• Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.uk
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      1 day ago

      That’s the kind I’m used to, having grown up in that area. It’s shitty, but has it changed in the last ten years? My area was north Seattle, where it’s always been an issue.

      • faythofdragons@slrpnk.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        6
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        1 day ago

        I’m a couple hours north of Seattle, and the PNW is crawling with the Proud Boy type. I was doing memory care for people with downs syndrome and dementia, and we had to get the cops involved because somebody was prowling around the facility with a rifle slung over his back during the first trump presidency.

        It’s the same problems it’s always had, but trump has deffo turned the volume up.

        • wheezy@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          18 hours ago

          I mean that’s true but that’s not Seattle. I live in Kirkland which is home of the “everyone is welcome” signs in people’s yards right next to the “keep the character of Kirkland alive” signs. Which are basically liberal speak for stopping affordable housing projects because they don’t want black and brown people to move in.

          Seattle has a mix of those kind of neighborhoods but is extremely diverse and leftist in other neighborhoods.

          To your point about outside of the Seattle area it’s basically like every other Blue state. The farther you go from the city the more you find the Conservatives that make their entire character be centered around being a Conservative in a Blue state. But those idiots are waaay to afraid to go into the city. They are absolute losers that target minorities when they can find a time and place to do so that no one will actually give them what they’d get in Seattle. A face full of bear spray (or worse).