Burning man in Flint??

[artsandcrass]

I was thinking about Flint again yesterday and saw that still, two years later these people don't have clean drinking water. I thought to myself, 'sounds like they are living in the desert.' Then I thought, wouldn't it be amazing if we held BM this year in Flint, bring the townspeople clean water and showers while inadvertently protesting the mistreatment of the people.
i watched this person talking about the living conditions in Flint and thought to myself, we can band together and create a new type of city there, one without the need of governance, I know it sound idealistic but maybe if I put the idea out there more people will feel the same way. If there are any organizers interested in starting some sort of initiative we should ban together!

here is the video I watched for reference:

[BBadger]

This might just be a joke/troll post, but who really knows on here?

Yeah man, I'm sure the residents of those economically depressed neighborhoods of Flint, Michigan really want a bunch of privileged, mostly white folks and/or clueless hippie-types on vacation who actually paid for a ticket to hang around in their city for a week, giving themselves pats on the back for "gifting" pity-water to residents after hearing about the city's water crisis from some slacktivist video posted on a Burning Man forum.

Great job dude! What a generous offer! That water you load up in your Vanagon with a furry interior and truck all the way from your gentrified suburb will help tide those residents over as the municipal water treatment plant figures out how to make their city water not actually poison residents. Sure it won't compare to the 176 truckloads (6.5 million bottles) of bottled water supplied by local companies -- to school children, not residents in general -- but who is really counting? Are you planning on bringing lead pipe corrosion inhibitors too? Or will that take up too much room that your monkey hut isn't going to fit?

Those Flint residents will love discussing the finer points of the 10 principles, you know, like Civic Responsibility as it applies to people managing the city's potable water, with some steam-punk-dressed douchebag wearing a top hat with a decorative monocle attached. Maybe they'll even get lectured about LNT with all those donated water bottles, or how the rampant crime in the city might be considered radical self expression or something. Residents may even might feel some pride seeing that some of the mutant vehicles, roaming the streets and checking out all the neighborhoods, were built in their very city before all the downsizing! Man, the nostalgia!

After it's all over, when the Pabst and drugs run out, the city will once again witness a wave of white flight as the the hippies pack up their shit into their vehicles and drive off, glowing from their week of adversity and survival in one the dangerous cities in the United States. Some may even wish they could live their lives in such places all the time if they had all their needs met. Imagine that...

[Simon of the Playa]

[forty_eight]

This might just be a joke/troll post, but who really knows on here?

Yeah man, I'm sure the residents of those economically depressed neighborhoods of Flint, Michigan really want a bunch of privileged, mostly white folks and/or clueless hippie-types on vacation who actually paid for a ticket to hang around in their city for a week, giving themselves pats on the back for "gifting" pity-water to residents after hearing about the city's water crisis from some slacktivist video posted on a Burning Man forum.

Great job dude! What a generous offer! That water you load up in your Vanagon with a furry interior and truck all the way from your gentrified suburb will help tide those residents over as the municipal water treatment plant figures out how to make their city water not actually poison residents. Sure it won't compare to the 176 truckloads (6.5 million bottles) of bottled water supplied by local companies -- to school children, not residents in general -- but who is really counting? Are you planning on bringing lead pipe corrosion inhibitors too? Or will that take up too much room that your monkey hut isn't going to fit?

Those Flint residents will love discussing the finer points of the 10 principles, you know, like Civic Responsibility as it applies to people managing the city's potable water, with some steam-punk-dressed douchebag wearing a top hat with a decorative monocle attached. Maybe they'll even get lectured about LNT with all those donated water bottles, or how the rampant crime in the city might be considered radical self expression or something. Residents may even might feel some pride seeing that some of the mutant vehicles, roaming the streets and checking out all the neighborhoods, were built in their very city before all the downsizing! Man, the nostalgia!

After it's all over, when the Pabst and drugs run out, the city will once again witness a wave of white flight as the the hippies pack up their shit into their vehicles and drive off, glowing from their week of adversity and survival in one the dangerous cities in the United States. Some may even wish they could live their lives in such places all the time if they had all their needs met. Imagine that...

so ... a lot like Burning Man?

roflmao