@andrew_lilico 1989, the Rushdie affair. I couldn't believe it then, and I still can't really believe it now. The greatest warning we ever had, and the people in charge totally ignored it. I can't have been quite as stupid as I always assumed I was.
@DA5124873195037 after the grooming gangs is the media doomed to keep getting this shit wrong until.... what exactly? How is this not fucking obvious..
@bindelj You willingly got it wrong.
This picture is of one of the girls who was attacked, and it was public the entire time.
How do you possibly see a video of terrified little girls being challenged by a grown man - a Bulgarian ex gang member, and say "Yeah, he's the good guy"?
The next war won't be won by armies, navies or air forces alone.
It'll be won by the country whose 19 year olds can code, whose factories can build drones in weeks not years, and whose grid stays on when someone tries to switch it off.
Industry. Society. Economy. That's the fight now.
We're not ready. And we're not being honest about what getting ready will cost.
@ijkTA1619@residentadviser In NI the devolved government will simply tap up Westminster for extra cash. Probably means that me, here in leafy Surrey with a high valued property will be paying for that burned bus indirectly far more than the guy in the terraced house in Belfast who set it on fire is.
@redrumlisa@DailyMail Uncomfortable echoes of the grooming gangs. Tweenage and Teenage working class girls can be gobby little monsters (like all girls that age) - but they also deserve to be believed and protected from predators especially if they are from 'rough' backgrounds.
@DailyMail I'd prefer your front page apology and reflection on why you decided these children deserved you throwing a whole article on demeaning these children
@elsaposuave Conversely the far left seems to have gone of the deep end as well. I don't see much of it on here any more but on Instagram I do- children's illustrators who do cute little cartoons of hippos driving cars & stuff posting pro Hamas stuff. Batshit insane.
@TheGhostSleepi1 Yep. For a long time I dismissed it as a few absolute crazies here and there. But it's got to the point where it's hard to ignore. Even on other platforms like Instagram I'm routinely reading things that 20 years ago could have only appeared on stormfront or 4chan (as a joke).
Indeed. Now you regularly see conversations going-
"Deport that brown man"
"You can't he's British"
"He's going back to the African jungle"
"That won't happen"
"Shut up you gay Jewish traitor"
It's nuts. You'd not have seen this even 5 years ago.
@ijkTA1619@residentadviser I am saying that the violence will work for that community. Its wrong, but its brutally effective. I don't want this spreading to the mainland, and I am frightened of the lesson it teaches if it is successful. I think that's where we are heading.
@ijkTA1619@residentadviser The people who set the bus on fire aren't going to pay for the bus. And the tragedy of the commons means that they are unlikely to feel any ill effect themselves. The city will buy a new bus. Central government or wealthier council tax payers are picking up that bill.