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Something Very Strange Is Happening To London
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- Published on Mar 15, 2026
- London is vewy scawy! Stay safe out there!
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We used to go online to escape reality, now we go outside to escape the internet.
Reality is a breath of fresh air!
That's genuinely how it felt since the pandemic for me. From chilling on the Internet after school and not thinkng anything of it to wanting to get me the Internet and see real people again
@saraloking5993 Graphics are really good too, sharp, no lag 8)
Exactly, reality is more peaceful than online
Robbery is rife in London. I paid £4 for a coffee! In broad daylight too!
@StoicTheGeek And Broad Daylights*
😂😂😂😂
I paid £5 for a regular Cafe Latte at Gatwick Airport last week. I really did feel robbed. :-(
@dyotoorion1835But surely for that price it was the best cup of coffee you’ve ever had? 😂😂😂
Rent is much more criminal, but god forbid someone reins in landlords
I think "go offline, go outside, look by yourself" is an endangered cultural technique.
@m.a.6478 before i actually visited on a trip to the UK from here in czechia, i was kinda nervous about the city, but after seeing it for myself i was amazed by how safe i felt, even compared with how it is here (very safe imo). i love london now
It's like going outside dressed cpmpletly wrong bc ur phone weather app said sth.. my neighbour is a peak example.. best is.. she insists on it being better than looking out of the window... or God forbid.. opening it
@Janek1870 Once you get outside Prague your country is wondaful, I like Brno. Prague is ok, but so many tourist scammers you need to avoid
@salerio61I know! I'm actually from a small village about an hour away from brno lol. Wholeheartedly recommend to visit!
@Janek1870 hey, thanks for your reply, I wanted to retire to Czechia with my g/f, (she is from there) sadly us leaving the EU has made that no longer possible.
The first time I want there (Prague), there was a student rebellion against the government (fairly normal). Unlike other capital cities where it develops into a fight between the bolshie students and the cops, they set up a BBQ and start handing out sausages in a bun if you'll come and talk to them. That is when I fell in love with your country
The guy passing a group of happily chatting small children at West Croydon, saying 'im not going to get any trouble with my bodyguard' is chefs kiss.
There’s this AWFUL RUclipsr in the U.S. who went to an area known to be dominated by a particular religion. He was going up to random strangers asking them what they do for work, then asking if they get government assistance (which is so rude!) and he ignored literally every job they listed as though they weren’t real, and ignored that they often said they didn’t use benefits, but they did know people who did (because everyone does). The worst thing is that there were always so many comments talking negatively about the people making it clear that nobody was listening, they just wanted to be bigots.
I'm actually shocked by this, I used to watch kirk alot. He never used to try to make places look bad.
He is a south African who just did vlogs of himself walking through south America and Asia.
He was always friendly with everyone he came across.. however.. I stopped watching him when he started living and acting like Andrew Tait.
He would dress in suits, visit rich man's cigar rooms and surround himself with A-hole men and clueless women.
So I had to unsub.
Sad to see his downfall
@tiffany_greeneyes4901 and these are the same bigots who say we're delusional and that the facts don't care about our feelings, lol! They're just hypocrites through and through
@SaphirePhoenix5000i used to watch him as well but if you look closely at his old videos they are a bit sinister. He seemed like a certain type of tourist who usualy travels to Thailand.
The scariest thing in London is rent
Hello from Sydney, same.
Yeah, thats our main problem in Australia also. Housing has been going crazy for years. We need more affordable housing for a start, but it's a complicated problem... so obviously we have plenty of people who just blame immigration rather than acknowledging that we need major changes to make sure everyone can afford a place to live
@trybunt Yep, and when we elected the guy who ran on a "if it weren't for public housing me mum and I would've starved" campaign, the prick turned around and cut funding to the NDIS, created a "public housing" investment vehicle that was basically guaranteed to never cause a house to be built, and bought his fifth multi-million dollar mansion.
yes! Plus I visited Paris, Rome etc but London has always been the safest for me!!
It's Global problem.
Especially in cities that once benefited from a having a healthy Middle Class. That class has been thrown back to penury through extractive RENTS.
And not just housing, but through paying for IP (copyright/patent) and all other monopoly rentier extractions.
Rent is the TAX We willingly GIVE To the 1%.
In Vancouver (& throughout urban BC) a mediocre room per house is now >C$1200-1800/month.
So a three bedroom is usually around $3600-5400+/month.
It's one thing to barely be able share a house with unrelated adults, but if you have any children, you may be hooped. No wonder Anglo nations birth rates have been below replacement since the 1980s.
from the bottom of my heart, thank you for making this
Absolutely! I live in the beautiful west country,we have tourists all year round. And compared to some parts of the country it's pretty friendly. But wherever I land in London I find people are far more friendly and helpful! I'm disabled so I can't go anywhere without having to interact with people and have to ask for help constantly..give me London any day! Especially the bits that these hate speakers love to hate! The more Asians,the more help! I don't even have to ask,young men will dash out of the crowd to hold a door or carry something. I get offered a seat in shops,even cups of tea and sometimes food! There are places we might go to 3 times a year where the shop keepers greet us like long lost relatives, whereas shops I visit every week at home don't acknowledge me at all. Of course there's horrible people, they're everywhere.. but the good people out do them by a country mile!
From the bottom of all our hearts. 💓
@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts I’m so pleased that this is your experience of London. As a Londoner born and bred, I know that we have a reputation for not being friendly, but we are waiting for the opportunity to smile at, and very often, help a stranger. Lots of love to you from SE London! ❤️
I went to London once and a gang of kids in top-hats tried to steal my handkerchief. Then they proceeded to do a choreographed song and dance about it. Despicable.
15000 Penny Farthing thefts last year alone.
I'm reviewing the situation!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
"the infamous Oxford Street"
Absolutely deranged sentence.
Pretty infamous if you're looking for bargains
Only infamous for money laundering American candy stores and phone snatching teens on e-bikes.
Ooh! ❤Oxford street! Many happy shopping memories! London is my favourite city in the entire world. 😊
It used to be pretty infamous for crowded pavements & air so polluted it was difficult to breathe. But "evil communist" Ken Livingstone changed it from 4 lanes of traffic to 2, widening the pavements in the process. Then "evil fundamentalist" Saddiq Khan" brought in the ULEZ. So now you can walk on comfortable width pavements with only moderate air pollution 😎
Unfortunately, the rise in online shopping killed much of the retail trade, so now it is mostly shops selling tourist tat & American candy 🤔
what other nation has, as its most famous shopping street, such a collection of tat shops? Literally tat
What scares me and keeps me away from London... are the hotel prices 😱
They are so expensive because of all the moiders they need to clean up after. 😉
With me, its just that horrible fake accent they have adopted, bro
and £27.30 for a pie and a pint as I experienced at the weekend 😱
@Tks525 and the visa because they left schengen 😔
@yardgrid innit?
1:40 how does this make me feel? That if you can take the central line to Peckham I've been getting buses for no reason 😂
I’ve been so cold and wet for no reason!
right! And if they can build the central line to Peckham how come they didn't build more lines to south London. Why doesn't the district line go to Croydon? Why doesn't the northern line go to new Cross gate? Why doesn't the metropolitan go.. Oh okay well that doesn't go anywhere as far as I know so that one makes sense 😂but still
@jackoh991 no one knows where the metropolitan line goes. 😂
@flb-s1gI'm glad I'm not the only one
@flb-s1gHave I even been on the Metropolitan line before. What does it look like that enigma?
I understand that we need to explain this to our children but having to explain this to adults blows my mind.
Imagine having to explain this information to actual adults. Even to ask someone to please wear proper clothes, or please to be aware of their surroundings when driving or walking.
You know. Critical thinking, spatial awareness and being respectful of others. But no, it is like talking to an eight year old why he/ she should go back to their room and change their clothes because it is inappropriate for the place you are going to. Yes, I am generalizing here.
From fake news, fake videos, to people wearing horrid, inappropriate clothes, to a religious, federal building or a museum. To people who disrespect another country's laws and drive around like the laws don't apply to them. These unwritten rules should be known from a certain age... maybe eight or ten years and on? By the time they are adults, they learn more unwritten societal rules to follow, while still keeping their own thought process.
@hameley12federal building? In London? What? 😂
@DavidJamesCopeland
Oh, I'm generalising here. Honestly, I don't live in the UK.
I guess the agencies in London would be the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS or MI6), the Security Service (MI5), the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and Defence Intelligence (DI).
But I can't speak for the British, only the Portuguese and American side. I'm Portuguese American. Apologies for the confusion. 😄
@hameley12 I wish you well and hope they don't end up thinking you're Brazilian over there. The ICE agents seem like a right bunch of nuckleheads. We don't have a federal system in the UK. So it would be called a government building.
@DavidJamesCopeland
I haven't had an issue with anyone or anything. And I don't have a criminal record. As for ICE, two of my cousins work for ICE, two uncles who work for the police department, and various of my cousins who are legal and business attorneys. One of my uncles was a pro-surfer, he is retired by now.
And I work as a nurse in the ER at the hospital. I haven't had an issue with anyone ever. And I don't plan to go against my cousins who can beat me at debating. Lol! Learned my lesson years ago! 😅
Cal and Rick have explained to me how to defend myself if someone asks for my driver's license or how to ask for an attorney. You can never let your guard down. Even though my skin tone is light.
"remove monetisation from accounts sharing blatant misinformation"
bars 🔥
Misinformation drives clicks and engagement, and most importantly, keeps people on the apps. That's all these platforms care about unfortunately
@marsx5886 The suggestion wasn't to ban it just for the company to stop paying them. If anything it is a win for the company they get to keep all of the misinformation money for themselves.
@FakeSchrodingersCat those accounts would stop producing the content at the same rate if they weren't also getting paid from it, aside from the few that get their funding directly from the billionaires and corps. That doesn't benefit the platforms
Actually it's disinformation. Misinformation is not on purpose, where as disinformation is.
People rightfully give Twitter a lot of crap, but it's the only platform that actually does this, via community notes.
17:00 I'm not saying the person who wrote this tweet is definitely not british, but I've never heard a british person call a waiter a 'server' ever. That's an american term.
A very American term that sounds extremely derogatory to my ears.
Haha, I clocked that too, straight away.
"server"!😮
Maybe referred to server as ""boy" too?
@NimLeeGuywhat?! That’s even worse. Americans will never surprise me. Consent absorbed
I'm English born and bred, also a boomer, I would call food service staff servers. But I am a woke liberal snowflake.
I was in London at the weekend. I encountered buildings collapsing, people being suffocated and a volcano erupting. In other news The Last Days of Pompeii exhibition is pretty good. Also had a vewwy scawey tour of Tower Bridge.
😂😂😂😂
You don’t know the half of it. My shoelace came undone whilst I was walking in Chiswick and I tripped and scraped my knee! Drew blood too! SO dangerous! It’s outrageous!
That's nothing, I witnessed those totalitarian authorities use medieval torture methods on people, doctors performing questionable procedures under very unsanitary conditions, and some crazy barber threatened me with his razor blade! I do think the London Dungeon's giftshop was a smidge overpriced, though.
I visited London years ago and I still remember the decapitated heads I saw in this hellhole of a city. 😤
Madame Tussaud's was fun. :D
This comment section is gold ❤
'This isn't a real photo, but it agrees with what I feel' - exactly this. There's far too much 'debate' online driven entirely by vibes masquerading as facts.
RealRealityIsRealexcept reality is absolute! Opinions are relative, but facts are not. If a statistic is made up, it's made up. Sure, you can purposefully make misleading studies even using real data, but that's not really the point of the video. And by this I don't mean I'm immune to biases or anything, no one is. But completely making up fake stories and denying science is not a cognitive bias... it's just straight up targeted misinformation to make you fall for their agenda.
RealRealityIsReal well, there's the fact that fire is hot. no distortion of perception can deny that.
@lorenzograssi3637 No worries about arguing with this one. Their username name is RealRealityIsReal, and their account was created less than 24 hours ago. They're a bot, a shitposter, or a shitposting bot.
RealRealityIsReal Ugh. Postmodern bots. What a nightmare.
This isn't just an online thing. Religion and ideologies (such as racism, sexism, the belief in some invisible hand of the market that will fix everything,...) are all basically vibe-based too and have been around and dominating public debate for millennia.
A South African describing Oxford Street as notorious is just hilarious!
I think the average cape town street is more notorious hah
@tomriley5790 yes when SA is the murder capital of the world. But what do you expect from Kirk?
“Those cursed with critical thoughts” - I have never felt so heard in my life.
well it was in the singular but ye
RealRealityIsReal Fortunately I have the wisdom of Socrates, i.e. I assume I am an idiot.
i was just watching the the video and that line played and i scrolled down to see the comment and conveniently appeared at the top right after he said it
And what happens when your critical thought is different from someone else’s? How do you know yours is the justified correct one and the other person is even engaging critically?
RealRealityIsReal In essence we're just a bunch of stupid humans 😂
I literally laughed out loud at "the infamous Oxford Street". They going to throw designer clothes and overpriced American sweets at them? Haha
I mean, there really is a ton of crime on Oxford Street. Mostly money laundering, VAT fraud and tax evasion.
Infamous for the terrifying prices in any shop there
Only thing that might happen on Oxford street is petty theft. Just don’t leave your bag open with wallet/valuables inside. & shops are more likely to be themed from than people. I watch the shows about the super recognisers who work primarily Oxford street just watching cameras & going after shop lifters. But this (shop living) has been a thing for as long as Oxford street existed. 😆.
A fair few Beefeater hats and London key rings too I suspect 😂
@nbartlett6538 Yeah. That's crime mate. Foreign crime overwhelmingly. Relating to the drug trade.
Many years ago I attended a media training session at work (pre internet). The one thing that stuck in my head was “Everything you read in the paper is true, except those things you have personal experience of”
Exactly! This is a realization I came to on my own in regards to articles I read or screen depictions I saw that portrayed my profession and/or favored hobby inaccurately. If I recognized that what this source was saying was BS (or at best misleadingly oversimplified) only because of my familiarity with the subject matter, then the things that source was saying about subjects I knew little about were probably also inaccurate or misleading, I just lacked the knowledge to know what was wrong about it. If we want to turn this ship around, we really need to do a better job of teaching critical thinking in our schools.
Knoll's Law of Media Accuracy
That's what I experience every time I read an article on an event I actually lived through myself: "What? That's also an experience one could have had about that?"
RealRealityIsReal The human condition is so unique, that some people *DO* still check if potentially fatal acts will harm them!
Sort of like Gell-Mann amnesia
The sad thing is: this video is 27 minutes long, probably took many hours to make. In just the 27 minutes I was watching this video there were probably days worth of misinformation videos uploaded to various platforms. Debunking misinformation cannot keep up with the misinformation itself. Nevertheless thank you very much for your work, it is very needed indeed.
"A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on." Good ole Terry Prachett
my mum and i went on a mini-break to london last month, and we had a great experience. she’s in her late 60s and uses a walking stick, and she was offered a seat on literally every tube we went on.
I've lived in London for nearly 40 of my 60 years, and the hate for the city baffles me. It's fine. Of course it has issues, where doesn't, but I wouldn't swap it for Walsall, where I grew up.
Im born and have lived in London my entire life. It’s a great city full of great people I’m very happy you had a good time visiting. It’s safer now than it’s ever been
it’s not bad here. we are actually nice not meanies and the crime isn’t as rife as it used to be
The tube to Peckham 😂😂😂
Right, I was scrolling for this comment hahahaha
It's coming a decade or two after Northern Powerhouse.
Maybe one day. The Bakerloo line will be in the Old Kent Road in around 20 years time.
You should worry about the fight in the London Suburb of Derby, only a few more centuries of urban sprawl swallowing the green belt and that will be true 😜
Dead giveaway
It's at times like this that I think of one of my favourite quotes.
"You really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies?" - Winston Churchill
Haha - Churchill totally said that! lol
@dyotoorion1835 Of course he did! The internet was hugeeeeee in the 1940s. 😂
I clearly remember this being broadcast over the wireless.
🙏🏽
I thought Albert Einstein said that. I'm sure I read that somewhere on the internets.
@rajeshhanda123456789 famous wartime rallying cry which millions of scared British people listened to, crowded around 'the wireless' in their homes to hear their great leader impart hope to a war-weary nation 😂 satire at it's best 👌 thank you sir!
This video needs to be shared all over the internet. Thanks Evan.
“No one ever goes there, it’s too crowded”
I imagine your pfp is the face of the person who said that 😂
Same energy as "Nobody ever drove, there was too much traffic"
Peckham doesnt even have a tube station 😂
@zillavale Yeah. There’s a overground train station at Peckham Rye. But there is no tube station.
I thought that straight away! I lived in Nunhead for a while, and I had to walk for half hour to get to the overground.
@zillavale Love ❤️ Peckham!
That is exactly what he said
2:35
I’m from Peterborough and the no hesitation “proper shit hole” made my morning 😂
@Josh-B-M Peterborough !! Same lol
I lived in Peterborough for 5 years, and I feel offended by him calling it a "proper shit hole". It is not, it is obviously a hell hole and I'm glad to be out of it lol
I rarely go back, just to see family once in a blue moon.
Peterborough has a nice city centre but that's about it. I don't mind living here mostly because it's so easy to leave with a train to almost every major English city in a one seat ride.
Well we do officially get our passports there, so it's definitely useful
I was today years old when I learned the poles on the tube are the same colour as the line they are on!!!
News to me too and I'm 74!
@BB_2471 They're still red on the central line. Lines with more recent tube stock are yellow as an aid for the visually impaired.
Same
“There’s a certain energy in the air… as though something was brewing…”
Say it with me: probably tea, innit? LUVVLY.
A nice hot cuppa cha with short bread and choco digestives.
It reminded me of that Kemp guy off Eastenders going round "dodgy" places. Desperate to catch some fight breaking out.
Aaaand this is why I love being a Londoner. Nobody can penetrate our humour shield.
I thought he was going to fart.🤢
He needs to go to Burton on Trent, you can really smell things brewing in the air there! Hope he likes the smell of hops and beer.
Ngl, my first thought upon seeing the image (on my phone screen, without my glasses on) was, "Wow, it must be cold in there", followed by, "Wait, doesn’t the London Underground famously have a problem with being too hot? How are they not roasting alive?" and then, "Why is someone generating AI images of the Tube being cold?"
In fairness, it is not uncommon to see teenage boys in puffer jackets and balaclavas even when it's hot. It's a ridiculous trend.
Where? Ive never seen that?
@archigallus ive seen it on a few of the lines, idk how they dont get heat stroke tbh
@archigallusI have, in Southampton, used to see it enough to see it as a trend. Hot days, myself in shorts and t-shirt sweating and teenagers in either puffer jackets or hooded coats, 'occasionally ' with snoods (?) Or face coverings. These were all races, so not singling one out. Just used to find it particularly amusing and imagining how hot they must be while trying to put on an example of how gangster looking they could appear to others.
@archigallus Well, I live in the South London suburbs, and there were a lot of them hanging around the parks and high-streets last Summer. Dressed up like they're about to go skiing.
Londoner here - thank you for making this.
Really appreciated this. I had a similar discussion with friends over the weekend, and trying to convince them that London is not the dangerous hellhole that it is portrayed as was proving very difficult.
I was born and raised in London and this video has made me realise that 'London Scary' has been a thing for ages. I remember in 2010 a friend being scared to go Ministry Of Sound. I grew up there and was so confused about what was scary.
The funniest thing is that these liars often imply that things were better x number of years ago. But it's usually periods notorious for having much higher crime levels, bad air quality, or the IRA leaving literal bombs about the place.
Actually, most clubs scare me now. They play cr@p cheezy commercial dance music. Whatever happened to dirty breakbeats & dub?
This is so annoying. Like, honestly, even in the peak of the gang violence in LA and NYC, typically people who were in gangs and breaking the law were the ones who got into trouble. All cities have things like pick-pockets, but getting violently mugged is pretty rare honestly. In the U.S. movements in the past 10 years, most injuries and homicides were caused by police. The vandalism was also caused by white supremacist groups in almost every incident. I’m sick of all of this, these people are THE WORST.
@Candicool You grew up at Ministry of Sound? Your parents were cool
Legitimately, my brothers got friends in Brentwood and they told him they didn’t want to visit because ’londons ghetto’??? When the fuck did central London become ghetto???
I saw a very similar slopaganda video about the trains in Chicago. This shite is everywhere.
I've got a cousin who's posts on Facebook I now ignore because I think he is falling for this AI slop.
Genuinely, my country should make using AI for this purpose a criminal offense. Aside from being akin to fraud, it's such an effort towards altering people's perception of reality that it should be considered dangerous.
"slopaganda" is an incredible term, thank you for adding this to my vocabulary
Yeah I saw one for my city too when visiting my parents 200 miles away. There's probably a guidebook on making these they circle around.
The term slopaganda should become so main stream it's 2026's word of the year. Because this is exactly what it is slopaganda
when I saw that first post my immediate thought was: "oh some lads are filming a music video"
Yep its the cultural equivalent of meeting a bunch of people in satanic face paint in a finnish forest because they got lost trying to make a folk metal album cover
I thought it was a cold day
100%
Absolutely, if it was 2 or 3 people I might get a little bit nervous, but that many people? I’d think there’s some obscure convention going on for balaclavas or roadmen.
This is how America talks about NYC too and I went to NYC a few years ago and it was literally the most pleasant experience of my life. I toured Harlem and Manhattan and walked a little around Brooklyn and you come across some beggars and some strange birds on the street but like, welcome to a city guy. I’ve literally ran into more weirdos on the street in my rural podunk republican town. But also pizza on every street corner? For a dollar? My dream come true. Not to say NYC doesn’t have problems but it didn’t have an abnormal amount of issues for its size.
It fucking frightens me that people just see bollocks on social media and then vote on the basis of that. Seeing the limited capacity for critical thinking which has afflicted such a loud (or vocal) portion of the public is honestly depressing. Don't believe anything you read on the internet unless you can verify it with reliable sources, ever.
No ones "immune" to be being manipulated, but so many people are happy just believing the most obviously false misinformation. They just like the tribalism and don't even care if what they believe is true, or how it negatively affects both themselves and the people around them.
But I do agree, the answer isn't hating the manipulated. Some people are just stupid, and it's not really their fault. The real people to hate are the ones taking advantage of them to spread their own agenda.
I'm just going to ignore the schizophrenic rant you went on in the middle.
The thing that p!sses me off the most is: the people who are swallowing all this garbage hook, line, and sinker, are the same people who told me back in the 80s and 90s "don't believe everything you see on the tv". Ugh!!
Social media has destroyed the capacity of a democracy to produce functioning government. We need to invent a new system fast, because social media isn't going away.
Like all forms of new media it’s uncontrollable at the start & leads to radicalisation. The same thing happened in WW2 with radio, the N@zi’s were the first ones to really use it as a propaganda tool.
@zanshibumiWe need to invent "Antisocial media?' 😂
Sorry; cr*p jok, low hanging fruit.
But maybe not that far from the truth after all.. 🤔
I know nothing about London but I'm certain that guy was walking around with a bodyguard around the friendliest-looking neighborhood I've ever seen. I'd be more scared of getting mugged by hobbits in The Shire than in that street
@NosebleeddeGroselha he just passed by a couple schoolgirls then says, nobody is messing with him because of his bodyguard 😂 Were those kids vewy scawy 🥺
@rosiethered5677Well, be fair - they may have been from St. Trinians. Have you seen the documentary films made about that school? Absolutely terrifying.
It's a little bit cherry picked, that same guys has done some videos in much rougher areas of London that wouldn't give you that warm fuzzy feeling 😅
@PhageTheFinalCure Please provide links. I used to live in Leytonstone, Walthamstow and various other parts of "the roughest" bits of London at various times in the past. I still know people in those areas. I'd like to see those videos (primarily to laugh at them) because I'll bet a penny to a pound that feck all happens in any of them, and that they're all to do with how he FEELS. Nor would it surprise me if he does just as shitty a job at using AI to rewrite signage etc.
@davidcolin6519 I'm on your side, but posting links on RUclips is generally forbidden 😐
You're better off asking for specific details, and googling them yourself.
Something is brewing? In London? Tea...?
😂😂😂
and craft ale in suburban microbreweries!
The first thing i thought on that first post was ‘what tube goes to peckham?’ 😂😂😂😭😭
The dreadlocks coming out of the front of one figure's face is a bit of a giveaway
I think that's cthulu. I guess he must use the peckham tube regularly.
@theelmonk see, SEE!! The old gods are riding and travelling the tube now! London (incomprehensibly and cosmically) scawwy!
The sad part is these clearly fake propaganda posts work because there are people who want to be outraged to justify their prejudice.
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They fall for it because it's what they want!
Bingo! It’s a bit like a self fulfilling prophecy. Weird.
True.
it should be mandatory to label something as ai (especially if it spreads misinformation and harmful rhetoric) (...but that's exactly why social media websites won't make it mandatory...it leads to more views)
I mean governments will have to step in at some point, probably something terrible has to happen first though
@TSH-sx3ec I think it already has. Have you not seen what America has become?
@T@TSH-sx3ec technically they’re doing something but instead of actually combating and regulating AI (and not to mention the decades of ignoring personal online privacy and social media algorithms) they’re pushing for online age verification and digital IDs under the typical BS excuse of “protecting the children”. The suddenness and timing of these demands is *very suspicious* too.
RealRealityIsRealhi, I used to be an academic specialising in AI in information systems design. While the types of AI used in, say, video generators or large language models, are deep neural networks that don't do online learning, they do do offline learning through their training process. They often also do forms of in-context learning which, while not updating the parameters of the network, do alter the trajectory of the output in a self-reflective way. This means they meet Pei Wang's definition of intelligence: being able to act 'appropriately' with limited resources and limited knowledge. Also, even our brains can be modelled as statistical systems so that criterion doesn't fundamentally separate AI systems from human brains. And these models don't simply 'predict the next word' as they have internal state that can and do plan ahead, as well as having an externalised phonological loop like stream of thought. If you're going to criticise these models, and they're far from perfect (I don't even think neural-only models are going to be the final form of AI due to certain limitations, although they've done things I believed were impossible for neural networks so my scepticism is weakening), then don't spread falsehoods as they make having a reasonable discussion about AI even harder. It's frustrating as someone with expertise in this area, even if I'm not actively practicing any more.
I would vote for that . Then you have a choice. This trying to work out if what I am watching is real or not is making me want to give up You tube it's being drowned in it.
I have lived in South London for the last 30 years. If when I left Italy to rebuild my life there, I did think that Peckham had a possibility of danger (mind you, nothing ever happened to me, but there effectively was a big estate which it was kind of unsettling. (A lot of heroin users, dodgy trades ands so on) . However, in the past 20 years, the estate has gone. In its place, today we have a regenerated area made of little lovely flats for young professionals. Today it is 0 scary! Day and night! If you get into trouble, you must be really looking for it!
"There is something brewing in the air..."
When I was ten, I fully invented a ghost story for my friends about the shed next door. I told them I saw the door open at dusk and a shadow come out, it might snatch them etc. It was all fun at first, but not only did the story spread like wildfire, but kids added their own stories and soon the old shed was the spookiest place. I soon realised, even I myself felt scared and avoided going near that corner in our own garden. When I made it up and nothing happened!
Since then I beware of the power of the mind and the stories.
Did that on a brownie camp about the outside toilets 🤦 we all got a rollicking when bedtime came and everyone refused to go and use them! I can still to this day see what I saw on the rafters... even though I knew it wasn't actually there. The power of the mind is mighty.
You might enjoy The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry, there are some similar themes in there!
As a Londoner, this city is superscawy - do you know how much a pint is in central London now?? Forget phone thieves, this is daylight feckin robbery! Seriously though, who benefits from presenting London as this Gotham City of Europe...? The "hottest", 50 state country that's experiencing quite a brain-drain to the UK perhaps...
btw, thanks for continuing to see through the shite and champion your adopted city. We're better for you being here!
@SamSam-yb3ls it's Russia, always Russia.
In 1998 when I visited the UK for six weeks, four days in London was enough for me, went to Liverpool for a week, it was great locals speak to you, and the price of a pint was half what I was paying in London.
RealRealityIsRealtbh i would be quite comfortable with 20k a month lol
Russia Whole Brexit was Russian project.
Preparing the ground for the British Ice to invade and attack London and other cities who won't vote for Reflux.
The US present is our future.
Brilliant analysis. Some years ago I knew a USA doctor who was convinced London had no-go areas and Shariah law. Completely locked into the right wing conspiracy narrative despite me, a UK citizen, telling him the truth about this nonsense. It's laughable that USA people think London is dangerous given their horrendous amount of guns and badly trained trigger happy police.
Oh well...let him! Probably don't want people like that here anyway! And why would someone like that object to Sharia law anyway, thinking about it? You have the death penalty in America? You don't have to support your children financially when divorced any more I suppose,and although stoning isn't on the books there, it's extremely rare under Sharia too... I'm actually struggling to think what's in Sharia law that would offend the average American 🤷 most of it is family/divorce/inheritance laws.
@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts Good points!
@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6tsthe most hilarious part is that Shariah Law only ever applies to Muslims! Non-Muslims never have to follow it according to that law itself
@aberfordwest4003That's how it is in UAE as well. Sharia only applies to muslims.
I believe armed officers in the UK have a (re-)training session roughly every six weeks.
Don't know the figures for the USA … or does it vary by state or even city, perhaps? 🤷
Ein großes Dankeschön ! dafür, das du die so sehr notwendige Aufklärung betreibst!
I think you may have glossed over the real reason why London is so targeted. The Mayor’s name.
New York is going to experience the same treatment.
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@robsengahay5614 I am incredibly frustrated by how much more racist my country got in such a short amount of time. You'd think people would be smarter.
@evylinredwoodthe Internet backfired so terribly.
@evylinredwood I don''t understand anything anymore :(
100% this.
I'm from Ireland and visited London last weekend. I had seen a good few of these kinds of videos online and was genuinely concerned before travelling about how myself and my partner would get on going back to our hotel at night. We experienced absolutely zero problems the entire time we were there, both walking the streets and on the Tube at any time of night
it's exactly the same with plane crashes. Lots of youtube channels publish videos of plane crashes but I went on a plane once and it was fine.
Honestly, I felt safer walking through London at night than I do in my own suburban neighbourhood, just because it was still so busy and alive. It's exponentially scarier (and likely more dangerous) to walk alone at night when there are very few or no...y'know, witnesses around.
@APerson4889-g5f did you?
@APerson4889-g5f the irony of you saying that when these youtubers are saying everywhere is dangerous, not just the run down areas
@APerson4889-g5f bro, curt filmed nothing lol. Did you even watch the video brfore commenting?😂
i live in nz and i'm afraid london is coming to get me.
@finisfine you’re about 200 years late for that XD
I found the CBD of Auckland a bit scary actually.
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@Persever0 it's okay. there's no such thing as auckland.
London ain't, but the US fearmongering campaigns are already there
I fucking love Evan Edinger. A true brit.
The majority of tweets I see don’t even come from the U.K.
The Muslim Housing Plan is part of Shakira law 😂
Whenever, wherever...
Ah yes, Shakira Law, of which one of the core tenets is that the hips do not lie
@0u70fSync More reliable than what we have now, anyway.
It’s even worse he is demanding primary school children learn to use Arabic numerals 😊
Homes don't lie.
I live about an hour from London, and by complete coincidence I popped in 2 days ago (Saturday) with my 10 year old. We took the Central line and walked down Oxford Street. Surprise surprise we were completely safe and didn't witness a single crime!
anecdotal evidence (supports left wing view): wowie!!! so heckin representative!!! le soy!!!!
anecdotal evidence (supports right wing view): ERM!!! DON'T YOU NOTICE CHUD!!!! HECKIN CONFIRMERSHIP BIAS!!!!
Surely there were crimes to fashion in Oxford St?
@RamboSnoopas opposed to the AI hallucinations you believe.
Sorry. Google won't translate so I have absolutely no idea what you're shouting about 🙄
Oh so
Because you didn’t witness any then it doesn’t happen then 🙄
This is the best RUclips video I have seen this year.
Great content 👌
Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it! 🫡
12:55 "mdash switched for hyphen" ..."citation needed" ... "citation needed. mdash switched for hyphen" ... "citation needed" ... "citation needed" ... hehe I especially enjoyed your execution of this part :)
I was in London last week for the first time in probably ten years, and it was noticeable how much the air quality has improved. London used to be a fairly grimy place but everywhere I went was clean and pleasant. Lots of people about, loads of different languages being spoken, historic sites being photographed and everyone getting along just fine.
As a kid I recall the big historical buildings in London as always being a very dark grey, now they are nice sandstone, lovely red brick etc. You mention different languages, my first wife's father was born and grew up in London and if still alive would tell those people who say London is unsafe to get their loaf out their khyber and use their mincers to have a butchers at the Smoke.
Yeah, the air quality change is really noticeable, and I'm in the City (of London) once a fortnight if not more often. You forget, but the ULEZ has made a massive difference.
My observation too. Used to visit family there loads as a kid (80s and 90s). I go much less frequently now and the difference is stark. Clean buildings, nice roads, nice pedestrianisation, clean buildings even. And the same mix of people it always was.
What about the air on the tube?
@DrJams it’s really bad because of the tracks, but it’s not like we live in the tube. I get the Northern and Victoria lines regularly (the two most polluted) and I’ve notice that when I don’t my inflammation, allergies and asthma symptoms are better.
Farage before Brexit used to say how amazing the UK was, that why we needed to leave the EU. Now we've left, all he can say is how bad Britain is - maybe Farage was the problem all along !!
I think Brexit has just shown how useless our politicians are. Now they actually have to do something to earn their money we get lammy, starmer,etc. and an opposition of children.
@Trebor74The have to do something now???
Did anybody tell them? 😂
Farage and Reform are not the answer to UKs problems
@AanotherAardvark When Boris Johnson realised he would have to do something he effed off.
He's one of the problems, at least.
I live and work in London, Nothing like this ever happen around me. London is the calmest place to live and work.
Wow, I was in London last year and I did not realise I was supposed to be frightened- I actually enjoyed my time there. Will try to be scared next time 😂
Look at the price of a menu if you need to feel scared
Yeah, sure guy.
Hi i live in the Paris suburbs and i see the same online campaign directed at us. I am a 65 year white woman and love my hugely diverse, very young, but very poor area where we talk to and take care of each other. I have never felt threatened or scared by my neighbours, but I do feel frightened by these campaigns
visited for the olympics. Don't think we felt unsafe at anytime. I mean, its a big city and we sometimes were in dark quiet areas. But never unsafe.,
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Now Lyon.... got targetted .. Nothing scary, just realised that helpful person had just got my PIN... Quickly sobered up and avoided them :D . Went the pub !
Islam is right about women
I adore Paris, TBH, I love most European cities. Fantastic, culture, eateries and architecture.
London is my birthplace, it was bad in the early 70s, but it gives me happy vibes xxx
I just got back from inner city Paris and I never felt like anything bad was going to happen. It was a bit weird too because so many people say that the French hate Americans but everyone was super nice to us.
Yeah, it feels like a concerted effort against our cities by MAGA and its proxies. They admitted that it is their intention to try and install their puppets in our countries so trying to convince people that our cities are a living hell seems to be part of their modus operandi. But our supposed allies are now our greatest threat.
"If they tell you its raining, look out the window first, it could just be a Death ship"
Israel has spent billions - literally billions - to demonise Muslims in the UK as part of a divide-and-rule campaign aimed at justifying hatred towards Muslims and other ethnic minorities, in an attempt to justify the genocide they are committing. They are doing this across the Western world. This whole “patriot” narrative has been engineered by groups such as the EDL, and Tommy Robinson, who is an Israeli construct on the Israeli payroll.
Nothing more ironic than Americans talking shit about how dangerous London is. There is literally nowhere in Europe that I have ever felt as unsafe as in America.
@delius1967 * European Union
@fionnlanghans What's the correction for? Europe covers every country within the continent. EU is a smaller bloc of some of those countries.
@fionnlanghans Europe is correct. London is not in the EU.
@BarryTGash I'm guessing they learned about the EU for the first time and think "EU" is the "politically correct" term for the continent of Europe. They're probably well meaning but not well educated.
Did he say that the bots are bought by Americans? Rage bait has no nationality, Carl Benjamin and Sam Pepper were trailblazers in hate.
I am angered that someone or something is buying bots to make hate seem more popular than it is and that's not just about London. It is also more than a bit ironic that you objected to London depicted in this way (as do I and I'm not a huge fan of the city) and follow that by painting a nation of 300M+ as uniquely dangerous.
Shitting on UK is popular with US right.
On a totally unrelated note, UK is a huge target for Russian troll farms. As evidenced by... Idk.. BREXIT?!
It is so frustrating listen to people parrot it online. There is no way to fight it because they aren’t interested in facts, they just lie without interest. The free speech one is the one that annoys me the most.
Did you see the references to Brexit being arranged by the Epstein bro’s in the files?
Russian and American money was behind Brexit, and they used racism to fuel that, they're doing the same across Europe, they want to break not just NATO but the EU as well, as it weakens all of us. At the moment the EU has the power to stand up to Russia and the US, and they both absolutely hate that as they see themselves as hegemony.
The problem is, there are enough stupid people per capita in each country to cause a real problem, people buy into this shit so easily.
Well from the Epstein files you can see a lot of that was also pushed by the right in USA too, strange how they are linked.
When I was younger I fell for the whole Brexit misinformation. Luckily I couldn't vote lol. But now I've actually grown and had a good education I've realised how unbelievable it all was.
22:35 Whom among us hasn't seen a building with the phrase 'Jobseeker's Allowance' emblazoned on the front
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Of course. I often walk past it on my way to the "Halal Shop" near the "Our Women and Girls" dispensary. I mean, when I watch videos of people walking there; I don't go outside, obviously. Far too scawy out there.
Phenomenal video, mate! Fellow Londoner. Keep fighting that good fight. We love London.
Thank you for fighting back against misinformation. :D
I spent 10 days in London back in October. I had joined a few UK travel groups and the London subreddit. I saw so many posts from Americans who were planning to travel to London and were terrified they'd fall victim to crime and wanted to know the best way to protect themselves. Overwhelmingly, Londoners and people who traveled to London before would comment that it wasn't that bad. A quick comparison of the crime rates in major cities shows that London is very safe. Of course, there is more crime than other cities. It has more people. But if you look at the per capita rate of crime, especially violent crime, it's not bad.
I do have the perspective of having lived almost 65 years in Southern California. My daughter was robbed at gunpoint when walking home from work at night in Westwood Village, a very safe part of Los Angeles. Somebody also took her purse when she was in Las Vegas when she put it on the ground while gambling. My son was pickpocketed in Oakland. In Europe, the most likely crime is pickpocketing which is a crime of opportunity. The thing people need to keep in mind is that you need to have situational awareness in big cities everywhere. You need to keep your stuff safe, but you don't need to go overboard with money belts and theft-proof purses. Common sense is your best defense.
I felt very safe in London, even in areas that I'm sure some people would consider "dangerous". London seems to have a culture of everyone looking out for others. It's one of the nicest cities I've ever been to.
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I honestly think your biggest risk as a visitor if you stay around the touristy areas is petty crime like pickpocketing and street scams, but that's common in just about any tourist trap and can be mitigated by not being a dumbass.
The main way any tourist is going to be a victim of crime in London is if they put their bag down in a busy pub or on the tube somewhere where they can't see it.
I have had the opposite experience at least twice where I left a wallet or bag and someone ran to give it back to me. Another time I left my phone on a pub table and it was still there 45 minutes later when I realized what I'd done and came back hoping to find it.
I am pretty thick and careless and I've survived in London for 35 years with the only experience of crime being a stolen bike
Yikes that's a lot of theft experiences. I've forgotten my wallet on the bus 5 times in cities in Ontario (Canada) and I got it back every time, with everything still inside. Only thing that I've had nicked was my bicycle. Terrible bike that wasn't worth anything, but still very annoying.
I managed to leave my phone on the Thameslink train after a night out in London - marked it as lost with FindMy with my partner's number as a contact and someone literally handed it back to me two days later saying they'd found it on the seat
people here in ontario say the same crap about Brampton. (It's usually targeting the large indian diaspora)
Scarborough, too.
Calgary too, largely targeting the same group.
I've seen that a lot as well. It's odd how racists have really gotten fixated on being racist against Indian people recently
Good to hear you talking about this on national radio today.
I love Evan calling someone a pussy, did not expect to hear that
San Francisco sympathizes with this post. ✋
RealRealityIsReal Same thing with states. Never mind that Houston is a wreck, Miami is literally called Vice City, and St. Louis is circling the drain...those get left alone just because Texas, Florida, and Misery are Red States.
I'll bet Minneapolis and Portland do too.
And not many Brits would say "riding" the tube, either!
Or call themselves 'Brits'! Makes my teeth hurt every time I hear that expression 😂
@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6tsI call myself a Brit. What's wrong with that?
Yep, I think the most common way would be to say you "got" the tube to x.
@sibby84you gotta be more specific, eg i am a Yorkshireman
@aberfordwest4003 I don't think the rest of the world would know what an East Midlander is, plus there's little space on X and Threads so you need to use as few characters as possible. 'Brit' solves both of these, and is also the term I see most used on these forums by other Brits
Fascism is all about FEELINGS not facts....NYC gets the same fearmongering from these rightwing shit stirrers in the USA.
I was under the impression that London was pretty safe. It's the City of London where there is massive amount of unpunished crime going on.
@McToaster-o1k 😄 very true.
In the US, I've seen footage of the "dangerous cities" that I actually lived in depicting violent protesters, fire, graffiti and all that crap.
I have walked through those areas with my dog early the next morning, enjoying the quiet, peaceful scenery and countless smells (mostly for my dog).
I have then seen Fox "News" play that fiery footage on repeat as they exclaim "the city is reeling."
And if you have any doubts that they *know* they're lying, consider that Fox "News" is based in NYC, and they are not observably punched in the head daily.
Also they won a misinformation lawsuit by stating they are not a news platform, but an entertainment one and that anything they say shouldn't be taken seriously
I think that if that’s something they argued in court, there should also be a law that ensures that they cannot air any program that could be interpreted as news
@class444swr3 The court stated that "Fox is entertainment that no sensible person would mistake for news", so I guess the general public just suffers from a deficit of sensible individuals.
@johanmetreus If only that were limited to "the general public." Bad enough be stuck with morons, to say nothing of being governed by them.
We (german/british family) visit London nearly every year since the eighties. Never felt unsave. It's an overwhelming nice city.
11:00 lmfao i'm glad everyone else is starting to pick up on the em-dashes (the long dash you can only really end up with if you type a normal dash into Word, surrounded by spaces. or if you have windows 11 and you accidentally type "Windows+Dash" instead of "Shift+Dash")
Yeah, I'm a Linux nerd, so I set up shortcuts to type it, and then promptly removed them because that was when I started noticing years ago that em-dashes are very common in LLM generated content. Sad, but necessary if I want to appear to be human lol
Absolutely brilliant! We all need to share this with our own MPs. I'm doing it now.
Left Facebook 9+ years ago and blocked shorts whenever possible....makes life so much better.
Deleting Twitter last year was one of the best decisions I made for my mental health, just need to pry myself away from the other apps too.
There should be an award category for videos like that.
Great work Evan! 🏆
Just heard Evan Edinger on James O'Brien. Well done to both of them . What a thing to do . Telling the truth!
I quit Facebook in 2018 and never been happier
People need to quit tik tok, too. Especially the yoof.
I'll one up you! 😇2016. Ow, shit. 10 years ago!
Good. Same here. Now we just need everyone else to stop using it.
I never joined any Meta service or Twitter/X in the first place. Currently, I am only on the Fediverse and watch videos here.
I'm more fortunate. I never started Facebook.
Evan, 8 months ago you taught me how to recognize ChatGPT (LLM) writing. Now I see it everywhere. I've pointed many people to your video and taught others how to spot it. Now (I'm in Canada) I'm seeing so many TV ads that are 100% AI-generated and I'm getting really knowledgable on how to recognize them. I'd love if you could do a video on how to spot those too because I'm sure it's a problem there as well.
i don't understand why someone would use ChatGPT to write a 3- sentence tweet, though
edit: okay thank you: scale and translation.
@cardigans-wearer To write it believably in a foreign language?
Entire FB pages are the most obvious saccharine Chat GPT bs, but the dense fash gobble them up regardless. I should probably get in on the game, make a few quid!
@alidee5448oh i didn't think about that. thanks.
@cardigans-wearer Because they aren't just writing *a* 3-sentence tweet, they're writing thousands of them every day. ShitGPT can churn them out way faster and for way less effort than an actual human could, so this way they can have hundreds of fake accounts across different platforms all spamming these lies 24/7.
Manufacturered hate and fear mongering is just the status quo for some people.
@S28426 the far right radicals always rage baiting. Posting falseties. False claims.
I live a few mins from London Bridge, been here 35yrs, I love it.
Coming from a village outside of Grimsby, I've only ever traveled to London a handful of times. Usually just for day visits if Grimsby Town FC happens to go to Wembley, or late 2024 when I went to the west end to see Hadestown. And each time I never felt unsafe walking the streets, or the public transport. Overwhelmed by the amount of people, and having some anxiety? Definitely, but I think that's just because it's an environment that I'm not used to. But if someone were to tell me that London is safe to live in then I would believe them because I've travelled and experienced it for myself to know it's true.
This video did peek my curiosity to check the crime statistics for my local area, and honestly it didn't surprise me when It came up with Grimsby having the most crime in NE Lincolnshire, because obviously of my lived experiences and knowing the local area. However I often hear people around me comparing Grimsby to Scunthorpe and saying "At least we're not in Scunthorpe." but looking at the statistics Scunthorpe is 21% lower in crime than Grimsby.
Then I hear others saying Hull isn't that safe either. I lived there for three years whilst doing my degree and I was staying in Old town at the time and I often would walk to Tesco in St Stephens alone at 10-11pm at night or later (back when it was open 24 hours) and not once did I feel unsafe as a lone woman wandering the streets at that time while listening to music the whole time. Maybe I was lucky that nothing happened, but I'm not going to blindly let some post on social media tell me a place isn't safe unless I have an experience of it, or someone who I personally know and trust tells me otherwise.
context is the thing, a lot of people who live in london know how to take precautions....one of my clients said " its getitng safer, i only got mugged once this year" and she wasnt being ironic...
The codheads at Wembley? Surely not?!
THIS New York City/ Manhattanite is familiar with what you're talking about. :-)
I lived in Baltimore, and, until Mamdani won, I think we got more abuse than NYC did from a certain president.
I'm sure it's entirely coincidental that London and NYC get so much attention from the right-wing fake-news hate machine, and those cities having elected left-wing, non-white Muslim mayors. No connection at all. Not a bit.
This is a fabulous video, will be sharing with my students to teach them media literacy!
I concur. Share it with as many people as possible.
Is media literacy on the curriculum in the UK, yet? If not, it needs to be ... like, YESTERDAY. I heard it has been in Finland since the '90s (living next door to Russia probably concentrates the mind on such topics, I guess).
Yes, media literacy can be covered in PSHE and PD (College equivalent). I feel there are a lot of opportunities to cover the subject across the curriculum. Things often click better when you combine with other subjects, i.e Psychology - backfire effect, IT - media literacy, AI, English - logic fallacies, manipulation in speeches, etc, history - propaganda, geography and humanities... research skills, fact-checking, etc, maths - learning actually how statistics work and how they can be misused, etc! @sairhug
How do you even get the tube to peckham?
10:00 that should be a criminal offense. Seriously, this is not just somebody being misinformed and repeating something they read or hear. This is intentional and calculated. This sort of manipulation should get whoever is doing this time in prison.
The companies enabling this crap should be fined, fined and fined.
Let alone, the rants like that at 5minutes used to be ridiculed in shows like til death us do part. Anyone who thought like that, was a complete pariah .
"and RUclips still has monitised this video" This, this is the issue.
You could fill a bingo card with some of these posts. Fake name, fake picture, blue check, not from London, posting from outside the UK, Chat GPT text, AI generated or altered image, made up statistics, duplicate posts, shady online business selling "small business consulting" or some other racket. The free square is "remember when you were 21 and things used to be better?"
I am a Boomer and also a Londoner, born and bred and - full disclosure - I am not a Muslim. I Live in East London and work in Central. Sadiq khan is the best and most effective Mayor I have had in my lifetime... A million times better than that grifter Boris Johnson. Could he do things better? Yes. But the people criticising him are not judging him on nuanced policy decisions, they are judging him on his colour and religion - and nothing else
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Yeah right. Khan is criminally negligent.
@13thcenturyIn what respect do you imagine that he is "criminally Negligent"
@petejenkins5574Jesus christ. Are you kidding me?
Just look at any one of the grillings from the council's. He's criminally negligent.
It is not my job to give you an extra curricular history lesson.
@petejenkins5574oh... and weaponising his colour and creed is disgusting
In the 80s we were taught at school (around 15 yrs old) about how advertising hoodwinks the viewer. I think it's about time schools taught how to spot ai and fake articles online. I think the lessons should start well before the child reaches the age of electing their subjects, say 13 or 14.
Cant speak for other states, but the US education is under full bourgeoisie control. There is a reason here in the US we are not universally taught true media literacy or the sheer depths of propaganda.
@Adam-tu1qxit's not just US that lacking. Most western schools seemed to have dropped the ball on a lot of topics.
@j@julunggul-dragonll, not dropped the ball per se. Its intentional. The ruling class benefits off of us having poor media literacy lol
@Adam-tu1qxTrue, very true. Bad choice of words on my part. It's absolutely been done on purpose.
I went to London at the weekend and completely failed to be stabbed, mugged, or arrested, and not one single person attempted to steal my phone. I was, however, offered a seat on a bus. Should I ask for a refund?
I've been travelling to, and staying in, London for well over 40 years. It's safer, cleaner and friendlier now than it's ever been.
Ditto. Been living in central London my whole life and it’s FAR safer now than it was pre 2010. Any true Londoner or someone who’s been here a lot over the years (like you) knows this.
I remember something simmilar happening to Tokyo as reported by "Abroad in Japan". The sad reality is that humans tend to react more to negativity and is easier to capitalize on it.
Yeah, Oriental Pearl using editing and sensationalism to get more views.
Yeah, it was a good video
Wait what? But isn't Japan the perfect country according to right wingers??
unintentional jumpscare reference to fallen london omg