I think you’ll like the video in this tweet @Arthur. Joe is encouraging everybody to fly the tricolour and the Union Jack this weekend. “We need to be one nation.”
Good thread
The “Hamster wheel of outrage” is a term I use to describe how the right wing works tirelessly to keep their audience upset and angry at The Other. Yesterday Harris wasn’t Black. Today a woman fighter is a man. Tomorrow will be something else to get upset over.
Before QAnon even existed there was this automated page on Facebook with some generic right wing name like “Patriot News” and it would post the same 50 or so articles with slightly different headlines every 4 hours and get so many ragebait clicks. It was low effort and effective.
I had to see the same story about Sikh’s being being called Muslims and “Muslims getting special treatment in our military. DO YOU ACCEPT THIS?!” As a headline. Once in a blue moon there would be an article celebrating a conservative but it was 95% ragebait.
This is all the Right does now, find something to get people upset over and freak out over it for 24-72 hours and then onto the next outage. The audience must be kept in a constant state of anger. The world is falling apart because The Bad People are doing Bad Things.
Remember the 9/11 Mosque? How the Muslims were celebrating their victory? I bet you don’t but it was a huge ordeal for a week. This is their lives. Just constantly being upset about whatever new outrage has been cooked up for them.
And if the mainstream right doesn’t have enough outrage for you then QAnon will get you freaked out. People spent forever swept up baking the latest QDrops to figure out the latest moves in the war between the Patriots and the Deep State.
Q claimed Obama shot up an American flag. Q claimed the Deep State tried to shoot down Air Force One. If reality didn’t upset you, you could always turn to fantasy to find something to be outraged about.
There’s a reason we get a daily “Michelle Obama is a man” Tweet from QAnon promoters. Transphobia and hatred of Trans people is a easy way to anger these people. That’s why this Olympics story has Elon and Trump jumping in. Everyone’s outraged so everyone’s happy.
A week after these Olympics are over nobody will remember Imane Khelif’s name. By then the DNC will have upset these people cause somebody will have said something mean about Trump and they’ll all be freaking out over that. The Outrage must endure. The hamster must keep running.
You’re such a delicate boy
In the hysterical realm
Of an emotional landslide
In physical terms🎵
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Sunderland is on fire tonight
Farage, Oakeshott, Yaxley-Lennon, they’re all the same, and they all whipped this shit up.
The bigots who burned Coolock plead fealty to the UVF and their ilk.
https://twitter.com/soundmigration/status/1819698889718419705
Fucking foddeners got all the normal sizes for free and sent them home to their families
Or else they got in a bus and left them at the bus stop knowing they’d be a fresh pair waiting for them when they got off
https://twitter.com/robinthemint/status/1819838615733547371?s=46
There shouldn’t be any laws for these far right head bangers to are trying to break down society. Fuck into jail and lock away the key.
These bastards are hated in Liverpool and thus they hate Liverpool. They hate education, which is why they burn down a library.
What has been going on in Britain over the last week is Kristallnacht stuff.
Currently what’s happening in Rotherham is a fascist mob has surrounded a former Holiday Inn supposedly housing asylum seekers, and it seems they have now successfully broken into it and set it on fire.
https://twitter.com/AntiRacismDay/status/1820085750110519486
It’s surely good news for here though as it will associate our own crowd more with Brit hooligans and push normal people further away from those type of cunts
How is it good news? These fascist bastards are persecuting the most vulnerable people in society and they’re getting away with it. Police and media and politicians are petrified and are folding. Media and politicians - even the ones who aren’t openly fascist - are continually making excuses for these bastards. This shit won’t just go away, it will get worse.
Good news for Ireland. Will make it much less acceptable to go on those type of protests or marches here for the vast majority of normal people as now they will be associated with British thugs. Kind of similar to how Irish soccer fans abroad never cause trouble. It’s silly but it’s true I think
You are so naive.
Rumours that an 80 year old woman was stabbed to death by an immigrant overnight somewhere down the country won’t help assuage the current situation I fear
Exhibit #4629434
“A pro-British march.”
FFS sake.
https://twitter.com/broseph_stalin/status/1820151143672221702
This is good for the soul
https://twitter.com/irishrebel1965/status/1820461896606113840?s=46&t=YOfhVM10W0bcyIiYSLI3Wg