aGDevil2k
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Americans want change. Constant change.
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Crime in U.S. Seen as Less Serious for Second Straight Year
Crime in U.S. Seen as Less Serious for Second Straight Year
Fewer Americans see national or local crime rising or view these as serious problems, but concerns about child safety and financial fraud remain.
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Too many Americans let their opinions about crime levels and law enforcement be influenced by television dramas such as Bluebloods or Boston Blue or CSI or Law & Order. Too many viewers think those shows represent accurate portrayals of the frequency of crime, especially violent crime, and how often LEO’s are in violent confrontations and gunfights; and, how easily and quickly law enforcement solves crimes.
On Bluebloods, Danny Reagan is estimated to have shot 72 people and been in 45 gunfights. His younger brother, Jamie, has “only” shot 5 people.
Aside from watching crime drama after crime drama, some people tune into TV news and there are reports of violent crime. Should crime be reported? Yes. If it’s done responsibly. Hyping a violent crime from an area 150, 200, 300, 1,500 miles away is not reporting about crime responsibly. The tragic stabbing of the young woman in Charlotte was irresponsibly reported. It was hyped because they had video and several other reasons. It wasn’t news outside of North Carolina; I’d argue it wasn’t news in most of North Carolina.
If specific violent crimes are shocking enough and/or include video, “local” news reports a crime from 100’s or 1000’s of miles away; and, for too many Americans that tells them crime is out-of-hand and worse than ever before.
On Bluebloods, Danny Reagan is estimated to have shot 72 people and been in 45 gunfights. His younger brother, Jamie, has “only” shot 5 people.
Aside from watching crime drama after crime drama, some people tune into TV news and there are reports of violent crime. Should crime be reported? Yes. If it’s done responsibly. Hyping a violent crime from an area 150, 200, 300, 1,500 miles away is not reporting about crime responsibly. The tragic stabbing of the young woman in Charlotte was irresponsibly reported. It was hyped because they had video and several other reasons. It wasn’t news outside of North Carolina; I’d argue it wasn’t news in most of North Carolina.
If specific violent crimes are shocking enough and/or include video, “local” news reports a crime from 100’s or 1000’s of miles away; and, for too many Americans that tells them crime is out-of-hand and worse than ever before.
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The main takeaway from this chart / poll isn’t the gender divide or the HarrisvTrump voter divide… it’s the household income stats. Rich, poor, middle class - all divisions say it’s getting worse.
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A new low for Trump approval, government spending, institutional trust, No Kings, and daylight time: October 24 - 27, 2025 Economist/YouGov Poll | YouGov A new low for Trump approval, government spending, institutional trust, No Kings, and daylight time: October 24 - 27, 2025 Economist/YouGov Poll | YouGov
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And the lower they go in the polls the more angry and frightened and repressive they're going to become. The thought of losing control of the government - or even one house of Congress - is likely going to secretly terrify many of them, given that it might lead to very public and aggressive investigations into all of their dubious activities. Hence the desperate efforts to rig House elections moving forward by ever more extreme gerrymandering in states they control, and having Trumper billionaires buy up legacy media outlets and forcing them to move to the right.
Seriously, you actually think a Senate or House committee investigation will matter?
Mulberry Heel
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No, but they might think so. These people are far less confident than they appear - I think nearly all Trumpers are far less self-confident than they appear. In fact, most of them are paranoid as hell, and they're so insecure they're arresting people in Tennessee for simply quoting Charlie Kirk in social media posts. Maybe congressional investigations don't matter, but that doesn't mean Trumpers are willing to let Democrats win to find out, nor will they will be willing to take any criticism from a Democratic-controlled House or Senate in committee investigations, whether they're effective or not.
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I get the overall sentiment here, but the macabre in general, and violent crime specifically, has always attracted attention. It's why, 150 years later, Jack the Ripper remains a name that most Americans are familiar with, even though he was a Brit. The fascination with violent crimes is why crime dramas exist, and why we have an entire television station (ID Discovery) dedicated to them.
Does the glut of crime stations/shows/documentaries/news reports/podcasts play into people's paranoia? Absolutely.
But we live in an age of informational gluttony. And I will continue to argue that our current problem is not the the above, but the rise in violent imagery being shared on social media. It's where most people learned about the tragedy in Charlotte. And it is where most people, particularly young people, get most of their information about the world right now. TikTok/Twitter/WhatsApp/Instagram are literally shaping young minds far more than parents, teachers, and even peers are. Nothing else compares.
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I'm so disappointed in my generation (Gen X) for being the one group that continues to approve of the job this disaster of an administration is doing at the highest percentage rate (49%).
WTH happened to us that caused so many of us to support such hate, divisiveness, lawlessness, corruption and just plan ignorance?
They are the most financially secure so they are the ones who will most approve of the status quo. In 15 years, the millennials will be the most approving.I'm so disappointed in my generation (Gen X) for being the one group that continues to approve of the job this disaster of an administration is doing at the highest percentage rate (49%).
WTH happened to us that caused so many of us to support such hate, divisiveness, lawlessness, corruption and just plan ignorance?
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Ah, and today is the perfect day to mention that there were never razors hidden in apples at Halloween. Yet somehow this myth has persisted for decades, and people are still scared this happens. There might have been 1 apple with a very visible razor 1 time last century. How many here have told this story to their children?
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I remember the whole "razors in the apple" then and the "don't take pennies because they could burn bc people will heat them up with a lighter before giving it to you"
Who remembers the Satanic Cult scare of the early - mid 80s? That shit was insane! I remember when people thought that listening to Heavy Metal was a gateway to satan.
old white people gon old white people
Who remembers the Satanic Cult scare of the early - mid 80s? That shit was insane! I remember when people thought that listening to Heavy Metal was a gateway to satan.
old white people gon old white people
Don't make me hit you with my cane for stereotyping.I remember the whole "razors in the apple" then and the "don't take pennies because they could burn bc people will heat them up with a lighter before giving it to you"
Who remembers the Satanic Cult scare of the early - mid 80s? That shit was insane! I remember when people thought that listening to Heavy Metal was a gateway to satan.
old white people gon old white people
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To be fair, there was some basis of fact in these scares...at least about poisoning of the randomly unlucky.
www.pbs.org
How the Tylenol murders of 1982 changed the way we consume medication
Early on the morning of Sept. 29, 1982, a tragic, medical mystery began with a sore throat and a runny nose. It was then that Mary Kellerman, a 12-year-old girl from Elk Grove Village, a suburb of Chicago, told her mother and father about her symptoms. They gave her one extra-strength Tylenol...
www.pbs.org