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.
At this point fuck leaders. Buy guns and live for actual humanity while assuming your life will end early.
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.
its designed that way, so the "oligarchs can stay rich more easier and not get taxed. Poor education, poor healthcare, breeds cannon fodder for the military, and for profit prisons, which apparently, prisoners are used as part of the census for gop states.
this is what right wingers actually believe in general, they believe its higher because of gun control.
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.
Lol no, in America the military isn’t allowed to police.
Wait, they’re biased, and constantly lie? Huh. We should tell everyone, that’ll fix it.
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.
You are right to call it out.
OP is poorly presented. Murder rates should be presented at number per 100k.
Anything else is a shiti spin.
And yes that’s how we got here to begin with.
When truth is on your side, why are these idiots adding unnecessary spin?
I’ve changed my mind about this.
People are idiots and campaigning like they’re not is how you lose.
Make shit up, misrepresent statistics, flat out lie. I don’t give a fuck anymore.
Truth has been on our side this whole time and it hasn’t mattered an iota. So I don’t care about making sure everything is laid out “just so” anymore. The 2-second walkaway is the win.
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.
The idea that a Democrat might have done wrong is more important than the reality that a Republican definitely did wrong.
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.
So simple!!
It is simple. It’s not easy.
Less poverty=less violence and crime
Right. Okay then do it.
It’s not, BUT, doing absolutely nothing to address the problem is orders of magnitude easier, which is why Abbot picked it (or his rich friends like the prison pipeline just the way it is)
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.’?
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.
This chatgpt prompt shows some telling details (spoiler alert: it’s not about crime rates):
What are the crime rates in cities Trump is activating the national guard in, in relation to other US cities ?
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.
It’s called overreporting.
Make more than one report on the same one crime, so people will think it’s multiple different crimes.
