They need an excuse to violently subjugate liberal cities.

They’re not. They’re just using disturbances as false flags to indoctrinate fascism.

  • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    3 hours ago

    Any excuse will do. They go around imagining reality all the time. Its no surprise they think crime worse than ever.

    • ToastedRavioli@midwest.social
      31·
      3 hours ago

      This goes both ways to a certain extent. I fear and borderline hate rural people as much as rural people fear and hate city folks. The difference is I have no interest in telling rural people how to run their one horse towns, and I can largely avoid ever going to them. Rural people should show city people the same respect and let us run our own shit. If you think the city is scary then stay home. Same goes for suburbanite morons

      • dvoraqs@lemmy.world
        3·
        3 hours ago

        There is a codependency between urban and rural areas that mean that one would not work as well without the other, so I hope we can all learn to be accepting of one another.

        Urban centralization creates a lot of economic demand with high populations and benefits from efficiencies of scale, but has a higher cost to use land.

        Rural areas are lower cost, and the expansive areas have lots of natural resources that can be extracted or be used to farm.

        Economically, people may be pushed out of cities either because of the basic cost or cost of the area that people want for themselves, so I think it makes sense why they would grow to resent the cities, disregarding cultural differences.

        I see you reacting to that perceived hostility as a second or third order effect, but all that does it create a deeper problem.

        • ToastedRavioli@midwest.social
          3·
          2 hours ago

          I definitely agree with everything you said, but I would say my distaste of rural people mostly is due to detesting their ignorance. City people are far more cosmopolitan, largely because we actually are around all types of people all the time, and being cosmopolitan is something that I think is a valuable trait in people. Rural people often lack that, largely just because rural areas are more homogeneous culturally, which isnt really their fault. However, what is their fault is that their lack of cosmopolitan attitude is generally what leads to them abusing or harming people that are a different race, sexuality, gender ideology, etc.

          I cant think of an aspect of city people that is equivalent

  • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
    95·
    7 hours ago

    They’re not. They’re using it as a pretext to seize power from democratically elected leaders.

    It’s a continuing coup.

  • ProfessorScience@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    7 hours ago

    Well, they also need things for their base to be afraid of. Gays. Trans. Immigrants. Urban crime. "Only we can protect you from the scary, scary things!”