Christians who dig that hole for that substrate of truth they are ABSOLUTELY SURE exists in their nightmare dogma… they will choose pedophiles and nazis and the rich over their neighbors every time.
I don’t know why. But they’re down there. In their hole. Diggin.
“I think I have the power.”
Is that modesty or humility?
Finances at a government scale operate totally different from personal finances. People really cannot relate to it form their own personal experiences. Even people I know who dealt with government budgets struggled to comprehend the scope of the money they were managing.
Fuller list:
Not only that, the X-axis scale isn’t even! It treats the gap of 6 months the same as a gap of 15 months.
Here it is to scale. Plotted correctly, the trendline is actually slightly downward. But there aren’t enough values for that to be relevant, or in fact for anything in the chart to be meaningful at all other than “Jun 2020 appears to have been slightly below average”.
And even there, since it’s just about what people thought about crime rates… one reasonable guess would be that it would be more of an artifact of news reporting’s focus than anything meaningful to anyone.
And, gee… that would be the period that reporting about Covid started drowning out the constant drumbeat of reports on protests, and bloviating about crime numbers without the context of how many people those crimes were spread across.
OTOH, from Worldometers:
Number of COVID19 cases in the US is starting to creep up, no doubt due to all the opening up, people not using masks (that is, of the people who used them at all), variants, people not getting vaccinated (i.e., 'muricans being assholes), etc. And how long before the republicunts start calling it the Biden Plague or something?
Oh, I’m pretty sure there’ll be an enormous amount of pushback on that.