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On 3/11/2025 1:10 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 14:56:02 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Youngstown is one of the most dangerous cities in America so you don't have to look thousands of miles away.
> 
> Now that we've renamed the gulf of Mexico, does "America" now include
> Mexico, Canada, Central America and South America?  (Just curious
> which cities you included in your amazing fact).
> 
> Reading the paper?  All of our local newspapers (which actually print
> the news) are down a few pages of tiny print.  I suspect you haven't
> seen a printed newspaper in the last few years.  Also, the prices are
> quite high.  For example:
> <https://newsrates.com/product/the-mercury-news/>
> Would you believe a 70% discount?  The only reason I know this is
> because I asked a news junkie friend to save for me some old
> newspapers for starting the fire in my wood burner.  I get my news
> online.
> 
> I went through various lists of crime statistics in the US.  None of
> them list Youngstown, Ohio.  This is the best I could find:
> <https://realestate.usnews.com/places/ohio/youngstown/crime>
> "The metropolitan area's violent crime rate was higher than the
> national rate in 2022. Its rate of property crime was higher than the
> national rate."
> 
> <https://crimegrade.org/safest-places-in-youngstown-oh/>
> Looks like the downtown Youngstown area has a crime problem, while the
> suburbs are better.
> 
> In other words, the Youngstown crime rate is below the USA average (or
> median) but not even close to being "one of the most dangerous cities
> in America".
> 
>> So you retain peace of mind simply by not reading ther paper.
> 
> Peace of mind is not obtained by being ignorant.

For many, it is. Just look at how comfortable the two most willfully 
ignorant trollsters in this forum are wit their woefully misinformed 
opinions.

> 
> "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength"  From "1984"
> by George Orwell.
> 
> 


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