Every time some blowhard (i.e., the president) goes on about crime in D.C. today I think about the city’s homicide rate when I was growing up in Silver Spring in the 1980s. Golden Age fallacy is a hell of a drug.
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Somehow they've all been persuaded that numbers aren't real. They're convinced it's as high as ever, just unreported.
sep 1, 2025, 9:36 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m willing to believe that some people don’t bother reporting things, just based on local anecdotal experience, but I find it far less likely that it’s at the scale that would be necessary, you know?
sep 1, 2025, 9:39 pm • 0 0 • view
But, yeah. A friend’s mom is convinced I’m going to get shot on the street in Seattle.
sep 1, 2025, 9:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh, of course not. I'm just amazed at the level to which people will accept something so improbable as truth, to throw away basic principles of logic, rather than accept a truth that might put a little chink in their worldview.
sep 1, 2025, 9:45 pm • 1 0 • view