This is what oligarchy looks like.

[LiberalLovinLug]

40. So The Stranger is "stooping"?

Because.....it isn't a large corporate owned, Republican donating, established paper? And anything smaller is not to be believed?
What exact falsehood or other line do you find you must "stoop" to read? And you count the number of right wing trolls to decide how much you respect a paper? For myself, the more outrage from wingnut snowflakes usually only reaffirms an articles worth.

BTW, not all the comments were trolls,

"some donated generously, which may be partly why we remember their names today (they're stamped on buildings: Carnegie Hall, Rockefeller Center, Vanderbilt University, etc.)."

And there's the rub.

The wealthy prefer charity over taxation because they want... no, they NEED everyone to see how generous they are, see? Then when they rape their employees or destroy the environment they can point to charity and say "but look at how generous I am!!!" Plus, they only want the people that they personally deem "worthy" to receive their drippings. They don't want just any old poor to get their "charity." They only want certain select poors (the ones who will kiss their asses as return payment) to be eligible.


On to your other response,

Of course some (a few dozen whom I would bet were Republican voters) wearing the Putin anti-climate change yellow vest attire that their French allies wear, of the construction workers that were directly affected by the reckless extortion announcement by Amazon about stopping their construction if they were forced to have to help the homeless, would be upset. Even if its just a temporary construction job. But you have to weight the pros and cons. A few dozen construction workers mad. Not at the company that promised them work and is now breaking that promise and having a tantrum, holding their breath, until the city relents. Which is all most likely a phony threat anyways. Not all union paying workers are lefties. In fact I'd expect a segment of R supporters to be used by the right to make a scene for the cameras. And in fact, Sawant brought a union member to speak in favour of it.

I don't know why I am arguing with someone on a Democratic website about whether the richest company it the world, and other 20 million dollar businesses, can extort a democratically elected council to drop a policy to help homeless people have a place to sleep, costing them a drop in their collective buckets.