POLITICS SCHMALITICS

[Tigeraholic1]

23 minutes ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

https://www.axios.com/2025/09/01/violent-crime-rates-south-homicides-fbi-red-states
 

Rural states in the American South and West had some of the nation's highest violent crime and homicide rates in 2024, driven by violence in small communities, according to an Axios analysis of FBI data

Thanks for proving my point. Almost ALL blue cities.

Edited November 3 by Tigeraholic1

[Tigerbomb13]

2 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

Thanks for proving my point. Almost ALL blue cities.

driven by violence in small communities

[Tigeraholic1]

[oblong]

what they mean is 'where the blacks are'

[Tigerbomb13]

27 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

I mean you can’t ignore the FBI data I just posted and post a gif, but no one expects an honest conversation with you anyway. 

[gehringer_2]

2 hours ago, Motown Bombers said:

The states with the highest violent crime rate are red states. 

large number fallacies. Small proportions of huge numbers (city populations) are still big numbers.

[Motown Bombers]

Blue states have blue cities too. It’s why they are blue states. That doesn’t explain why red states have higher violent crime. 

[Tigerbomb13]

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-highest-rates-of-gun-homicides-are-in-rural-counties/#:~:text=From 2021 and 2024%2C rural counties made,Mississippi** 56.5 firearm homicides per 100%2C000 residents

Despite media attention on gun violence in large American cities, new analysis of CDC data shows that rural counties persistently have some of the highest rates of gun violence in the country.

 

[Tigeraholic1]

1 hour ago, gehringer_2 said:

large number fallacies. Small proportions of huge numbers (city populations) are still big numbers.

Facts

[oblong]

[romad1]

Just now, oblong said:

That’s amazing!

[pfife]

2 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

large number fallacies. Small proportions of huge numbers (city populations) are still big numbers.

which is why rates are used for comparison, no?

[pfife]

Why is it that it is assumed that the cause is local gov affiliation and the effect is crime?   It very well could be vice versa.   Or spurious.

[pfife]

Elon Musk endorsed Cuomo.  

[ewsieg]

2 minutes ago, pfife said:

Elon Musk endorsed Cuomo.  

You know what they say, vote for your interest.

[pfife]

Just now, ewsieg said:

You know what they say, vote for your interest.

I hope he endorses Cuomo every 14 mins 88 seconds 

[pfife]

Apparently Trump supports Cuomo too LOL

[chasfh]

6 hours ago, Motown Bombers said:

These blue cities literally prop up most states. I would like to see Illinois survive without Chicago. The GDP of the Chicagoland area is about 75% of Illinois GDP. 

That makes sense, since 68% of Illinois' population lives in the nine-county Illinois portion of the Chicago–Naperville–Elgin Metropolitan Statistical Area.

[romad1]

1 hour ago, pfife said:

I hope he endorses Cuomo every 14 mins 88 seconds 

I'm picking that up. 

[chasfh]

5 hours ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

The Soviet Union had elements of democracy in that people did vote for the leaders and officers in their local Soviet. It was single party rule and in that sense, totalitarian and authoritarian because it outlawed other parties, which is a very bad thing for the state to do.

Right, although. consider carefully what it is I am saying. I am not saying that communist states routinely practiced open democracy. They did not. What I am saying is that the concept of communism is not mutually exclusive from the concept of democracy. It is possible to practice both of them simultaneously, which means communism would have to work hard in the marketplace of ideas to win votes. This is something Trumpian corporate socialism cannot do, which is why they are working feverishly to strangle democracy in its bed.

 

[chasfh]

4 hours ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

I mean you can’t ignore the FBI data I just posted and post a gif, but no one expects an honest conversation with you anyway. 

I don't know why you even try.

[Tigeraholic1]

 

[oblong]

More

 

[oblong]

1 minute ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

 

If you read the ****ing tweet and replies you would see the very logical reasons why.  But logic isn’t something required by insane right wingers obsessed with this race. 
for those who didn’t…. He’s on the ballot twice because he’s nominated by two parties. So is Curtis Sliwa. Adam’s didn’t drop out in time.  Cuomo is nominated by a fringe party and they go near the end. 
 

my god this isn’t complicated.  But I know thinking is. 

[pfife]

Huge day for cuomo he was apparently supported by voldemort miller today