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The alt-right probably thinks that malls work the same way they think the labor market works, which means that if there's more people in the country, then stores will run out of things for Real Americans to buy because it'll all be bought by no-good dirty immigrants/tourists instead.
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I'm glad there is a Frye's electronics near my house. Their prices are generally as good as online, and sometimes I decide I need something, I just want to go to a store and get it..
It's also a reason to get out of the house.
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"We have set them on the hobby-horse of an idea about the absorption of individuality by the symbolic unit of COLLECTIVISM. They have never yet and they never will have the sense to reflect that this hobby-horse is a manifest violation of the most important law of nature, which has established from the very creation of the world one unit unlike another and precisely for the purpose of instituting individuality."- A Quote From Some Old Book
The only time I go to a retail store is to check out something I am thinking about buying online before I buy it.
I am going to a store today to buy a new Speed Queen washing machine . As much as it costs it should be Speed King .
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This might be the time to get into the demolition racket. Seriously. If thousands of malls are going to go the way of the dodo, and it now appears to be a distinct possibility, something will have to be done with all that real estate. I suppose they could all just be left to rot, but there are problems with that non-solution, not the least of which is liability for towns that leave such rotting hulks on place where less-desirables congregate and "innocent" children get hurt, or worse.
The tax loss to cities and other communities stand to be large, which is possibly a good thing because those entities either get seriously hurt (good) or they put the heavy screws to the rest of the property owners, which may be good in the longer run - though I doubt it - in that if things get bad enough, people might come to their senses...
NAAAAAAAAHHHHH...
I admit I find this all very fascinating, particularly how well the instinct for self-preservation appears to have been so deeply suppressed in the average man. This frogs-in-a-pot thing really does work, it seems.
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It appears that artificial intelligence is at least slightly superior to natural stupidity.
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freedomisobvious.blogspot.com
There is only one correct way: freedom. All other solutions are non-solutions.
It appears that artificial intelligence is at least slightly superior to natural stupidity.
Our words make us the ghosts that we are.
Convincing the world he didn't exist was the Devil's second greatest trick; the first was convincing us that God didn't exist.
A large mall went defunct in my area a few years ago. The city spent many millions to buy the property, with the promise of it being converted into a movie studio, park area, etc. Lots of big promises by city council. The only thing that actually happened was the owner got bailed out of his bad investment, the city spent a bunch of $$$, the mall was used as a SWAT and military training playground for a while and then was demolished. The land has sat empty since and hosts swap meets on the weekends. A fine appropriation of millions of taxpayer money, for sure. It'll probably end up being turned into yet another agenda 21/2030 stack and pack apartment complex at some point. I'd expect the same sort of story for the rest of the malls that go under in the near future.
Last edited by devil21; 03-26-2017 at 11:28 AM.
"Let it not be said that we did nothing."-Ron Paul
"We have set them on the hobby-horse of an idea about the absorption of individuality by the symbolic unit of COLLECTIVISM. They have never yet and they never will have the sense to reflect that this hobby-horse is a manifest violation of the most important law of nature, which has established from the very creation of the world one unit unlike another and precisely for the purpose of instituting individuality."- A Quote From Some Old Book
That's what's happening around here. The traditional mall stores (the smaller ones) are opening up in nicer versions of strip malls. Most of them have some nice restaurants and a theater close by. Which, btw, have really gotten nice. They turned the "old" one near us into a $2.00 theater for stale movies and the new one has recliners and a bar. Pretty sweet set up.
Malls are always full of people, overpriced junk, and they lose money. I buy everything on the internet except food.
Ebates, Raise, coupon code... If you are not using the internet you are getting swindled.
Last edited by tod evans; 03-28-2017 at 09:24 AM.
Our temperaments have definitely changed, quantifiably, and this is one of the manifestations. People are less social. More loners. Tons of factors that have caused this -- interstate highway system, higher education serving as a siphon to suck talent out of towns and into metros, a massive incoming peasant migration from places with very, very alien cultures, and government policies actively destroying and subsuming the role of family and church. All of which adds up to the reality that: Today, you probably do not relate to and share lots in common with your immediate neighbors. You feel no particular affinity towards them. You are a stranger on your own street. You don't have a shared life experience. You don't wake up at the same time in the morning and walk to the same job. You don't have barbecues together. Your kids don't walk to and from school together. You don't see each other at church every week.
You have a closer emotional connection with Conan O-Brien and the characters in the Game of Thrones than you do with anyone whose house you can see out your window. Far closer.
This is a bizarre situation, precedented by previous civilization collapses, but probably never to this extent. People don't like going out. Even to go shopping. When they are out they're on their geejaw. People are recluses. Non-social and anti-social. It's introversion rigorized and systematized.
Last edited by helmuth_hubener; 03-28-2017 at 08:10 AM.
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