27 Replies to “Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 30 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car”

  1. I guess that we haven’t shut down all the insane asylums after all. We just re-titled them to “university”.

  2. Columbia “Professor” who drives his BMW to work everyday and would never consider getting on a bus.

  3. I’m not bothered by mentally ill public transit passengers but then I don’t take public transit. My kids don’t either. I guess that makes me the ruling elite. It just rolls off the tongue.

  4. I once took a bus, first and last time, from Pearson Intl to Hamilton Ont. and what seemed like all points in between. A Jane Goodall experience you might say in that I was able to observe some members of the lunatic fringe at their very best… so I totally get the Daniel Pennys of the world.

    Don’t know what it is about North America but trains and busses in Europe are an absolute joy. Make of that what you will.

    1. Many years ago Toronto transit and the subway was a good way to get around the city. The most obnoxious or irritating thing would be a fat woman who had not bathed and was sitting or standing next to you. No one sleeping, shitting, pissing, or naked on any of the trains or buses or street cars. That tells you how old I am eh.

      1. VOWG … remember … the 1950’s were racist and horrible. The propaganda machine has been spewing that out for decades now. What? D’ya wanna go back to the 1950’s when people were civil, things worked as they should, and everything was clean. D’ya wanna go back to a time of “Jim Crow” (implying that occurred nationwide) and white dominance?

        It’s funny … my son has traveled multiple times to Japan. All over the country, from the biggest cities to the smallest rural towns. He always travels by their unbelievably CLEAN, FUNCTIONAL, PUNCTUAL high speed trains. Some of the trains are like FIRST CLASS airliners with individual seats with clean, fresh, doilies for your head. Nothing CRAZY ever happens on their trains – EVER. Everything works perfectly.

        What do we know about Japan? It’s totally, ethnically, pure. Essentially NO black people, no white trash, nobody but Japanese. And my son says EVERYTHING in the country is done with great personal pride and cleanliness, from the smallest gesture or display. It doesn’t matter if you’re young or old … there is a cultural PRIDE in attending to the smallest detail. My son is repeatedly AMAZED at the service he receives in every shop and restaurant. And polite. ALL the Japanese people are polite and act as though they deeply care about you.

        OTOH … we’re told that “multiculturalism” is great! No. No it’s not. Not all cultures are equal … or compatible.

  5. The world would be a much better place if Columbia professors actually worked for a living.

    Rather than getting paid to spread stupid to the masses.

  6. Seems kinda racist to imply that minorities are the only people that are homeless and/or mentally ill. The professor needs to check his white privilege. Kind of surprised Columbia is keeping him on.

  7. Um’, So, mentally unstable people are now an actual race? I would say this just boggles the mind, however, my mind, what there is left of it, has been so badly “boggled” over the last five years or so, by everything being thrown at us normies, from all directions, that there is no amount on boggle left to be used. I will now return to my fetal position and continue weeping.

    I said fetal, not fecal, but sadly, I’m not sure there is much difference anymore!

    1. One position is vertical, the other horizontal, the only difference, pants optional…….

  8. If we have an obligation to the dangerous mentally-ill subway stalkers … because we are the richest country in the world … then all I can say is: guns or butter. I’ll play your socialist game.

    1. America is $32T in DEBT. That doesn’t look like “the richest country in the world” to me.
    2. What have we SPENT that $32T to buy? War in Ukraine? “Inflation Reduction Act”? Illegal immigrants? “Global Warming? Hunter Biden? What do we spend on Obamakkare? Guns or butter … spending the taxation of our nations citizens requires CHOICES. I guess we prioritize FAKE Global Warming over REAL human needs … Right?
    3. This man is clearly indigent … has ZERO resources outside his welfare payments … he should be getting FREE mental health care paid by Obamakkare.
    4. We have BEEN paying for this man’s FREE care (even BEFORE Obamakkare) … we pay for his welfare, food, housing, and medical care. It is a LIE that our rich nation doesn’t care for the indigent.

    How does a simpleton like this get to become a college professor?

  9. I used to take the buss whenever I had enough coin. Never thought anything of it.
    Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of Death, I shall fear no evil, for I am the meanest son of a bitch in the valley!

  10. The professors statement implicitly assumes that the mentally must be from a protected ethnic class, so in fact he is the racist.

  11. So “whiteness” is all about work ethic, perfection, literacy, etc., and we’re told by someone who should know, this represents some kind of “blackness”.
    Settled it.

  12. I see we have a volunteer for housing people on 48 hour mental illness holds. That’s so nice that the Columbia faculty has room in their homes for that.

  13. I don’t know whether the good professor rides the subway or not, but what I do know is that I have a helicopter sitting on the pad, ready to go, with him as a passenger

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