Build That Bunker! Part 1

Usually, the Universe is a cruel bitch that takes and takes. Sometimes, though, it decides to shed its horrible temperament and let something wonderful loose into the world. This rare occurrence happened exactly seven days ago, when random nobody from Seattle named Zarna Joshi decided to lose her mind in a semi-public setting because some random person didn’t agree with her viewpoint. Like every nobody who fucks up in life spectacularly, she’s since purged most of her information that’s easily accessible, but that isn’t going to stop me from ripping her to shreds. Before I begin, I’d just like to offer my thanks to the Universe for such a fantastic gift. I often have to do digging to find stuff to tear into, so when I don’t have to do that, it’s like fuckin’ Christmas for me. Ho ho fucking-ho everybody!

To give some backstory on our subject and the situation, Zarna Joshi is currently a loud and obnoxious social justice whinger that is anti-White person, anit-Police and pro-insanity. There isn’t a ton of info on this woman out there, mostly because she only recently let herself loose into the world, but the Encyclopedia Dramatica article on sums up what’s available very nicely. I tend to be wary when using it as a reference in any context that isn’t an obviously sarcastic one, but after doing my own sleuthing on Zarna, what’s listed in the ED article is, to me, spot on. As for the situation, Zarna had shown up at the public meeting to discuss the construction of a new police station in Seattle which has been dubbed ‘The Bunker’ by morons, I mean, ‘people’ within the Black Lives Matter movement.  Since I don’t live in Seattle or care about it since it willfully let go its best sports team only to throw a fucking fit for nearly the last ten years about their seller’s remorse about ‘being cheated’ and equally vapid nonsense, I had no clue about all of this aside from the fact that almost anything with Black Lives Matter people involved is going to funny to watch.

Quick tangent, to the people of Seattle, shut the fuck up. If you want the goddamn Supersonics back, raise the money and show the NBA you’re a lucrative market. It’s your fault the team was moved, so stop crying like you were wronged. Put down your awful-ass Starbucks coffee, get your heads out of your collective asses (and Russell Wilson’s as well) and put in some damn effort.

To familiarize myself with the situation buried in the cacophony of stupidity, I hunted up an article published by the Seattle Globalist. I’m not linking them because I don’t want to give them any traffic, and the reason for that is because of this:

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A list of things nobody should ever be proud of.

I can’t stand bloviating like this from anyone, especially not shitty article aggregating websites that are parading around like they report the ‘hard-hitting news’. Even worse than that is when the bloviating involves making statements that are just outright stupid, pointless or wrong, like above. First, the Seattle Globalist is not training the ‘next generation of media makers’, they’re training the next generation of people who report on media and content other people make. Sure, you could argue that online news is ‘the media’ but then you’re giving credence to shit sites like Ranter, Buzzfeed and Huffington Post that thrive on content theft, awful sourcing and other garbage tactics that break the fundamental rules and ethics of solid journalism. Perhaps a more accurate statement would be that they’re training the next media middlemen who don’t create anything other than noise that the public has to sift through to get to the real meat and potatoes, i.e. the actual shit that’s happening/happened.

Second, the ‘garden speech’ that people like this constantly use is fucking grating. ‘We at the Seattle Globalist cultivate new voices’. Way to not understand that every single voice that’s ever existed is a new voice, you mooks. What’s even worse is that the statement implies that the organization is what’s responsible for this ‘new voice’, not the person that contains the voice, which implise that your voice was stupid and useless until the Seattle Globalist threw you a bone and offered you a job in a sector that is over-saturated and thus underpaid. Also, I love that they’re really proud of their Apprenticeship, like people won’t learn how to be competent writers and opinionated people without the organization’s guidance. Here’s breaking news for you, you dick-weasels, writing isn’t hard. Want proof? I’ve been doing this shit since I was ten. Anyone can write which has led to too many people entering the field of journalism since the goddamn bar is so low, thus resulting in the over-saturation of the sector, the low wages and the mountains of digital garbage that people like me have to sift through when I want to create something that’s actually original and truly fresh, not just a five sentence ‘opinion piece’ with eighty percent of the article being stolen from somewhere else.

Lastly, the last thing you should want is to employ people just because you want to meet this arbitrary quota of ‘diversity’; because diversity comes from skin color and ethnicity and not the differences in opinions, beliefs, dogmas and ideals, right?  The majority of the staff at the Seattle Globalist are Communications majors, and nearly the entire organization is filled with people who have Liberal Arts degrees, with only about four people out of thirty-one total (about 12.9 percent) coming from backgrounds outside the umbrella that is Liberal Arts or the leg that is Communications. You are not diverse, you just go out of your way to hire people that are not white men. Now, if that was your unabashed prerogative, I wouldn’t give a shit, but when your mission statement is ‘we strive to have a diverse staff’, then you better believe I’m going to call you out on your horse shit. That’s not even mentioning that these blatant ‘diversity quotas’ are a load of garbage anyways since each single person brings a brand new viewpoint regardless of skin tone, ethnic background or physical appearance.

In short, what I’m saying is that the Seattle Globalist is practicing low-key discrimination, as is any other company or organization that hires people to meet quotas and not people who are actually qualified to do the work that the job asks and do that work spectacularly well. If anyone is reading this and is about to hire someone less qualified than another candidate just to meet some bullshit ‘quota’, fucking nut up and give the job tot he more qualified person. Stop giving these losers who study horse hockey and majored in useless bullshit free passes because they’re suffering buyer’s remorse combined with societal malaise. Doing that perpetuates this moronic, backbone-less society we have today where someone can go and tie glaciers into women not being paid enough and some fool professor green-lights that ‘research’ all the way to becoming actual publication (no, I’m not kidding).

Before we get back to the Zarna Incident, let’s look at that article I mentioned before so you get a picture of what this whole ‘The Bunker’ thing is. To start, here’s an artist’s representation of the finished product, likely pulled from the final project plan:

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Dat glass.

That law enforcement building is nothing short of awesome. This, ladies and gentlemen, is what a degree in structural engineering can make happen. It is a little odd that in a rainy place like Seattle they went with so many windows, but hey, it is the West Coast, they do get sun on occasion, and even a month’s worth of total sun is to light the vast majority of this building is probably going to save years worth of electrical power. Not only that, but goddamn does it look good. Engineering, how I love you.

The girl who wrote this article is part of the SG’s ‘contribution team’, which is just a shitty code-word that means any moron who wants to write for the SG can do so at any point in time. A small side-point, but it’s yet another mark against the SG as it provides more evidence to them being a highly agenda-driven ‘news’ outlet which is what the entire Social Justice movement thrives and lives on and what kills good journalism and reporting. It also is proof that the SG is barely a ‘news’ outlet since they clearly don’t bring in enough money to be able to hire enough writers to cover lots of varied topics and/or the writing staff they have is total trash and spends their days on Pinterest, Facebook and playing Pokémon Go on their phones rather than doing what they were hired to do. Nice to see more collective money and time that could’ve gone to bolstering our space program and the push towards real alternative energies was instead given to these morons; might as well have just flushed it down the drain.

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Hint: If you had something important or useful to say, you would’ve been invited.

Here’s the quick biography the WWFOR put together for Komalpreet Sahota. You’re welcome to read it, but I’ll sum it up for those who don’t want to or outright refuse to:

Her opinion isn’t important to this decision in any way, shape, or form.

Seriously, as a burgeoning law student, what kind of intimate knowledge about the northern section of Seattle that the city council would have to invite her or her peers to their meeting? It’s like if when I was a first-year engineering student, I got all pissed because my hometown had a meeting about fixing the roadways and didn’t invite me. No shit they didn’t invite me, I’m not licensed, I’m not vetted, I’ve produced nothing that would lead them to believe I know what the fuck I’m talking about. Hell, even though I’m far more vetted now that I was all those years ago, I still wouldn’t expect an invitation because that’s a ridiculous notion. Just because you have experience in the area of the discussion doesn’t mean you’re owed an invitation. People get those invitations because they’re connected to the people on the city council, not just because they have experience in law enforcement. Not only that, but the vast amount of meetings I’ve seen over the various places I’ve lived has, anecdotally of course, but still been vastly open-door to the public. You know why?

It’s because the meeting and the results will have an impact on the public at large.

Now as I’ve already said, I haven’t been to Seattle at all; the closest thing I have is an old high school buddy who lived there. I don’t know if Seattle runs itself slightly differently from where I’ve been and lived, but I’d be willing to bet a hat that this was a public referendum, meaning any fucking dipshit could have gone to the meeting and offered their opinion. In other words, Komalpreet didn’t get an invitation because no goddamn invitations were sent out, meaning she’s all piss-and-vinegar for no reason. Even if it were a more private meeting, it wouldn’t matter because of my first point. On her LinkedIn page, two of her listed ‘skills’ (I would be very hesitant to call anything she thinks are personal ‘skills’ as that) are Powerpoint and Public Speaking. Bitch, creating presentations based on extremely simple templates is not a skill, nor is talking. These are requirements in the modern world; not having them is straight up detrimental. This is like hiring someone for construction work because they can walk and breathe at the same time. Having a grasp on the essentials is not enough to get you employed, you nit.

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Fucking told.

I couldn’t stop laughing at this because it essentially proved what my suspicion was: that these ‘Block the Bunker’ folks come from the southern side of Seattle, where the university is located, and have a friend or two who live in the north end that bitch about the north end ‘being shitty’ and ‘wasting money’ and other stuff that people would normally say about living in almost any place in the world. Hell, in the worst case scenario, they just heard about this on the news and got pissed off because they saw a big building and a high cost and then made up a bunch of stupid reasons to support their vacuous opinion.  Even funnier, Komalpreet quoted the building cost incorrectly; she stated $150 million when the correct estimate is $160 million. It’s a minor point, but you’d think these people would collect their information properly. That apparently is too difficult; I mean, these people need to save energy for being outraged so why bother making sure they collect their information properly to prevent looking stupid? Yelling must be had, god-damn it!

Being a lover of not only lolcow behavior but of modern engineering marvels, which this building absolutely qualifies as one, I dug even deeper to see if I could find some project documents about this project, and I did, because I’m not a moron who simply listens to a news report with a likely biased reporter and, instead, do my own research on the topic and then form my opinion. From the documents, it’s pretty clear that the north side of Seattle has had multiple meetings that the public could attend about this project for at least a year now, meaning this ‘Block the Bunker’ is just academia-generated tripe. Not only that, but the documents clearly detail that this isn’t just going to be a gigantic office building. On the tenth slide, a clear breakdown of how the building space is to be used is given and it shows that the precinct itself isn’t actually that big. Going further through the documents details even further of what will be on the floors, the rooms and everything. Here’s a short list of how this building is broken down:

Basement – Precinct section holds firing range and training areas. Garage holds specialty vehicle parking and usable PoV stations.
Mezzanine – Main lobby area, large community room, common area, detainee area, commanding officers offices, and the equipment & operations storage. Garage has more PoV stations and general fleet parking.
Second Floor – Waiting room, general offices, break room, fitness area, locker room. Garage has PoV stations and what appears to be general parking.
Third Floor – Education staff offices.
Roof – Two massive photo-voltaic canopies and a running track.

Once again, this building is fucking phenomenal. Universities would kill to have a building like this on campus where they can condense so many areas that normally take up a large swath of space on their own in one area. My hometown police force has to drive to halfway through the county just to get to their firing range, which is fucking ridiculous. Here’s one of the slides from way later on in the documents that is nail-in-the-coffin proof of why this project should be put underway immediately:

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Be right back; moving to Seattle.

How rad is that shit? Seriously, not only did they create a sidewalk that is visually appealing and interesting, they made a small street-level curbside skate park. That means that the officers who work here are so goddamn cool that they want you to skate on their property. Not only do you get to do something fun, but the cops also have your back and want to watch you while you do it, presumably because it’s a joy to watch good skaters do what they do and because they have the best view and means to call for help if some shit goes down. Seattle, for the love of everything good, build this now.

Of course, it’s natural that people would be completely skeptical of dropping a huge sum on anything. I don’t have any beef with the community for that, like Omar here:

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This is a fair point.

What I do have a beef with is when the community, even if well-intentioned, has no idea what they’re talking about. Rainier Valley is well into the south end of Seattle, nearly at the border of Renton. In other words, even if this is the money the city of Seattle is spending, this guy has no idea what is going on with the north end. I guess it wouldn’t be fair to say he has no idea, but he definitely doesn’t have the best and most accurate picture of what the north end needs. I also have no idea what a ‘longtime youth sports coach’ is. This could mean that he coaches AAU/Travel basketball teams, public Park & Recreation teams or works for one of the many public grade schools in the area. The point is that I don’t know because the SG is willfully being obtuse with this information, and while I do understand that people may want to stay private, doing so means that I have to always assume the worst case scenario, which is that you have zero idea of what you’re talking about. That means I have to assume he’s an AAU/Travel coach, which means he runs a team in the private sector and thus has no leg to stand on complaining about how the city uses its money since he’s not a part of the public sector financially.

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So what about people who can’t be helped with all the above you mentioned, huh?

Nothing is more disappointing to me when someone who is well-learned says something fundamentally incorrect. In every population, there is a very small but existing portion of said population that has problems that cannot be cured via readily available means like those Spade mentioned. Even smaller is the portion that cannot be saved with experimental or future solutions. What do you do for those people? Do you let them wander around, being a danger to themselves and others? What about murderers who continue to murder after being rehabilitated, if that were such a thing? Using Spade’s logic, we simply have to keep sending them to rehab. Yeah, that makes sense; keep doing something that has proven to not work.

Law enforcement needs to exist to keep people who cannot be helped or people who know the law and refuse to follow it from putting people who follow the law and can be helped/want to be helped safe. Then again, I probably shouldn’t have expected anything intelligent to come from someone who put an initiative together that specifically helps people who aren’t white or are ‘gender non-conforming’ (read: Tumblrinas). It just boggles my mind that people who believe in something that is outright refuted by history, biology and scientific fact are now being allowed into positions where they can directly affect the education system and nobody is questioning it. I don’t care if you got the best grades in your stupid program, if you say stupid and inane shit and you practice behaviors that are, by definition, exclusionary and thus bigoted, you do not deserve a position where you can influence a large swath of people with your ignorance and stupidity.

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All your needs in one!

Not much in here, but I included it because I found the ‘concrete construction’ part funny because only someone who has never been involved in construction of any type would say something this useless. Most buildings involve concrete in some manner. This building is mostly steel and glass; you’d think the author would talk about the things that make this a LEED wet dream, but that would require her to paint the project in a positive light. We can’t have that, we have opinions to shovel into people’s minds!

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This is why they didn’t invite you, Sahota.

Hysterical is the only word to describe this. You can’t make glass bomb-proof because it is physically incapable of that. The proposed building is anything but bomb-proof; if anything, it’s a potential hazard since you could cause more death and wanton destruction just by hooking a snow-making machine up to a pile of rocks and launching them through the windows. I love how the police chief has to explain to these retards that a big structure that has a fucking skate park, an outdoor courtyard and a gigantic glass fucking entryway doesn’t mean that the police are trying to keep themselves locked away from the people. It’s shit like this that makes someone like me suggest in all sincerity that perhaps the police should just live in a bunker and not answer to citizens because it’s pretty apparent that no matter how much outreach they provide, it’ll never be enough to these developed abortions.

I would continue onto the Zarna Incident, but right now, I want to close a heavy metal lid on my head, so I’m going to go find a car-sized trash compactor. Fuck, these people are stupid.

 

 

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