Post AdPkcmMVUgO882xOca by mybarkingdogs@mastodon.sdf.org
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(DIR) Post #AdP3MH0K1ABCDCSmES by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-01-01T03:22:50Z
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A 12 percent drop in the US murder rate is wild. And I say that as someone who has been spitting stats and rolling my eyes at people who say "crime has gotten so bad..."It hasn't been "bad" by any real metric since the late 90s and even when it was "bad" if you're middle class (and not at risk of domestic violence*) you have zero things to worry about even in 1989.*domestic violence improved for a few decades but then stalled. But, when people fret about crime this isn't what they mean.
(DIR) Post #AdP3MIrX6oKzyWMmoK by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-01-01T03:37:03Z
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I felt like the country had a bit of rebound violence coming out of lockdowns, remote school, and disruption to peoples jobs and supply chains, and this is why there was a little uptick in the past year and now people are settling into "normal" patterns.But I didn't say much about it since it was just speculation and it could have been the start of another slow rise in crime.Now I feel more confident that it could have been just that. Not that even the "rise" was remarkable.
(DIR) Post #AdP3SskYapBT12Eya8 by mybarkingdogs@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-01-01T03:41:42Z
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@futurebird and another part of the "crimewave" was business and media sources literally making stuff up:https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-12-14/column-retail-lobby-confesses-it-lied-about-organized-shoplifting-ringsNot sure if that would have impacted violent crime like assault and murder but it sure did theft - there was no large scale theft crisis, etc
(DIR) Post #AdP3StfdAcpzs2wYXg by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-01-01T03:48:18Z
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@mybarkingdogs The whole retail crime thing was such nonsense, I couldn't prove they were lying but strongly suspected it. And then to the extent that there were some sensational videos made, the news running them over and over had one real impact: it made a few people want to make more videos like that.So we had more of a sensational video wave than a "smash and grab" wave. It seems for many people just seeing a few videos can convince them the whole world is like that.
(DIR) Post #AdP3SuTcAmouN4KTS4 by knordstrom@techhub.social
2024-01-01T04:03:56Z
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When I worked retail, the point was always made that Walmart had done studies which proved that only 20% or loss came from shoplifting with about 40% coming from the employees and the other 40% being from mismanagment. So it seemed weird to me that it was Walmart that seemed to be leading the cries about retail crime theft.But then I read an article where the CEO of Lowes stated he though the whole issue was self inflicted as he advoided the issue by keeping up their salesforce numbers. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/lowes-ceo-says-the-solution-to-rising-theft-is-clear-hire-and-train-more-workers/ar-AA1gL1oAWhich makes me wonder if it's just as much if not more companies like Walmart are trying to do away with almost their entire staff and trying to put the onus of protecting their inventory on local and state legislation with the Republicans taking advantage of the FUD that being created in the process.@futurebird @mybarkingdogs
(DIR) Post #AdP3ZtSANNwVDxyvoG by ignova@mstdn.ca
2024-01-01T04:08:06Z
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@futurebird i've noticed a lot of white women get extremely touchy when you try to discuss realistic vs. unrealistic perceptions of crime. some of them have invested a lot in the idea that the streets are dangerous; they get mad at you for pointing out the ways that this narrative is manufactured. generally by conservatives pushing for more repressive policing, or the rollback of civil rights.
(DIR) Post #AdP3ZuKP7jKNwBMFLk by EverydayMoggie@sfba.social
2024-01-01T04:28:57Z
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I notice many women have been taught to be fearful of the world from infancy. So asking them to abandon that is pretty high-stakes; you're asking them to pull out one of the pieces that forms the foundation of their concept of self. You've got to convince them that the whole structure won't simply fall apart when they do that, or at least convince them to make a leap of faith.@ignova @futurebird
(DIR) Post #AdP3ZvDLpRHQgb47zk by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-01-01T04:30:34Z
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@EverydayMoggie @ignova There are things that women should fear. Mostly domestic or "boyfriend" violence. If there is a scary man who might hurt you he's probably in your house already. He probably has keys.
(DIR) Post #AdP3ZvvfAgj2u1nW40 by itsybitesyspider@peoplemaking.games
2024-01-01T04:48:29Z
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@futurebird Similar conversation around public transportation. A lot of people feel safe from the bad guys inside their car.
(DIR) Post #AdPkcYEu09zEKPI7pA by passenger@kolektiva.social
2024-01-01T17:42:21Z
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@harriettmb @migriverat @futurebird @Peternimmo @mybarkingdogs My covid mutual aid group set up a NextDoor, which gradually got adopted by a particular subset of people who were mostly concerned with alarmism about ethnic minorities and teenagers, and getting very stressed that the police were ignoring their curtain-twitching. None of those people did much actual mutual aid and none of the people doing serious mutual aid stuff got involved with them.
(DIR) Post #AdPkcbMoND601o0z4K by mybarkingdogs@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-01-01T17:55:09Z
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@passenger @harriettmb @migriverat @futurebird @Peternimmo Part of me wonders if fascist organizers have learned to target Nextdoor as well as Nextdoor being an open door for them. That actually reminds me a LOT of how churches and Christofascists used COVID stuff here... they started with questioning lockdowns and claiming to be about reopening and mental health, hosting prayer rallies and singalongs etc to "help" and to evangelize at the same time, then upping Q and antimask rhetoric
(DIR) Post #AdPkceWUdfcfohZG4m by mybarkingdogs@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-01-01T17:58:46Z
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@passenger @harriettmb @migriverat @futurebird @Peternimmo and by late 2020, you had literal fascists getting unquestioned "side" time on local news interviews to whine about how masks kept people from being able to see "true smiles" and something something Jesus, and a regular Qanon protest on a given street corner that only died out well after 2021, assholes like Feucht and the Awaken and Rock Church people being *the* face of Christian stuff here
(DIR) Post #AdPkcgvjgn0FHZORhQ by mybarkingdogs@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-01-01T18:00:07Z
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@passenger @harriettmb @migriverat @futurebird @Peternimmo and this being literally 20 miles east of San Diego at that, in California, not exactly a place that an outsider would see as a trumpy type spot (though all of us who lived here for any amount of time can tell you what the East County has always been like)
(DIR) Post #AdPkcj4fiXL5vrabuC by mybarkingdogs@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-01-01T18:03:34Z
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@passenger @harriettmb @migriverat @futurebird @Peternimmo (So yeah, they *definitely* have a strategy of radicalizing normies via fear, uncertainty, doubt, and peddling Christofascism as an answer. And the foot in the door there *is* offering "help" but help that will always have strings - food aid from churches, being majorly involved in "aiding the homeless" (e.g. throwing a few scraps at the ones who pray and beg enough, supporting the cops in "cleaning up" the rest), "social events" etc)
(DIR) Post #AdPkckktT2ht96LqM4 by mybarkingdogs@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-01-01T18:04:55Z
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@passenger @harriettmb @migriverat @futurebird @Peternimmo (One thing antifascists need to do here is get way better at anticipation of events, and offering this stuff BEFORE the churches that are pretty much all Christofascist megachurches do, and *locking them out of it* but... I rarely see that done)
(DIR) Post #AdPkcmMVUgO882xOca by mybarkingdogs@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-01-01T18:09:45Z
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@passenger @harriettmb @migriverat @futurebird @Peternimmo (but yeah, I'm probably not drawing the connection web too well - given time I could probably do better - but there's way more than connective tissue between Covid bad-response and fascist foot in the door here, it was arguably the leg of the foot in the door with movements like "Let Them Breathe" pretty much seamlessly pivoting from "kids shouldn't wear masks ever and we must open schools now now now" to standard book-ban stuff