2d ago

Fox News seems to ignore the crime rate in Republican States

https://xcancel.com/GovPressOffice/status/1959370028622729280#m

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Hey, we got some troll baiting going on in this thread. Don't fall for it. If you start to feel angry, that's the point.
Go after the idea, not the user.

Houston, we have a problem
- If you think Greg Abbott isn't chomping at the bit to take over Houston municipal government and have all the local elected officials ejected, you haven't been paying attention to Texas politics in at least ten years.
  
  champing*
  
  I haven't, I live very far from there. Just wanted to humorously throw in that famous quote

It blows my mind how US americans just accept that they are having such a high murder rate at all. The murder rate in San Francisco is still too high, if you compare it with other nations and their cities. Considering how much surveillance and how much money their government pumps in the police system… you would think they finally would wake up and find out that all those measures are only in place to protect the capital of the ruling class and not the citizens…
- Yeah, the 32 of 827k population SF is pretty damn awful when compared to the 54 of 6m population Denmark or the 13 of 1.4m population Copenhagen..
  One of a million pieces of data pointing at the fact that surveillance and law enforcement is NOT how you bring down crime.
  
  I'm going to make an educated guess at two big reasons as to why the US has a much higher murder rate compared to other wealthy nations: guns and income inequality.
- It blows my mind how US americans just accept that they are having such a high murder rate at all.
  Genuine question (for you or anyone else with the same mentality): what would you do? Everyone on this website talks about how weird Americans are for just "being ok with everything going on" when in fact most of us aren't and have practically no ability to do anything about it that doesn't result in our own immediate death.
  Besides, "amass enough capital (in a system designed to prevent you from amassing capital) to leave this shitty country", what would you actually do? Since it's mind blowing that we're not doing it and all...
  (Sorry if this comes across as angry or directed at you, it's frustrating to live in a dumpster fire and read comments all day from people not in the dumpster fire implying that I'm just totally ok with said dumpster fire.)
  
  There are multiple factors contributing to high murder rates:
  Guns: ban them.
  Mental health: provide free support for mental health issue, including a phone number where people can safely report friends and relatives in crisis. Today if you report, they send police officers totally untrained and unprepared for these situations and that easily ends up in drama
  Gangs: a lot of the murders are gang members against gang members. There is no miraculous solution to that. But I would advocate: decriminalize possession of small amounts of drugs, provide shooting rooms with support (both physical and mental) freely available. I would even support offering drugs substitutes for free under control. If the drug price collapses, their business collapses.
  So: vote for someone who will support social science based policies.
  I'm sorry there are no easier way. "Get tough on crime" is the solution that was experimented the most and has proven again and again to be inefficient.
  Edit: you may already be doing that, don't take this as an assumption you don't. I understand the frustration and that feeling of being powerless while people ask you "why aren't you DOING something about it?".
  
  As an individual: Definitely leave. Generally I think some people ought to shut up and get the hell out instead of impotently complaining online.
  I think what these posters are asking about, though, is how it is possible that the American people in aggregate support this system? And they do. Just like how about half of Israelis support Netanyahu. Sure sure. Electoral college, voting system, bla bla. Trump won the popular vote against Harris. How? This is clearly an electorate that itself is the problem. The people of the US doesn't suffer under its government. The people of the US suffers because it chooses to.
- Oh, some of us a are very aware. But theres not much we can do when living in a facist police state that has half the country raving mad about where people shit with their fearmongering propaganda.

So sick of USA politics showing up everywhere.
- It's silly, the community allows any tweets except international politics. So it will just be overrun by US tweets.
  Make it easy on yourself, just block the community. US Defaultism doesn't go away
- It’s the canary in the coal mine.
- Maybe you could make your own Internet?

What’s the per capita rate?
- Looks like Houston is 11.5 and San Francisco is 4 per 100k.
- Thanks, this should almost be annotated on the image before reposting here - so important

They specifically and frequently point out Houston is a “Democrat-run” city populated by Blacks; Their echo chamber is way ahead of you here and This would only reinforce their beliefs
- Chicago is played out, they gotta find a new place to point at for the ‘urban crime’ types.
  
  Not really. Remember how much milage they got out of 'lets go brandon.'?

There's no such thing as a "Republican state," nearly every state is split somewhere between 51/49 and 60/40. There are "Republican-run states," but inside every Republican-run state is a "Democrat-run city" which has been a convenient narrative for Republicans of late. Houston's mayor is a Democrat, and Harris county has more registered Democrats than Republicans; in 2024 metro Houston voted for Kamala over Trump.
Whether Abbot or Whitmire is more to blame for Houston's violence is just a political distraction. Both bear some responsibility and I'm tired of both sides running finger-pointing narratives rather than trying to find constructive solutions.
- I hear there is a national guard bonanza going on? Maybe ask them to help get all that crime off your streets Texas.

Could really see Newsom becoming president of the future New California Republic. Not saying I like that future. But I am starting to see it how it could come to pass
- It wouldn't be the New California Republic, the current state government is the California Republic. The Republic was more or less established after annexation.
  
  You're right, I'm sure nothing would need to be changed.
- The south was burned to the ground when they tried to secede. Enough of the country hates California that it probably would happen again if they tried. And the 35% of Republicans in the state would probably help.
  
  Perhaps. California has loads of money and access to lots of technological infrastructure. They could potentially seize tech companies' operations and deprive the rest of the country of things like their Gmail, YT access, operating systems, etc. GDP is very translatable to power imo.
- Wait at first everyone mostly libs hated Newsom now he is making fun of Trump and now y’all taking him serious ? Dems party is dead with no leader for the next decade!
  
  Yeah it pains me too, but it seems that being a trollish funnyman who makes good screenshots worth reposting is the essence of electability in 2025
  
  Nah, libs adore him and always have. That's how he gets elected.
  Those of us on the actual LEFT who're paying attention to his policies and other actions that aren't pure PR gimmicks and "sounds good on the surface" never could stand him, though, and would be enormous hypocrites to applaud his fighting gerrymandering with gerrymandering.

I’d argue about per capita but nobody who sees this cares about that.
- I mean...
  A population of 873,965 in San Fran vs 2,304,580 in Houston.
  1 in ~25,000 people in San Fran get murdered vs 1 in ~7,150 people in Houston. That's ~3.5x higher. Per capita isn't helping much here.
  
  I’m not saying SF is more dangerous. I’m just saying people are idiots who don’t understand statistics. Which is what got us into this mess.
  
  It's helping a lot

Did they really take artistic liberties to make the Bay Bridge coloration look like the Golden Gate?
- At least it has a picture that is somewhat recognizable, Houston just has a guy.
  
  Behold the memorable skyline of Houston:
  
  Because this is probably targeted to Texans or ex-Texans (tEXans?).
  They'll recognize that fucking ghoul.
  
  Governor of Texas guy

The murder rate in the USA, for a supposed 1st World civilized country is fucking pathetic. Life is cheap in the USA. The labor laws and healthcare system stress out society and one has nothing to lose. Yes, the Red Run Oblasts have plenty of violent crime and gun related deaths.
- Most people don't care... Bad numbers are just that numbers.
  But bad numbers for other countries is propaganda fodder.

And I just went to look up the homicide numbers for Philly out of instinct. 262 last year.. Which is 36% less than the previous year. And still higher per capita than Houston.
Go birds!

The unfortunate part about real life is that republicans just think democrats are lying about those numbers. They make up whatever stats they need in order to do what they want. Also, Houston has a democratic mayor. So they would probably blame him got the crimes.

Seems to? That's their entire MO: lie about shit to make Republicans look less terrible at governing
- Yeah if it makes 'them' look bad, that's something to bury, but if they can make the democratic party look bad...let's do it! Hypocrisy is their jam. Now I'm getting Austin Powers recently thawed scene in my head, hypocrisy isn't my jam....one book by Republicans, hypocrisy is my jam...baby. Okay well I'll take it to move things along.

Let's see, Houston has ~4X the population and ~10x the murders. So unless that equation is known to be non linear, that seems pretty bad Mr abbot
Mr abbot: who gives a fuck about brown people?!
- What the hell is Abbott supposed to do about it? Send in the state guard?
  
  How about calling a special session to get the legislators to use state state money to address the root causes like systemic inequality against poor brown people? You know, an empathetic human approach?
  But of course he's a republican and so only has a flaming ball of tar where his soul should be, so that's never going to happen.

The idea that a Democrat might have done wrong is more important than the reality that a Republican definitely did wrong.

It's called overreporting.
Make more than one report on the same one crime, so people will think it's multiple different crimes.

Cars are actually a bigger threat than guns in San Francisco. There were 41 traffic fatalities last year, and on average traffic violence seriously injures 8 people each day. I suspect the situation is similar in Houston.

Wait, they're biased, and constantly lie? Huh. We should tell everyone, that'll fix it.

At this point fuck leaders. Buy guns and live for actual humanity while assuming your life will end early.

Westmob and Big Block got a truce on or something?

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