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kmp1284 said:
You seem to have an axe to grind. You’re wildly misinformed and completely clueless as to how these institutions operate and how much benefit they provide to those at all levels of the economic spectrum.
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I enumerated many facts about many aspects of these issues which are easily referenced, and your reply us your usual garbage response of kneejerk editorial bullshit. Feel free to produce a single factual refutation of anything I said, other than the typical rude and ignorant response you’re well known for on this forum.
 
FK4 said:
I enumerated many facts about many aspects of these issues which are easily referenced, and your reply us your usual garbage response of kneejerk editorial bullshit. Feel free to produce a single factual refutation of anything I said, other than the typical rude and ignorant response you’re well known for on this forum.
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It’s not my job as the reader to fact check your writing. Perhaps it might have been a more compelling piece if you wrote in a less emotional tone and cited sources. From the first line to the last it oozes anger and resentment and that’s all anyone is going to take from it.
 
kmp1284 said:
It’s not my job as the reader to fact check your writing. Perhaps it might have been a more compelling piece if you wrote in a less emotional tone and cited sources. From the first line to the last it oozes anger and resentment and that’s all anyone is going to take from it.
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Apparently not your job as a reader to think, either. When you’re done letting the offense any modicum of systemic critique does to your delicate, slightly-right-of-center sensibilities, troll along, my dear troll, troll along.
 
I just walked by this earlier.. the podium facade on Cambridge St is horrible. Looks like a prison..
 
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FK4 said:
Apparently not your job as a reader to think, either. When you’re done letting the offense any modicum of systemic critique does to your delicate, slightly-right-of-center sensibilities, troll along, my dear troll, troll along.
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What is there to think about? People like you who want to burn down every institution of our society have been around forever and none of them can ever justify their ideology with facts or alternatives.
 
Suffolk 83 said:
What do you mean, you people?

This is quite the leap. Careful, your true colors are coming out
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I already said what I had to say on this tangent, but it's probably worth noting that "you people," which I agree is a loaded term, is not the same as what @kmp1284 said, which was, "people like you." You are free to take that as meaning the same, but in this case, I'm pretty sure the meaning was more aimed at people who follow a certain rhetorical style, one that might be called muckraking, bomb throwing, or performative ranting.
 
Two things can be true at the same time:
- Our top institutions have done/are doing incredibly positive, impactful things, and are helping to spread best practices and critical expertise globally
- Our top institutions fail to reach many pockets of the community who would really benefit from them, and, given that they are magnets for donor dollars, are part of a system that keeps money flowing to areas that already have a ton of resources as opposed to those areas that most need resources

If you think about it, it's kind of a microcosm of a (the?) core theme of unease at the national (global?) level.

Yet, despite the fact that things are broken and need improvement, I am not in the "let's blow up the institutions" camp. They are still core to all of this, warts and all.
 
bigpicture7 said:
Two things can be true at the same time:
- Our top institutions have done/are doing incredibly positive, impactful things, and are helping to spread best practices and critical expertise globally
- Our top institutions fail to reach many pockets of the community who would really benefit from them, and, given that they are magnets for donor dollars, are part of a system that keeps money flowing to areas that already have a ton of resources as opposed to those areas that most need resources

If you think about it, it's kind of a microcosm of a (the?) core theme of unease at the national (global?) level.

Yet, despite the fact that things are broken and need improvement, I am not in the "let's blow up the institutions" camp. They are still core to all of this, warts and all.
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Also, those institutions employ thousands of people from the local communities in jobs with greater benefits and opportunities than what the local community activists offer. The key is to grow these institutions and DEEPEN their link to the communities - - a rising tide should lift all boats. Instead of tearing things down, why not work to make BETTER those things that attract capital?
 
Suffolk 83 said:
What do you mean, you people?

This is quite the leap. Careful, your true colors are coming out
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This will be my final remark but the eagerness to be offended is one of the things that characterized the Dems as soft and unlikable to blue collar folks and ultimately cost Harris the presidency and the Dems Congress. I’m not surprised that someone would misstate my words but I didn’t expect it to be you. Last time I checked, holding a certain political and/or economic ideology was a choice, not an inherent trait like being an ethnic minority or a member of the LGBTQ community.
 
kmp1284 said:
This will be my final remark but the eagerness to be offended is one of the things that characterized the Dems as soft and unlikable to blue collar folks and ultimately cost Harris the presidency and the Dems Congress. I’m not surprised that someone would misstate my words but I didn’t expect it to be you. Last time I checked, holding a certain political and/or economic ideology was a choice, not an inherent trait like being an ethnic minority or a member of the LGBTQ community.
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I was TROLLING lmao. Thought you were quicker than that
 
shmessy said:
I don’t troll here, and I CERTAINLY wouldn’t brag about it. Stop wasting members’ time with that juvenile crap.
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80% of your posts are a waste of everybody’s time. Stop feigning some moral high road you couldn’t find with a map
 
Guys, we don't care who's right. We don't come here to read arguments. Take five, please.

Anyway, 2024.12.22 peeking over MGH from the train at Science Park, on my way to the Amtrak to see my family for the holidays. Sorry for the terrible quality.
 

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