As long as you are within 100 miles of the border (ocean counts, as does Canada of course), they can board the train and search you.

Shoutout to QXT's, solid club.

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Loitering is not a problem if you are not the business owner who is running that 7-11.

I bet you would not think it over policing if a large congregation of homeless people were permanently camped out on your door steps, throwing their refuge indiscriminately, playing loud music, dealing and using drugs in the open. As much as I empathize with the homeless, I don’t see the logic of allowing them free reign to what are public spaces. How does it help them?

The well to do liberals who live in the heavily policed suburbs like Montclair and Glen Ridge and pay high property taxes for the privilege of not having to deal with the unwashed masses tell you that the homeless must be allowed to do as they please. They assuage their own guilt this way because it cost them nothing to so. It’s the poorest and most disadvantaged members of our society who pay the price for the failed policies they push.

Crime is up 30% at a time when the nation is at full employment. Only the delusional can be tricked into believing that “criminal justice reform” in the form of eliminating cash bail and setting dangerous repeat offenders out on the streets to victimize the poor and defenseless is a net good to society.

The truth is much more hard to digest. Criminal justice reform is the “cheapest” wokie policy that the dems could come up with to placate a base that they have been cheating for decades. Not higher minimum wages or better public education or publicly funded health care or higher education. All of that would cost their donors and their favored constituents; the laptop class to much. So they give you a policy that is failing even before it’s has been fully rolled out.

There is a housing crisis in this country and both parties are busy funding a proxy way with Russia that has us at the brink of nuclear catastrophe! 100billion for Ukraine and there are homeless people right now forced to take a shit in Peter Francisco park🤦🏾. Not one “progressive” opposes the war!! Tells you all you need to know about their priorities.

Is it any wonder that the Republicans, despite being a morally bankrupt party of reactionaries and outright loonies has managed to pull away upwards of 15% of the black and Latino vote!

More and more people are clueing in to the simple fact that the so called progressives don’t give one fuck for the people at the bottom beyond using them as cheap votes and canon fodder in the culture wars, but hey; you keep blaming the police; getting rid of the police is the solution we all deserve.

Bloomfield Ave sucks to both drive and walk down though

I don’t suggest two mason jars; the chance of the glass touching and breaking (and releasing the smell) is high.

The problem with Newark now is that there’s no strip of restaurants with liquor licenses or even open later than 10 on one street

I'm not sure why you think that people who aren't respected themselves should have any particular respect for public spaces. People are far more important than public spaces.

I'm blaming someone doing something wrong: you. You have opinions like this, you make arguments like this, and I suspect you vote like this. You are part of the problem. Moving people on from a 7-Eleven does not solve any of these problems, it just makes sure you don't have to see them.

I graduated from high school in 2000, bro. I'm not sure what kind of "kid" that makes me.

Ferry st is a solid place for a bit of everything. Granted the bars and clubs are more geared towards latin/portuguese/brazilian community.

Good; you were wasting my time.

For people to enjoy. Just not those people.

My point was that as long as these problems are out of your field of vision, it's apparently "problem solved."

Thank you, yes, the practical solution to homelessness is to invite everyone to come live with me in my studio apartment.

Dipshit.

That something like what is fine? What the actual hell are you talking about? Stop raging generally, and get real. Some people, who ruin public spaces and do nothing productive can be called out, or maybe left alone but just not permitted to destroy the public areas. All the world's ills are not the fault of me wanting a nicer area around the train station for people to enjoy.

Let me break some bad news to you btw - the world is a tough, harsh, and chaotic place. The universe is. You don't have to try and find people to personify your anger about that in....we all feel that way.

Here is some tougher news for you - Marxism is just as unjust and futile as our current system here...its been tried and failed, miserably. If you'd like to help, take some people into your home. I'd commend it. Hell, I'd even donate to the cause. Let me know when you do so. I'm sure a few folks down by the station right now would benefit from your hospitality tonight. Let us know when you go down and do it

I'm finished with this ridiculous conversation.

All rage. No reality.

I am pointing out facts. Some people do not respect public spaces and desecrate them.

Leaping from me pointing out basic reality to suggesting that means I want to sweep undesirables under the rug is an absolute misnomer. It's laughable.

So according to you revolutionaries, you can either tolerate bad behavior or else be accused of wanting to whipe people away and being racist? Such an absolute false premise.

You're just angry that standards exist in the world at all. Why not place some blame on those doing the wrong things rather than someone who has the audacity to call it out? What is with this new generation and their absolute rejection of common decency and their embrace of crime and the lowest common denominator?

Do you kids aspire to anything other than autonomous zones? (Which failed anyway)

You say as you continue to make sweeping generalizations about a group of people. Great job there buddy.

It was cop versus cop in that election. I believe the one that lost had a ridiculously high number of use of force complaints (like highest in the department? it’s in the news) so at least there’s that, but still…

Ha! Well that explains that. Wasted discussion atp.

You know what, when your substance is suggesting that we should sweep undesirables out of your field of view, maybe rage is warranted.

What isn’t warranted is the amount of time I’m wasting on this thread.

Thanks much, though, for your valuable “go set up a commune” contribution to the discourse.

The actual problem is that this whole country is full of people like you who think that something like this is fine as long as you don’t have to see it.

Bloomfield ave be seeming more lit than downtown 😭 I gotta check some these spots out though

All rage, no substance.

The most common interaction I have with 7-Eleven is someone who appears to be living on the street asking me if I will go in there and buy them some food. So, that would sort of seem to support the association between the poor/homeless and 7-Eleven, but it’s literally food.

I'd rather the fence than trash and bodily fluids...its a shame Newark can't accomplish that without the fences...but then again, we've got people like you who embrace that type of thing and wear it like some badge of altruistic honor. Honestly, I think you're full of it.

They are holding back on the night life because people here have a few drinks and they don’t know how act!

Go fuck yourself?

Go set up a commune.

Well, it looks way better now obscured by a huge fence, so mission accomplished?