Far-right response to Southport Outrage And Ongoing Violent Disorder

[savoloysam]

Like...imagining reacting to the deaths of three little girls by treating it like an excuse for a jolly outing and an opportunity to get tanked. Those girls' families will never see their daughters grow up. Their friends will be sitting next to empty spaces. One of them was six years old.

The people in the area must be going through hell and now they've got gangs of drunk coked-up thugs looking for a fight and attacking people who've got nothing to do with it.

Exactly the point I was going to make. Very sad

 

[Plumdaff]

I'd be curious to know where the mobilistation came from.

Some of it EDL, some of it social media. One of the racists lunkheads doing a live video said he was from Wigan and he filmed people who'd driven in to take part who mostly sounded Manc to my non NW ear.

 

[Agrippa57]

Pls could you edit the title to include the date

Of course. Sorry, only just logged on this morning. It's done. Thanks.

 

[Agrippa57]

Respect to this woman, who held up her sign while people were shouting in her face that she was a "stupid cunt"

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Total respect. A very real act of bravery.

 

[Dogsauce]

There has been, I believe, an ever-swelling undercurrent of fascism abroad in this country today. It's deeply worrying. I hate to beat this particular drum, but it wouldn't surprise me to find that it's being orchestrated in Tufton Street.

I predicted a while ago that once Labour were back in the far-right would start kicking off like in the rest of Europe. I think the reason we didn’t get this sooner was because we had a far-right racist government in power so it was less of a rallying point. Nobody could call them a woke liberal elite. Now they’ve got a target, and the dark money shit will be funnelled here for it. Expect wider more populist stuff like the fuel protests at some point once a suitable cause has been identified, and for the likes of Reform to start organising off the back of it.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Time to go find the people who were sharing false information about the murderer to try and create exactly the situation that has now happened.

 

[Silas Loom]

Time to go find the people who were sharing false information about the murderer to try and create exactly the situation that has now happened.

One of them is the MP for Clacton, so perhaps he can be tracked down.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Total respect. A very real act of bravery.

Particularly as these cowardly fascist filth are usually driven even further into rage by displays of courage and basic decency, because they are capable of neither and they hate themselves for it.

 

[Boo Radley75]

"We want our country back."

What exactly does this mean?

I was born and raised here, but it's not "my" country, it's just somewhere I was born and raised.

"Back" from where? Where has it gone?

Why are these people so gullible? At least they're using a 5 word slogan instead of the usual 3, that's progress, I suppose.

I did have look down the back of the sofa but it wasn't there. Did find 30p in loose change, enough to feed Lee Anderson, though.

 

[Silas Loom]

I did have look down the back of the sofa but it wasn't there. Did find 30p in loose change, enough to feed Lee Anderson, though.

Hush money from JD Vance?

 

[Callie]

It's a lose lose situation though with this lot. Whatever happens it's likely to play into their hands and rile them up even more.

TR cheering them on from the YouTube/x sidelines

Every time I heard sirens last night I thought it was kicking off locally. Probably only a matter of time.

 

[SpookyFrank]

This person has done their homework on where the disinformation about the Southport murderer came from. TLDR: a small handful of spambot accounts amplified by sock puppets and racist ghouls.



There's no argument for twitter being allowed to continue existing IMO.

 

[BigMoaner]

Yes some of them were probably rioting because they’ve had it pummelled into their brain by viral misinformation that the perp was really actually Muslim. Even if that was the case they are the dregs of a sewer.

 

[Silas Loom]

This person has done their homework on where the disinformation about the Southport murderer came from. TLDR: a small handful of spambot accounts amplified by sock puppets and racist ghouls.



There's no argument for twitter being allowed to continue existing IMO.

Totally agree about Xitter. It’s time for public bodies and brands to close their accounts and migrate to a higher-trust alternative, thereby bringing journalists and commentators with them.

 

[two sheds]

Which brands advertise on there? Might be worth an email to their PR departments asking whether this is the sort of thing they approve of.

 

[Silas Loom]

Which brands advertise on there? Might be worth an email to their PR departments asking whether this is the sort of thing they approve of.

Not many any more - too difficult to ensure that they are not featured alongside toxic content - but they almost all maintain accounts.

 

[polly]

There must be children who were there or who knew other children who were, or who went to school with the girls who were killed, and now they have this terrifying scene in their neighbourhood to deal with too. Absolute shame on their unwashed arses, fucking dregs.

 

[BigMoaner]

small conmfort that most are probably shitting themselves this morning about a 5am knock. good.

 

[kenny g]

This person has done their homework on where the disinformation about the Southport murderer came from. TLDR: a small handful of spambot accounts amplified by sock puppets and racist ghouls.



There's no argument for twitter being allowed to continue existing IMO.

Thanks for sharing the info posted on X. I can see a host of reasons for not supporting the state banning media platforms.

 

[BigMoaner]

Thanks for sharing the info posted on X. I can see a host of reasons for not supporting the state banning media platforms.

Same, got a feeling it will cesspit its way out of existence/relevance tho with musk at the helm.

 

[existentialist]

Hush money from JD Vance?

Payment for "services rendered"

 

[cupid_stunt]

Great to see the community coming out this morning to clean up the mess, and condemn the scum in street TV interviews.

 

[planetgeli]

This person has done their homework on where the disinformation about the Southport murderer came from. TLDR: a small handful of spambot accounts amplified by sock puppets and racist ghouls.



There's no argument for twitter being allowed to continue existing IMO.

Don't and won't read twitter so haven't read your post but I presume it makes a similar point to the Guardian, who named a platform called Channel 3 now as the one that spread disinformation regarding the suspect's name and ethnicity.
This article.

Misinformation about Southport attack suspect spreads on social media

Police address falsehoods including ‘incorrect’ name as far-right activists and conspiracy theorists share content

www.theguardian.com

One little bit in that piece which shows what we are up against, how far this dystopia is spreading, is the following.

I know Bannatyne is a cunt, but that's not the point. The point is he is, or was, part of the Establishment with his TV fame. He has over half a million followers on twitter. And he's joining in with the spread.

In a reflection of how that narrative was finding traction on this occasion beyond the usual followers of Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, the entrepreneur Duncan Bannatyne tweeted to his own 677,000 followers that “maybe he [Tommy Robinson] was right all along”.

The former BBC star later deleted the reference after being contacted by the Guardian, and a spokesperson said: “Duncan is very upset at the Southport attacks, which he has expressed on X.”

However, another Bannatyne tweet remained online in which he retweeted a claim by the Robinson ally Laurence Fox that police were suppressing details, and asked: “What information are they suppressing?”

Now that alone doesn't mean the end of the world but it's an illustration of what we are up against. The right hold the strings, own the platforms, and I can't see that changing.

Disinformation is now a powerful thing.

We can smash their brains in. But we can't bomb the internet.

 

[Pickman's model]

small conmfort that most are probably shitting themselves this morning about a 5am knock. good.

I'd expect a more pressing concern for many is their hangover or comedown

 

[Kaka Tim]

"supressing information" is a deliberate distortion - the suspect is only seventeen, so the police are not allowed to release his name.

 

[StoneRoad]

Lost for words to describe that far-right conspiraloonspuddery yesterday.

Certain social media platforms need to get their act together to prevent / remove deliberate mis-information. Musk, I'm looking at you.

 

[existentialist]

We can smash their brains in. But we can't bomb the internet.

Don't be so sure. From some of those videos from Southport, you'd have to have extremely good aim to even FIND a brain amongst them.

Which is not in any way to underestimate the harm they can cause. But these are the "foot soldiers" - it's the enablers, eminences grises, and cheerleaders who are the root of the problem. I think it's time to stop cutting the likes of Yaxley-Lennon anywhere near as much slack as we seem to be doing at the moment.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Which brands advertise on there? Might be worth an email to their PR departments asking whether this is the sort of thing they approve of.

The adverts are all sub-prime shit. Crypto scams, AI scams. I suspect Musk is running the whole thing at a loss at this point. Then again he's clearly saving a lot of money on moderators.

 

[ddraig]

One thing I'm looking out for is the total promise and reassurance that they will be arrested and face "the full force of the law" like those who rioted in Bristol, got their pictures in the press and given long sentences

nothing even pointing at that in this so far!

Southport stabbings latest: Rioting thugs have disrespected victims' families, says Southport MP

Thirty-nine police officers were injured in Southport on Tuesday night and a vehicle set on fire.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[SpookyFrank]

"supressing information" is a deliberate distortion - the suspect is only seventeen, so the police are not allowed to release his name.

That's what Galloway is going with, blaming everything on the police for not releasing the information. As if the religion or ethnicity of a suspect is a standard piece of information which the public needs to know.