Khan interested in developing shipyards

[jaxnyc79]

Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!

projectmaximus, I'm not on this thread for you nor for your agreement.  I'm on this thread with a point of view, and if you disagree, you can challenge with the power of your rhetoric and critical reasoning.  Gifs are an expression of shortcomings in argumentation and verbal reasoning.  We're all offering our diagnostic results on why downtown Jax is flailing.  No one can have absolute confidence on the right answers.  The idea of a message thread or virtual forum is to serve as a laboratory of different ideas...a bit of verbal and cognitive experimentation.  If you don't like an idea, then move on.

First off, the GIF was in response to my post agreeing with Lakelander that the 10k critical mass number is a bit arbitrary.  I made the point that one must look beyond the population count, and consider the discretionary purchasing power of that count to assess the prospects of street-level retail and commercial vitality.

I posted the gif twice. Both times were cases were in a spirit of humor and gentle ribbing, meant to make light of the fact that the preceding posts said some obnoxious things and didn't have much to engage with:

Downtown Jax is a dump, and the Jax area is fairly dull and generic.  Some places have been fully ensconced in the ideas of the enlightenment and human progress, and other places and peoples are sitting around and waiting for progress to fail because they believe that the only salvation is in the after-life.

Should probably go one step further and attach a demographic profile to the number.  5k residences, educated, gainfully employed, above-average discretionary income, 20s to 50s, means a lot more to downtown's prospects and sidewalk vibrancy than 10k residences in senior housing, halfway houses, and low-income.

Reaction gifs are just a way of communicating a thought or feeling that would have been carried by an expression or gesture if we could all see each other. A bumptious and condescending comment is less likely to receive an engaged response than an eye roll, whether it's in real life or online. It would appear that you didn't mean your comments to come off as poorly as they did. In that case, it should be clear by now that the solution is to adjust your rhetoric if you want a genuine discussion. Just as you're not here for us and our agreement, we're not here to read obnoxious comments without responding/making light of them.

If you don't like what I say, there's always the option to ignore and move on, or counter-argue.  If you want to post a GIF in protest, by all means do so.  Despite your grievances, I feel no need to adjust my rhetoric:)  There's no profanity, there's no innuendo.  Perhaps strong characterizations of a downtown in ruins were just too much for you guys to swallow:)

[ProjectMaximus]

I can't speak for taca but your posts don't bother me at all. Please stay true to your style and whatever is important to ya. Anyone who knows me knows I find this all very entertaining. But if anything, it just seemed you were the one upset about taca's response to you.