Well, well, well...if it isn't the Good Christian telling people with contrary opinions to STFU; at least that's on brand.Originally Posted by splitthis
Let's explore this for a second....
First, we will start by looking at the fifteen most dangerous cities in the US:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurabe...h=599398184b25
1.) Red state.St. Louis, Missouri
Mobile, Alabama
Birmingham, Alabama
Baltimore, Maryland
Memphis, Tennessee
Detroit, Michigan
Cleveland, Ohio
New Orleans, Louisiana
Shreveport, Louisiana
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Little Rock, Arkansas
Oakland, California
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Kansas City, Missouri
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2.) Red state.
3.) Red state.
***Wait a minute---Alabama is two of the top three? The fuck are you Christians doing down there? Get your shit under control, boys!
4.) Blue state.
5.) Red state.
6.) Blue state.
7.) Red state.
8.) Blue Governor, red state.
9.) ***
10.) ***
11.) Red state.
12.) Blue.
13.) Blue.
14.) Red.
15.) Blue
It's almost as if, when it comes to violent crimes...which is to say the crimes that actually matter the most...it really doesn't matter what color the state is or the Christian leanings of same.
With that out of the way---let's investigate why major cities would tend to have the most crime.
When it comes to literally anything that a person could want, whether it be soup kitchens, jobs, drugs, hookers, shit to do, bowling alleys, shopping----it really doesn't matter, big cities are more likely to have it in abundance than small towns. As a necessary result, larger cities are more likely to attract every element of people than are smaller towns.
I would argue that this is especially true for certain coastal cities as those places are going to, in general, have more temperate climates than are bigger cities located in colder areas. The expected result of this, of course, is that these cities are going to be generally more attractive to homeless people because...you guessed it...they won't die from cold there.
Of course, we see a similar story when we look at property crimes:
https://247wallst.com/special-report...rty-crimes/11/
Interestingly, the Top Five here are all red states, with two of the top three being Utah, though again, Louisiana presently has a Democratic Governor.
#'s 6-10 are also all red states, with the exception of Roseville, Minnesota.
With that, when we look at actual crime rates per capita, it would appear that the color of the state makes very little difference, or if it makes a difference at all, red states are actually slightly worse than blue ones.
So, we can look at some cases of shoplifting/theft in San Francisco, and other cities, tents on the sidewalk...whatever...and point to how bad those cities are, but that fails to take into account that those cities have HUGE populations, so the actual crime rate might not even be as high as that of a great many other cities.
Is that a defense of San Francisco? Absolutely not. The place is an absolute hellhole, but again, when you look at crime RATES per capita, a ton of places are absolute hellholes with more than a fair share of those hellholes belonging to red states.
So, anyone wants to point out that Libs are, "Asleep at the wheel," on crime, maybe tend your own house first.
When we compare USD to other currencies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tables..._States_dollar
The dollar has actually gained value, or is flat, relative to the VAST majority of other currencies in the world. Your point simply does not exist there because it is objectively wrong.
Inflation is, "Out of control," firstly because the economy is fundamentally cyclical as it is, so we're just at the inflationary high point of an economic cycle. Secondly, because Covid-19 resulted in a very short temporary recession and both Trump and Biden saw fit to just throw free money at people over a period of more than a year. Even ignoring the straight up free stimulus money, Covid-19 was actually a positive for a great many people because of the boosts to unemployment compensation that resulted in a great number of them making more money for NOT working than they were making working for a prolonged period of time.
Of course, a great many segments of the service sector were all but shut completely down, which varied by state, a great percentage of that time...so people had a ton of extra money sitting around and, when it comes to services, nowhere to spend it. As a result, there was a temporary transition to physical goods, which wasn't ideal, because nothing new was being produced in a great many of the segments of the goods sector due to things being shut down for Covid.
By the time those industries were back online, in terms of production, these industries wanted to produce en masse and fuel prices went up exponentially first due to the fact that nobody had really been going anywhere during the pandemic (reduced demand followed by tremendous demand) and secondly, because shipping and transportation kicked up massively as companies rushed to restock their goods and get them to warehouses and stores to be sold to the consumer.
Ergo, the shipping crisis---not only was our infrastructure on that not what it should have been anyway, but the ports were never meant to handle that sort of inflow in the first place...but coming out of the pandemic threw a serious wrench in what would have otherwise been a more predictable and steady production, distribution and transportation schedule.
That combined with the fact that, at the time, so many people didn't want to return to work---both as a result of some level of mostly unjustified fear of Covid-19, but again, also because so many of the workers had been making more money just to stay at home.
You see, so all of these things that you mention have very identifiable causes, but you wouldn't know that, because you're an idiot.
As far as womens' rights, it's endlessly hilarious that Conservatives would pretend to suddenly be deeply concerned with women's rights. Paging Roe v. Wade. Just look at what Texas is up to. It was supposed to be a Red Wave, you idiots! Instead, Democrats retained the Senate (gaining a seat) and also enjoyed a net gain of two Gubernatorial seats. You righties just can't help yourselves, can you?
In fairness, I agree with the overturn on strictly Constitutional grounds, but that doesn't make it actually a good idea to have done that. Look at the way you guys got your asses handed to you in the General Elections last year!
The fact of the matter is that Christians had it all and they blew their opportunity:
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion...ecent-decades/
90% who identified as some sort of Christian as recently as the early 1990's. If you go back a few decades before that, then you're talking in the mid-high 90%'s.
Of course, Christians simply could not abide that few percent who were not like them, did not share their values and did not want to live the way that they did.
Therefore, Christianity does what most theistic religions have always done---which is they attempted to force absolute compliance with their values. Doing that socially isn't so bad, in itself, but as you see now...the Christians attempt to use the Government to achieve those ends.
In 100 years, the more Socially Conservative elements of Christianity, mainly Baptist/Protestant and the like, will be seen as the laughingstock that they have always deserved to be. The numbers are dwindling and the chokehold of the Evangelical denominations of this country is OVER.
They overplayed their hand. They overplay their hand even when they don't really have a hand.
Conservatives could have simply chose to let a few things go and simply accept that not everyone shares the same sense of morality...and not everyone is religious.
But, they wouldn't. To the extremely limited extent that your post is right about anything-welcome to the Hell of your own making.
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