• Sam [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    10 hours ago

    Reposting my context post from the news mega:

    Important to note that it is marching season here in the Original British Colony, these riots occur pretty much the exact time every year for pretty much any reason. Like everything that occurs around the 12th, its all part of the fear and intimidation tactics that “prominent members of the community” use to try and keep the dying spirit of big U Unionism alive. Unsurprisingly this settler culture, highly trained in the arts of being racist to the almost identical white people who live the next street over, have taken to the recent surge in far right anti-immigration sentiment extremely well.

    As the inevitability of reunification looms closer it puts me strongly in mind of Gladio stay-behinds. Small u Unionists will surely integrate much like the protestant anglo-irish who stayed after partition did in the Republic, but these Prominent Members of The Community who run loyalist paramilitaries while enjoying the protection of the PSNI will be an easy in for controlling forces for decades to come.

    The thing that really surprises me about this is its getting any coverage on the outside. Usually this stuff doesn’t even reach British news due to most of them not actually remembering NI exists. It goes to show how much stronger Reform has gotten.

    • fiat_lux@lemmy.zip
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      2 hours ago

      I check on Gab sometimes to keep tabs on what the most literal kind of Nazis are up to, and right now it’s all Belfast and Karmelo Anthony content (to ensure they also vilify non-white people who can’t be conveniently labelled as “migrants”).

      They’re trying to use it as a flashpoint for similar violence in the US, with white people finally “fighting back” the “invading hordes” that Europe/UK has supposedly been overwhelmed by.

      This isn’t just Reform. This is backed by the same rich fascists who have been working on a global scale for some time; some of whom you’ll find in the Epstein Files, like Steve Bannon.

  • andresil@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    13 hours ago

    This is literally par for the course for unionists, they do shit like this every 12th of July (11th night). Tiocfaidh ár lá mo chara!