Because I don't understand correlation vs causation, I can only conclude that the monetization of X caused a steep decline in knife violence
this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2026
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I think that it's true specifically because you don't understand correlation vs causation
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Probably because all the criminals are too busy posting about scary Muslim knife attacks on X.
Nothing on X is organically viral now. Elon is the ultimate powertripping admin, and he will shape his website however he wants
Elon is the ultimate white powertripping admin>
Ftfy
Is this supposed to highlight that he's white, highlight that there's non-white admins who powertrip more, or be a play on using irrelevant data to muddy the waters of critical thought?
I just want to be sure what subtext you're using.
It's a pun. Not a subtext.
_White power_tripping
No I was saying he's a Nazi.
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"
US too, crime has been dropping for decades but we apparently need a Gestapo force to go after criminal gangs
Well someone has to bring the crime back up
Those privately owned prisons won’t fill themselves.
Rightwingers keep trying to make Cali look like a crime ridden cesspool and Texas the peak of law and order, but crime statics between the two are marginal. They tend to shutdown whenever I cite sources on that.
The curious thing about US crime statistics is that we only count crimes against the state. We never count crimes committed by the state.
I would argue that US Crime has been sharply on the rise, from within the organs of the government itself (and its corporate affiliates).
True but I didn't want to get into the nitty gritty and just comment on the conservative "crime in the streets!!" fantasy
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.
And while we're at it, un-ban all the silly things that they used your baseless hysteria as a purported justification for banning.
Knives for everybody! All shapes and sizes.
If everybody has a knife, then nobody has one.
Instead of getting smacked on the butt, newborn babies should be handed a switchblade so they can protect themselves.
Agreed.
Also, if everybody has a knife, the cartel that slaps those impossible-to-tear plastic collars over the necks of bottles of salad dressing and soy sauce will no longer hold any power over us.
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.
What's mildly infuriating is that the viral content graph doesn't show the years where knife crime actually peaked.
Yeah these graphs are frustrating. The knife one also has a Y axis starting at 600 along with the numbers being a "rolling 12 month average" of stabbings, whatever the hell that's supposed to mean.
the isnt even a correlation in that graph. e.g. if you look that crime peak in 2023, there is absolutely no correlating peak or drop in the twitter posts.
I think that's the point. Like they don't care about the actual stats and just say whatever they want for clicks
Same as here in the states. Rural people happily eat up that the city is unsafe, and they happily believe they are so much smarter than everyone else for not living in the city and being murdered every other day.
Heh, "sharp" decline.
Man, I have this debate quite often - usually about "the situation in Sweeden". Any links available to the article, so I can share with my concerned friends?
Chiming in from Sweden, the situation here was getting very bad (relatively to how it used to be here, and how it is in the rest of the Nordics). When my dad was a kid, shootings would be national news, when I was a kid, bombings would be national news. Nowadays they are both so frequent that it barely makes the dailies.
Things have slowly started getting better again however, even if it's slow going.
Here's a link to a visualization tool from our national broadcaster. Keep in mind, all of Sweden is just some 10 million people.
https://www.svt.se/datajournalistik/skjutningar-i-sverige-ar-for-ar/
Sweden discourages integration, so there you are.
How do you mean?
Does the drop in knife crime just happen to coincide with when BJ stopped being mayor?
Sharp Decline
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You could make this graph about pretty much any crime-news coverage over the last 40 years. "If It Bleeds Then It Leads" has become western media orthodoxy.
So less crime after brexit?
Less crime before Brexit, too. It appears crime peaked during Brexit. Definitely something to think about.
This is how crime reporting in the US works too. There isn't a connection really between crime rates and news reporting, the news media broadly choose to focus on certain types of crimes because they serve the interests of their owners and/or are popular with their audiences. There's decades of polling showing Americans largely have never had any idea what the actual risks are of crime.