Just watched Kimmy Schmidt with my gf, it was filmed and set in NYC at the peak of the gentrification era (2015)
>The concept of violent gangs in Manhattan is treated as laughably absurd
>Characters biggest problem is their neighborhood is getting “too nice”
>A typical episode centers around a Whole Foods opening down the street (this is treated as a catastrophe)
Were American cities really that nice in the 2010s? How did things go so wrong in just 8 years?
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She was cute in the office
>Were American cities really that nice in the 2010s
Yes
>What went wrong
Cops and DA’s literally stopped enforcing the laws after 2020
Holy frick you're moronic
He's actually kind of clever. No one on this board actually watched Kimmy Schmidt despite it being a great show. So no one knows he's lying.
I watched it and enjoyed it
the titus diana ross arc is one of my favorite comedy show minor plots
All the best jokes were from Titus
>it means black penis
>I assumed
I get this song stuck in my head fairly often.
As someone who hates Cats, the whole episode where Titus finds out that it's all bullshit was fanrastic
Frumbumbly!
>I regret the name.
I really tried to hate Titus, but that NF really won me over. Best part of the show really.
He was a good character in general. I loved the line when he said "I envy you. I've never been able to meet me!"
Carol Kane was solid too, I liked her schtick of everyone just thinking she's a nice old lady when she was some radical hippy ecoterrorist back in the day.
I watched 2 or 3 seasons as they came out. Is it worth finishing now?
If you got through the second season you should finish it. The second season is the huge tonal shift away from wacky new adventures for a mole girl into what it would really mean if a 15 year old girl got kidnapped and was just let go as a 30 year old girl.
>No one on this board actually watched Kimmy Schmidt
no, I dont mention it because kimmy is not for lewd Cinemaphile shitposting
she lived in manhattan
brooklyn and queens were still shitholes
Every city with blacks and other poor browns turns into a shithole, it's not an American thing
paris looked and smelled like that back in 03 when the euro was strong
I see muslim or indian street food vendors and an african selling knick knacks. Otherwise normal tourists and everything looks fine. That’s exactly how it was in 2010. I swear to God if everyone was lying about Paris going downhill I’ll be pissed
I went to paris and london when I was a kid in the 90s with my parents, and even back then I remember there being tons of africans in Paris, and many muslims in London, and this was like 1997 or 1998. The fact that back then it was probably still like 70% white is insane to me because now it's probably a rare sight to see actual white british / french people walking around many places in london that aren't tourists.
Never lived in NYC but I moved to Chicago in 2013 for college. It was incredibly clean and safe, virtually all of the crime was concentrated in a few neighborhoods on the South and West sides. Black folk knew not to frick around in the nice White/Asian areas because the cops would actually arrest them. Mexicans stayed in their own neighborhoods, and the blacks feared them. The L (Chicago’s metro system) wasn’t perfect but it was generally safe and got you where you needed to go. Tons of middle and upper-middle families were moving back into the North Side. All of the discourse was around gentrification. Basically, yes it really was like that.
In 2020 the Floyd shit happened and cops stopped arresting anyone for anything. There were also a bunch of state and local laws that had been in the making for years which passed around 2020-22 that basically legalized crime (no chase policy, no cash bail, etc). Our mayor for most of the 2010s was Rahm Emmannuel who was an insanely corrupt israelite but he ran the city decently well. In 2019 we “““elected””” an 80iq nigress who’s entire platform was let Black folk commit crime with impunity
Most of my friends have left, either to the suburbs, their home state, or TX/AZ/FL. No one is trying to raise kids here anymore, as soon as they’re school-age you move to the suburbs. The North side, which used to be essentially crime-free, has multiple armed robberies and carjackings every single day. Most people avoid the L altogether as it’s unreliable and dangerous, and absolutely no one uses it at night.
TLDR Chicago was a really nice place to live in the 2010s but now it’s a dirty dangerous shithole and there’s no “safe” areas left that are unaffected. Not sure if this is even coherent since I’ve had a few drinks but it fricking sucks what happened here
Looks like someone here is a Bloggy Barry.
Good post, sad to see what's going on in some of our great cities today, but hopefully the pendulum will swing the other way, as they say, if only a little in the direction of some normalcy. I don't think it's out of reach yet.
It’s coming back. Rejoice/stand clear of what’s to happen.
Every city with a sizable black population has a similar story post-2020.
Black folk and marxists are not human and I'm tired of pretending they are.
It's fricking bizarre how our entire society is set up to prevent anyone from talking about the obvious reason why this happens
KKK princess b***h
i don't know what pisses me off more the people abusing humanitarian programs by pretending to be refugees in order to freeload in a foreign nation or the people who constantly bloviate about how much they care about said freeloaders while hypocritically doing everything they can to remove them from their cities and send them to small towns that lack the resources and infrastructure to care for them.
it's genuinely despicable how far this country has fallen in such a short time period.
I wouldn't have a problem with migrants if they all were placed in, and forced to stay in, NYC, Chicago, Denver, Martha's Vineyard, and the Bay Area. Those are the people that support this so those are the people that should live with them and pay for it.
You're a grown man who lives with his mom. Talk about a freeloader.
you're not wrong
Things didn't really get any worse, you just got your brain pickled by Fox News.
George Floyd, BLM homosexualry, and Biden winning happened.
Yes, they were. I had a lot of friends that were moving to major cities immediately following college in the 2010s. I remember quite a few moving into NYC, some into Chicago, a couple to Philly or Pittsburgh, a bunch went to Boston, and then there were a handful that went to Midwestern or Southern cities like St Louis and Milwaukee. I don't remember hearing a bad thing about any of them and I remember spending a lot of time myself debating if I wanted to get up and go join somebody out there. Now all of those friends have moved back or to suburbs surrounding those cities to start families, with the only ones still in the city being friends who live in Boston or places nobody would fricking want to go to like Fort Wayne. I don't know exactly whose fault it is, tho I know people in this thread are going to blame Democrats, but it seems like COVID and the BLM riots definitely killed a lot of that momentum cities had going for them. I've been to New York once a year my entire life and the city is completely fricking different post COVID, that's for sure. I think that's what killed all the cities
Watch RoboCop. It's a documentary on how a certain minority group uses another minority group to acquire assets.
man I'm from brooklyn and I barely ever even go into manhattan anymore post-covid
I really don't see a reason to stay in this shithole city anymore
that whole "smell" between april and september wasnt enough? are you a pajeet?
>soros backed DA's and politicians get "elected" in all these places
>they explicitly stop enforcing laws and drop charges against anyone non-white for everything short of capital murder
>outlaw cash bail, arresting for anything stolen that's less than $1000, repeal three strike policies
>"i have no idea who is responsible for the decline i guess it just happened and you better not say democrats just because you're a stupid bigot rightoid"
Seriously? No one's posted it yet?
/tv/'s slipping. https://youtu.be/GH1ruMGpTVY?si=0o4QFc9PFIcr7K0z
Something about this specific era of mid-2010s schlock sets my teeth on edge. Other examples that give me this feeling are The Force Awakens, the 2015 Muppets show and the Full House reboot.
all those examples are randomly selected and don't share much in common. that's not an "era". it would make more sense if you said Orange Is The New Black or something. essentially when streaming started overtaking traditional television. maybe that's what you're talking about.
Orange is the New Black fits the bill really well too. Yeah it's hard to concretely describe, but the mid-2010s had this really "quirky" neoliberal moment that's blase now but really started noticeably asserting itself at that exact moment.
The first two seasons were quite funny. I noticed a drop in quality in 3 and stopped watching there.
The issue with homeless in america is they're in a much worse position than homeless elsewhere. When I visited, there was homeless sprawled out on all 4's across the road looking dead, in Ireland the homeless aren't as far detached from normality as this.
There's no way to be homeless in America unless you're mentally ill or a drug addict, or both. All those people you see are one or the other, or grifters that pretend to be homeless to panhandle.
Everything in America was nice. We used to be a very nice country.
I miss white America too. I'm glad I left tho.