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Seattle’s socialist City Council member Kshama Sawant wants to make an example out of Amazon
Geek Wire ^ | November 20, 2019 | MONICA NICKELSBURG

Posted on 11/23/2019 2:57:55 AM PST by gattaca

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To: Boomer

This lefty lady believes in a cargo cult.

Lots of cool stuff mysteriously appears in the city—then she gets to redistribute it!


21 posted on 11/23/2019 4:54:14 AM PST by cgbg (The Democratic Party is morphing into the Donner Party)
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To: Starcitizen

She must feel at home when the homeless people defecate in the street.


22 posted on 11/23/2019 4:55:50 AM PST by cgbg (The Democratic Party is morphing into the Donner Party)
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To: Pollard
If she really wants to study and *gasp* understand economics, she should create a business and run it.

It’s easy to play Ganesha with other people’s lives & fortunes.

23 posted on 11/23/2019 4:59:19 AM PST by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the disco)
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To: gattaca

Amazon may just wind up making an example out of Seattle.

There is not much holding Amazon HQ in Seattle. No hard-to-move factories. It may be time to announce a new facility in Tacoma Washington, just a few miles south, along with Bezos buying a home in Florida or Texas.


24 posted on 11/23/2019 5:02:13 AM PST by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: Pollard
Sawant grew up in Mumbai where she later studied computer science and graduated with a BSc from the University of Mumbai in 1994.
After moving to the United States, she was shocked by the level of poverty and decided to abandon software engineering.

Someone who GREW UP IN MUMBAI, India, is SHOCKED by US poverty...There are no liars like socialist liars.

Youtube: My Daily Life in the SLUMS OF MUMBAI (Life-Changing 5 Days)


25 posted on 11/23/2019 5:09:54 AM PST by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: Boomer

So How many generations back do we have to go before immigration brought this kind of POS into this country?

End all immigration. Not needed, not wanted.


26 posted on 11/23/2019 5:15:01 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Guns up . . . We cominÂ’ PS: Eric The Blower Ciaramella. PASS IT ON)
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To: PapaBear3625

I’m unclear - is that a picture of Mumbai, or an artist’s rendering of what Seattle will look like after a few years of being run into the ground by Socialists like Sawant?


27 posted on 11/23/2019 6:09:21 AM PST by Junk Silver ("It's a little hard to herd people onto trains when they're shooting at you." SirLurkedalot)
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To: PapaBear3625
I've seen areas like that in China, too. For the most part, people who live there are not that poor - some are even quite prosperous - they just don't care what the neighborhood looks like. It's somebody else's problem. That culture is very hard to overcome.

What you won't see, unlike in the US, are mentally ill indigents sitting on street corners and harassing wealthier citizens. The law and the courts in those countries are on the side of the citizens, not the indigents, and such individuals will quickly disappear from the scene. This is probably what "shocked" Sawant, and she is deliberately confusing the ongoing tolerance of these indigents with poverty to further her revolutionary Communist agenda.

28 posted on 11/23/2019 6:20:13 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: A_Former_Democrat

Indian chain-migration is very strong in King County. And they bring their filthy lifestyle to the US. You should see some of the malls they took over in Redmond. Looks like 3rd World India. They don’t have the same level of community cleanliness as we do (outside of gang-infested areas of Chiraq, Los Angeles etc.

And Indians (like Communist Chinese) just squat and shit just about anywhere. See the bathrooms at the Microsoft campus. Nasty. Shit and piss all over the place as they squat over our toilets. And yet they call us Americans unclean.


29 posted on 11/23/2019 7:09:00 AM PST by Starcitizen (American. No hypenation necessary. Send the H1B and H4EAD slime home. American jobs for Americans)
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To: gattaca

It was a pretty nice place when I lived there

40 years ago.


30 posted on 11/23/2019 7:16:09 AM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: PapaBear3625

I’ve been in most of the Indian states, and that pic showing Mumbai shows an upper class slum! The ride to city center from the airport is classed as “grey”. No color, just dirt.
It is the filthiest, dirtiest, disease filled place on earth.


31 posted on 11/23/2019 7:18:16 AM PST by OregonRancher (Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints)
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To: cuban leaf

Austin, TX missed out on getting Amazon’s 2nd HQ by a nose. Whoo hoo! Happy dance! Austin got lucky. There’s no housing as it is and traffic is horrible. Taxes are out of this world. Austin certainly didn’t need another 15,000 new families. Sadly, Amazon is still bringing in 5,000 new families.

I’ve had Amazon and their lib ideas on my ban list for years. Their latest commercial is bragging how trans gender friendly they. You’re more than welcome to them and their garbage.


32 posted on 11/23/2019 8:05:25 AM PST by bgill
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To: Starcitizen

Trump was supposed to have lowered the number of H1Bs. Not good enough. He should have ended the program, period.


33 posted on 11/23/2019 8:07:25 AM PST by bgill
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To: gattaca
Kshama Sawant = immigrant from a hellhole who comes to America and wants to turn us into a hell hole so she can get stuff without producing.
34 posted on 11/23/2019 8:08:19 AM PST by Vision (Obama corrupted, sought to weaken and fundamentally change America; he didn't plan on being stopped.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
She is a frequent thorn in Amazon’s side, dubbing a controversial piece of legislation the “Amazon Tax” and regularly hosting protests at the company’s headquarters. Amazon spent more money in support of her opponent than any other candidate.

35 posted on 11/23/2019 11:40:00 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: NativeSon
If she really wants to study and *gasp* understand economics, she should create a business and run it.

Oh, it's much worse than you realize. Before she got into politics, she taught at a Seattle community college.

Economics.

36 posted on 11/23/2019 11:52:07 AM PST by gogeo (The left prides themselves on being tolerant, but they can't even be civil.)
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To: Junk Silver

It could be “The Jungle” under I-5 in Seattle.


37 posted on 11/23/2019 11:53:50 AM PST by gogeo (The left prides themselves on being tolerant, but they can't even be civil.)
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