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Ben Coates
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It’s easier for people like Musk and Robinson to stir up trouble in the UK because there’s no language barrier - but there’s little stopping them also doing the same in certain other countries. No shortage of angry guys who after four beers and a line could be persuaded to torch an asylum centre
I see that the Southampton rioters are once again proving to be the kind of decent, law-abiding, women-defending, pleasant stout yeomen of the shire we should be paying attention to.
It's just remarkable that if you're white, male, and conservative you are allowed to call for political violence that would get anyone who doesn't tick all those boxes absolutely pilloried.
The group with the fewest legitimate grievances in society provided the widest grace to rage.
Wild.
Jo Kibble (Political Animal)
Ben Coates
X owner Elon Musk has reposted his Sept 2025 call that pre-emptive inter-ethnic violence (civil war) is necessary for 'self-defence
"Elon Musk was always right
"You either fight back, or you die."
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)
Dmitry Grozoubinski
I still regularly meet educated, worldly people who think Elon Musk is a kind of eccentric Thatcherite who gets carried away occasionally.
For the record: he is now a full on “we need a race war now” white nationalist. The kind of unhinged hatemonger who gets other people’s kids killed
Yes, he is unfortunately a full on “my day was ruined because I saw a disgusting woman in a headscarf” guy
there’s something Black Mirror-level grotesque about a leader using X to release a statement condemning pogroms which were encouraged, planned, promoted by X and its
owner. It’s like condemning gun violence while enjoying the free snacks at a gun show
Starmer is obviously incapable of being direct, but if he’s got any sense Andy Burnham will be. It’s not hard:
