Re yesterdays riots.
These were not "race riots".
These were "racists rioting".
In Hull they made a huge point about how peaceful they were, until they went full riot, later mobbing a car in frankly terrifying scenes.
In Liverpool, able to get to the objective defended by
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hundreds of locals they settled for a all out street rumble, hooligans gunna hooligan. Later on they protected the kiddies by torching a library.
In Manchester, a gaggle turned up and they called it off. Not before mobbing a long black lad 20 to 1. Guess who the cops dropped?
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In Blackpool they tried to do one of these riots outside Britains largest punk festival with thousands of anti-fascist punks in attendance. It went as expected.
In Bristol, they rolled out in number, and tried to storm a hotel, which was saved by hundreds of locals.
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Many places like Blackburn turned out in the single digits. I guess these lads weren't in the cool telegram groups. Still there was an attempt.
In Belfast, both flavours of nationalists were out arm in arm opposite them? Lasses from Mothers against Genocide and locals.
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This follows the disorder in Hartlepool and Sunderland where the paper patriots took Britain back... well atleast the bits in Greggs, Shoezone and O2.... and I guess two lads REALLY hated that jingle.
Also torched a Citizens Advice. You know. for the kids.
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This itself followed a night of violence after the paper patriots rocked up the the vigil for the murdered kids blaming islam (attacker is Christian) and drinking crates of strong bow. Later on they heard a muslim with a knife had been arrest nearby so they attacked a mosque. 6/
The knife man in question turned out to be one of theirs ofcourse.
Just like the fella with Swastika, the ones doing monkey chants, seig heiling, calling people "ni%%er", attacking innocent passers by and again, pooing in peoples gardens. like wtf.
#FarRightThugsUnite?
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These people don't love Britain or it's people.
They hate it and want to use your fear and concern over the social issues brought upon us by capitalism against you.
They want you to hate and fuel the hate of others.
But there is a better way.
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The people who actually love this land and their communties were out there in their tens of thousands.
Circling mosques, hotels, community centres and protests by petty hitlerites. They won't get the front page, but there are many many more of us than them.
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Ultimately all of this goes against the respectibility politics Tommy Ten names and 30p Lee are trying to card. They want the fascism to be civic in nature, they want to appeal to libpatriots and profess how they are just normal concern folk, but they can't help it can they.
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All that hard world trying to make civic fascism pallatable just a few days before in London. Scuppered.
Now these lippy gobshites are on their various grifter platforms trying to both keep their donators but also mainain the brand.
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They are stochastic terrorists, spewing bile and hate, churning up a culture of odious nationalism built upon lie after lie after lie.
They arn't "normal people" with concerns.
That is their appeal to normalise the hate and trap you in it. They are hate mongers.
Are you?
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Q I just saw.,..
"WHAT ABOUT LEEEDS EH?"
A minoritised community responsed to a racist system and overzealous policing. When they broke out into civil disorder it was mostly fixated on the enemy, police. OK three prats torched an empty bus but not the local library, not Greggs.
Q I just saw.,..
"The MDL stabbed people in Stoke".
No, they didn't. In Stoke a patriot took a brick to the head. That can happen when your at a riot lobbing bricks at cops.
TBF a few MDL did indeed rock up and defend their community from those threatening to stab up mosques.
A statement I just saw.
"A riot is the language of the unheard".
Perhaps, but Dr. King's rhetoric was specifically contextual, it spoke to the plight of America's Black population at the time.
The context here is racists got drunk and smashed shit up coz aylum seekers exist.
More stuff I'm seeing...
"They didn't come drinking..."
"They arn't fascists"...
Yes they did and yes they are.
Not all of them but a driving force, the "hardcore". Lots of main "body" are probably just "concerned" types and gawkers but that core driving force?
and so on...
"It's not racist to oppose the boats..."
No, But it's built on a false premise and is a softer recitation of fascist mythology re "invasion" and "great replacement" #FarRightThugsUnite Protest innocence all ye want.
There is a core and open racist driving force.
Another...
"THE BOATS, IT'S AN INVASION LOOK AT 2022!!!"
Thats just "14 words" for people to craven to take ownership of their fascism. 2022 saw a statistical spike of people from Syria and Afghanistan fleeing terrible wars that the Capital West (us) are heavily to blame for.
(side bar... I do feel for these lads just a bit. Many Many years ago me and two mates rocked up London for Mayday in bloc, red and blacks, all ready for it, but EVERY ANARCHO was in Brighton and we just lacked the party line. :( Ended up marching with the tankies lol -R)
Breaking:
Approx 1000 fash in Rotherham, they have broken into a hotel housing refugees, after the outnumbered ~100 antifascists were forced back. No adequate response from Police (who are absent in this footage, but apparently showed up in force later)
instagram.com/reel/C-P_5WGoO…
Report back from Hull.
the cope continues.
"you lot call everyone Nazi"
No, we call Nazi's nazis.
These crowds are a mixture of everything from apolitical lads out for a laugh, middle class liberal nationalists, to civic fascists and ethno-fascists.
Some of them, they are nazis and they are welcomed.
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