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    I’ve checked the legitimacy of such claims about two years ago. Can’t find my exact sources at the moment, but basically it boiled down to the following:

    The knife crime rate of London (which includes any knife crime, e.g. random stop and search incidents uncovering an illegal knife and confiscating it, or basically any bladed object that gets confiscated in unrelated police searches) per 100k people between 2020-2023 was HALF of that of the knife death rate per 100k of the lowest stat US state (which, I think, was maybe Virginia?).

    Basically you’re 50% less likely to run into a random knife wielder in London than you are likely to be stabbed to death in the “safest” US state (from a knife death standpoint).

    And that’s not even considering that some 80% of all knife crime in London is “incident-free”, meaning the knife is confiscated before it can be used for any violent crime. Actual stabbings in London are quite rare, it’s only being amplified by two factors: the number of people in a relatively small vicinity, and the constant need of media to manufacture fear.

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    HE’S THINKING ABOUT BUBBA ALL DAY YESTERDAY, AND TODAY HE “ACCIDENTALLY SAYS” STABBED IN THE ASS?!

    STABBED IN THE ASS?! Did Trump fuck a dude?

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      He did at least blow one. Personally, I think of Trump as a bottom. That would explain why he’s kneeling down for Putin.

      Nothing against any of this. I just don’t like those people in particular.

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      I’m beginning to think it’s an actual, genuine patriotic duty to cyberbully this president until he resigns or kills himself…

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      Oh ho! YOU just got a DOJ investigation for . . uhh . . fucking mortgage fraud or whatever. Yeah! Democrat hoax! TeRrOriSmSz!1!!

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    We need to demand an apology and sue him for a billion dollars. I think we have to, really, or he’ll keep on making these claims.

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    Don’t worry, Brits of the Fediverse. I’m German. According to the serial felon, rapist and probable child molester elected by Americans to represent them, my country ceased to exist years ago. You still have some time left.

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      It did? Shit. That explains a lot. I do not feel represented by thoughts and threats. I do not feel represented by FZN FRZ, but of we ceased to exist, this won’t early matter. Thank dog.