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      Yep. The fascist party propaganda machines (Fox, OAN, NewsMax) have been reporting that Seattle and Portland are literal war zones for years now. I live in Seattle, and when I travel to the South or the Midwest, I always get the “ohh I’m so sorry” concerned comments from people when they learn where I’m from. So many people think that the cities literally burned down entirely.

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        You should ask “who’s telling you this?” The follow-up is “you should ask yourself ‘why are they lying to me?’”

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        I see this online about Seattle all the time. (Plus hyperbole about the fent/homeless prob) People will be ranting about how awful Seattle is and how you can’t go anywhere near it and I’m like “Really, I was there last month and had a lovely afternoon”

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          I visited Columbus, Ohio for a week last month and witnessed more homeless and drug issues than I have in Seattle in the past five years. It’s always projection, isn’t it?

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        I’d see certain commenters repeating that last sentence as just something that was an assumed truth.

        Every single time I saw them doing it, I’d ask the usual suspects to show me exactly which cities “burned to the ground”. These same people would basically scamper off, providing no evidence, only to make the same claims again in a few hours/days.

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      Oh yeah, they think BLM burned cities to the ground and there’s riots everyday and fentanyl heads on every block, broken up with the occasional roving trans kidnapping gangs.

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      To be war ravaged, it must be at war. Trump is literally declaring war on the American people. And also encouraging the armed forces to kill civilians, unless you think “full force” could possibly mean anything else in a military context.

      It’s amazing how people can look at stuff like this and say “gee this guy sure does use some crazy hyperbolic language, I wonder what he can mean by that”. It’s pretty fucking clear.