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It is convenient to label ones opponents racists.

Antifa did exist in the 1930s as the militant wing of the German Communist Party [1] and whilst working in London in 2012 I saw many organised protests of theirs for different causes than in the prognosis.

If the organisation existed today given the majority have been mobilised through steadfast polarisations, a multitude of grievances and not as cover for potential infiltrators, why would they admit it? It is much more convenient to remain nebulous.

The link adds credence that this is more an insurrection rather than "proud mothers" who it seems were organised to act as shieldbearers to protect the bombers of Americas federal buildings [2] and not their children to whom they hold a duty. You can see this mass organisation by self-identified antifa-associated accounts #PortlandMoms and scroll down.

The parent site itself, is that one of the splinters of the forum that reddit banned?

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/trumps-antifa-accusations-spark-debate...

[2] https://twitter.com/Brittany3l/status/1288012821666693122?s=...


Only 7% of crimes are solved by our police [1]. London is the knife crime capital of the world.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53443246


> Only 7% of crimes are solved by our police

Meaningless without comparison to other countries.

> London is the knife crime capital of the world.

Doubt it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_murder_rate


Whyever would we compare it to other countries? We compare it to the past.

The statistics were compiled from 2015 and in just the few years since then solved crimes have halved: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49029545.

If you and I were to travel back in time to the high trust society before mass surveilance & enquired our police wouldn't deny they held the the monopoly on violence. My friends in the forces of today tell me they feel under siege most days.

Apologies, "London is the knife crime capital of the world." is part of the venacular here akin to "The man who broke the Bank of England".


Good points.


While you may be right, knife crime is not murder. Knife attacks are less deadly than firearms and we dont see breakdown there.


Well that's certainly one take. Charles had a bit of a complex sure but you have to understand the context of the time in that Cromwells foreign co-conspirators were demanding nothing less than his head.

The precondition of the English civil war in my opinion was more the funds that facilitated it promised by financiers from Amsterdam who ultimately went on to be granted charter to found the BoE.

As you know the result of this civil war was to wreck the fine castles, history and heritage of the English. Destroy many a dynasty and teach the Irish to hate the Brits for all eternity.

Issac D'Israeli produced a worthwhile read on Charles [1] if you'd like to know more on his character and quarry.

[1] https://archive.org/details/commentariesonli03disruoft/page/...


The democracy of Britain was foisted upon us by D'Israeli following his deposition of Robert Peel.

The teeth was taken from all monarchies, or BDFLs, after Bolsheviks were sent from Germany to murder Tsar Nicholas and his family in an act that ultimately condemned 66m Russians.

In my opinion if you want a stable democracy you enfranchise those who would look to a future beyond their own. e.g. one vote per family. If you franchise those who live for today with not a stake in the future democracy becomes not a viable form of governance.


Benjamin Disraeli threw Peel off his horse? Who knew? And let me say that your orthography leads me to wonder what axes you have to grind.


No particular axe. I would just rather survive the Great Filter. Wouldn't you?


Well Microsoft did supply the facial recognition tech to keep order in these camps. [1]

They seem totalitarian enough to suck up all that telemetry, what makes us think they wouldn't be totalitarian enough to sanction its use against us?

So you know the BBC has spent the last two months race baiting. They were once a most treasured institution of my nation now they've lost respect and their future is in jeopardy - you only have to view the hash #DefundTheBBC to see how they're actions have sullied them.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-china-muslim-crack...


Would you say the same if jack went on a banning spree against those that carelessly roll out the buzzwords racist, fascist & islamophobe?

When these are used without justification and against entire groups I consider it a much worse offence than being firm vs those who should know better.


There were 300,000 children stolen by the Catholic church in just Spain alone and sold for adoption.

My favourite conspiracy theory is the Out Of Africa conspiracy theory.

The Petrolonas Cave findings of Thessaloniki debunked it and suggest the Europeans diverged from Africa probably upto a million years ago. Cambridge University verified the findings and they're the most woke campus in town so it must be true.


I have no idea how these organisations can’t see that their actions turn off vast swathes of those who regard what’s happening in the west as a weaponisation of race in the furtherance of destabilising our (flawed but still the best) civilisations & by doing so, lose the trust of these folk forever.

It saddens me that we collectively rolled over & allowed our software to be politicised, by flagging or cancelling those that see through the narrative & dissented.


I believe this too.

In fact, I think the evidence is not only overwhelming but the tech community is thoroughly comprimised, proven so on account of all the recent purges and attacks on wrong-think.

I no longer trust my software.


I don't know why I get downvoted for this when I wrote it based on the reality of the situation.

I guess some people just feel guilty/ashamed!


Sorry but Islam has problematic requirements for its adherants that mean the Chinese are right. It should be regarded as a virus. It is a form of modern day slavery, and compels its followers to subjugate, convert or depose of the Kafir and terrorise their fellow Muslim to be compliant.

I'm sorry it hurts your feelings, but if we're cancelling links to slavery in Britain. It's time to stop being tolerant towards the intolerant and stop accepting this Abrahamic religion that hates us so if we're going to have any kind of future.

The religion has caused more destruction and genocide, misery and despair than most other ideologies except communism and modern leftism. If you don't support China, you are missing the grass for the trees. They are well within their rights to remove such a malignent, subsistant and coersive demos.

If you doubt me, read the history of Islam, and learn about the lot of those they will subjegate eventually after theyve slowly improved their demographic whilst the rest of us are trying to earn a living.

I don't have a problem with Muslims, but I hate Islam. Hardly any mixing has occured in 60 years between them and non-muslims on my Isles, they have honor killed many that have attempted it and as an aethiest it is not acceptable how they treat apostates.

If you are going to bring your American Identity Politics to my Isles (where we are not equipped to deal with them) in order to cancel my countries links to slavery, it is time to cancel the modern day slavery that this man made religion represents.

Consider it justice for the over 30,000 of our girls that were raped, injected with heroin and cast aside.


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