Imagine if we could get people to care this much about stuff that actually matters rather than racist shit
Worse than that - it's made-up racist shit.
Nothing says 'loving your country' more than setting a little part of it on fire.
These lot are fascist tossers, but let's be fair, you can love your country, want to see it change for (what you perceive to be) the better, and fight the establishment because of that.
Take dissident Germans in the 1940s, or those setting fire to government offices, recruitment centres etc in Russia today. They love their home and their people, and want to change it for the better, and they believe this is their best chance of doing so.
I don't think that's what this fascist rioting lot are up to of course, they just want to smash stuff and be dumb racists.
But I think it's important to remember that often we rush to frame extreme acts as inherently bad or unpatriotic, because we're on the opposite side of things, or don't have the full context of the situation.
Especially now, as so much propaganda is pushed down our throats these days - much of it stemming from our government - about how being an "extremist" is automatically evil, and not worth reading further into.
I'm an extremist for example, because amongst other things, I have the extreme opinion that we should nationalise all essential national infrastructure (water, gas, electricity, public transport, internet infrastructure, postal service, and such).
Am I evil because I'm an extremist, or is the government just trying to paint "extremists" as evil in order to suppress opposition to their way of doing things? Hmm.
Anyway thanks for listening! :-)
The thing is though they went straight from zero to 100. Right into violent riots, there was no lead up there was no long drawn out political discourse they just went straight into setting fire to things.
And don't call it a protest either what they did was not a protest they weren't campaigning for change they just wanted to damage things.
I'm so curious to see how far this will go, especially if the police response is overwhelming as Starmer's indicating. With the cost of living crisis only going to worsen this strikes me as a stupid version of the Freikorps being driven by the post-WW1 German economic collapse. A racist lynching or the police shooting a protester could both really explode this thing.
Only the Freikorps went after Socialists, here the police isn‘t supposed to stop the Left but the Right. Also interesting but different. Ah, and I don‘t think the Freikorps were driven by the economic collapse as much as the Social Democrats.
Watch as Starmer's response is used to crush the left and appease the right.
What are you on about like seriously what aspect of his response made you think that this was going to be the outcome?
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