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MAGA cult struggle with reality (discuss.online)
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[–] 16 points 3 months ago (9 children)

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.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    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"

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I'm so confused. Your nextdoor neighbors live almost an hour away, in Seattle? And don't know what Seattle is like? What?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    Wait. Not only you've been shot at, but it happened more than once?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    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.

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