Comments by "SepherStar" (@SepherStar) on "VICE" channel.

  1. I'm just going to copy and paste what I already wrote. It's not really about white people displacing brown people because gentrification doesn't mean white people displacing non-white people. It means more affluent people displacing less affluent people. I'm a white jew from an area that was predominantly white, I got displaced from my hometown when housing prices shot from $200,000 to $600,000 and took rents along with them, pushing out people like me and only being affordable to more affluent people, 50% who happened to be hispanic. In your area it's white people displacing latino people but in some areas, that's not the case. In some areas, it's more affluent Asian people displacing less affluent white people. Or more affluent white people displacing less affluent white people. Or more affluent latino people displacing less affluent latino people. Or more affluent black people displacing less affluent white people (the term for this is "white flight" to make it sound like white people are running from black people, and that idea masks growing affluence among black people and the idea that black people can be more affluent than white people), or more affluent latino people displacing less affluent latino people. I don't doubt you felt unwelcome in these restaurants but I'm not in the position to say whether this is because you were not welcome, or your own racial biases. Maybe these places have so many white people because vegan food is more of a thing in white circles? Maybe more latinos need to be turned on to the idea of vegan food? Maybe hipsters are just snob buckets who look down on people who aren't hispsters and need to be educated that anyone can be vegan.
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  2. +Eric S If you use white people as a marker for gentrification then you are missing instances of gentrification that don't involve white people.
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  3. It is pretty honest usually. It's just not reputable. There's a difference.
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  4. +googlepluswtf German and Austrian actually. There are individuals who are stronger than this man and don't work for it, but they prefer to remain anonymous. They have a genetic mutation in the myostatin gene or myostatin receptor gene, which causes their muscles to grow substantially more than that of most people. Unfortunately the tendons and ligaments don't keep up so well though!
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  5. If you need a government to tell you not to just crap right there in the open, then something is seriously wrong with you. I fail to believe that no one in that slum can build a latrine. 
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  6. The government isn't watching you. The internet, on the other hand, is a weirdo who knows everything about you.
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  7. +googlepluswtf One of them came forward on a message board once. He was unusually strong but he had a lot of muscle cramping and sustained injuries easily.
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  8. Tazy50 Scandinavians actually have a lot of disease causing recessive mutations.
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  9. People would still be jumping the border.
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  10. Vitor Leur Don't think the indigenous people of the Americas did not slaughter each other. They just weren't as efficient at it as the Europeans due to their technology, with the exception perhaps of the Aztecs.
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  11. They move to Lancaster.
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  12. Look the bottom line is, regardless of what race you are, if you are a renter, you are going to lose out when housing prices go up.
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  13. This "blame America" stuff is a tactic Mexico uses to dodge any responsibility on their part for their problems. The drug trade flourishes in Mexico because corrupt Mexican politicians have allowed it to. This is not an industry that could exist on such a scale without involvement of the Mexican government at the higher levels. Additionally, their economic policies, and endemic low wages create huge income gaps, and drug traffickers recruit openly from among the ranks of the police and military by offering higher wages and benefits such as health insurance. When a Mexican drug lord is arrested by the Mexican government, chance are it's not because he is a drug lord. It's because he didn't pay his "taxes".
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  14. What they should do is legalize guns in Mexico. If most of the population is armed, and sides against the drug traffickers, drug trafficking can be over. If most of the population sides with the drug traffickers, then I guess Mexico will get to stop hiding the fact that it's state sanctioned.
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  15. I hate to say it but the truth is, a lot of times these people in these small one industry towns, if told about the dangers before hand, don't want to hear it, and will vote against legislation designed to protect them....industry over environment. It's not until they start getting sick in large numbers do they claim the company wronged them. If you had tried to shut down that mine in Libby while it was still operating, you would have become public enemy #1 of the town's folk.
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