(05-19-2017 12:13 PM)Kronke Wrote:  Name another that will be around in 10 years. That prerequisite excludes Best Buy, which will be put out of business by then by Amazon. Worthless state.

Also, calling it Little Mogadishu isn't a name I coined and isn't a diss, it's a fact.

http://www.startribune.com/inside-little...414876214/

http://www.twincities.com/2017/02/06/min...from-2015/

Fortune 500 companies in the state:

6: UnitedHealth Group (up from 14; 2016 revenues of $157.1 billion)
38: Target (down from 36, $73.8)
71: Best Buy (up from 72, $39.7)
84: CHS (down from 69, $34.6)
93: 3M (up from 98, $30.3)
131: U.S. Bancorp (up from 138, $21.5)
160: Supervalu (up from 164, $17.8)
161: General Mills (up from 171, $17.6)
206: Ecolab (up from 213, $13.5)
208: C.H. Robinson Worldwide (up from 225, $13.5)
215: Land O’Lakes (down from 203, $13.20)
232: Ameriprise Financial (up from 247, $12.2)
257: Xcel Energy (down from 255, $11)
304: Hormel Foods (up from 310, $9.3)
316: Mosaic (up from 320, $8.9)
318: Thrivent Financial for Lutherans (up from 333, $8.8)
465: St. Jude Medical (up from 466, $5.5)

As to Best Buy, they will be fine because they have been smart about their business. I worked in their corporate office for a couple of years and you would be amazed at how aware they are the old models don't work.

Their online business is huge, more so than the stores, and they have integrated in such a way to turn all their stores into mini warehouses to shorten the delivery and return times.

And Kronke is shot down on a very poor WAG.

Thanks guys!

(05-19-2017 11:56 AM)MplsBison Wrote:  

(05-19-2017 11:50 AM)200yrs2late Wrote:  Population and employment can both increase while wealthy individuals leave the state.

But that doesn't hurt the state in any meaningful way.

That wasn't the argument. You said another poster's statement that wealthy people were leaving the state was false. You were wrong and refuse to admit that, instead trying to somehow extrude that because population in increasing and employment is up, that wealthy individuals are not leaving the state.

Pathetic.

(05-19-2017 12:21 PM)Bull_Is_Back Wrote:  the burbs are nice

The suburbs are going to be nice practically anywhere, including Commiefornia.

(05-19-2017 12:21 PM)Bull_Is_Back Wrote:  But you are correct in that the state's moving the wrong way. We are now exporting more middle class talent than we are importing and bodies like the metropolitan console (unelected bureaucrats) continue to try to social engineer the first ring suburbs out of existence.

(05-19-2017 01:27 PM)200yrs2late Wrote:  That wasn't the argument.

Of course it was, why else bring it up?

(05-19-2017 02:11 PM)Kronke Wrote:  The suburbs are going to be nice practically anywhere, including Commiefornia.

There's nothing inherently wrong with the suburbs .... if you think ketchup on store bought noodles is "pasta".

Just very bland, very boring. All the houses look the same. Only big box stores and chain restaurants. Bleh

(05-20-2017 11:40 AM)MplsBison Wrote:  There's nothing inherently wrong with the suburbs .... if you think ketchup on store bought noodles is "pasta".

Just very bland, very boring. All the houses look the same. Only big box stores and chain restaurants. Bleh

and no mammary for the snowflakes to suckle on.

(05-20-2017 11:41 AM)UofMstateU Wrote:  and no mammary for the snowflakes to suckle on.

The suburbs don't have taxes or public services? Obviously a false statement

(05-20-2017 11:45 AM)MplsBison Wrote:  

(05-20-2017 11:41 AM)UofMstateU Wrote:  and no mammary for the snowflakes to suckle on.

The suburbs don't have taxes or public services? Obviously a false statement

Yes, but they have a shortage of mammaries for the snowflakes to suck on. Which is why you will find the snowflakes densely populated into the places where they can find a teet easily, such as the inner cities.

(05-20-2017 11:48 AM)UofMstateU Wrote:  they have a shortage of mammaries for the snowflakes to suck on.

Made-up nonsense, is made-up nonsense.

(05-20-2017 11:41 AM)UofMstateU Wrote:  

(05-20-2017 11:40 AM)MplsBison Wrote:  There's nothing inherently wrong with the suburbs .... if you think ketchup on store bought noodles is "pasta".

Just very bland, very boring. All the houses look the same. Only big box stores and chain restaurants. Bleh

and no mammary for the snowflakes to suckle on.

There's nothing wrong with the cities .... If you like think high crime rates and piss poor schools are a sign of sophistication.

Just very violent, very backwards. All the schools suck. Way more crime per capita.

(05-20-2017 12:06 PM)Bull_Is_Back Wrote:  There's nothing wrong with the cities .... If you like think high crime rates and piss poor schools are a sign of sophistication.

Just very violent, very backwards. All the schools suck. Way more crime per capita.

Must be why all those new construction $1M+ homes are constantly being built in SW Minneapolis, and why Southwest High is constantly ranked as one of the best high schools in the state!

But yeah, people usually like to build their dream homes in places with high crime and bad schools.

So in other words, you're lying.

(05-19-2017 12:13 PM)Kronke Wrote:  Name another that will be around in 10 years. That prerequisite excludes Best Buy, which will be put out of business by then by Amazon. Worthless state.

Also, calling it Little Mogadishu isn't a name I coined and isn't a diss, it's a fact.

http://www.startribune.com/inside-little...414876214/

MN is like our own little EU. Keep importing the 3rd world and see how it works out.

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(05-20-2017 12:13 PM)MplsBison Wrote:  

(05-20-2017 12:06 PM)Bull_Is_Back Wrote:  There's nothing wrong with the cities .... If you like think high crime rates and piss poor schools are a sign of sophistication.

Just very violent, very backwards. All the schools suck. Way more crime per capita.

Must be why all those new construction $1M+ homes are constantly being built in SW Minneapolis, and why Southwest High is constantly ranked as one of the best high schools in the state!

But yeah, people usually like to build their dream homes in places with high crime and bad schools.

So in other words, you're lying.

Right, because the existence of an upper class in a sprawling metropolis means that it can't also have high crime and poor schools.

You need to learn how to just admit when you're wrong, because all too often you back yourself into a corner with the strangest arguments.

(05-19-2017 12:04 PM)Kronke Wrote:  Minnesota aka Little Mogadishu is a terrible state, probably 2nd worst in the country only to Commiefornia. Their one company is in full on collapse, because of SJW pandering nonsense. I'd have no problem whatsoever exporting that train wreck of a state to Canada.

Like Canada would have them. Lol

And you pose as a Libratarian ???

(05-20-2017 07:08 PM)Kronke Wrote:  Right, because the existence of an upper class in a sprawling metropolis means that it can't also have high crime and poor schools.

Where to start ...

- the context of the discussion was inner cities vs suburbs, which are both part of the metro
- obviously high crime and poor schools can exist somewhere in a large metro, simultaneously with wealthy neighborhoods and good schools -- no one said otherwise, because that wasn't the discussion
- Bull's comment was a general comment about Minneapolis city proper (as opposed to living in the suburbs of Mpls), and was a ridiculous, silly comment -- which I smashed to pieces


Anything else?

(05-20-2017 08:27 PM)South Carolina Duke Wrote:  And you pose as a Libratarian ???

Did you mean Libertarian or Librarian? I'm neither, and pose as neither, for what it's worth.

Sometimes UoMsU uses the term "libturd" as a lowbrow nickname for Libertarians.

(05-21-2017 11:10 AM)MplsBison Wrote:  

(05-20-2017 07:08 PM)Kronke Wrote:  Right, because the existence of an upper class in a sprawling metropolis means that it can't also have high crime and poor schools.

Where to start ...

With you, it usually starts with reaching up into your rectum and pulling out some random turdnugget and running with it.

(05-21-2017 11:12 AM)UofMstateU Wrote:  With you, it usually starts with ...

Causing your anger management issue to flare up, by challenging your closely held beliefs?

(05-21-2017 11:12 AM)UofMstateU Wrote:  

(05-21-2017 11:10 AM)MplsBison Wrote:  

(05-20-2017 07:08 PM)Kronke Wrote:  Right, because the existence of an upper class in a sprawling metropolis means that it can't also have high crime and poor schools.

Where to start ...

With you, it usually starts with reaching up into your rectum and pulling out some random turdnugget and running with it.

(05-19-2017 12:21 PM)Bull_Is_Back Wrote:  But you are correct in that the state's moving the wrong way. We are now exporting more middle class talent than we are importing and bodies like the metropolitan console (unelected bureaucrats) continue to try to social engineer the first ring suburbs out of existence.

It is worth noting that the history of how suburbs were social engineered into existence is somewhat sordid...

A 'Forgotten History' Of How The U.S. Government Segregated America : NPR

Quote:In 1933, faced with a housing shortage, the federal government began a program explicitly designed to increase — and segregate — America's housing stock. Author Richard Rothstein says the housing programs begun under the New Deal were tantamount to a "state-sponsored system of segregation."

I have argued before that the issues surrounding Black Lives Matter movement are largely a consequence of broken windows policing (generally without arguing whether that is necessary or not, but police shootings and the apparent high proportion of black targets are one cost of that approach). But an extension of that argument is that housing segregation and policies that may have contributed to pockets of high crime areas are a pretty substantial root cause of the issues that we see today. And, the ultimate blame lies not in libertarianism, but the opposite ... Progressive, state-planned social engineering at the hands of the most Progressive government in our nation's history.