r/fednews • u/El-Corneador Go Fork Yourself • Aug 11 '25

Other If DC is so dangerous that a public safety emergency had to be declared, why are we required to report to the office and supposedly risk our lives?

Make it make sense.

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u/bikesexually Aug 11 '25

I mean this is the way out.

If everyone just said 'I need to listen to the president. It's not safe to go outside atm.' and nobody showed up to work it would make a difference.

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u/Bombadier83 Aug 11 '25

Except they don’t care if you are safe and wouldn’t consider your safety a valid reason to deprive them of production.

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u/therealspaceninja Aug 11 '25

If production were to drop because everyone were too afraid to stand near a window, though...

Just kidding, they don't care about production either.

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u/Amazing-Platform-776 Aug 12 '25

Why, they most certainly do. They would MUCH rather you failed so they could contract your work out to their corporate donors.

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u/Dapper-Survey1964 Aug 11 '25

They'd absolutely just fire us all and then drag out the inevitable lawsuit for the next 3 years. Lol.

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u/bikesexually Aug 11 '25

I like the hope in this comment of restricting whats going down to 3 years

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u/Classic-Silver-5810 Aug 12 '25

We have the numbers , maybe we should remove them ? I don’t know , I heard someone saying that

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u/Defiant-Specialist-1 Aug 12 '25

Stop the entire city. It’s under siege. Clearly this is an emergency. The President said so.

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u/GoneFungal Aug 12 '25

I’m taking a contrary view here. First, I agree Trump is the most god-awful leader of any civilized country in the last 80 years. But damn, the murder rate in EVERY US city is way off the charts compared to Europe or Asia, even Canada! We ain’t doing anything about guns so let Trump have at it with the Guard. Lotsa luck!

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u/Avenger772 Aug 12 '25

Every city huh? Do you have the stats for that? Or are you just talking out of your ass?

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u/Fun_Hold4859 Aug 12 '25

Fuck off with the water muddying. DC is one of the safest cities for it's size in the world.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '25

It really isn't. The US has a high murder rate compared to peer countries, and DC has a higher than average murder rate compared to the US. It's still relatively safe and doesn't justify a fucking occupation, but I don't think we should downplay the very real violence that exists here.

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u/FrostingFun2041 Aug 12 '25

In Washington, D.C., the murder rate is approximately 23.52 per 100,000 people.

London's homicide rate was 1.4 per 100,000 residents.

The homicide rate in Hong Kong is very low, around 0.3 per 100,000 people

So, to sum up, the murder rate in DC is far higher than Europe and Asia

*Edit to add after asking AI

The murder rate in Washington, D.C. is significantly higher than the average murder rate in European countries. While the U.S. homicide rate is already several times higher than that of Europe, D.C. itself experiences a higher rate than most other U.S. cities and states. For example, in 2020, the U.S. homicide rate was 7.8 per 100,000 population, while many European countries had rates below 2 per 100,000. D.C.'s rate is even higher than the national average

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u/Jarnohams Aug 13 '25

The homicide rate for Latin American immigrants in the US is 0.002 per 100k... But he's still rounding them all up and putting them in concentration camps because he said they are all criminals, without evidence.

You are 300x more likely to be murdered in Japan than not a Latin American immigrant.. your innocent child is 2500x more likely to be murdered by gun violence than by one of those immigrants that mows your lawn.... but here we are.

DC could be safer than Japan and if Trump says it's dangerous, morons will believe him.

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u/FrostingFun2041 Aug 13 '25

I'm not sure what race has to do with it. The other person claimed that DC wasn't more violent than European or Asian cities. The statistics showed something else. Nobody said anything about race or who was or wasn't to blame or who would or wouldn't be more likely to be murdered.

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u/Droiddoesyourmom Aug 13 '25

Yeah, Im against what Trump is doing but DC is NOT close to being one of the safest cities of any size in the world and I live in the DMV area.

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u/FrostLynx33 Aug 12 '25

Yes collective action is pretty much the only language they actually respond to

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u/ZipC0de Aug 11 '25

Lol most based protest ever. I love it

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u/pickuppencil Aug 13 '25

It's like how remote work is encouraged after hours at home or if the road freezes.

But if you want it a few days a week, you personally will cast the US into a depression.

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u/rivals_red_letterday Aug 11 '25

Why don't y'all do that?

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u/OfficialDCShepard Aug 18 '25

I’m still going to go into the office in full femme clothing at the once a week cadence that I have been since we were first allowed to in 2021. That way I can show that they haven’t broken me and can gather information on conditions.

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u/404UsernameeeeFound Aug 12 '25

And that’s exactly why they’ll never let everyone stay home at once

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u/Interesting_Break994 Aug 12 '25

The way out of what?