cheers! 
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And likewise! Heading to SmoHo soon for this free show