My out of state family always looks at me like I’m an alien when I mention I’m spending a weekend in San Francisco.
The modern media ecosystem really is a bizarre thing. Amazing that liars have learned to be so effective that people trust them over their friends and family and often their own eyes.
When I travel, and tell people I’m from SF, I’ve gotten the questions “Isn’t it dangerous?” “Isn’t it dirty?” “Is it as bad as I see on TV?” and no it’s not particularly dangerous or dirty, and when Fox News shows “San Francisco” It’s always the worst street in the Tenderloin, and characterizing it as the entire city.
I’ve been to Republican leaning suburbs with equally as many homeless people, even though they are much less dense and less populated than SF.
Not to mention that the same people who express shock and horror at the poverty on those streets are often the same ones whose actions and politics created that situation.
We were in SF a few months ago, and wandered around the Union Square area. I snapped pictures around the city because I actually adored it and sent them to my MAGA parents, telling them they promised me human shit on the sidewalks and hoardes of homeless people harrassing me, so I wanted my money back. I told them I was also promised looters and cars being smashed into right in front of my face.
They were not amused and said something along the lines of: “Yes well Trump has been president so cities are cleaning up their acts!”
They both live on the fucking east coast and have never even set foot in CA for a second.
My out of state family always looks at me like I’m an alien when I mention I’m spending a weekend in San Francisco.
The modern media ecosystem really is a bizarre thing. Amazing that liars have learned to be so effective that people trust them over their friends and family and often their own eyes.
When I travel, and tell people I’m from SF, I’ve gotten the questions “Isn’t it dangerous?” “Isn’t it dirty?” “Is it as bad as I see on TV?” and no it’s not particularly dangerous or dirty, and when Fox News shows “San Francisco” It’s always the worst street in the Tenderloin, and characterizing it as the entire city.
I’ve been to Republican leaning suburbs with equally as many homeless people, even though they are much less dense and less populated than SF.
There are people that live in Oregon that think Portland burned down in 2020.
Not to mention that the same people who express shock and horror at the poverty on those streets are often the same ones whose actions and politics created that situation.
We were in SF a few months ago, and wandered around the Union Square area. I snapped pictures around the city because I actually adored it and sent them to my MAGA parents, telling them they promised me human shit on the sidewalks and hoardes of homeless people harrassing me, so I wanted my money back. I told them I was also promised looters and cars being smashed into right in front of my face.
They were not amused and said something along the lines of: “Yes well Trump has been president so cities are cleaning up their acts!”
They both live on the fucking east coast and have never even set foot in CA for a second.