Nowhere was race mentioned. You’re the one who brought it up. Says a lot about you. Try driving alone through the rural south as a woman with Massachusetts plates and left wing bumper stickers. Let me know what kind of reception you get. |
So what you’re saying is that it’s all about the messaging, not the reality. Whatever “works” to brainwash the kids is your truth. |
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It is easier to deflect with stories of crime ridden cities so that rural areas don't notice when the Trump administration makes their water dirtier or depletes their water and energy supply with massive, unregulated, building of AI datacenters.
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Republicans make a lot of noise about this but they don't really understand anything. Trump put thousands of FBI, DEA and other agents on DC streets, plus thousands of National Guard, and it really didn't do much. Arrests didn't go up, crime didn't really end. But it cost taxpayers millions of dollars a week.
Republicans tend to suffer from a lot of naivete about how "simple" things are to fix, and don't actually understand the costs. Nor do they ever stop to think about second and third order effects of their policies. Any simpleton can say "there's a crime problem" but it takes a lot more thinking to actually solve it. Just throwing policing at it doesn't do it. |
| Three decades and 400 studies failed to find any correlation between political affiliation of the mayor and crime rates. It has more to do with city size, poverty, housing instability, and other structural factors. |
If they wanted to solve DC crime, just a focus on solving the prosecution rate issue was all they needed to do. But hey, smoke and mirrors provides a show for people in East Bumblef*ck who have no idea what the actual issues are. |
Our opinion of cities is from “lived experience” (as you like to call it) not the news. Are you rejecting the lived experiences of the people who have lived in urban Philadelphia, NYC, and DC? |
No, we are saying you are anti-social p#ssies who couldn’t hack it. |
I lived in DC for 14 years. They could just address the OAG staffing and prosection issue (which they do seem to be somewhat) without the theatrics and waste of taxpayer money. Yes much of this administration is a distraction from sh*t like AI which is driving accelerated job losses, electricity prices, ane depleting water resources. |
Hm, I thought the Democrats were the party of tolerance of different preferences and embracing diversity of lifestyles. I’m really shocked to hear your perspective on this issue
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Democrats are generally intolerant of intolerant people. We have our limits. |
Get over yourself. You’ll get stares and rude comments at worst. Walk down Frankford Ave in Kensington. Maybe wear a Moncler coat. Report back with how it works out for you. |
As a matter of fact, I have walked through Kensington, with $120 cash on me. Nothing happened. |
And preferring to live in a rural area over an urban one is a clear example of intolerance. |
We all know that PPs experience with urban vibrancy is limited to the mean streets of Georgetown and Kalorama. |