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Well, if you'd like to address the topic as outlined, that would be great. TIAThe threads content and extrapolations are beyond your mental grasp.
I'm taking things to the next and more comprehensive level which you fail to know or appreciate.
Can you address the topic?Parts of it are, parts of it aren't.
I've lived here over 70 years and know this city and area better than a temporary tourist like yourself.
As I offered earlier, next time you come here (assuming you really did the first time, which I strongly doubt), PM me and we can meet and I'll give you a tour of the underbelly of the PNW and Seattle.
Other than it being not true? You are suggesting that Seattle is too expensive for Amazon.Seattle is VERY expensive, as noted.
Did you have a contribution to the topic of conservatives embracing false narratives?
People are seeking more affordable housing in many/most instances.
Why do you think conservatives embrace the false narratives outlined?
You have a hearing problem? I called horseshit on your posts.Did you have a contribution to the topic...?
LMAO so other than the 150 outliers...facts have exposed your SPIN run away and hide.DC is an outlier to the dropping urban crime trend, yes.
Thanks for bringing this up.
You do understand that exceptions to trends occur, yes?
He just can’t stand anyone challenging his ill thought out stupid rhetoric. He keeps getting proven wrong, yet he clings to his BS.You have a hearing problem? I called horseshit on your posts.
You are generous calling it thought out.He just can’t stand anyone challenging his ill thought out stupid rhetoric. He keeps getting proven wrong, yet he clings to his BS.
Thanks for your admission that California and New York are falling.Tell us more about Mississippi, alabama, arkansas, oklahoma, and Kentucky!
Cities are shitholes.So kind of like an impoverished Red state?
Did you have any thoughts on the topic of conservatives embracing false narratives of urban decay/chaos?
Seattle's murder rate is so low per capita that a slight rise appears significant, but isn't.
Like most parts of the West, the mild weather attracts the homeless.Seattle- So great even the homeless want to live there!
Just one of many thriving Blue cities.It's funny how you picked Seattle.
Anecdotes are awesome.We had a get together with family friends who live in Seattle less than a month ago in early December and they were terrified to leave anything in their car overnight ... in the middle of the country in Pennsylvania ...
Conservatives who embrace false narratives of decay/chaos don't feel safe; it's sort of like a cult of fear and bitterness.Americans don't feel safe and that is going to destroy you in the election, MAGA man
Seattle is just one example of a Blue city so successful that you're astonished by the disparity between its safety/beauty on the one hand, and the bizarre apocalyptic narratives attached to it by conservatives on the other:
Seattle is a victim of its own success | Horsey cartoon
This once middle-class town is getting too expensive for the middle class.www.seattletimes.com
But Seattle's not alone in the reality/false narrative gap; both New York City and Los Angeles rank among the 20 greatest cities in the world in a recent Conde Nast survey:
These are officially the best cities in the world for 2023 â and Dubai is up there
In fact, there's only one city that ranks higherwww.cntravellerme.com
I mention Seattle only because a recent visit there revealed an amazing, safe, thriving city whose biggest problem - as with many US cities - is affordable housing due to the influx of newcomers clamoring for its emerald beauty.
So what gives?
Part of the explanation may be that conservatives are so hungry for a return to power that they seem unable to refrain from saying whatever it takes to sell a less than truthful narrative regarding our greatest cities in particular, and our country in general.
But there may be a deeper cause, as explored in this article:
The science behind why conservatives are so easily triggered
Curiously, it is the same reason why they are best equipped for the meme warswww.salon.com
What is the cost - to both conservatives and those exposed to their false narratives - of insisting on apocalyptic myths of societal decay contrary to the reality of blossoming urban areas?
What can be done to turn away these troubling false narratives and embrace the beautiful truth?