@MMFlint more melodrama from the eliminated member of the Michigan Film Board
— John Kallis (@Kali1128) October 5, 2014
It’s Michael Moore so there’s of course a large dollop of hyperbole, but the filmmaker is looking at a quiet Tigers game as a sign of “an eliminated city that invented the (eliminated) middle class.”
@MMFlint Eliminated city? Let's have lunch next time you're here. Tell me if it's "eliminated." #hyperbole
— Tomas Laverty (@lavurty) October 5, 2014
Inviting Michael Moore to lunch? The rich must be doing OK in Detroit.
https://twitter.com/ShawnChittle/status/518854614859677697
@ShawnChittle @MMFlint It's 2014.
— Tomas Laverty (@lavurty) October 5, 2014
@norfud @ShawnChittle @MMFlint And now we're watching it rise from the ashes. Hardly eliminated. People live, work and do good things here.
— Tomas Laverty (@lavurty) October 5, 2014
https://twitter.com/ShawnChittle/status/518859561416294400
@ShawnChittle @lavurty @MMFlint my uncle was a big union man, saw it in the 70-80's. Said it was the greatest industrial city in the …
— Ron DuFresne (@norfud) October 5, 2014
@ShawnChittle @lavurty @MMFlint … US/world. He watched it die
— Ron DuFresne (@norfud) October 5, 2014
@lavurty @ShawnChittle @MMFlint and yet the auto industry will never be what it once was
— Ron DuFresne (@norfud) October 5, 2014
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@MMFlint Detroit is just like the IPhone.. getting smaller until they have to make it bigger just to keep going:) The machine keeps rolling
— Larry Rosenthal (@LarryRosenthal) October 5, 2014
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