Detroit Really Is A Lawless, Corrupt, Broken S***Hole Of A City. Scary Vid.

[santahog]

As Chrysler touts the 300 as the thugmobile from Dtrroit, I can't help but wonder how broad their target market was intended to be..

[Ulmus]

In 1961 Detroit was an industrial showcase for the world.
That was the year the Dems and unions took over.
Now they are bulldozing abandoned neighborhoods.

Actually they started dismanteling Detroit after WW-II.  See it was built up heavily during and just after WW-I because it was "safely" inland, yet in a spot where the building resources could easily be shipped by multiple routes.  It was the proverbial basket full of eggs.

After Pearl Harbor, many companies moved out of Detroit leaving the big three.  That made Detroit just like any other city that has one resource supporting it.  Think of any coal mining town.  All the other businesses ther were built main to support the auto industry and/ or the people working for it.  Kinda like the big boom up in North Dakota for work on the oil reserve.  Now throw in the competition from imports that also came after the war.  Just like the big three tv channels lost revinue and markets to cable so did the big three auto companies.  (like anything else would happen in a free market society.)

Even if there weren't any riots or rapid bugging out of the city, it would've shrank.  The big three held their monopoly and refused to let anyone threaten their power.

And forget the whole "Liberal" angle.  The corruption in Detroit will happen to every city, state, and country that has their government "Downsized" because those high up in office will make sure that they and their buddies keep as much as they can and will finangle, weasel, and red tape their way into getting it.  I don't care what side of the party line your on.  This will happen.

They have the most costly school system in the country and a 25% graduation rate.
A kid starting High School in Detroit has a better chance of being jailed or killed than of graduating.

When all they see is what's inside the city and no role strong positive role model, what do you expect?  Again it's the same in small mining towns that went bust.  (Crystal Meth)

And we must never forget.
They brought it on themselves, this is how they want us all to live.

No.  This is how the ideas of Police States become popular.  (If we had a cop on every block with full auto AR's we'd be safe and could walk around unafraid.)

[tt11758]

As Chrysler touts the 300 as the thugmobile from Dtrroit, I can't help but wonder how broad their target market was intended to be..

I love their positioning statement:  "Imported from Detroit".  That's as close as they can get to the truth without ripping off Texas' positioning statement with, "Detroit, it's like a whole other country."

[devzal]

They should do "The Best Defense: Detroit" if it's filmed in the summer it'll have that Katrina aftermath feel without having to deal with all the water and the national guard.

[tombogan03884]

The neighbor hoods being bulldozed were built in the 60's and 70's.
Even Allentown Pa has not become the shithole Detroit has.
So none of that stuff about "downsizing" rings true since it has not repeated else where.

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[Tyler Durden]

Remember that Rudy Reyes guy, the Marine Corps guy who also acted in Generation Kill and was like a military consultant for the mini-series...he went on to do that show Apocalypse Man???

From what I understand, that was filmed in Detroit.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyZuvLo4eJA&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PLA316FAB742BF0530

[tombogan03884]

Remember that Rudy Reyes guy, the Marine Corps guy who also acted in Generation Kill and was like a military consultant for the mini-series...he went on to do that show Apocalypse Man???

From what I understand, that was filmed in Detroit.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyZuvLo4eJA&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PLA316FAB742BF0530

 Umm, No   

[Tyler Durden]

well, click on the link.  that's why I provided it.

I think Apocalypse Man came out on Discovery or History Channel about the same time Michael Bane and a few other experts were being interviewed for a during the apocalypse bird flu/regular flu outbreak "documentary".  it showed a family trying to flee Los Angeles.

that's why I was thinking you guys might remember it.

[Magoo541]

Quote from: tombogan03884 on Today at 05:05:03 pm
"And we must never forget.
They brought it on themselves, this is how they want us all to live."

No.  This is how the ideas of Police States become popular.  (If we had a cop on every block with full auto AR's we'd be safe and could walk around unafraid.)

What are you talking about???  Detroit is result of Liberals, Democrats and Unions soaking the Big Three for the last 50 years.  Look at the taxes on housing, the first house that sold for $1 that made the papers everywhere paid $3000 in property taxes a year-FOR 1300 SQFT IN THE HOOD!  

Forget increasing the police force, you need to arm the EMTs and civilians.

[Pathfinder]

Actually they started dismanteling Detroit after WW-II.  See it was built up heavily during and just after WW-I because it was "safely" inland, yet in a spot where the building resources could easily be shipped by multiple routes.  It was the proverbial basket full of eggs.

After Pearl Harbor, many companies moved out of Detroit leaving the big three.  That made Detroit just like any other city that has one resource supporting it.  Think of any coal mining town.  All the other businesses ther were built main to support the auto industry and/ or the people working for it.  Kinda like the big boom up in North Dakota for work on the oil reserve.  Now throw in the competition from imports that also came after the war.  Just like the big three tv channels lost revinue and markets to cable so did the big three auto companies.  (like anything else would happen in a free market society.)

Even if there weren't any riots or rapid bugging out of the city, it would've shrank.  The big three held their monopoly and refused to let anyone threaten their power.

And forget the whole "Liberal" angle.  The corruption in Detroit will happen to every city, state, and country that has their government "Downsized" because those high up in office will make sure that they and their buddies keep as much as they can and will finangle, weasel, and red tape their way into getting it.  I don't care what side of the party line your on.  This will happen.

When all they see is what's inside the city and no role strong positive role model, what do you expect?  Again it's the same in small mining towns that went bust.  (Crystal Meth)

No.  This is how the ideas of Police States become popular.  (If we had a cop on every block with full auto AR's we'd be safe and could walk around unafraid.)

Um, no?

Most of the car makers were NOT in Detroit to begin with. For example, Studebaker (yeah, gone now but a big company in its day) was in South Bend, IN. Stutz was in Indiana too.

Detroit failed due to the arrogance of the politicians thinking nothing could ever change the situation. Even as it changed, like when Packard moved out to South Bend, the politicians sat on their asses and did nothing to bring in unrelated industries or adapt in any way. Then the libtards took over, hand in hand with the unions, and we see the result today.

Yes corruption is rampant in cities, even in "successful" cities like LA, NYC or Chicago. That alone cannot and does not explain Detroit - this is the result of incompetence, self-interest voting by the poor (i.e., the "gimme" factor when there was no money for the gimme but the .gov gave anyhow - classic libtard behavior), and the utter intransigence of the unions and the city .gov.