Republicans don’t use statistics or numbers. If the vibe is off they’ll get violent.
I don't think sweeping generalizations and othering "Republicans" are going to help the situation at all. They already feel alienated by "the libs", as witnessed by Clinton's "deplorables" remark, which is just saying out loud an attitude which seems to come across in the "Blue" media in subtle things. Continue down this road and it'll be "well, Republics are violent if the vibe is off, so it's okay for us to use violence." And then, pre-emptive violence. If you look at history, this is how these things go.
How many more awful things do they get to do then pin it on Trump and shrug their shoulders before you realize that the “be cool and nice” attitude is weaponized against you? They’re never going meet you half-way and offer the same respect. Their leader is a violent sex offender they’re rubber stamping.
The “respect the Republicans who are rubber stamping all this bs” attitude just is disingenuous to what is going on. You’re painting Trump a monster rightly but then giving everyone else a free pass.
The fact they’re deploying National Guard to cities ignoring real crime statistics is PROOF they don’t use statistics or numbers or any valid information to make governing calls.
Yes, the Seattle Police Department (SPD) reports Uniform Crime Statistics
to the FBI. 3 2
These reports are the standard crimes reported to the FBI and are useful
for tracking historical data and comparing crime stats between cities 3 1
1.https://www.seattle.gov/police/information-and-data/public-disclosure-requests/public-information-online
2.https://www.seattle.gov/documents/departments/cityauditor/auditreports/gun%20violence%20audit/gmuinvestigationsreportfinal.pdf
3.https://www.seattle.gov/police/information-and-data/data/public-data-sets Violent crime incidents in Seattle police’s M sectors
(the downtown core) declined 36% between June–August 2025
compared to the same period in 2024.
This was the lowest number of incidents for the summer
period since 2017.Pfizer never claimed to end covid, they were just the first one to make a vaccine. Do you remember there were 3 vaccines available and Pfizer was first to market?
The only public fool here is the one making false claims.
lta•10h ago
rootusrootus•10h ago
daave•10h ago
I wonder what percentage of the world’s software engineers live in these 3 cities?
consumer451•8h ago
I posted this because it is objective evidence against the arguments made by the current US federal government for sending troops into Seattle ~"to quell the violence."
I believe that this threat is unprecedented since the mid 1800's, has impacts on the tech sector, how other countries behave going forward, and world history in general.
If I am off-base here, I would genuinely like to hear the counter arguments.
prewett•7h ago
consumer451•7h ago
When I first heard "de-fund the police" as a slogan, I figured that phrase must have been run by Frank Luntz, just to make sure it made progressives (this includes myself, to some extent) sound as dumb as possible. I mean, he could not have focus-grouped a better phrase. It's hilarious, if you think that dark humor is funny.
All that aside, the reality is:
> In one version of the story, yes-ish. Parking enforcement and 911 call center response were moved out of the police department. Restructuring the 911 system has become an important step in many cities' efforts to reduce armed police response to civilians. Dispatchers are the gatekeepers of the criminal justice system: They are tasked with identifying true public safety emergencies and deciding what resources—armed or unarmed—should respond. (Parking enforcement was later moved back into the police department.)
> But in another version of the story, no. While the police department lost a little over 10% of its budget between 2020 and 2021 (mostly because 911 dispatch and parking enforcement were moved), it has been closing that gap since.
> Tellingly, not a single sworn officer has lost their job or pay due to budget constraints. In fact, the department has consistently received more funding for hiring than it can spend. And yet, the myth that the police department was defunded persists, partly because budgets are convoluted and boring, and because it's an easy answer for the police departments' woes.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/did-seattle-defund-the-police
It's crazy how hard, under Biden, that NPR station had to dance around the simple objective fact that: No. Seattle did not "de-fund the police." Actually, SPD got more money than they could spend.
consumer451•10h ago
I thought about it for a moment, while looking out the window of their house. I said:
"The chances of me looking out the window in Poland in the next year, and seeing the military, are lower than they are sitting here, in Seattle."
I stand by that assessment. It still blows my mind given the reality of the USA, and the objectively successful and peaceful city of Seattle.
The fact that this made it to the front page suggests that I’m not alone in believing this kind of thought is not entirely disconnected from reality.
Given the real threat of the US military being deployed to Seattle for 100% political reasons, if it doesn't stay on the front page... well.. what does that say?
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edit: I will continue to assume that you all mean well, but we all suffer from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias
Please take this into consideration when you come across seemingly insane topics like this one.