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briantrumpet
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Didn't we used to simply call these race riots?
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briantrumpet
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If the government doesn't come down hard on this and ditch any both-sidesing crap, they will have lost any last shred of moral authority. Once upon a time there was someone called Keir Starmer who was Director of Public Prosecutions who did the right thing. Nowadays all too often he seems to be more concerned about polling.
Pblakeney
Squire
That’s just a polite way of saying that they are stupid.
What exactly do they think will be achieved?
secretsqirrel
Über Member
The Southport riots were very efficiently snuffed out by emergency measures brought in by a very rookie Labour government in July 2024. That was only 2 years ago but they already need to rediscover themselves
secretsqirrel
Über Member
“Race riots“ are when non-white people run around smashing things, otherwise they are “protests”.
Its called “two tier” reporting…
Didn't that get rebranded as Black Lives Matter?
laurentian
Regular
I wonder which one of the rioters will be invited to speak at the next Reform party conference . . .
Psamathe
Legendary Member
Whilst I agree I'm not sure "they have no voice". I wonder if they have a more voice than I do. I write to my MP (and get ignored), I vote in elections. They have the same available.
Psamathe
Legendary Member
Or if Faråge will be aping his hero and demanding a vast compensation fund from the Government for those forced to spend their time attacking innocent local residents and destroying their property.
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briantrumpet
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This is what I really can't understand about *anoyone* who's reasonable still using X.
https://skywriter.blue/@ketanjoshi.co/3mnwgikvvtk2x
Ketan Joshi
June 10, 2026 at 10:46 AM GMT+1
I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressives cannot stop propping it up
Absolutely done with any and all of the excuses. If you have a genuine, real and material reason to be on that site then **your job is to stop that being a reason**, not to just passively succumb to it and do nothing at all because otherwise: YOU JUST PROLONG THE HARM IT CAUSES
'There are voices from Palestine there but not elsewhere' Fine: help them get off the white nationalist website 'Global south communities are huge there' Fine: help them get off the white nationalist website 'Political influencers are there' Fine: help them get off the white nationalist website
THERE IS NOTHING TECHNOLOGICALLY UNIQUE ABOUT X. It is a website where you post short sentences with images, videos and hyperlinks attached. IT IS NOT MAGICAL AND SPECIAL, YOU CAN DO THAT IN FOURTEEN FUCKING MILLION OTHER PLACES.
I'm screaming into the void here: anyone still wedded to doing volunteer labor for Elon Musk on a website that literally runs on a fossil-fuelled data centre choking a community Memphis that also includes child abuse material as a DESIGNED FEATURE - they cannot be reached. They're done. They're gone. But god, just let me scream, I need it
https://skywriter.blue/@ketanjoshi.co/3mnwgikvvtk2x
Ketan Joshi
June 10, 2026 at 10:46 AM GMT+1
I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressives cannot stop propping it up
Absolutely done with any and all of the excuses. If you have a genuine, real and material reason to be on that site then **your job is to stop that being a reason**, not to just passively succumb to it and do nothing at all because otherwise: YOU JUST PROLONG THE HARM IT CAUSES
'There are voices from Palestine there but not elsewhere' Fine: help them get off the white nationalist website 'Global south communities are huge there' Fine: help them get off the white nationalist website 'Political influencers are there' Fine: help them get off the white nationalist website
THERE IS NOTHING TECHNOLOGICALLY UNIQUE ABOUT X. It is a website where you post short sentences with images, videos and hyperlinks attached. IT IS NOT MAGICAL AND SPECIAL, YOU CAN DO THAT IN FOURTEEN FUCKING MILLION OTHER PLACES.
I'm screaming into the void here: anyone still wedded to doing volunteer labor for Elon Musk on a website that literally runs on a fossil-fuelled data centre choking a community Memphis that also includes child abuse material as a DESIGNED FEATURE - they cannot be reached. They're done. They're gone. But god, just let me scream, I need it
Psamathe
Legendary Member
Article sort of speaks for itself.
Difficult to see how Färage attending will further his work with Reform but I can see how it will help his personal standing with the US MAGA/CPAC/Far-right groups but even that only in a small way as they probably won't be paying much attention to a small event in the UK.
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briantrumpet
Timewaster
Oh dear, I find myself agreeing with Edwina Currie. I suppose there's a first for everything...
Ian H
Shaman
You find John Major attractive!!?
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briantrumpet
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Well, I suppose I would exchange today's politics for a time when we were more concerned about whether the Prime Minister tucked his shirt into his underpants.
Dorset Boy
Senior Member
Given you claim to have been a tory when she was part of the Government, why would you now agreeing with her be a first?
