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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.
They think Portland was burnt to the ground, they think Chicago, New York, LA, San Francisco, are war zones where everyone is shooting each other and gangs of black youths are patrolling the streets murdering and raping white women.
They think all of this unironically
Recently, a photographer posted his lasted Portland photo, a beautiful night shot of the harbor with lots of lights.
I told him the photo was gorgeous, you could hardly tell Portland was burning to the ground.
noem said minneapolis burned to the ground which isnt true lol. nothing happened there. she had to reiterated that on FACEthenrightwingnation news segment
Levi’s Stadium is in Santa Clara, not San Francisco. So weird, because it’s a good 45 minute drive from SF.
Also, SFO is rather far south of SF proper, and going between there and Santa Clara doesn’t take you through the city.
they are confusing it being in SF, because the moscone center has a SUPERBOWL event/thing going on there.
Of course, but the Superbowl media circus does go to the city, and it's pretty obvious from the article that's where they were talking about.
lol I can’t believe they momentarily bought the media lies about SF 😂😂
I was in SF last year for a 9ers game (stayed in San Mateo, did a bunch of touristy stuff in SF and of course the actual game was in Santa Clara). Some homeless people digging through the trash in Portsmouth Square Park. I think someone tried to break into our Airbnb, too. But, I never really felt unsafe. It's not really any worse than most any other big city in the US. Kinda run down, seems like it could use some TLC, but that's true of most American cities. And of course everything is stupid expensive.
The worst part was the traffic, imo. We used Caltrain and I think Bart? Idk, it was confusing. And expensive. And slow. But we also did a fair amount of driving, and driving around SF is like my own personal hell. To be fair, though, I generally hate driving in any major US city. But I think SF is worse than most.
SF isn't terrible, but it ain't great, either.
caltrain is more expensive than bart i think, if you planning to go way out the bay area.
lol... that's a perfect, concise description of transit in the bay area. Slow, expensive, and still requires a lot of driving to get where you want to go.
The image the right wing nut jobs and oligarchy machine constantly propagandize for the last several decades for their drones
same goes for NYC, portland,seattle and maybe BOSTON.
I didn't realize right wingers actively thought of San Francisco as a hellhole. I've heard it of Portland and Los Angeles, but never of the Bay area. I thought people imagined that all the coastal elites were from there.
its projecting, red areas are true hellholes.