Riots rocking parts of the UK

For at least the third day running, various riots have rocked parts of the United Kingdom. The violence in Rotherham, in the North of England, on Sunday being particularly horrendous, as a large group of far right thugs attacked a Holiday Inn currently housing asylum seekers.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpwddpzyxpzo

All of this trouble sparked following the tragic murder of three children and the attempted murder of several other children and adults at dance class for children in Southport, Merseyside, UK.

Apparently this was all because some fuckos on Xhitter just couldn't shut the f*** and let the coppers do their jobs, and claimed the mass stabbing was perpetrated by a Muslim (he's not). Troublemakers with a chip on their shoulders and too much time on their hands then decide to use that as an excuse to start trouble.

F*** social media, man. I've said before; social media will go down in history as one of mankind's great mistakes.

You go man! Way true.

on topic….this world has so gone upside down. The temperature needs to be brought down.

classy

Social media is pretty bad but those dumb enough to let themselves to be controlled by it are the real issue.

Death gasp of the far right. Useful, gullible idiots just looking for an excuse.

Expect a lot of this over the next couple of years. And don't be intimidated by it like US politicians are; we have to stop these people.

This isn't about liberals vs conservatives, this is about people on all sides of the political spectrum against fundamentalists trying to destroy our way of life.

When Trump loses in a few months, please be safe and stay away from potential hot spots.

To be fair it's not always about smart or dumb. I believe the mass killing in Myanmar a few years ago were because they don't have traditional internet, but instead just have cellular phone coverage.

Studies showed that instead of logging on to various news sites, these people--many of whom had never seen a phone or computer before--instead went to the default program, which just so happened to be Facebook.

Apparently Facebook is region-specific as well, so basically you had an entire country (especially in the rural areas) getting all their information from Facebook because they don't know what the internet is and thought Facebook was the entire internet. So when someone spouts misinformation like "The intellectuals from the city are going to kill you unless you kill them", well, you are more likely to believe it.

I'll try to find the article I read that did a deep dive on this, it was really fascinating. The point is: I think you have a lot of "boomers" and older that didn't grow up in the internet age and their main source of information is Facebook and maybe Twitter. I'm not making excuses for them, but at the same time, it explains why they are the way they are.

This also goes for younger folks except it seems like it's more about Youtube and "influencers" (gen-x, millenials specifically).

Don't know the specifics of this murder case, but reminds me when that 13 year old got raped by an illegal alien in Queens NY and a bunch of locals captured him and beat the living **** out of him

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13542819/Pictured-sexual-assault-suspect-new-york-city-park.html

These cops tactics are wild.

Arbitrarily arresting whoever they want.... this is sad man

Good luck brits 👍

Man.. I've learned alot tonight trying to figure out what these brits are so pissed off about. I think I figured it out, with stuff like this it's no wonder they are pissed that thier government keeps dumping these migrants in thier neighborhoods

The parallels with what's happing here in America is facinating to me.

@sargentd: What I don't understand is why they dump them in the cities instead of the country. They can set up camps, settlements, etc. out in the country. There's a lot of labor and jobs out there where people can get cheap labor, the migrants can find work and pay, and the government can maybe supplement their income as needed.

@mrbojangles25: personally don't want to see them placed in the country or the cities. Best just not take in people you know nothing about. As someone who's lived in both the city and country it's an unfair burden to put on either community imo

@mrbojangles25: If you start attacking people based on social media posts you're dumb as ****. The thing is that we as a whole aren't as smart as we think and we're always a few steps away from becoming savages.

I hope the UK squashes these far right terrorists, but more importantly, goes after those who finance and distributes false information.

i have family members who meet this description to a T.

and they're also 100% certain all the information they see that validates their opinions to correct.

There is no culture on earth in which stabbing little girls is considered acceptable. Clearly this crime had nothing to do with whatever group the murderer belonged to, but he's a deeply disturbed individual. If you are unhappy with the migration policies in your country, protest the politicians, not the migrants.

Just my two cents 🤷‍♂️

It's the "not I'm racist but", crew.

The UK though does have a problem vetting immigrants.

But these people are trash. BNP, Nigel Farage types.

The kind of people who will put shit through an Asian families letter box.

Ah yes, GBnews.

Of course Sarge would post this unironically.

Also think maybe mentioned it several hundred times, but this is the worst designed forum in human existence. It took 6 attempts to try post this link, all of them attaching to the post below, so I ended up having to just separate it entirely.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/gb-news-uk-bias/

Ohhh the mobile users will lub it.

Did these grooming gangs not happen? Is it a lie cup?

I shouldn't really have to explain this to you, but a tiny population of bad folk, doesn't represent everyone.

Just like these far-right racists smashing up towns, don't represent England.

GBnews is a shit attempt at being Fox News, basically a right-wing state network akin to Kremlin propaganda that is designed to influence smooth brains through confirmation bias and emotional appeals for shit Tucker Orange "wow these Russians have trollies you can put money into wowowowowow incentive", Carlson.

It's brain cancer. Like 98% of the shit you post.

Dude.. all I'm asking is if the story is true or not.

Do not need all the extra. Your first sentence is alluding to it being true...

I'll take this as a " yeah it happened"

By you mean context and intent.

And yea, alright in System Wars but when it comes to politics you do, universally, post garbage. I don't think really being edgy saying that, pretty sure most sane people on the forum would agree with that sentiment.

you gave no context.. i asked a simple question

Did these grooming gangs not happen? is it a Lie?

RUSSIA? TUCKER?

stay on the question jfc.. ill ask you again

Did these grooming gangs not happen? is it a Lie?

You seem to be repeating this when I answered it like think it's some sort of zinger.

Did a bunch of right-wing **** heads break up towns?

Do you support and defend these people?

https://twitter.com/BladeoftheS/status/1820187169354350758

The answer is yes. A small bad population does not justify these ug-ugs from taking us back to the 1960s.

thank you.. jfc

Terrible at debating Sarge, no offence. Seem to try to do it with people constantly but it just ends up being universally horrific takes, typically from the worst source humanly possible.

Is a valid argument here about vetting immigrants, making sure they integrate properly, which me and Mac had a convo about in off-topic a few days back.

But what you're doing here is posting not really rational thinking people, but racists and trying to hold them up as credible.

Oh bad thing happen. Racism dumb shits ok.

Which is honestly, not surprising at all. Even before clicking this I was expecting to see you with some horrible video sources.

are you saying all the people at these protests are racists??

I've been watching interviews with them and they seem like reasonable British citizens who are upset with the immigration process with these migrants being placed into their communities (definently some that went to breaking shit, not talking about them)

Ironically they sound exactly like black Americans in chicago who are upset over the exact same shit

I see the same people still here, still allowed to post the same trash. I would ask what they even get out of spreading misinformation and trash, but I actually don't care why. They're lost in the hate and outrage machine.

I hope sarge finds his way out one day and looks back and wonders how he could have embarrassed himself online for so long with such bad takes.

Nazi-style propaganda. It's like the lessons of Der Stürmer and how their reactionary, sensationalist headlines and articles manipulating and moving an entire nation to come to fear and hate Jews -- then become indifferent to their fate -- have been lost to a whole generation. A Generation that is now happy to align with fascism and the completely unhinged demonizing of "the other". It's so fascinating to watch people who fall down these tunnels. They really have no idea they've fallen. Neither did Germans in the 20s and 30s. They were sure to the very end that their cause fueled by fear and hate was just and right.

Pro tip: If fear and hate are at the root of your movement, you actually aren't the good guys in the story and won't be remembered as such. See: southern traitors (confederacy). See: Imperial Japan. See: Nazi Germany. See: British behavior towards the Irish and the Great Hunger. See: you, right now.

This is what this behavior begets:

The literal opening image of your rational video is a lady, half pissed, holding a beer, with a British flag. Followed by a man with a DFLA flag. Following by a man saying "make England great again", implying immigrant are to blame. When in reality, immigrants help up the NHS. Followed by a man saying "we will win our country back", implying we are war, followed a bald man complaining about pubs... and... betting shops? Priorities.

So yes, to be clear, all these people, from the opening frames of your video, are all **** heads. Not gonna bother watching the rest, if there is some absolutely incredible piece of knowledge missing out on, enlightening stuff, so be it. Have to live with that.

the feeling is mutual, i believe it is you that is on the wrong side here *shrug*

Itll be interesting to see how many illegal migrants it takes to destabilize a 1st world nation

cool experiment

Yep. If you squint, you'd think you were looking at Der Stürmer headlines here. "The other" stealing, taking what's rightfully yours, pillaging, raping your women with impunity, kidnapping and eating your children, taking our identity jobs and homes, terraforming your homeland.

Literally the Nazi playbook. The results (voilence) are the only possible outcome for people taking a steady diet of this rhetoric. You are what you eat. Be careful you don't fall victim too, GameSpotters. Spend some time in your history books and recognize the warning signs.

@adrian1480: seriously tho, how many illegal migrants does it take to destabilize a 1st world nation?

Events like this make it difficult to live in the west sometimes.

Why not leave? Where do you want to live?

@adrian1480 said:

No idea how yesterday happened. None at all. pic.twitter.com/qxhWcOzjKq

— Brendan May (@bmay) August 4, 2024

Yep. If you squint, you'd think you were looking at Der Stürmer headlines here.

it's often referred to in england as the daily heil

@sargentd: 1. It's expensive

2. Utah

3. It was a fascist riot

1.) Fair answer, moving sucks

2.) Too many Mormans for my taste, but respect. Decent climate, not expensive.

3.) Nah, typical large protest where a portion starts to riot

What a bunch of braindead clowns who rioted over the past few days. They are a disgrace to the UK, they look as if they were bringing back hooliganism. Vandalism, robbing high street stores, racial checks... wtf are they protesting for?

The whole lot of them look like they're on universal credit and don't have a job or low social class. No wonder they don't give a shit about vandalism and getting arrested.

I anticipate it to be worse than what is happening in the UK. Brace yourself. Obviously, this is if he loses.

Can't wait to watch the leftists burn down churches in DC when he wins

Nah man, they only do that in the Scandinavian countries where satanic metal musicians get light prison sentences. We aren't that cool.

The leftists will just sit quietly with their head in their hands like when Clinton lost.

Bojangles, don't get how you can say this after summer of Love here in the states. leftists have already done this

@comp_atkins: Boomers take a lot of blame for not knowing how to navigate the internet critically but that's kind of a natural thing, and expected.

The biggest issue are the youngest generations that were educated by the internet and have absolutely no tools on how to deal with and vet information. That's the real modern tragedy, i think, the amount of young males radicalized against the very same western values that brought us unparalleled wealth and health. They're more regressive than conservative.

Seems like you forgot your people and your former president launched an attack on the capitol. It is clear that recollection is selective when it comes to facts.🙃

Yeah I remember the riot at the capital but I won't forgot the summer of love riots that happened all across the country

I noticed nothing emerged in Scotland... yet. Just England and Northern Ireland. @uninspiredcup, you have any idea as to why? Do you see any potential riots up where you're at?

@uninspiredcup: You talk about "far right" smashing towns in the UK.. you do realize that in the US the ones destroying cities are from the left... correct? Just wondering.