Go through impiverished areas of rural Alabama and tell me red states are better.
Americans would be shocked if they ever visited communist, socialist China and see what the government actually does for its citizens. Like infrastructure, green energy, social security, health care, science, education etc, etc.
I live in downtown Chicago but I occasionally take work in Springfield or Bloomington (which are small towns in central Illinois). The difference is night and day. Chicago is s vibrant beautiful city with beautiful people walking around at all hours of the day. The rural parts of Illinois are GHOST TOWNS. I walk around in the middle of the day in the middle of downtown and there's literally nobody around. The food sucks. The handful of people I run into are very nice tho.
Red towns are nuts. That whole "hey there sugar" small town feeling is not true at all.
In my state, one town in particular had to beg residents to stop calling the police on tourists. Another town had their mayor do the whole "This does not represent the town" after a bunch of dudes in pick up trucks harassed businesses owned by PoC.
Another town, two years back, the drama was a big pro-gun town but the moment a brown dude with a rifle walked around, the sheriff swarmed them.
Red towns aren't safe at all.
That might be true further south but that's not true in Rural Illinois. I'm a brown dude and most people I do end up meeting are very nice. I'm a doctor and I find the patients in these towns are much nicer and more respectful than the patients I get in Chicago. But obviously there's a long history of medicine ignoring the complaints of minorities.
Where is this socialism, I’m dying to see it.
I’d love to hear what these people think socialism is.
They don't say things because they believe them to be true. They say things for the effect they want it to have. They lie. Or maybe just bullshit, because they don't care about truth at all.
What cities are even run by "the left"? Or as usual do they just mean "anyone left of Hitler"
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's always projection from the far right.
the far right.
Is there any other right?
Depends on how one defines right.
we should've let the South seceed
We should have let Sherman keep going.
When people look back at this time in a historical sense. They will see and understand that we ARE in a civil war right now. It has already started and only one side is fighting. The enemy is slowly dividing us and putting their enemies in CONCENTRATION CAMPS one by one.
A Civil War waged on us by t He very same remnants of the confederate traitors that we were nice to and let live after their TREASON.
Didn't kill enough confederates. Every officer needed to be hanged, and their kids either killed or adopted out to black families (the people who were gonna do the actual raising anyway, and in many cases blood relatives because of all the rape), their wives sterilized, etc. Fighting a war of racial identity and subjugation should have wages of racial extermination and subjugation; that identity needs to be ended. Nobody should ever be able to meaningfully identify as that ever again.
After this we need to do something like that for the fascists. The weird stochastic terror groups. Anyone who runs a social media platform or mainstream news entertainment. Even if you're not a communist or anarchist, the capitalist regime must be dismantled to punish them. As much the christian church. If they want something similar, I'm sure they can find a willing imam.
We've been in a civil war since the Confederacy, it just went cold for a while. We never actually defeated the treasonous slavers or even held them accountable.
We've written off so much harm in the name of national healing. But sometimes an important part of healing is cutting off the rot.
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.
I'm so confused. Your nextdoor neighbors live almost an hour away, in Seattle? And don't know what Seattle is like? What?
Nextdoor also has news articles for your area, the Seattle articles get shared out to places relatively close geographically which can still be an hour or two away by car.
Nextdoor is some sort of social media app for areas. I thought it was for a small neighborhood, but this makes it sound like it can be larger.
The last time someone who wasn't a cop shot at me was at the train station across the street from the police station.
In Lancaster. A red city hours north of LA, literally the end of the line for the regional trains. There was this guy who'd apparently been on the street screaming about how all the gays were gonna go to hell for weeks and we need to help put them there. Nobody did shit because everyone there agrees, despite at least three people having been worried about the guy doing some shit and his rhetoric escalating. I was just there to buy drugs. Some places you just shouldn't go to.
Wait. Not only you've been shot at, but it happened more than once?
The only time in recent memory it wasn't cops, yeah. You get way better deals on illicit shit in red cities/towns,
and shit happens there. I'm kind of a bargains-slut and I have an adventurous heart. Also the food is mostly garbage, and there's a chance you get shot trying to buy it, though that time in Lancaster is the only time I've been shot at somewhere food was being sold. For an idea how red that part of town was: it was a farmers market roughly bounded on two sides by a mural of a b2 flying over generic idyllic farmland and a portrait mural of chuck Jaeger in front of a jet of some kind. On two other sides by a sheriff station and some other cop thing.
Cops just do that. Kinda what they're for.
Edit: I think either ice or USMC fired off some shots last year, but I couldn't tell where and it might've just been in the air-which is still dangerous as hell but wasn't 'at me' I don't think. Might have been around the corner.
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"
Yup, the bad drivers in Seattle are by far the most dangerous part.
When the Idiot Cult says cities are a "warzone", what they really mean is "black people are often living in cities and I am a racist POS who thinks all black people are criminal thugs."
Its nothing more or less.
Its just racism. MAGA is a racist cult of idiots.
It's also just what they're told on Fox News, etc., most of them have never set foot in a major US city.
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.
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