New Yorker claims all NYC transplants should have to volunteer to atone for taking from the city: 'If the only thing you're contributing is your taxes, you are ultimately a loser'

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  • A blonde woman speaks into a microphone attached to a MetroCard while sitting on a blue subway seat
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  • A blonde woman speaks into a microphone attached to a MetroCard while sitting on a blue subway seat
  • sydney ❤ @mornings/da X.com Moving to a new city isn't a sin you need to atone for Imfao get a grip
  • aaron @yieldcurved X.com Transplant here! So actually I moved here to take from the community and make things worse so it wouldn't make sense for me to give back in any way.
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  • Brendan @ninthhostage X.com Prediction - The "anti transplant" stuff is going to start getting really ugly if we don't get urban cost of living under control
  • Asad @AsadFromNYC X.com "If the only thing you are contributing is taxes, you are ultimately a loser" is wild because that's most native New Yorkers too. We're not all curating art galleries or running soup kitchens. We also just live here and pay taxes. Woke transplants don't have to do this, I promise
  • isabel @wisepissmage X.com How is a city transplant functionally different than an immigrant? What is a "transplant" other than someone moving somewhere....??
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  • Gary Treeman @PurpyNFL X.com Enough Gary Treeman @PurpyNFL New York City should have its own Twitter that normal people never have to see ever again
  • Benedict AKER @carto_graph X.com Sorry but are Americans now using the word 'transplant' as a synonym for 'person who has moved to a city'?
  • tyson brody @tysonbrody X.com Not good enough, it should be illegal to move without permission
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  • Daniel Pearson @DPearsonPHL X.com As a former whyy journalist turned comedian once said. New York wouldn't be New York with fewer transplants. It'd be Philadelphia.
  • Cartoons Hate Her! @CartoonsHateHer X.com Someone who has lived in Cleveland for 20 years before moving to NYC has already put in their time
  • Southern Dan @StolenDans X.com Do other cities have hangups about "transplant," or is that a distinctly NYC thing?
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  • Mealsandeals @Mealsandeals X.com How do we enforce this? 2hrs of community service for every hour you've spent waiting in line for a viral food
  • ApoStructura ✪ @ApoStructura If you have to do unpaid work then it's community service, not volunteering. X.com
  • jeremy @thought_less_ You are from Minnesota
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  • Jeremiah Johnson @JeremiahDJohns X.com How about this - I'm an American and I'll live anywhere I want in this country without apologizing to the people who happened to be born there, because I don't give a flying f what you or they think.
  • The Notorious S.E.B. @bigseb31213 X.com Transplant talking to transplant complaining about how bad transplants are. The American hukou comes ever closer
  • Everything Price Sufferer (but e... X.com @agraybee Nah, living in a city shouldn't be an entire separate job on top of your regular one.
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