The left last week: Attacking police officers is outrageous.
The left this week: Fracturing a policewoman's spine is fine.
No-one should be taking these idiots seriously.
The left doesn’t hate Elon for his wealth.
They tolerate plenty of billionaires, as long as those billionaires are useful, compliant, and ideologically housebroken.
Elon’s real offense is that he can’t be bought.
And people who live by control always hate the man they can’t control.
@lewis_goodall Good grief, calm down
Elon Musk had smart ideas and the risk appetite and work ethic to turn them into valuable businesses
That's not grotesque it's inspirational. We should encourage success not call it grotesque
@lewis_goodall He allowed the gender critical voice to be heard. Before that we were banned for life from Twitter for the huge sin of saying men cannot be women.
If you’re breaking into a building to smash up property as a political protest, that’s criminal damage. If the cops show up, you either surrender (in order to make your political point in a trial) or you run away. Attack them with sledgehammers, hi, you’re a terrorist.
These thugs fractured the spine of Sgt Kate Evans, who spoke in court of the medical and emotional trauma she still lives with.
Prison is where they belong.
Unlike Zack Polanski, I want serious consequences for anyone who attacks police officers risking their lives to protect us.
Hezbollah official: “We are currently investing in protests and demonstrations in Western countries, especially among college students.
We already have Muslim students agitating, but it’s the Western students themselves who will destroy their own countries.”
This is the decade-old plan by Hezbollah and the Iranian regime to destroy America and Europe.
Just so you know who this man is, @ZackPolanski believes that someone smashing a sledgehammer into a police woman's back is legitimate and justifiable "direct action".
When people tell you who they are, believe them.
Last year, a video went viral of a scared, 12 year old girl in Dundee.
She was waving weapons, shouting at a migrant to leave her alone.
Almost immediately, many on the left were calling this girl a liar (and worse). They were saying the “far-right” were whipping up ‘anti-migrant hate’.
People like @HumzaYousaf & many more called it ‘bullsh*t’.
Many, including people like @jdpoc while calling her a liar & talking about her ‘hatred’, showed pictures of the little girl. Just to make sure everyone knew who the ‘liar’ they were talking about, was.
A fundraiser for the girl was mocked, suggesting she’d use the money to buy “machetes and IronBru”
She was a child. Their posts were seen by hundreds of thousands of people.
She wasn’t ‘hate-filled’, she was scared.
Yesterday, her version of events was proven to be true. She was sexually harassed by a migrant and another child physically assaulted too.
The man and his sister were prosecuted.
How shameful that children need to arm themselves for protection.
How shameful that adults will deny their reality.
How shameful that some people are so desperate to defend migration into this country, that they will literally mock children who are victims of their crimes.
Shame on you all.
I’ll be fascinated to see how many of you publicly apologise to the girl, in the same public way that you called her a liar.
I won’t hold my breath…
I hope this girl is ok.
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Richard, you've actually answered your own question. If peaceful protest feels futile, violent protest is worse. A government that ignores a million people marching will not be moved by a riot. It will be relieved by one.
The moment disorder begins, the subject changes. It's no longer immigration policy, border failures or thirty years of managed silence. It's the violence. Every camera turns to the burning bus. Every politician condemns the mob. Every commentator who was losing the argument on the facts is handed a lifeline. The people with the most to answer for become the people calling for calm. It's the oldest political escape route.
The government cannot defend the Dublin backdoor. It cannot explain why its own terror watchdog's questions go unanswered. It cannot justify a system that processed Hadi Alodid correctly and left Stephen Ogilvie blinded on a Belfast street. Those are the arguments that cannot be managed. Disorder manages them instantly.
You're right that thirty million people marching peacefully in their heads changes nothing on its own. But thirty million people voting, organising, refusing the labels, demanding answers in language too precise to dismiss, selecting representatives who will not be bought off by the permanent state, and building the kind of sustained political pressure that brought Brexit from impossibility to reality in a decade, is not nothing. It's everything. It's the only thing that has ever worked. The alternative is to hand the people currently losing the argument a reason to arrest the people making it.