Post AxS5UkGbQJusw5Pql6 by lufthans@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #AxQkIJJXVy2Hfo3jH6 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-22T14:17:53Z
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This lying is so exhausting. "DC has some of the highest crime in the world" People just eat this up. I don't even think that was true back in the days when DC had a crime problem. Now? It's just nonsense. Lies lies lies.And Vance is saying "well the stats are fake" Just as a throw away line. No follow up.
(DIR) Post #AxQkQY9yCd0a26Vnns by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-22T14:19:23Z
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I live in the South Bronx and it's so insulting and in initializing to have this clown tell me that *I* don't really know if there is crime or not WHERE I LIVE. That people who live in cities shouldn't have and damn say in what problems we want addressed.It's insulting because a lot of us care a lot about these cities and love them and we've worked hard to make them the kind of places where everyone wants to live. Why do you think the rents are so high?
(DIR) Post #AxQkWaLwxeocZYzeOu by mark@mastodon.fixermark.com
2025-08-22T14:20:24Z
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@futurebird As someone who actually grew up in one of the cities with the highest per-capita murder rate in the country: n'ah, DC is pretty tame. It does get its unfair share of sign-this-petitioners (for obvious reasons), but whatever.(I was involuntarily conscripted into a drug-running conspiracy in DC once, but it was marijuana, so you know what? Don't care. As long as my cab driver wasn't smoking it behind the wheel, I hope he had a swell night.)
(DIR) Post #AxQkXHB7jmhnORG6zo by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-22T14:20:37Z
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I would love to live in DC and the only reason I don't is because I live in NYC which I like even better. And you know, maybe it's not for you. That is fine. But we've worked hard to make living in cities worth it. They are going to ruin it all.
(DIR) Post #AxQka9LZJMpByNVxzM by platypus@glammr.us
2025-08-22T14:21:06Z
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@futurebird like, when I lived there for 8 !!! years a decade ago, I can think of 2 people who had actual street crime happen to them. And one incident that happened since I moved and was bad enough to make it to me.So besides stats, it's so comparatively rare that every incident during my time is something I can remember vs. blurred together.
(DIR) Post #AxQkjX1UeYa40eb9V2 by rachel@transitory.social
2025-08-22T14:20:22.643Z
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@futurebird@sauropods.win ffs if the "stats" are fake what are they basing the crime on? Feels?
(DIR) Post #AxQkjYJbqgfM1858NM by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-22T14:22:43Z
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@rachel They are just saying it to cast doubt since the numbers make it so obvious they are lying they have to say something. This whole thing is totally political.There are over SIXTY cities in the US with more crime than DC. And frankly people in republican areas see higher crime rates so they just assume it MUST be worse in the cities. Because if it were... what would that mean? It doesn't align with their assumptions about reality.
(DIR) Post #AxQl0NmkFihiHWjd5s by MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social
2025-08-22T14:25:49Z
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@futurebird Plus, holy crap, remember when presidents and veeps were expected to represent the WHOLE country? No matter how they felt personally about any given city, it was virtually unheard of to just trash whole American cities like this. Heh, especially cities *that they then expected to be welcome in*.
(DIR) Post #AxQl6BU4ttg5rslnyi by johnzajac@dice.camp
2025-08-22T14:26:53Z
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@futurebird I will never forget as long as I live reading in the WSJ in June 2020 that *the block of PDX I was standing on with my dog* had been "ruined and set on fire" by "rioters".I've never trusted any mainstream media source again, and my skepticism has served me really well.
(DIR) Post #AxQlWcaojXvxTPWpX6 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-22T14:31:42Z
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It's very inconvenient for Republicans that major cities aren't racked with crime and so they have just decided to lie about it and implement their playbook anyway. If you don't live in a big city in the US please understand there isn't a "debate" about it. Crime isn't the top worry of the people who live in these cities. And the way they the fed is addressing it isn't what we'd want at all. The data show this. The people will tell you this. If you hear someone say it push back hard.
(DIR) Post #AxQlchKu0kD5vDywZE by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-22T14:32:47Z
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This is a lot like the lies about "immigrant crime" that lead up to the election. Now it's just the whole city that's "crime" ... this is about manufacturing consent for repression.
(DIR) Post #AxQllbXkuwTqYwF0Eq by fullyabstract@fosstodon.org
2025-08-22T14:34:22Z
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@futurebird Indeed. The national polling is striking: people say crime is a big problem, just not where they live. They are repeating what they've heard on Fox News, etc.
(DIR) Post #AxQlmNXOTaiBPiROL2 by rk@mastodon.well.com
2025-08-22T14:34:27Z
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@futurebird If it weren’t for family obligations, we’d have moved to NYC years ago. One day…(Prolly worth pointing out that NYC has a lower crime rate than Dallas, San Antonio, and Houston, but for some reason Texas isn’t being mentioned by the powers that be…)
(DIR) Post #AxQlpvmvadrEVbOu5w by huxley@furry.engineer
2025-08-22T14:35:08Z
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@futurebird and when people do say "crime is a problem" they almost always mean "An unhoused person talked to me".
(DIR) Post #AxQm3GFAqdFLiOy7nc by flashesofpanic@ruby.social
2025-08-22T14:37:33Z
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@futurebird We all know where the majority of the crime is concentrated, both in DC and in NYC, and it's not where the cops are. If someone *really* wanted to crack down on crime in NYC, they would deploy battalions to Wall Street.
(DIR) Post #AxQnT2njY8QrVUzZCq by SRLevine@neuromatch.social
2025-08-22T14:53:25Z
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@futurebird Top worries when I lived in a "big" citywhy is the bus late? did they change the schedule again? oh no...it just started raining...why is the street car/light rail late? did they reduce service?what do you mean that street is closed and you're making me bike through the construction with traffic?!?!pot holes, so many pot holesa bridge you had to cross getting raised during your commute time (I lived in Portland)(I now live in a small city, my biggest worry is someone in a car is going to kill me while I'm on my bike and they won't even notice...)
(DIR) Post #AxQnyvTCLHhk2JaaAq by jwcph@helvede.net
2025-08-22T14:59:10Z
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@futurebird Keeps happening here, too. I live in basically the Copenhagen version of Brooklyn & every few months some rightwingnut will insist that it's a war zone. They'll claim without any evidence that entire neighborhoods are so dangerous the police refuse to go there - meanwhile, said areas are families picnicing, people hanging out at cafes & restaurants, kids playing... and of course the press just reports the lie, because why look out the fucking window when Nazis say it's raining 🙄
(DIR) Post #AxQoNzkHaCjKXJXAYK by graydon@canada.masto.host
2025-08-22T15:03:42Z
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@futurebird Cities conflict with the moral narrative.When you say "they are going to ruin it all" it's not happening by accident.(Cities create the economy; if you want to guarantee your incumbency, you don't want a thriving economy; you might want all the money, but that's different.)
(DIR) Post #AxQp1Ol8W407PPiqYa by Canageek@wandering.shop
2025-08-22T15:10:49Z
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@futurebird I'm guessing that US cities are similar to Canadian ones, with rent being your first three worries, followed by the rising cost of food as there next two, and somewhere down around 25 is crime?
(DIR) Post #AxQqRUOeHNRCNND0oy by BLTpizza@mastodon.social
2025-08-22T15:26:44Z
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@futurebird All of my white, exburbs living coworkers describe their drives through Akron, Cleveland, or anyplace where ya might see a houseless person, like they survived the real life Escape From New York. Two black men in a parking lot is violent gang activity. Pedestrians are suspicious in their effed up, bigoted, fantasy land. When trump hypes the crime these lawn mowing, HOA members are his target audience.
(DIR) Post #AxQrKUEca9Zxnkk9cO by wonkothesane@mstdn.social
2025-08-22T15:36:41Z
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@futurebird I agree with you, but the message has always been for old and racist white people who were never going to leave their suburbs to the visit these cities anyway
(DIR) Post #AxQsQTR6Z32n1408lU by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-22T15:48:57Z
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@DavidM_yeg well that too, but the demand has no bottom which enables them.
(DIR) Post #AxQslReWOIDHZ8HDA8 by kbsez@mastodon.social
2025-08-22T15:52:43Z
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@futurebird Because #MAGA is a racist group. They think of DC as being a black population and in their minds that means they are all drug dealers, welfare queens, hookers & pimps. It's why trump still has over 40% support. Racists love him when they see hispanics and black people targeted by him. That's what they voted for... and sorry to say, a lot of hispanics and black people voted for him too because he promised to hurt people they didn't like and because they wouldn't vote for a woman
(DIR) Post #AxQxQsMEPHBi4yjUXo by StevenSavage@sfba.social
2025-08-22T16:45:05Z
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@futurebird I people still have ideas of New York that are out of movies.I "knew" this but at one point, two decades ago, I'm running through downtown at night to a computer store, trying to get stuff to repair an important multimedia display. And I realized . . . yeah, this is OK.Then some years later I'm walking around doing job interviews and was again reminded of the bullshit spread abut a pretty nice place.
(DIR) Post #AxQzQWO4I9ezqcYCiO by JoscelynTransient@chaosfem.tw
2025-08-22T17:07:27Z
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@futurebird literally, the two biggest problems according to the majority of people I know in most cities: rent is unaffordable and public transportation is shit. These are two things that we actually want and need addressed.
(DIR) Post #AxR0iaa5XOnU1OLtcu by burnitdown@beige.party
2025-08-22T17:21:54Z
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@futurebird they will cause crime. cops cause crime, so they increase cops.
(DIR) Post #AxR21xITP9MDvhuZ5k by impermanen_@zirk.us
2025-08-22T17:36:35Z
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@futurebird I’ve lived in a few supposedly “bad neighborhoods” in “big crime” cities since the 80s. They’re invariably peaceful. The only threatening presence I ever felt was the cops.I suspect that people hear about crime on the news and then the “confirmation” they receive from the world, if any, is observing through a windshield a person wearing a big pack, or searching for food in a dumpster, or walking on the sidewalk while black.
(DIR) Post #AxRBNtuzXwavPQT24e by JonnyT@mastodon.me.uk
2025-08-22T19:21:22Z
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@futurebird But DC *does* have the highest crime in the world.It started in 2016 and the shitheads responsible have stolen at a minimum over £3.5 billion from you.You can find the criminals behind this in the White House.(Turn their rhetoric against them. It's the only effective way to tackle it. Agree with them, then point out where it's happening - it's them. It's always them. They are the ones doing whatever the fuck bad thing it is they are saying is happening. Every single time.)
(DIR) Post #AxRvp8Fowvxja78IDY by tuban_muzuru@ohai.social
2025-08-23T04:01:46Z
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@futurebird People who live in cities are emotionally configured to believe they live in a neighborhood. I dare say your concept of "where you live" is even smaller than South Bronx, right? Thus, city people see themselves in context of maybe a thousand people. Suburban people don't even know their neighbors.Here's a flex - when we moved in here, I took fresh bread around to all my immediate neighbors. That's a city thing to do, in an apartment building,
(DIR) Post #AxS5UkGbQJusw5Pql6 by lufthans@mastodon.social
2025-08-23T05:50:07Z
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@futurebird How can people live in small towns?Spouse watches a lot of murder mysteries. There are so many murders in small towns. How do people live in small towns? I mean, between the dead bodies and the people being carted off to jail it doesn't seem there'd be much population leftIs it small town population control? Kill 3 people a week, solve the murders inone hour?Cabot Cove has a much higher murder rate in murders per population than any big citySmall towns are dangerous!
(DIR) Post #AxSSLLVGQF6CTMlDpg by burnitdown@beige.party
2025-08-23T10:06:08Z
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@futurebird the rent is high because all landlords are bastards. Donald Trump is a landlord.
(DIR) Post #AxTNxD1a5adSZG4WMi by andrew773@mastodon.online
2025-08-23T20:51:40Z
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@futurebird Here's what the best mayor of Chicago since Harold Washington has to say about it https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/mayor/press_room/press_releases/2025/august/Statement-National-Guard-Chicago.html