This surge in far-right violence is frightening me. I'm dreaming about it and having trouble focusing at the moment. My sensitivities seem to kick off badly when stuff like this is going on.
I keep away from the news best I can but it seems to be everywhere.
How do you deal with the issues out there today?
I just want to clarify that I didn't mean any offence with my previous comment.
As autistic people, we all know that we're more likely than most to experience various difficulties with written communication (whether with writing and/or reading). I didn't mean to criticise your writing style - we should, of course, all do whatever works best for us.
It was just that, in my case, my brain immediately rebels whenever it's faced with the prospect of having to process any large block of uninterrupted / unstructured text. I find it overwhelming, so normally just scroll past.
In this case, I just skim-read it out of idle curiously, looking for a full stop - hence my jokey comment. I apologise for any upset caused IrishInManchesterUK .
SPG - Now I'm thinking of Vyvyan in The Young Ones...
I agree - no more laws needed.
It's all so sad.
I went to a White British / Pakistani Muslim wedding a few weeks ago, and it was beautiful. Everyone joining in and so joyous. Both families in the speeches saying how welcome and loved the new partner was. There was a great mix of music and everyone stayed on the dancefloor whether groom's Britpop or the really fun dancey music played for the bride. It was a good view of what life can be like when we embrace each other's differences.
I see the SPG, or Special Patrol Group is coming back, something I've not seen since the 1980's, heads will be broken if they get involved.
I thought that trying to set fire to an hotel with people inside it was unforgivable and htose people should be charged with attempted murder and terrorism offences.
One of the things I'm really glad about, is the lack of knee jerk reaction from Starmer, we don't need more laws, the ones already in place give the police the powers they need. Knee jerk laws are often poorly crafted as they're rushed through the scrutiny process and are often incompatible with other laws and cases breakdown. These laws are often more draconian as various politicians get up on thier hind legs to insist that their piece is heard and added, this is virtue signalling and an ego trip and makes for terrible law.
I wish Elon Musk would wind his neck in too!
In other words, who can possibly make sense of evil - these past 4 years, I have learned that evil is a very real and very tangible force in our world and the only thing that keeps me going is my religious faith, not any one (corrupted) religious institution - before there was any concept of “mental health issues” everything was expressed in terms of religion and the Churches would have taken a leading role in this, urging people to pray for desired outcomes in times past
What is being forced on us now is a form of communism, leftism, socialism and Marxism, which is also corporatist, with elements of fascism, but by leftists on behalf of their globalist deep state masters - they are not directly referring to it yet, but they are smearing real patriots as being “far right” to disguise the fact that they are “far left” and are acting on behalf of their globalist deep state masters - either way it is by design to collapse the concept of the nation state and the traditional family values system, most of which has been achieved in decades past by the infiltration and corruption of all the institutions through the “long March” through the institutions of state, government, courts, milltary, churches, etc
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I feel disgusted and sickened by the rioting during recent days. What happened in Southport is truly heart-breaking, and I think it's appalling that the rioting appears to have been triggered by misinformation on social media about the perpetrator.
Whilst no time is ever a good time for rioting, it seems especially disrespectful for it to been happening so soon after the deaths of those young girls. Rather than allowing the families and friends of those girls to mourn in peace, those involved in the rioting appear to have seized the opportunity to behave like mindless hooligans and cause so much unrest.
It's a load of crap. Those people never once cared about these supposed issues until now, they're rioting because they're triggered that their favored party lost the election. It's no different to those muppets who stormed the capitol a few years back. And the ironic part is, the same people attacking the police now were accusing people on the other end of the political spectrum of attacking the police in 2020!
And to think the person who did that horrible thing in Southport wasn't even Muslim...mind you, I suppose these *** probably aren't even capable of understanding things such as that. Everything south of Marbella and Ibiza to them is probably Muslim!
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It’s certainly alarming. I feel lucky that I live in a rural area, so don’t feel under threat from it all - but my husband works in a city so he has no choice about going there. I’m just hoping things will calm down in time. I despise racism and violence and it’s horrible to see such ignorance and hatred on the streets.
Aside from the label of “far-right” which is being used and which is unhelpful and inflammatory, being used by the media and the Labour government alike, in order to discredit and undermine the genuine concerns of (peaceful and lawful) protesters, while I do understand that people have legitimate rights to (peacefully) protest on genuine concerns, there is never any excuse for rioting - I’ve watched extensive footage of the rioting from all over the U.K. and Ireland in the past few days and it’s quite clear that legitimate, peaceful and lawful protests by protesters with genuine concerns have been infiltrated by groups of paid agitators (by whichever source) for the sole purpose of causing trouble (just like there is on the far left and with the Palestine protests) and these agitators are trying to force the government to introduce a police state and martial law in the U.K., which sadly is a certainty and is only a matter of time - we see similar anti-immigration protests in Ireland and we see the same two-tier policing is happening with the Gardai, as they want to have an easy excuse to bring in martial law and police state (which will happen in Ireland much sooner) and those who are rioting are knuckle dragging idiots who are dragging us all down with them - ever since the fall of communism in Russia and Eastern Europe, the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Glasnost and Perestrokia, I often wondered if communism would ever come to the west and both with 9/11 and with Covid, I saw the beginnings of this - leftists, especially the far left, have always wanted to restore a form of communism or Marxism with elements of fascism, bringing it to the west, even if this is on behalf of and in service to their globalist deep state masters - whether this has anything to do with Christianity v Islam v Judasiam or Zionism it is hard to tell, but one thing that I am sure of is that mankind throughout history has always had a huge propensity for self destruction, what with wars and conflicts - they talk about global warming, climate change, aliens, asteroid strikes, earth moving towards the sun’s increasing mass and gravitational pull, solar flares, etc, but a potential attempt to bring in martial law/police state to quell disorder could ignite civil war/all-out race wars (where immigrants in reality are just as much victims of this as we are, being used as pawns in sick and twisted war games) and this could spark a world war, as Ukraine/Russia, Palestine/Israel, China/Taiwan are just some of the countries in conflict and this could involve nukes - any countries that feel threatened and who hold nukes, in such a situation of global conflict, will not hesitate to use these and will show far less restraint than the US, NATO, Russia or China in doing so
None specifically promoting Socialist or Communist ideology - redistribution of wealth, public ownership of the means of production or the dictatorship of the proletariat. Unlike the ones promoting Fascistic ideology - persecution of racial and religious minorities and their scapegoating, extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and political and cultural liberalism, a belief in natural social hierarchy and the rule of elites, and the desire to create social system in which individual interests are subordinated to the good of the nation state. Most of these Fascist tropes have been either obvious in the recent rioting, or are the goals of those orchestrating the thuggery from behind the scenes.
There is something to be said for that. "Watching the news during troublesome times can take a toll on our mental health. When major world events are taking place, we can find ourselves hooked on the news and feeling as though we need to know everything, but this behaviour, known as doomscrolling, can be to the detriment of our mental health. ... ":
https://patient.info/news-and-features/is-watching-the-news-bad-for-your-mental-health
