@KemiBadenoch Shouldn't you be angry at the Conservatives for bringing this savage (and so many others) into Britain and offering the British people to them as prey?
@JoeEDwyer@RoismairedSF The victim doesn't need your empty "solidarity". He and future victims need you out of power so that they don't get brutalised by the new "guests" you've imposed on them.
Democracy is a fragile thing.
Across the UK and Ireland, politicians are manning all the usual pumps this morning. Left wing politicians are speaking about racist rioters, 'conservatives' speaking about law and order. Others will make vague statements about people's right to live in peace. All falling back on tried and true soundbites.
But few to none will tell the obvious truth - democracy is fragile and a business for serious and judicious people unafraid to take tough decisions for a longer-term good.
Politicians (in Ireland and the UK) have not upheld their side of the democratic contract in terms of mass migration. In particular, politicians from parties of all stripes, left and (supposedly) centre and conservative (FF/G and Conservatives in the UK) have granted leave to stay to hundreds of thousands of unvetted fake asylum seekers in their respective countries and they have then rammed them into closeknit communities - without consultation with locals and without a veto for locals.
This has pushed people's backs to the wall.
Communities have, time and again ,said no to this but they have been met with deaf ears and accusations of racism.
So when things go wrong - as they do with increasing, violent, frequency - such as a fake asylum seeker trying to saw the head off of a well-liked disabled local man - communities know there's no point turning to politicians for help.
Democracy, based on common law, asks that people forego retribution with the promise of restitution by serious-minded and judicious people in the name of the state. In other words, people can give up clannish, sectarian or other collective units capable of doling out retribution because the state has promised to take on the burden of ensuring justice will be done.
The problem is that for decades deeply unserious and non-judicious people have taken up roles in politics and judiciary. Activists with dangerous ideologies regarding open borders and the forced settlement of illegals in close knit communities have taken charge and told people - like it or lump it. That is authoritarian and a direct rejection of the state's responsibility to act both judiciously and to act in a manner that makes resort to retribution and clannishness necessary.
Today, unserious politicians and their activist backers in the media and NGOs will slander, deflect, scapegoat and look to score points for the very actions that led to the riot in Belfast last night. Some 'conservatives' will speak in solemn tones to sound judicious but their words will ring hollow.
Few will admit the root of the issue, democracy in Ireland and the UK has reached a crisis point that's been two decades at least in the making. When politicians act in an authoritarian fashion, leaving the people they supposedly represent with their backs firmly against the wall, all contractual agreements, all rational actions go out the window and people revert to their natural understanding of justice - clannish retribution.
And that is the fault of the politicians.
Any politician offering anything other than a mea culpa and a commitment to radical political change that acts in support of the people today is signalling their commitment to the further destruction of democracy and the state.
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Politicians are nowhere near intelligent enough to discuss human psychology when it comes to rioting.
Yes rioting is awful. Yes you should never do this. Stop doing this. All correct.
Yet history shows you riots and public disorder clearly happen from a series of events, long periods of frustration/ feeling unheard, distrust in authorities - and ultimately - a feeling the public can’t be kept safe by the state.
Whether you like it or not - rioting happens. Left and Right. There will be bad actors. There will be criminals. It doesn’t help. But it’s happening whether you like it or not.
Blaming Farage, Musk, Trump, Tommy, racism, division, billionaires, Russia/China… all of these are distractions from facing the biological reality that humanity is tribal and territorial.
Solely condemning the rioters is two-dimensional and weak. It is depressing how most politicians are either: too thick to explore complex multifaceted problems, too cowardly to go near these territories - or both.
Most are so busy thinking about votes and the media round, it doesn’t even occur to them to ponder on how they frame problems. It is in their interest to - you go against your party, you lose friends/colleagues, you become newspaper headlines for a week, and you lose your sense of certainty. (Also a trait of human biology playing out before our eyes!)
This age of libs fancy themselves so much, they think our “progression” has made our biological instincts redundant in a matter of decades, purely through talking about kindness, inclusivity, diversity, and multiculturalism. Much like other religions, their ideology denies scientific evolution as a concept.
They believe this fiction to be true purely because they wish for it to be. In this utopia, every culture is equal, every human being is a blank slate, every country is purely an economic zone with a name, every nationality is a piece of paper. Ethnicity doesn’t exist, yet ethnic minorities somehow do exist. We also call them the “global majority.”
There is no such thing as historical ties to a nation, shared collective memory, demographic protectiveness, or in-group preference.
Every religion is the same. Men can become women. Suicide bombers blow themselves up because they have “anxiety and ADHD.” Getting fucked by 1000 men a day is “freedom” - but so is wearing a burka and being one of three wives.
People say religion has declined (bar Islam which is growing) - it doesn’t seem it has to me. We just don’t call this “multicultural diversity equality kindness blob” a religion. And interestingly, you can observe another trait of humanity here: that we need systems of belief systems and feelings of something greater beyond us.
These stale politicians are fantasists. Personally, I’m a realist. Sometimes that means acknowledging human beings are highly flawed and prone to terrible things given the circumstances.
I try to speak these truths how I see them. We are so far from having this conversation as a society - but we can only overcome these problems if we take the first step in acknowledging what’s happening in the first place.
@supertanskiii You're right. The targets should actually be you lot, since you're the ones responsible for bringing in savages who are turning Britain into a shithole.
@DPJHodges@elliseccles I'm sure the people of Ardoyne and Shankill were looking forward to a nice quiet evening at home before they saw Nigel Farage's tweets
I don't condone any of what I've seen in Belfast. I mean, I'd go to prison if I did, but all the same, it's not my preferred way of doing things. But then my preferred way of doing things (voting and public debate) hasn't made the slightest impact on the decision-making of the state. As such, there was a certain inevitability about this.
Moreover, it's not really my place to judge. I am an extremely fortunate individual who happens to live in a 99% white area, miles from any "diversity" and thanks to my self-employed status, I don't have to self-censor or live a double life at work. I don't have to bottle up my opinions. I actually make a modest income by expressing them.
Most low income working class people, meanwhile, have to live in close proximity to diversity and the squalor that goes with it. Their votes are even more worthless as mine, and they can't speak their minds freely because there'll be some HR ghoul in the mix who will fire them. Ordinary people bear the burden of potentially losing everything for having the wrong opinions.
Meanwhile, they can work hard to carve out a little corner of peace for themselves, just for the local authority to turn next door into a migrant HMO with illegal Deliveroo drivers coming and going at all hours. It's their communities being turned into alien, hostile and violent slums. To then say there is no justification for riots is to tell them they simply have to suck it up - even when they run the risk of an African savage beheading them. What are they supposed to do? Write to their MP? Everyone has a breaking point.
While politicians call for calm, they can only expect to be heeded if they actually do something, but remaining calm when the politicians continue to sit on their hands as people are butchered in the street is absolutely bovine. Ultimately these riots are a consequence of the wilful deafness of politicians, and the blame for what we've seen tonight lies squarely in their shop.
@supertanskiii If white males are such a threat, why aren't you on the next flight to Mogadishu? The rest of us will be happy to pay for the ticket, so you can be in a safer place.
@EMichaelJones1 What @EMichaelJones1 prays in church EVERY Good Friday to avoid being "schismatic": "Let us pray for the Jewish people, the first to hear the word of God, that they may continue to grow in the love of his name and in faithfulness to his covenant." Enjoy your Nostra Aetate, Mike!