I've lived in a big city for years now. Never seen anybody get mugged, or shot, or carjacked, despite doing activist work that often has me visiting poor minority neighborhoods.

The only time I ever really felt uneasy was when I had to walk alone at night through a neighborhood where all the businesses had bars on the windows. Worst thing that happened was a couple of people asking me for money, and they didn't give me any shit when I said I didn't carry cash.

But any time I visit the small town where I grew up there's always someone or another acting like I came back from a fucking warzone lmao

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[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I used to do the same in San Francisco before Covid, and I would constantly hear supposed "war stories" about the city that came straight from right wing rags and social media. Don't even get me started on the amount of San Francisco Copapologa mansplained (or womansplained sometimes) to me over so many years.

Every maybe-later-honey maybe-later-kiddo around the Bay Area, all the way to Oakland, seems to have an unhoused people ghost story to tell.

[–] Quaxamilliom@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

'Im as far left liberal as it gets and even i agree we need a final solution for the homeless problem'

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

They cried during the Lion King theater production and they enjoy exotic foreign cuisine in fancy restaurants in their area so they can't be the chuds!

[–] YearOfTheCommieDesktop@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

the lady that got posted on here who was horrified to the point of justifying their imprisonment or killing, IDR which, by like, a homeless person dancing in the street and a homeless person that dug up a little square of sod and took it