Submitted by lnbp2022 t3_11gabao in ColumbiaMD
cjftw17 t1_jaraizw wrote
Reply to comment by Zinnathana in Any development on 108 near Interchange of 29 and 108 (near Centennial Park)? by lnbp2022
Not to get way off topic but I wouldn’t trust anything written by that blog. It’s run by Jenny Solpietro, who is basically a parrot for her friend local developer lobbyist Tom Coale.
The irony of running a “progressive” blog while working for Lockheed Martin has somehow been completely lost on her too, lol.
CookieMonster932 t1_jarq1m0 wrote
While not a fan of the military industrial complex, a job is a job and you have to pay the bills somehow. Not everyone can work at an NGO. Besides there's a lot of military hawks with a progressive domestic agenda on the Left and vice versa. You don't have to adhere to every aspect of the most far left of the Democratic Party to be a progressive.
cjftw17 t1_jasaq6p wrote
Riiiiight… I hear this all the time living in this area and it cracks me up.
“Yeah, I work for one of the most evil companies on the planet, one whose growth is predicated on endless (and usually illegal) wars and bombings but, hey, a job’s a job right?”
She’ll post about police brutality and gun deaths while working here:
CookieMonster932 t1_jaso5gx wrote
For better or worse we are all cogs in a much larger system. I don't blame coal miners for global warming and I certainly don't think their opinions are more or less valid because of their occupation. I blame our government for not investing enough in clean energy and local activist groups from blocking solar panel projects because they dont like the look of panels. Ad hominem criticism are one of the weakest rhetorical points. Particularly when what we're talking about is an increase in housing units, which we can legitimately argue about merits/demerits and the attack is about...foreign policy.
cjftw17 t1_jath1zd wrote
That’s so noble of you not to blame coal minors trying to survive in an economically depressed area or engineers, software developers, or other well-educated individuals that I’m talking about working at Lockheed in one of the wealthiest areas on the planet.
Just two groups of similar people, with so few options available to them, trying to grind it out in the great American experience.
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