Mildly Infuriating

Hey Brits.

USA hostage here.

You are presently rolling your eyes at this manufactured outrage, hoping it will hurry up and just pass by already so people can get on with their lives, right?

We've been there. It's not going to stop, it's going to get worse. And worse.

This fascist, racist infection will turn into an even worse cancer over there because you have more than one nation around you with different looking and different sounding people who are going to start feeling more and more displacement from climate and geopolitics and who be seeking safety and survival.

You already have a surveillance state that beats us, you are losing rights and freedoms every day. You had the strongest alliances in the world, but between the Brexit fiasco and now the US's oligarchs sabotaging NATO, you are losing your strongest source of capital, which was unity and international community strength. If Ukraine falls, you will have Russia on your doorstep controlling your gas and food.

You need to do what we failed to do early enough, which is reinforce local and domestic communities and see the threat for what it is, an active force of destruction that works in slow-motion and attacks you in your weak points, your forums and subreddits and your social media, your television stations and your news agencies.

You are in so much danger of escalating chaos it's going to make the USA look sane and balanced.

Sources: X

Ok so lies, gotcha.

Knives have been getting duller? :P

Unfortunately, this is only about hospitalisations. Crimes involving knives/sharp objects have been going steady, with a slight increase last years, from what I can see, mostly focused around rapes :( Source (uk parliament, confirming numbers about hospitalisations): https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN04304/SN04304.pdf

And compare that to the rise of right wing ownership of media.

Fear mongering right wing media machine goes brrrrrr

Same thing in Germany with crime in general constantly dropping while anti immigration sentiment keeps rising under the excuse of "violent immigrants"

Knife crime in sharp decline

Because I don't understand correlation vs causation, I can only conclude that the monetization of X caused a steep decline in knife violence

Same is true in America. If immigration is up and immigrants cause crime, why is crime down?

Almost as if it's willful delusion to push a narrative. A group of people covering their eyes and ears and lying through their teeth to radicalize people to their sick cause.

Nothing on X is organically viral now. Elon is the ultimate powertripping admin, and he will shape his website however he wants

I always find it interesting when you're only provided a portion of the data in a chart, as this shows "hospital Admissions" and not total incidents involving a knife.

If you look at other reports on the issue it seems like incidents involving a knife are still high (and don't follow the trend from the graph) even though hospital Admissions and deaths are down - Source.

That could mean that reporting is up while crime is down, or could mean that less incidents are ending violently, but it's not as clear a picture as the initial graph indicates.

Note: the source is for the UK in general, but other London based reports show similar. I chose that article because they seem fairly trustworthy.

I'm gonna keep ringing this bell until people sit down and reread chicken little

The foxes want you to believe the sky is falling.

They want you panicked, so they can control you.

Their intent is to devour you.

The correct reaction is to not listen to them.

This reminds me of a Republican politician interviewed on TV being told that crime rates were down, and him replying "but I don't FEEL safe".

Reality doesn't matter.

Yeah I guess there would be a "Sharp" decline now wouldn't it

eNgAgEmEnt

2/3 of murders in Minneapolis MN were committed my ICE agents this year. They say they want to make us safer.

I have frequently said, I have never been helped or protected by law enforcement. I have needed their help, and received shrugs. Overall, the world is a lot safer than government would have you believe, and they only want to protect capital anyway.

I'm sure a huge part of this is actually racism as this post suggests but these two graphs aren't really equivalent. The first graph is only assault with sharp objects, the second one covers posts about crime in general.

What's mildly infuriating is that the viral content graph doesn't show the years where knife crime actually peaked.

That sounds about right for most places on earth.

Same thing here. Crime is down but reporting is up.