#us cities

[mapsontheweb]

Nearest major American city

[etheltempest]

i feel like i’m simultaneously being called to live in seattle and boston

[bretzkysbs]

[tomorrowusa]

^^^ The reality in Portland is frog costumes and naked bike rides – not World War III.

The Trump régime is having difficulty with its attempt to portray US cities as being in a state of lawlessness and even war. So it is hiring dubious "influencers" to try to make its case.

Trump team recruits influencers to push lies about ‘lawless’ cities

We tend to accept the word influencer without much thought. Perhaps we should focus more on what these folks do.

The overwhelming percentage of influencers are either advertisers (direct or indirect) or propagandists in some form. They do what they do to either sway opinion or to get people to spend money on something.

In this case, ICE influencers are simply spreading MAGA propaganda thick and heavy. They don't earn credibility just because ICE Barbie lets them have a peek at mass detention facilities.

[tearsofrefugees]

Trump’s Military Occupations of U.S. Cities Cost $473 Million and Rising

Trump’s campaign to quell dissent by deploying the American military to U.S. cities comes at an immense price.

[sophieinwonderland]

The right-wing "cities on fire" narrative depends on MAGAts being too stupid and small-minded to comprehend what a "city" is!

I saw a right-wing tweet share this image that claims to be from left-wing protests. I haven't fact-checked the images so... take it with a grain of salt...

Whether these are really where they claim to be from, what I want to talk about is how all of these are super zoomed in on individual fires and used to create this narrative that cities were being burnt down by riots.

To people who actually live in cities, I'm sure this narrative looks pretty ridiculous. But the narrative isn't meant for people who live in these places. It's meant for rural MAGAts who have never stepped outside the places they were born.

Just focusing on that last one, New York City. This is a city that has about 120,000 city blocks. It is so massive that the buildings on Google Earth look like grains of sand.

If there was a single building on fire from this view, you couldn't make it out.

We have to zoom further in on just one borough, like Brooklyn, to be able to make out individual buildings if we squint hard enough.

And even on this map, a fire is going to be a small dot.

A skyline picture like this one can only capture a small fraction of the city:

And I genuinely don't think the majority of rural MAGAts actually have any understanding of the size and scope of what a city actually is.

If a single building catches on fire in their own town, that's huge. So they, with their small-minded perspectives, assume that applies to everywhere just the same.

On the other hand, the people who feed this propaganda to MAGAts DO know what a city is. Most of them live in big cities and know what they're shoveling to them is nonsense. But they also know that their intended audience is too ignorant and stupid to see through the propaganda.

The rural MAGAts will eat up a narrative of liberal cities being burnt to the ground even while never stepping foot in one themselves. And the right-wing propagandists know this. They don't respect the rural MAGAts in the least, but they've found a voter base in them they love for how easy they are to manipulate. The propagandist loves playing on the ever-reliable ignorance of the rural MAGAt.

(Also, 8647!)

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