Is that gay as in homosexual or gay as in a bit weak ? I think the meaning of the word has changed. Just thought it prudent to note that all these nutters are white 20 somethings. In the good old days, they would just have been football hooligans.
What ever if is - I think it implies homosexual here - it underlines the non-seriousness of the "****posting" style messages. Of course the "fascist" one will be taken completely seriously by many. Maybe reading the bullet's message has turned some investigators gay. Some great reporting here https://www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-kirk-was-killed-by-a-meme
The family were gun nuts, if he had been radicalized anywhere else he wouldn't have had access to or the capability with weapons required to carry out this assassination. We have had a couple of assassinations with knives, but our society isn't an iota as violent as the US and political assassinations are far more regular. Gun culture is the number one cause of this, yet that will be buried.
Wow. Kash Patel is totally wired, such a disturbing appointment. The family have a decision to make, I suspect there will be pressure now to "evolve" the narrative, as they are so textbook gun lovin' hardcore right, that their son "was got at" while online by corrupting dark organized forces. Making him wholly a victim rather than an agent (that they would be if gay, black or trans). Externalizing the blame rather than examining internal contradictions within the MAGA movement, preserves the family's and broader community's ideological "coherence". Alex Jones - who disgustingly still wields influence - played with an idea prior to the Trump assassination attempt; that such a scenario would have an upside more enduring and important than the president himself, given his advanced age. He then screened a 'hit list' of Democrats and RINOs to be apprehended in a sweeping purge following his fantasized Trump assassination.
Had to go into central London for some filming stuff, and there’s a lot of flag adjacent folk, with many of them seeking to be very beer and cocaine adjacent too.
When you're seriously flagging some marching powder helps! Beeb saying 100,000 at the SYL organised "Unite the Kingdom" demo. Steve Bannon is there.
Never heard of Groypers before, but these online subcultures of angry young guys keep spiralling from edgy into more extreme views. The background of this kid feels eerily similar to the guy who shot up the mosques in New Zealand. Scary times in the US right now with the rhetoric ramping up every month. Honestly glad we’ve got a boring statesman PM during this Trump 2.0 era, things are tense enough as it is.
I hope the protesters have a lovely walk and go home feeling like they changed the world. And shut up for a bit.
According to the Met it's the flag shagging concerned citizens who are the stroppy ones. "Officers are having to intervene in multiple locations to stop Unite the Kingdom protesters trying to access sterile areas, breach police cordons or get to opposing groups," the Met said
Social media at first was a good concept, but it’s been hijacked to make money - and to make money is to force feed people with anything they search for. Suddenly you get a few like minded people connected via these algorithms and more than that, it poisons the minds of the impressionable.
It is even worse than that. Social media actually promotes divisive content. Not because evil people set it up but simply because the algorithms are designed to farm engagement and people engage more with anger than they do with kindness.
I deleted it all a good number of years ago, because it wasn’t good for my state of mind. Sadly I find the media are becoming more like the social media algorithms. Click bait headlines and impartial reporting to get more engagement.
That is very wise. I had to delete X as it is a genuine sewer and was making me question humanity. Even Reddit is becoming a constant clash of political opinions. I listened to Any Answers today and at first I was really enjoying the callers’ abilities to look at the middle ground. Some very sensible comments about Starmer for example, from Tory voters to boot! But then some guy who spends too long online started ranting about ‘Rachael from Accounts’ and had no interest in the actual topic. Which is what happens to the terminally online.
So my mother in law who is 76 was on the way to the Arsenal match, and unfortunately had to share a carriage with a lot of flag shaggers. At Kings Cross they were looking for fights. One lady pushed a black lady and said 'see what happens if you touch me'. She was surrounded by larger white males who looked like security guards. Nice. My mother in law was also called a liberal c**t as she sought solace with the 'opposition' as in not hate filled individuals. Just normal people trying to unite the country. I despair.
You get called a snob for it, but I have nothing in common with these arseholes and certainly don’t share much of my culture with them.
Strange kind of Christianity they have over there. Not much love-thy-neighbour or turn the other cheek going on in Alabama or Utah as far as I can tell
