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Cake day: February 18th, 2026

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  • I’ve had yanks talk about knife crime, like it’s a justification for their obsession with firearms

    The worst places for knife crime in the UK pale in comparison to the average knife crime rates in cities in the US

    And then there’s the general assault stats

    The US is more dangerous across the board than the UK

    I live in paradise, where shoplifting just about makes the front page. I don’t lock my house up. I have absolutely zero fear of someone breaking into my place

    I’ve had Americans tell me that they wouldn’t feel safe living here, because they’d be worried that people would see it as an easy target for crime

    Fear is so ingrained that they seem to need it

    I suspect that it’s because they can use fear to justify hate, and they really like hating over there.




  • Can you blame them?

    The US is a fucking hellscape

    I spend quite a bit of time there. I’m over several times a year and I genuinely don’t know how people can live like that

    There’s a constant thin thread of fear, wrapped around everything, running through everything

    People are afraid of the people around them. They’re afraid of their government, they’re afraid of the people who are supposed to be there to protect them, they’re afraid of their employers, they’re afraid of the unknown

    I’m very careful not to take my charmed life for granted







  • I agree

    America is stupid by design. Educated people are dangerous because they’re more able to see when they’re being manipulated

    It’s polarised though: There are some amazing minds in the US, and some very, very dumb. The dumb are useful to the powerful

    The most brilliant thing that those in power (the real power) have done is to convince the people in the middle that it’s not worth bothering.

    America is built on hate, but the reason it has continued for a couple of hundred years isn’t the hate, it’s the apathy and resignation