"I recently moved from Maryland to New York. I'm from New York originally, but it's been at least a decade since I've actually *lived* here. Bethesda, Maryland is absurdly safe to walk through. You could walk around 3 in the morning in the most metro area and never have a problem."
"a perfect microcosm of this is the bethesda twitter icons... look up their twitter for US, france, etc... then look up russia and middle east. performative pride icons in all the safest places to post them, and nothing for russia and the middle east... where they would actually send a message. absol"