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[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 83 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Stoking anti-muslim shit for decades and then turning around and blaming Corbyn for "antisemtism" because Wizard Book lady said so. FUCK TERF island.

[–] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 48 points 1 month ago

Genuine hell portal ukkk

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 66 points 1 month ago

Hm i wonder when will we hear calls from international-community-1international-community-2 to intervene to prevent the violence from becoming a bloodbath.

[–] wombat@hexbear.net 62 points 1 month ago (1 children)

stalin shouldn't have stopped at berlin

[–] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I was just explaining this to my oldest kid yesterday. Stalin had too much humanity to get the job done. He wasn't capable of the cruelty the bourgeoisie deserved.

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 60 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Imagine if JKKK Rowling chose today to walk outside in blackface (which you know she just wears around the house on Sundays for no particular reason), gets mistaken for a real POC by the rocks for brains rioters and just gets decked.

[–] weeen@hexbear.net 60 points 1 month ago (2 children)

won't happen, the black mold on her walls told her to focus on women's boxing this week dean-frown

[–] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago

Wonder if Black Mold Frost is coming for her?

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[–] Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 53 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not joking when I say shrill em all and take their land

[–] Finger@hexbear.net 39 points 1 month ago

no more half measures walter

[–] Justice@lemmygrad.ml 53 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I see a lot of the word riot

And a lack of the word pogrom

Purposeful I assume for the media's part.

[–] lil_tank@hexbear.net 32 points 1 month ago

"Pogrom" is when Palestinians do it

[–] brainw0rms@hexbear.net 46 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

You really have to hand it to the UK government for having probably the worst possible messaging tactics on this.

Yes, the guy was not himself an immigrant. That was indeed misinformation. But to keep framing it like, "Ackshually finger-wag he was a true blooded Brit born to Rwandan immigrant parents nerd Checkmate misinformation bigots!!!" isn't the correct messaging strategy to use here.

The government/media seem to be entirely incapable of following that statement through to its conclusion in the minds of the anti-immigrant right. They will just take that to mean: "Well then obviously these immigrants are all incapable of assimilation into UK society, and they have to go regardless what generation migrant they are! frothingfash"

It would have been much better to actually address the material conditions that led to this kid being radicalized / falling through the cracks of the mental healthcare system / etc. It sounds like they have not ascertained the motive for the killings, so I'm making guesses, but you can take my meaning.

[–] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It would have been much better to actually address the material conditions that led to this kid being radicalized

lenin-sure I'm sure they'll get right on that.

[–] catonkatonk@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

But also, what if he had been a Muslim immigrant? That obviously wouldn't justify anything that had happened. And so the race, religion and nationality of the attacker are entirely irrelevant.

I wonder why the government is having a difficult time signalling to its population that collective punishment is unacceptable...

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[–] FailedAtAdulting@hexbear.net 45 points 1 month ago
[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 44 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Are there any anti-fascists fighting back against these evil shit heads?

[–] weeen@hexbear.net 64 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Yeah, they outnumbered the 'pro-british' 'protestors', as the media calls them, in many places but the nazis (a guy just got arrested with a swaztika tat) have done insane damage, they burned down a library in Liverpool

https://x.com/C_Hendrick/status/1820009252477362450

[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 53 points 1 month ago (2 children)

the 'pro-british' 'protestors', as the media calls them

lea-tired

[–] catonkatonk@hexbear.net 38 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The British state-run media organisation has been egregiously bad. Look at this shit. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cervv8rz8mzo

An anti-immigration protest began peacefully outside Bolton Town Hall earlier, but within half an hour, about 300 people, who mostly had their faces covered with black face masks or balaclavas, charged towards the building. They began shouting "Allahu Akbar" - a phrase meaning God is greatest - as they arrived at one side of the town hall, where a separate group had gathered waving England flags.

Meanwhile, here is footage of that event https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3QDnJeoYJM&t

[–] weeen@hexbear.net 34 points 1 month ago

Lmao yeah, I've seen muslims/asians be called 'mobs' for organising to protect themselves

And next we'll have 500 tweets from libs, OMG my asian neighbour just brought us food aww they're not all bad!! as if no modern kristallnacht had happened

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Lmao I bet the media will do more outrage over the God is Greatest chants over people being racially targeted even if they're not even from muslim majority countries.

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[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 44 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Insane they're calling them "protestors" instead of what they are, fascist rioters.

[–] Self_Sealing_Stem_Bolt@hexbear.net 41 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The bougie media knows who their real enemies are

Us

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 42 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Nationalgoatism@hexbear.net 38 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Shout out the guys showing up to chase fascist pogromists out of town, arriving dressed like this

[–] Des@hexbear.net 32 points 1 month ago

crust punks. metallic hardcore show guys. hardcore punk guys. left-unity-2 antifa's finest

[–] Tiocfaidhcaisarla@hexbear.net 30 points 1 month ago (3 children)

A lot of why's to ask but why a library?

[–] weeen@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago (2 children)

No clue, it was easy to get into so I think they just wanted to destroy

[–] Tiocfaidhcaisarla@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago

Useless shits

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[–] Des@hexbear.net 29 points 1 month ago (3 children)

my god the big antifa guy in the center left is the most hardcore show guy that's ever hardcored.

the shirt, the shoes, the shorts, the hat. can't make out the band name

skinny nazi doesn't know he's about to get fucking wrecked

[–] Justice@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 1 month ago

That's absolutely a guy who would do a spinning whirly arm windmill thing directly into your face, knocking you over, then immediately help you back up and apologize. Met many such people. I would generally regard them as people not to be fucked with especially when they're large lads like that one. Look at his legs. My god. What a unit.

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

He dresses like me fr fr side-eye-1

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[–] catonkatonk@hexbear.net 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Very same people who make up stories about "no-go zones" and roaming bands of zombie muslims eating human flesh.

[–] Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 35 points 1 month ago

EVERY accusation

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago

Bloody Sunday?

[–] Des@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (14 children)

part of me thinks this is one of those situations where an armed population would at least dissuade this kind of rampant impunity

try to pull a person out of a car. get a bullet to the dome.

at least the threat this may happen might make the rioters second guess

and since the police seem to be opting out and there's no national guard to speak of and we know how adverse to threats the western right is

like even a loosely cobbled together armed popular front militia would probalbly be enough to keep these shits from burning down buildings full of asylum seekers

yes i know the it's likely the full force of the state would be brought down on the people defending their city and populace but fuck sometimes i think i'd rather go out resisting with everything you got

sorry this shit makes me so mad i don't know what the solution is besides general class war

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Police aren't hitting the riots but they've already started raiding homes of participants. Most of these shits are going to end up locked up.

Issue is though that the prisons are full so I don't know how hard the courts will go.

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