Help Is Europe really as dangerous as they say?

[Endofpain]

I second this.

Yes, Europe is dangerous.

If you stay in rich neighborhoods very few cities will be dangerous but some people might try to scam you or pick your pocket if it is obvious that you are a tourist.

After a certain political global faction murdered Qaddafi, turned Libya and Syria into war zones and then pretended to be humanitarian by guiding "migrants" (none were UN Convention Refugees, many were known to have been released from jails and psychiatric facilities) to European cities, things got even worse than they already were thanks to the combination of mass immigration with family reunification doctrines in immigration law + anti-nationalism + muliticulturalist communitarianism + hatred of host populations indoctrinated to immigrants via a supposed concern about colonialism (LOL).

Most European countries are now Occupied Territory but you will never guess who the real occupant is.

As for the US, I would love to live in a state with conceal carry laws. I'd feel much safer knowing that if I or someone else is attacked, a responsible gun owner could neutralize the attacker rather than just calling the cops and telling them to bring an ambulance or maybe a hearse...

 

[endofeverything]

alright first of all, this is a ONE YEAR OLD THREAD, so idk why i'm even bothering to reply, but i find the amount of conspiracyheads parroting the same old tired rhetoric unchallenged is both hilarious and genuine anguish to me, so....

i live in one of the aforementioned cities that the OP wanted to visit. i was born here. i live in social housing, in one of the poorest 1% of all blocks of the entire city. it has a horrible reputation due to a stabbing happening a few decades ago, which was sensationalised by media and thus left a permanent stain on people's impression of the place. (nevermind the fact that, considering this area's population and the timespan of serveral decades, the crime rate here is identical to any other part of town, with the stabbing included.)

so, how do i feel living here, surrounded by foreigners?
safe.
it's safe. i feel safe. i've never not felt safe. is it a perfect, crime-free utopia? absolutely not, but show me one place, one town, just one country which is so.

however, if i were to subscribe to certain media, with certain political affiliations, i would be living in a genuine warzone right now. apparently, my district has fallen. apparently, you can't leave the house at night here. i recently talked to one of my aunts, who lives in a small gated community far away from this city, and she seemed to genuinely believe this about the town. nevermind the fact that she hadn't stepped foot in it for decades, and has truthfully no clue what it's like to live anywhere with less than 100k/year average income. she was still pretty confident in her judgement, based on what she read from "unbiased fact based media" that report on every single damn incident happening in this town, sensationalising it to no end and feeding into the perception of a downfall of society, a degradation of safety and civility due to an influx of immigrants from ten years ago.

turns out, media can distort your perception of reality. hmm. who woulda thunk!

now, obviously this was all anecdotal, but it's certainly more reflective of whatever the other replies above believe - evidently based on what they heard (and likewise i've heard being regurgitated a gazillion times...) from billionare-thinkthank-funded media, facebook and twitter threads aimed at maximizing engagement by being as outrageous as possible, and secret telegram chats that put all other forms of opinion bubble to shame.

no, europe isn't as dangerous as these people say. please look at literally any crime statistic. the crime in my city HAS DECREASED OVER THE PAST FEW DECADES, despite an influx of foreigners, who are supposedly ill-cultured criminals and troublemakers coming to replace and terrorize my people. no, they aren't perfect people either, i will never claim that none of them are criminal or even terrorist, and i have huge disagreements with some of their cultural ideals. crucially though, i'm not shitting my pants continually about europe being occupied territory and whatnot, because, what, 10 percent of my country??? is made up of foreigners. get real, for the love of god.

in other words, the conspiracy-driven projected downfall of western society keeps not happening. the great replacement theory isn't real and never will be real. stop believing everything you hear in a ben shapiro youtube clip.

edit: oh, one more thing - the fact that some of you brought up racism and xenophobia as something you aren't, even though literally nobody else brought it up nor accused you of it, is so deeply, hilariously telling :) you openly spew fear-mongering hatred, which according to any recent political poll is also the majority opinion in most european countries at this point, and yet you act like you're the underdogs in a world that's aimed at bringing you down with those mean, evil labels. the victim complex is crazy here.​