Why do MAGA assume all blue cities are violent crime ridden hell scapes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because they don’t travel and they believe what they hear on Fox.

Y'all cain't take away mah freedom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Extended family member posts about this a lot ‘oh the crime in LA!!’ Or SF, NYC etc.

Meanwhile the crime rate in some of these cities is the lowest in years.

Is it just that they’re watching news max or Fox all day long?

It's because most MAGA have never taken public transportation or walked around a city as a youth. It's probably not so much Fox News, but their parents when they were young and the local news they watch. Fox News just confirms the bias.

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Anonymous wrote:It's Fox News. An elderly relative - who lived in Manhattan in the 70s and 80s - now believes NY is too dangerous to visit.

The elderly President who also lived in Manhattan in the 70s and 80s now believes NY is too dangerous to visit. And says so all the time. He watches Fox News all day and thinks Portland is literally on fire and there aren’t any stores there anymore.

Chump probably never walked an entire NYC block in his life. He gets all his hot takes about city life from behind tinted windows in the back of cars, both in NYC and in DC. Btw 80s/90s Penn Station, Midtown, Port Authority, Times Square, north of 110th St, etc. were way more sketch than today. It's why people know who Curtis Sliwa is.

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Anonymous wrote:No we don't assume all blue cities are violent and crime ridden. Just the ones that don't enforce the law and let criminals get away with crime.
If they are locking up toothpaste, that is not a good sign.

Per capita crime is much higher in red states than blue ones....how bout focusing on that?

Trust me, you don't wanna dig deeper and focus on that. Because then you're getting into racism territory.

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Anonymous wrote:No, we assume nothing.

Our “lived experiences” have informed our decision to live and travel elsewhere.

You do you boo. I choose to live far away from density, subsidized housing, weed odors from neighbors, and mentally unstable hobos outside of my door.

To each their own.

Wow that’s quite an inaccurate picture.

You do know that drug use and OD rates are higher in rural populations, right?

I really don’t care. If my neighbors use drugs inside of their own homes and OD, it’s their choice.

When the meth manufacturing house next door blows up, there can be collateral damage.

Came back to my job at a rural.college after Christmas vacation to find one of my staff was out to repair damage to their house, cause the meth heads next door miscalculated.

I have so many other messed up stories I can tell from my time in the rural American South - and I'm a white southern woman.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, we assume nothing.

Our “lived experiences” have informed our decision to live and travel elsewhere.

You do you boo. I choose to live far away from density, subsidized housing, weed odors from neighbors, and mentally unstable hobos outside of my door.

To each their own.

Wow that’s quite an inaccurate picture.

You do know that drug use and OD rates are higher in rural populations, right?

I really don’t care. If my neighbors use drugs inside of their own homes and OD, it’s their choice.

When the meth manufacturing house next door blows up, there can be collateral damage.

Came back to my job at a rural.college after Christmas vacation to find one of my staff was out to repair damage to their house, cause the meth heads next door miscalculated.

I have so many other messed up stories I can tell from my time in the rural American South - and I'm a white southern woman.

Fortunately we are not poor and have the ability to live where we want. If my neighbors are doing meth or heroin in the $2-$3M home, I could not care less. If their home explodes, it doesn’t impact me for more than a day.

I would care if:
My neighbors started accosting me in the street, begging for money and calling me slurs
My neighbors were nodding off in the park in front of my children while reeking of urine
My neighbors home looked like an ugly trash heap
My neighbors often urinated in public spaces and now the public library smells like pee
My neighbors weed smoking wafted to my property
My neighbors were found to be committing crimes.

You don’t like rural south? Fine! Let us enjoy it while you enjoy a life of urban vibrancy in DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cuz it's tiresome to see shampoo and candy and bars of soap locked behind plastic cages at CVS, or to see drug needles on the ground, or have fear of walking in the city at night.

I’m more comfortable walking in midtown Manhattan than I am some desolate country road where I’m in big trouble if a pick up truck stops next to me and tells me to get in.

Also - Based on the latest data, Tennessee has a significantly higher rate of gun deaths per capita than New York. For 2023, the total age-adjusted gun death rate in Tennessee was 22.0 per 100,000 residents, while New York's was 4.7 per 100,000. That’s a huge difference.

Compare two cities - As of 2024, the gun death rate in Jackson, Mississippi, was drastically higher than in Boston, Massachusetts. Data shows that Jackson had the highest per-capita homicide rate in the U.S. in 2024, while Boston's homicide rate was at a near-historic low.

Compare a red state and a blue state on the safety of women regarding the most serious assault - Massachusetts rape rate: For 2023, the rape rate was 27.3 per 100,000 people. This rate of violence against women in Massachusetts is lower than the U.S. national average.

Texas rape rate: For 2023, the rate was 49.5 per 100,000 people, placing Texas among the highest rates of violence against women in the country.


I am so sick of the stupidest people in our country buying this bull that Trump sells. Blue states are safer including their cities. How much taxpayer money was spent on the dog and pony show that Trump put on in Portland, DC, Chicago?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cuz it's tiresome to see shampoo and candy and bars of soap locked behind plastic cages at CVS, or to see drug needles on the ground, or have fear of walking in the city at night.

I’m more comfortable walking in midtown Manhattan than I am some desolate country road where I’m in big trouble if a pick up truck stops next to me and tells me to get in.

Also - Based on the latest data, Tennessee has a significantly higher rate of gun deaths per capita than New York. For 2023, the total age-adjusted gun death rate in Tennessee was 22.0 per 100,000 residents, while New York's was 4.7 per 100,000. That’s a huge difference.

Compare two cities - As of 2024, the gun death rate in Jackson, Mississippi, was drastically higher than in Boston, Massachusetts. Data shows that Jackson had the highest per-capita homicide rate in the U.S. in 2024, while Boston's homicide rate was at a near-historic low.

Compare a red state and a blue state on the safety of women regarding the most serious assault - Massachusetts rape rate: For 2023, the rape rate was 27.3 per 100,000 people. This rate of violence against women in Massachusetts is lower than the U.S. national average.

Texas rape rate: For 2023, the rate was 49.5 per 100,000 people, placing Texas among the highest rates of violence against women in the country.


I am so sick of the stupidest people in our country buying this bull that Trump sells. Blue states are safer including their cities. How much taxpayer money was spent on the dog and pony show that Trump put on in Portland, DC, Chicago?

And which party controls Jackson, Mississippi?

It brings me no pleasure to point out that all the crime stuff is correlated to the size of the African-American population, not to the party in charge. Furthermore, pro-crime democrat district attorneys and judges obstruct the proper administration of justice in these high crime areas.

If Republicans had a way to reduce crime in cities like Jackson they would present that solution to voters, run for office and win. Why hasn't that happened?

[Anonymous]

I have noticed that they don’t like it when you point out that they’re ridiculous for believing such non sense, or make fun of the for hiding under their beds.

[Anonymous]

Ah yes, the bravery of co-existing with bums that shit directly on the ground nearly on command. Who wouldn’t want to be surrounded by that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ah yes, the bravery of co-existing with bums that shit directly on the ground nearly on command. Who wouldn’t want to be surrounded by that?

Are you ok? You’ve got some weird things going on in your head that just accidentally escaped, got typed out, and posted.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cuz it's tiresome to see shampoo and candy and bars of soap locked behind plastic cages at CVS, or to see drug needles on the ground, or have fear of walking in the city at night.

I’m more comfortable walking in midtown Manhattan than I am some desolate country road where I’m in big trouble if a pick up truck stops next to me and tells me to get in.

Also - Based on the latest data, Tennessee has a significantly higher rate of gun deaths per capita than New York. For 2023, the total age-adjusted gun death rate in Tennessee was 22.0 per 100,000 residents, while New York's was 4.7 per 100,000. That’s a huge difference.

Compare two cities - As of 2024, the gun death rate in Jackson, Mississippi, was drastically higher than in Boston, Massachusetts. Data shows that Jackson had the highest per-capita homicide rate in the U.S. in 2024, while Boston's homicide rate was at a near-historic low.

Compare a red state and a blue state on the safety of women regarding the most serious assault - Massachusetts rape rate: For 2023, the rape rate was 27.3 per 100,000 people. This rate of violence against women in Massachusetts is lower than the U.S. national average.

Texas rape rate: For 2023, the rate was 49.5 per 100,000 people, placing Texas among the highest rates of violence against women in the country.


I am so sick of the stupidest people in our country buying this bull that Trump sells. Blue states are safer including their cities. How much taxpayer money was spent on the dog and pony show that Trump put on in Portland, DC, Chicago?

And which party controls Jackson, Mississippi?

It brings me no pleasure to point out that all the crime stuff is correlated to the size of the African-American population, not to the party in charge. Furthermore, pro-crime democrat district attorneys and judges obstruct the proper administration of justice in these high crime areas.

If Republicans had a way to reduce crime in cities like Jackson they would present that solution to voters, run for office and win. Why hasn't that happened?

+1 Why isn’t Trump sending troops into the violent hellholes of Jackson, Birmingham, and St. Louis?

During the last decade, rural counties had a per-capita murder rate 37% higher than urban counties. It isn’t the cities themselves that cause red state crime. It’s poverty, lax gun laws, chronic underinvestment in schools and mental health care, and decades of Republican punitive justice/mass incarceration policies that don’t work and don’t address the root cause.

[Anonymous]

I mean obviously the narrative is being pushed that Dem controlled cities are unsafe all the time on Fox, etc.

I travel to a lot of cities and they all have nice areas and areas you want to stay away from after dark. This correlated with income.

To really fix the issue we need to get to the root of the problem and increase the income in the pooorer areas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cuz it's tiresome to see shampoo and candy and bars of soap locked behind plastic cages at CVS, or to see drug needles on the ground, or have fear of walking in the city at night.

I’m more comfortable walking in midtown Manhattan than I am some desolate country road where I’m in big trouble if a pick up truck stops next to me and tells me to get in.

Also - Based on the latest data, Tennessee has a significantly higher rate of gun deaths per capita than New York. For 2023, the total age-adjusted gun death rate in Tennessee was 22.0 per 100,000 residents, while New York's was 4.7 per 100,000. That’s a huge difference.

Compare two cities - As of 2024, the gun death rate in Jackson, Mississippi, was drastically higher than in Boston, Massachusetts. Data shows that Jackson had the highest per-capita homicide rate in the U.S. in 2024, while Boston's homicide rate was at a near-historic low.

Compare a red state and a blue state on the safety of women regarding the most serious assault - Massachusetts rape rate: For 2023, the rape rate was 27.3 per 100,000 people. This rate of violence against women in Massachusetts is lower than the U.S. national average.

Texas rape rate: For 2023, the rate was 49.5 per 100,000 people, placing Texas among the highest rates of violence against women in the country.


I am so sick of the stupidest people in our country buying this bull that Trump sells. Blue states are safer including their cities. How much taxpayer money was spent on the dog and pony show that Trump put on in Portland, DC, Chicago?

And which party controls Jackson, Mississippi?

It brings me no pleasure to point out that all the crime stuff is correlated to the size of the African-American population, not to the party in charge. Furthermore, pro-crime democrat district attorneys and judges obstruct the proper administration of justice in these high crime areas.

oKKK. So you are proposing paying them reparations for the 2 centuries of abuse, theft, and murder, right?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ah yes, the bravery of co-existing with bums that shit directly on the ground nearly on command. Who wouldn’t want to be surrounded by that?

Are you ok? You’ve got some weird things going on in your head that just accidentally escaped, got typed out, and posted.

Sounds like you haven’t been to San Francisco in awhile. You should try it out and report back.