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jzellis 8 hours ago

I'm an American who lives just outside London in Watford, and I'm 17 minutes from Euston Station by train. I have been all over the city and never felt unsafe or nervous or even the need to be especially vigilant. When people say there's "gun crime" here they mean that once every few months someone fires a gun and it makes the national news. I've lived all over the American West and it's safer than even the rural towns I've lived in. All of this stuff is hilariously overblown, and when other British people talk about how dangerous London is, keep in mind it's like Farmer Giles talking about how Hobbiton is too big and full of futtiners who talk funny. To an American it's hilarious. It's, like, kids with boxcutters. For anyone who's ever lived in an American city like LA, this really is the Shire. It's all right-wing propaganda cooked up by Faragewald Mosley and his Temu bootboys.

For people who make their entire personalities about what their grandpa did in the War, they're sure seem hellbent on acting exactly like the people he did it to.

mhh__ 7 hours ago | parent [-]

If you think Farage (an ardent zionist let's not forget) is in anyway comparable to Oswald Mosley you are genuinely an idiot, I'm sorry.

defrost 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Any {X} is comparable to {Y}, a stick is long and thin compared to an orange which is shorter and round.

Farage is still breathing, compared to Mosley, and both have traded on fear of "the other" .. which others vary.

mhh__ 7 hours ago | parent [-]

ok so if you abstract both so aggressively as to lose all descriptive (and especially predictive) power then...

defrost 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Don't despair, there is no shortage of descriptive flex for either Farrage or Mosley.