[Jtarii]

The president of the US literally attempted a coup, then was found liable for rape, and then got re-elected, then threatened to invade the European Union, then kidnapped the President of Venezuela, then invaded Iran.

How in the fuck is the UK "scarier" than the US. What is this obsession with the UK that americans have?

[firebaze]

How does the US president change the view of the UK? Trump is a moron, reminds me at times of Idiocracy, esp. with UFC cage fights. However, the link to the UK eludes me

[Jtarii]

>The UK genuinely has become the most scary country of all western democracies to me

Do you not count the US as a western democracy?

[dgroshev]

Most people on here are in the US, and the baseline of "scary" implied by that (and many other) posts is definitely not where it should be.

"Moron" doesn't nearly do it justice. The US saw a paramilitary force lead by an open racist (he was recently hanging out with open nazis on a "remigration" conference) executing a political opponent right on the street on camera, with zero consequences. A substantial proportion of the US cheered for literal concentration camps. Budget money is pretty openly funnelled to Trump's family and friends. This is not "Trump is a moron", this is a catastrophe and democratic collapse that is not nearly in the same category as "oh but what if they use the technology for surveillance".

I suspect that this obsession with the UK is just a coping mechanism.