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 (DIR) Post #AxGCm5f7Urc1zvaAqm by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2025-08-17T12:15:13Z
       
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       Why are we talking about crime in cities where there isn't any extraordinary crime when the CDC was shot up with 100s of bullets killing a police officer and state politicians have been assassinated?There *is* a crime problem. It's right wing political violence.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxGE4delwegKb1pPeK by gbargoud@masto.nyc
       2025-08-17T12:29:38Z
       
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       @futurebird But one of them was doing *a wheelie*
       
 (DIR) Post #AxGE5XtaqjoN1DC2We by graydon@canada.masto.host
       2025-08-17T12:29:44Z
       
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       @futurebird "crime problem" = "insufficient white supremacy", particularly "they're not white, and they don't look or act like they're afraid of me".I think it's a mistake to go get crime statistics; it has nothing to do with crime statistics (not in any plausible way) and an awful lot to do with externalised fears.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxGEX7528tQ7xago7s by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2025-08-17T12:34:54Z
       
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       @graydon Totally agree. I do think, however, that mild symptoms of urban disorder can make less politically tuned in people susceptible to this kind of propaganda. Which is why now is a great time for mayors of big cities to put a little focus on sanitation. The right talks about sanitation a lot in connection with this issue as if persecuting people will make the trash go away. But we could actually make cities cleaner and everyone would like it.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxGExaUHQhfWh67do0 by graydon@canada.masto.host
       2025-08-17T12:39:40Z
       
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       @futurebird Hereabouts, sanitation is intolerable to big swathes of the right because it tends to have unions and to involve people getting paid decent money."Putting the money into maintenance" just in general is an excellent idea.(So are things that try to solve the problem, rather than move it; processing trash as ore rather than landfill, all that stuff. You could get an entire industry or three out of that and increase local prosperity.)
       
 (DIR) Post #AxIP0bFuPxJZnrOZ7I by Karen5Lund@mastodon.social
       2025-08-18T13:41:32Z
       
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       @futurebird The biggest crime problem I see is a convicted felon (34 counts, with other criminal and civil cases pending) living in that big white building on Pennsylvania Avenue. Other problems, including the shooting at the CDC, stem from that.