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@lorenzoblum868
December 4, 2025 at 3:14 pm
Consumerism will take its tolls sooner or later.
@lesliefulton9219
December 4, 2025 at 4:25 pm
took me a few years to realize that communism and capitalism have the same end result, and are two wings on the same bird. in the end a tiny majority ends up holding all the cards, and most of us are not part of the club.
@3dg3Z
December 5, 2025 at 3:36 am
@lesliefulton9219 “tiny majority”? Are you sure about that?
@JSJSpeaks
December 4, 2025 at 3:34 pm
They should all be renovated into living spaces for community building with lifestyle amenities!
@paulineebenau
December 4, 2025 at 3:58 pm
I’m almost sure they already do and there’s a video about this on YouTube somewhere
@vultureculture7707
December 4, 2025 at 6:17 pm
Maybe in a couple places, but it isn’t everywhere.
@SuperRONDALE
December 5, 2025 at 12:39 am
If more people brought it up to their local politicians and created a community around this idea, it would maybe happen. In my experience most people talk the talk until a “shelter” is created in their neighborhood
@0blivionIOX
December 5, 2025 at 1:06 am
One of them near me was converted into a hospital/clinic
@junaesi
December 5, 2025 at 8:10 am
Sounds like socialism, we hate it.
@bibibrin5035
December 4, 2025 at 3:39 pm
SOCIAL HOUSINGS, HELLO!!! These malls could be the best lodgings for people with lower income. That, and the golf courses!!!
@Scardor
December 5, 2025 at 6:20 am
Start looking into zoning laws. They are the bane of the housing issues around the US.
@techytech1907
December 5, 2025 at 6:37 am
@Scardor Just curious are Zoning laws created by a devine superior entity that no mere human can change.
@TestAccount-g6x
December 5, 2025 at 6:56 pm
Then get it done Tiger! I look forward to your success!
@BadWallaby
December 4, 2025 at 3:42 pm
Dan! Love the Another Dirty Room series
@TBHNotGonnaLie
December 4, 2025 at 3:53 pm
Almost the opposite here in Australia… More are being built
@richsherman3673
December 4, 2025 at 4:19 pm
The biggest fools are those who collapsed labor, disintegrated the Middle Class. They write this off on Taxes. press repeat in 30 years
@TomasBauer82
December 4, 2025 at 4:38 pm
when its abandoned why is light on? pfhe…. no way fake jak prase
@ShaneGoettle-u1q
December 5, 2025 at 4:45 am
They keep the lights on for security reasons
@GamerzHubAtCA
December 4, 2025 at 4:46 pm
This is where the Last of Us started
@julianshepherd2038
December 4, 2025 at 5:12 pm
In Britain we blame the local government
@LordAugastus
December 4, 2025 at 5:15 pm
Lol latestage capitalism….
@dsdgdsfegfeg
December 4, 2025 at 7:44 pm
Even poor Communist States like 🇨🇳China & 🇷🇺Russia use Capitalism
Literally every Country in the world uses capitalism.
It’s the default trade/monetary system of Humans since cave times. Nothing else exists.
What you meant was .. under-regulated capitalism
@JuanPabloGutierrezDuarte
December 4, 2025 at 8:46 pm
That can solve the housing issues of América!
@cactustree505
December 4, 2025 at 9:24 pm
HOMELESS SHELTERS
@HauptmannDE
December 5, 2025 at 12:44 am
People are lazy couch potatoes
@jasonmaurella2
December 5, 2025 at 8:50 am
Bioshock vibes tbh
@joshmad232
December 5, 2025 at 10:08 am
They need DOBIS PR to turn that place around!!!
@itsthorodinson
December 5, 2025 at 1:22 pm
I’m damn Sure
That’s the mall from The Stranger Things Season 3 😅
@mervingcamille8834
December 7, 2025 at 5:31 am
😂 I’m watching season 5
@Catch22-k8d
December 5, 2025 at 2:55 pm
Why are the owners not obligated to build back the place?
@mervingcamille8834
December 7, 2025 at 5:34 am
Was wondering… The owners!? Of the land… Maybe they’re bankrupt or gotten enough not to bother. Just saying
@Haffmatthew
December 5, 2025 at 4:14 pm
The local mall around my hometown was renovated a few years back partially into a healthcare center for dialysis maybe or maybe PT/OT. And just last year they made affordable rentals out of the remaining chunk of mall. I think it’s stupid to waste all that useable space that needs not to be rebuilt or knocked down and landfilled because people could use affordable apartments like now
@rhondamcknight2596
December 5, 2025 at 4:19 pm
They can be HUGE Multi-use Housing, shops, grocery stores, police station, parks.
@cream0502
December 5, 2025 at 4:50 pm
HOMELESS SHELTER, SOUP KITCHEN, GOODWILL, HELP CENTER
WHO PAYING THE ELECTRIC BILL!?!?
@johnj4Clim8
December 5, 2025 at 5:11 pm
It’s a tax write off is what it is.
@bitukukuasukgremany3
December 5, 2025 at 6:21 pm
Now I know what a Dead Mall is. Thanks, Captain Obvious lol
@wiseauserious8750
December 5, 2025 at 8:55 pm
Reminds me of the empty bombed-out palaces in Baghdad
@angieanderson162
December 6, 2025 at 1:39 pm
Turn them into homeless shelters. Offices for ebt, medicaid, daycare assistance.. . .
@cmcg91
December 6, 2025 at 6:12 pm
Hey its like the physical equivalent of the internet these days…
@scottluker9119
December 7, 2025 at 1:53 am
Why do they all still have some power running?
@Dana-kb5mk
December 7, 2025 at 11:01 am
Dan Bell ❤️ One of the very best, of Baltimore and anywhere ❤️ Extraordinary documentarian and filmmaker as well as human being ❤️♾️