Raise the Hammer

weak arguements

I have no problem with, in fact welcome, you continue calling out hyperbole and drama from urbanization proponents. People will make a mistake or get emotional in their comment. This is a casual public conversation via comments, not writing peer reviewed science papers, however, identifying where the assumptions are leads to a higher quality picture and discourse. But if holding others to that standard, you should do some fact checking yourself. Most of your comments had faulty and in some cases outright false and stupid assumptions that you spewed emotionally without thinking first, and it probably took me less time to fact check your comments, than it took for you to write them. Something something glass houses.

Continually focusing on the core and transit is only one part of a city with a rich heritage

False, that one was posted just before a car landed on its roof in their parking lot, and there are many other links but I'm not Marty McFly here to do your homework for you. RTH, via varying contributors, has written about initiatives and community action in other parts of the city, particularly the mountain, and on a variety of community focused topics. In fact, Ryan has asked me to elaborate on certain experiences while living in Terry's ward (the origin of my nickname), and I regret not having made the time to follow through. If it looks like there is more focus on Downtown, maybe it's because more contributors are writing about it, maybe because it needs more help. Have you submitted an article and been refused? No? What exactly are you bitching about?

I am unsure of whether or not you even realize it. You're getting emotional, and it's resulting in your comments ending up littered with false assumptions and emotional dumb crap. If you like give this thread a quick read; I bookmarked it as an extreme example of how even an expert and highly informed response is sometimes not enough to educate someone who has already decided that their opinion is fact.

As a fellow IT professional, you have to have some functioning critical thinking skills. So ponder some data. Maybe you're being down-voted so much, not because we're an army of paid Bombardier shills, in fact I've never met Ryan or Jason so far, but because your attitude stinks. The way you interpreted, and reacted to, the last couple of comments, are case-in-point. Articulate a clear and cogent essay in favor of your ideal configuration of downtown, or some specific issue that means something to you, like others have done. Or continue limiting your participation to negative attitude filled comments littered with assumptions! Whatever you like! And others have the same privilege! Private citizen run site, yes, public unrestricted forum open to all fellow citizens for free conversation, also yes!

Comment edited by mikeonthemountain on 2014-12-27 12:14:36