{"id":84564,"date":"2023-03-02T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84564"},"modified":"2023-03-01T06:42:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T12:42:36","slug":"urban-progressive-privilege-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84564","title":{"rendered":"Urban Progressive Privilege:  Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To: Lieutenant Governor Flanagan,<br>From:  Mitch Berg, Irascible Peasant<br>Re:   Glad You&#8217;ve Discovered Light Rail Crime!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Of all the people who\u2019ve been beaten, robbed and murdered on Twin Cities light rail platforms, it\u2019s good to know you\u2019ve paid attention to one of them, finally:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tom and I are praying for the victim, her family, and the trans community tonight. To our trans neighbors: You are not alone. We love you, and we will keep fighting to keep you safe. Hate has no place in Minnesota.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MopNAbSGga\">https:\/\/t.co\/MopNAbSGga<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan (@LtGovFlanagan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LtGovFlanagan\/status\/1630771411399725056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But clearly, you do not ride the light rail.  I suspect you hitch a ride to the office with the state patrol, just like the governor.   I&#8217;m gonna guess you haven&#8217;t ridden a train since long before you became Lieutenant Governor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just a quick tip from someone who rode the Vomit Comet (aka \u201cGreen Line\u201d) day and night for a year and a half; when you\u2019re out there on that platform, late at night, in the city you and the DFL created, you are absolutely, completely alone. Nothing there but you and God.  None of your <em>ex post facto <\/em>happy talk is of the faintest bit of protection against The DFL&#8217;s Minneapolis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To my credit, I figured it would be a victim like this, that got you to finally pay attention to street crime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sort of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: Lieutenant Governor Flanagan,From: Mitch Berg, Irascible PeasantRe: Glad You&#8217;ve Discovered Light Rail Crime! Of all the people who\u2019ve been beaten, robbed and murdered on Twin Cities light rail platforms, it\u2019s good to know you\u2019ve paid attention to one of them, finally: But clearly, you do not ride the light rail. I suspect you hitch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17,104,349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-minneapolis","category-trains-and-automobiles","category-urban-liberal-privilege-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84564"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84567,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84564\/revisions\/84567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}