Ah yes…the old “this is what socialism looks like” argument while pointing at capitalism. Been hearing that a lot lately.
It has worked for them for like 100 years, why would they stop?
The top 3 states with the highest murder rate are Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama, all red states. The 3 states with the lowest murder rates are Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. All blue states.
Yeah, but that’s only because everyone in Maine keeps getting killed by Stephen King monsters, and those are tracked as accidental deaths.
Lol do education next plz 😊
And healthcare.
I visit NYC often to see family, and a business acquaintance is always amazed. He honestly thinks NYC is a warzone, with constant gunfire, random assaults, pollution, gangs, etc.
I have to tell him that crime in our Florida city is far worse than what happens in NYC. Some psychopath kills a BABY in our city about once a week. Random gunfire has interrupted public events several times in the past few years. One year there was a panic stampede because a firecracker went off, and people ran, because it’s very possible it was gunfire. Things like that never happen in NYC.
BTW, this person also brags that he’s never left the state in his entire life. Why would he? The rest of America is too dangerous. He’s also an enthusiastic, unapologetic MAGA, and believes every word of their propaganda.
I live near Seattle and nextdoor is filled with people who live less than an hour away that are absolutely convinced we’re all dodging bullets daily in the city. You show them data that not only is the city safer than ever but red states in general are more dangerous, they respond with extreme skepticism and outright denial of facts. Heard “there’s no crimes if you don’t report them” way too much, like people aren’t reporting murders.
there’s no crimes if you don’t report them
Gaslight
Obstruct
Project <-- we are here, just substitute covid tests for crimes
Which funny enough does happen in rural red areas. When everybody knows everybody there’s incentive not to report crimes.
And yeah I go to Seattle from time to time and once I got used to the graffiti and the occasional unwell/intoxicated homeless person I’ve felt safer there than many parts of red states, even beyond my being queer. People will just tell you stories of horrific crimes from their small town and which people and places to avoid and you’re just like “how do you have enough people to have a bad part of town”
Most of the kidnappings, beatings, and shootings are taking place in blue states.
If you take ICE out of the equation blue states are much safer than red.
1000% incorrect. Texas is awash in illegal state run kidnappings right now but they’re all brown people so no one gives a shit.
It extends well beyond the US. If you look at the comments on anything Olivia Chow (leftist mayor of Toronto) posts, you’d think that a stroll to the supermarket is comparable to a few laps of Death Race. Sprinkled with thinly veiled racism of course.
The only time I feel unsafe anywhere in Los Angeles is when a cop comes nearby, I try to ride a bike outside of a park, the cloud of tear gas the cops shot starts blowing towards me, when I am too close to orange county, when when I see someone who looks like they’re from orange county, when I pass a Tesla, when its 3 am (7 pm in Venice beach) and the taco trucks are all closed and I’m hungry and a little drunk and there’s just nothing to be done.
Or when the feds jump out and try to disappear somebody. That’s pretty jarring.
Edit: also when the utility company given a state enforced monopoly decides to set half the city on fire and its really pretty but you know the carcinogens in that smoke be craaaaazy. Or when there’s a lot of wind and I think for a split second it might be another earthquake. Or when the cops spam the emergency alert channel with ‘please do our jobs for us’ even though I set it to ‘serious fucking danger only’. Or when the cops just blow up a fucking neighborhood. They do that sometimes. And I wasn’t here for it but when the CIA was flooding the city with crack and having the cops move it around for them I bet it was legit scary.
Or when the feds jump out and try to disappear somebody. That’s pretty jarring.
The part that’s actually turning our cities into a warzone.
In the states. The blue states call the red states the “welfare states.” Simply put, the 5 blue states pay for ALL the red states services combined because they’re so poor and dilapidated and broken and uneducated. Poor little fellas vote so heavily against their own interests, they should be so lucky to have those 5 blue states.
Last time I checked Florida & Texas were exempt from that particular “all red states” grouping.
Yes, but Texas has 3 major population centers which are all pretty blue, not just Austin, and has benefited from destroying the environment through the sale of oil, which definitely subsidized itself a little (incidentally Texas should be the wealthiest per capita state if they’d socialized their oil sales instead of allowing like 3 guys in charge of 3 companies to make 90% of the money). Florida has a decent population and gets a lot of tourism money, so arguably is subsidized by external funds still.
Even if Texas had put all the oil into a sovereign fund, like at least one of the scandanavian states, I don’t think they would come close to beating Alaska, at least not per capita. AK just has way more oil and way fewer people than TX
True I think, I was mostly thinking of lower 48. Texans should have all the quality of life of California, but instead we get toxic sludge basically everywhere and 0 public land to do fun things and see nature in, basically.
Florida cities are pretty liberal too. Except maybe Jacksonville but that’s nearly In Georgia. And Naples but that’s all expat northerners, and there is nobody more racist than the northerners that move down here.
Jacksonville has a Democratic mayor and voted for Biden in 2024 IIRC.
I think you mean Harris
Oh yeah, duh.