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belfryo's avatar

What I don't understand is how some New Yorkers could buy into the fear mongering. I mean millions of people use the subway every day. How can something so evidentially false have traction when the proof is literally right around the corner. It would be like believing that your neighborhood was on fire because Fox News was telling you it was on fire even though you can look out your own fucking window and tell that everything is OK. This is what I don't understand. I get how someone in Alabama or South Dakota could be led to believe lies about the New York subway, but New Yorkers? I mean how does that even work? That's what I can't wrap my head around. It just seems that there are too many people who take the subway every single fucking day for this lie to persist in New York City itself. Frankly it is a level of psychosis to be that deluded. Seeing things that aren't actually there is just as weird as not seeing things that are there.

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Eric Deamer's avatar

I think part of it is that rich Sex and the City type New Yorkers have really bought into the SATC fantasy that the city is just a playground for the rich with no homeless people, zero real danger etc. and any time it deviates from that at all it upsets them. So they say they're upset about "crime" or lack of safety but realy what they mean is they saw an unhoused person or some litter

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belfryo's avatar

That scans. It's basically their complaint that they can't have everything.

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