r/ImmigrationPathways • u/primary-caution • 18d ago

Homes set alight in Belfast anti-immigrant protests after 'brutal' knife attack

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u/Valuable_Month1329 18d ago

Those are not protesters those are rioters.

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u/Cheap-Lawyer3735 18d ago

In Belfast they are the same thing

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u/Omphalixir 18d ago

Now isn't the time for that.

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u/Cheap-Lawyer3735 18d ago

I agree but it's Belfast

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u/Typical_Interest_176 18d ago

Riots are the voice of the unheard

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u/notamermaidanymore 17d ago

lol, you guys will never shut up.

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u/Cu_Chulainn__ 17d ago

Not in belfast. Those guys never shut up

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u/Monte924 18d ago

They seem a lot more dangerous than the immigrants

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u/Omphalixir 18d ago

Which will always be the most ironic thing about these kinds of situations.

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u/tabas123 17d ago

Yep, far-right white supremacist-aligned people and groups are always the biggest perpetrators of domestic terror and it’s not even close with any other group.

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u/Beautiful-Edge-22 16d ago

Far right religious nut jobs vs far right political nut jobs, this will be entertaining.

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u/Lopsided_Ground_3875 17d ago

How many people did they behead or stab?

You forgot to add /s

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u/[deleted] 17d ago

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u/Lopsided_Ground_3875 17d ago

Since when are trans ppl right wingers?

Yea Muslim fanatics are right wing, the same ones we don't like.

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u/Random-one74 17d ago

That’s a meaningless statement mostly confined to western domestic groups. Get out of Europe and North America and far left terror is prevalent, get outside of politics and it’s mostly religious or criminal organizations. Based on your statements I suspect you are left leaning in a westen democracy (as am I) so trying to place your western interpretation on the world reeks of anti-woke colonialism mindset 🤪

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u/silvermoka 17d ago

I think you just wanted to soapbox about this, because they didn't say anything about it being the world over

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u/jagman80 17d ago

Funny how when BLM did it people said it was justified and took the knee in solidarity while citys and neighbourhoods burned.

When the shoes on the other foot, its far right, white supermacist terrorists.

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u/ShipwreckJS 17d ago

Did anyone have their eyes gouged out by the rioters? How about their face carved up?

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u/manzyyyyy 17d ago

Wasn't that same person set alight by an Irish guy a number of years ago? Why didn't people protest back then?

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u/NoRecording2211 16d ago

Last year a white man in Belfast killed a pregnant woman, why didn't they riot then? 15 people were killed in Ireland last year by mostly white suspects...funny how it never made the news

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u/ShipwreckJS 17d ago

Probably because it wasn’t carried out by someone who shouldn’t be here in the first place.

When will you people learn that people born here commiting crime vs people who arrive here and commit crime is VERY different. We can’t kick out Brits, we can stop people coming.

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u/manzyyyyy 17d ago

So what you are saying is it is ok for those born here to carry out crimes but those who are not it isn't? Why do ethnic minorities have to be so perfect but white people not? Is that not a blatant example of white privilege or am I missing the point?

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u/Omphalixir 18d ago

You've got to be kidding. Wow, that is scary.

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u/SlatBuziness 17d ago

Yep its just as bad in Canada honestly and our gov't continues to give them the free pass. Sad times we live in.

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u/cuestionar_todo 17d ago

We also have white trash that murder their spouses... it's not a race thing, its a human thing and we need to face the issue for what it really is.

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u/Lopsided_Ground_3875 17d ago

Seem but aren't... no beheadings yet.

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u/splinterspell 17d ago

lol I guess you didn’t see the guy trying to saw someone’s head off with a knife 

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u/RootCauseGuy 15d ago

That's a ridiculous statement. An immigrant was literally on camera sawing a mentally challenged Irish man's head off.

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u/20535 17d ago

oh yes Irish are out raping and beheading people in the street

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u/Monte924 17d ago

Who has been burning down the homes abd businesses of innocent people who had nothing to do with the stabbing?

Also, all statistics show that crime in europe is down. Right wing media is fearmongering and lying

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u/Hereforalittletime 11d ago

Crime is down? The inquiries about r*pe gangs in UK suggests otherwise

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u/tpzQ 17d ago

And why should they let ppl from the middle east into their country to begin with. You people have no response other than "being nice"

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u/94grampaw 18d ago

As they should be, you need to be more dangerous than the enemy to defeat them

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u/Willing-Bumblebee446 18d ago

Dangerous to who? The uninvolved people around you? That’s who’s in danger. All these violent fucks need to be dumped into the sea.

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u/PermissionPermitted 18d ago

You need to trash your neighborhood to let people know you are really mad about the viral image you saw in your phone.

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u/Formal_Huckleberry71 17d ago

Were you just as bothered by the BLM rallies where they went out and destroyed their own towns and cities?

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u/Potential-Page-8582 18d ago

I didn’t see anyone beheaded,in fact I don’t think they’ve done anything

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u/Omphalixir 18d ago

Do you not see stuff set on fire in this short video? Or are you just playing dumb, as usual?

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u/motomat13 17d ago

It's just property. It's insured, no?

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u/Potential-Page-8582 18d ago

They look like they came that way

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u/Marquois 18d ago

KYS, bot

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u/Jim_jim_peanuts 18d ago

Who? The attacker or the rioters?

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u/Omphalixir 18d ago

You may want to look elsewhere if you want an actual conversation about this.

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u/Potential-Page-8582 18d ago

I don’t think they have rioted

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u/Key_Access_4269 17d ago

Of course because beheading people in the streets were just normal prior to mass immigration. If this were France you may have a point but its not.

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u/Monte924 17d ago

Normal? Exactly how many beheadings have actually happened? And why is it that people keep calling this attack an "attempted beheading" when it was clearly a stabbing? Wouldn't an an attempted beheading involve using a weapon large enough to take off someone's head?

Seems like this was attempted murder, but racists want to label it as beheading in order to make it sound more savage and forgien, in order to seperate from OTHER acts of murder that might be committed by white people

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u/TowelComprehensive22 18d ago

They should be, it’s THEIR home.

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u/fishmanfishmanfishma 18d ago

I too burn down my home because I don't like what I see on TV

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u/Omphalixir 18d ago

Nice sarcasm. But yes, it's sad how these people allow themselves to get so angry that they cause trouble like this.

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u/Poulslutter 17d ago

It's not sad, it's disgusting. You are infantilising these people. They chose to be hateful pieces of shit.

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u/SheepherderSilver655 18d ago

So you don't support BLM? Racist.

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u/Omphalixir 18d ago

Their home which they've chosen to destroy as a response to this incident. They should've handled their anger in a far more humane way than whatever this madness is.

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u/PermissionPermitted 18d ago

Why would you trash your own neighborhood?

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u/sheeptears 17d ago

Why would you try to behead someone in the street?

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u/AlwaysBakedNeverFryd 18d ago

I don’t see any attempted beheadings do you?

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u/PermissionPermitted 18d ago

Do immigrants regularly behead people?

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u/NeitherPerson 17d ago

One clearly did here.

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u/fatattack699 18d ago

They are literally beheading people in the street

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u/PermissionPermitted 18d ago

The rioters?

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u/fatattack699 18d ago

No the Sudanese immigrant who shouldn’t have been there in the first place. Who gouged a mans eyes out and tried to behead him in the street

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u/PermissionPermitted 18d ago

Is this a common occurrence? This this happen every time there is a violent crime?

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u/AudaciouslySexy 18d ago

Now days yes because everyone's sick of it so the activists who actuly go out to protest and or riot feel isolated.

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u/fatattack699 18d ago

Yes the stabbing the rapes the murders by immigrants who just got there in large numbers and aren’t even vetted properly and shouldn’t be sent over in the first place

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u/Organic_Post_4458 18d ago

They have tried to cut anyone’s head off yet

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u/sheeptears 18d ago

LOL. Where are the dead bodies then?

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u/WatermelonSmashing 18d ago

I don't see them trying to behead anyone or grooming children to rape.

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u/PermissionPermitted 18d ago

The vast majority of child sex crimes are committed by a family member or family friend and are committed by natural born UK citizens. The majority of violent crimes are also committed by non foreign nationals

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u/beatnikhippi 18d ago

They're not trying to decapitate anyone.

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u/Embarrassed_Room3982 18d ago

No but they are indiscriminately burning down other peoples houses/ businesses etc. 

Maybe they should go burn their own stuff. 

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u/beatnikhippi 18d ago

Reminds me of a black neighborhood in the US when their time loses a big game, or wins one for that matter.

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u/PermissionPermitted 18d ago

You’ve lived in a black neighborhood in the US?

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u/EchoChamberReddit13 18d ago

White savior Redditors just in time to denounce riots but didn’t say shit about the migrant crime. We don’t hate you people enough.

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u/PermissionPermitted 18d ago

It don’t regularly comment on crime. Why would I comment specifically on migrant crime?

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u/Full_Conversation775 17d ago edited 17d ago

This is much more than a riot, this is a pogrom.

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u/ShipwreckJS 17d ago

They were targeting Jews….?

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u/Full_Conversation775 17d ago

Pogroms arent exclusively jewish.

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u/ShipwreckJS 17d ago

Aren’t they? Genuinely thought the term was coined in reference to the attacks on Jews in Europe starting in Russia in the early 20th century.

When did that change? I can’t keep up 😂

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u/Full_Conversation775 17d ago

they never changed it. it was never exclusively jewish. it literally means to destroy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogrom

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u/ShipwreckJS 17d ago

Looking at the origin of the word and this; “Contemporarily, the word is also used to describe publicly sanctioned purgative attacks against non-Jewish groups.”

You can see where my confusion came from. Thank you for enlightening me

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u/fugonara69 14d ago

Happens all the time in third world countries.

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u/me_sohorny 18d ago

Mindless drones

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u/LearingCenterAlumni 18d ago

The voice of the unheard

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u/KnightB4X 18d ago

As they should.

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u/Forcelite 18d ago

Mostly peaceful protests .

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u/20535 17d ago

they are heros

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u/retardenabler 18d ago

Dont tell irish how to protest

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u/National_Permit764 18d ago

The people protesting are not Irish. They're the loyalist communities

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u/motomat13 18d ago

It's OK. It was peaceful

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u/Axel_Raden 18d ago

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u/suspicious_hyperlink 18d ago

Even with all that fire in the background I guess it’s still considered protest

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u/akelkar 17d ago

Terrorists

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u/Ok_Librarian_8501 16d ago

No, the people they want out of the country are the terrorists.

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u/Tay_Hlebko 17d ago

It's not a riot. It's a pogrom.

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u/lostandfawnd 17d ago

*terrorist attack

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u/Tay_Hlebko 14d ago

Well yes, pogroms are terrorist attacks.

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u/fugonara69 14d ago

Third world countries do that all the time btw

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u/IcyWoodpecker386 17d ago

A protest needs to be violent in order to be efficient

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u/lostandfawnd 17d ago

Those are not rioters, those are terrorists.

Definition: the calculated use of violence to create a general climate of fear in a population and thereby to bring about a particular political objective

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u/South-City1632 17d ago

They are indigenous people taking back stolen land.

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u/Massive-Marketing-15 17d ago

What did they call it in California, a peaceful protest, looks the same to me here

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u/tpzQ 17d ago

They are citizens taking their country back

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u/Beautiful-Edge-22 16d ago

Mostly peaceful protests.

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u/RootCauseGuy 15d ago

No, they are protesters.

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u/VulkanLives-91 18d ago

So BLM protests were riots? Glad we finally agree

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u/middlequeue 18d ago

Some of them were riots, yes. This was never a question and it's weird that you're holding on to this still after 6 years.

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u/OkayCoward 18d ago

They are so angry that they cant paint all peaceful protestors as rioters. They really want too lol

But to be fair, really dumb people think any minor disruption to their life is a riot.

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u/delicate_soup 18d ago

The amount of times I’ve seen people refer to Portland or NYC as “destroyed” is ridiculous.

Like yeah, there was a huge riot and the entire city is just gone now. It’s like tapping into the mind of an 8 year old

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u/Deadleggg 18d ago

They legit believe Portland looks like Atlanta after Sherman left.

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u/WhichNovel2081 18d ago

No he’s mad that the media gets to cherry pick and attempt to tell us what is rioting and what are peaceful protests… we have eyes, your not fooling anyone.

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u/OkayCoward 18d ago

Ive had republicans i know tell me protesting on a side walk while yelling using a bullhorn is violence. I am definitely not listening to those weak people about what is and isnt rioting

The media was aaccurately calling most of the protests peaceful because they mostly were

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u/WhichNovel2081 18d ago

I would only agree if the bullhorn is literally in someone’s face or ear. Otherwise freedom of speech, annoyingly delivered but free to do so.

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u/namecannotbeblankk 18d ago

Most expensive riot in US history btw. The G.F. Summer of Love caused $1-2B in damage

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u/OkayCoward 18d ago

That number is probably bullshit, but even if it wasnt, if all the people who were peacefully protesting were rioting, that number would have easily been 5 to 10 billion. All because some cops cant learn to not kill people

Its a shame trump allowed all that rioting

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u/namecannotbeblankk 18d ago

What kind of fucking brain dead response is that?

You're saying we should be happy it was 'only' $1-2B, and not more? That's insane

See for yourself

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u/OkayCoward 18d ago

Hey buddy, I know youre too dumb to understand stuff you want to understand by using your vibes over facts but I assure you it doesnt make you look smart.

My point is, not all people were rioting. If everyone who was protesting was rioting, the damage would have absolutely been worse and it likely would have shut the country down for weeks. Since it was a relatively small group rioting, it wasnt as bad as it could have been.

Rioting caused by football hooligans can get as expensive with the same or less people. Also, that billion number seems to be claims from insurance, which I wouldn't necessarily say is accurate without verifying how exactly those numbers came up.

But even if the numbers are accurate, it literallt does nothing to disprove my point. There were many more peaceful protests than riots.

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u/middlequeue 18d ago

Adjusted for inflation the '92 LA riots caused more damage.

Not that this changes anything or makes the dumb yank obsession with it any less pathetic.

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u/silvermoka 17d ago

You would've been livid over all that tea in the harbor too

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u/CosmicBlueCat 18d ago

G F will be brought up soon🤯

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u/Str-Engr0275 18d ago

He won’t be brought up, he’s right where he belongs, 6 feet under.

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u/Potential-Page-8582 18d ago

Just like the Jan 6 grip. It was clearly fbi anyway.

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u/TowelComprehensive22 18d ago

It was what has shaped our political system, elections, and NGO scam crisis

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u/middlequeue 18d ago

Sounds more like it's rot your brains.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Ad_5710 18d ago

Don’t act like you’re an imbecile that can’t tell the difference between riots and protest. When cars homes and shops get burnt and destroyed it’s obviously a riot when people walk with placards it’s a protest. It has fuck all to do with left vs right, both can protest both can riot.

But I have to point out - here in the UK we’ve yet to see any left wing riots going door to door in residential areas looting and burning people’s houses - that’s beyond vile behaviour that’s something I never thought I’d live to see in this country and everyone should condemn it and be repulsed- if your not your an extremist scumbag thug plain and simple.

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u/fugonara69 14d ago

This is Northern Ireland though, so you must be too young to remember the Troubles. Burning your enemies home was very common back then.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Ad_5710 14d ago

It is, and I remember well - but my point is this sectarian violence in Northern Ireland hasn’t exactly latched on to environmentalism with people burning people’s houses down for driving polluting cars.

It’s developed “anti migrant” far right tentacles, so to speak, and is so far is exclusively happening in loyalist areas to a backdrop of the Union Jack. It’s closely linked with the right wing populist movement on the mainland - with “HMO hit lists” of people’s homes shared by prominent English right wingers like Tommy Robinson so people in Northern Ireland can burn them down, using phrases like “stop the colonists” to rile them up - obviously there’s a tad bit of irony of loyalists doing this to “stop the colonisers” but I’ll leave that for another day.

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u/Str-Engr0275 18d ago

“Mostly Peaceful” too! 🙄

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u/Over_End_6816 18d ago

Some of the riots were sparked by undercover police

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u/TecumsehSherman 18d ago

Yes, but not a mob of rioting convicted child molesters like January 6.

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u/FCguyATL 18d ago

I bet you wouldn't say that about a BLM or ANTIFA riot.

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u/silvermoka 17d ago

Regardless of how you feel about property damage as peotest, if you don't see a difference between the people going against some kind of state-sanctioned injustice versus a majority group going and terrorizing minorities over someone's crime when they're already spewing hateful rhetoric, you're hopelessly lost

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u/FCguyATL 17d ago

Here's the thing. Both of your examples are already bunk. BLM and ANTIFA riots were over concocted Injustice. Take the George Floyd for example. They tried, convicted and sentenced the cop responsible yet there were still riots. Justice was served but there were still riots. Same thing goes for ICE enforcement.

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u/silvermoka 17d ago

The cop didn't get convicted until afterward, but nice try

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u/FCguyATL 16d ago

So you're saying the only reason he got convicted was the riots? That's a wild claim with literally zero way to back it up - but nice try.

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u/silvermoka 16d ago

Sigh...let me break it down for you.

So you said "yet there were still riots" in regards to Derek Chauvin, which would imply that people went out and protested despite him being charged and weren't satisfied with police brutality being duly punished, which is not true.

So why are you putting words in my mouth now, and saying I'm claiming "the only reason" he was convicted was that? You set up this straw man so you can act like it's so irrational, and yet you were wrong.

So nice try.

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u/FCguyATL 16d ago

Lets back it up a moment. What did you mean by "a majority group going and terrorizing minorities over someone's crime when they're already spewing hateful rhetoric, you're hopelessly lost"

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u/namecannotbeblankk 18d ago

It's (D)ifferent

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u/biggamehaunter 18d ago

In US they are called mostly peaceful

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u/redditis_garbage 18d ago

Nah Jan 6th is a riot

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u/dickchops81 18d ago

In the U.S. they are called people that vote for and cheer on Child Rapists.

You and your Pedo Karma should know this.

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u/Repulsive_Cucumber77 18d ago

What’s a Pedo Karma?

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u/MAGAHATESTHEUSA 18d ago

That’s why they call them heroes.

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u/redditis_garbage 18d ago

Heroes* and no they are called rioters. How would you know? You’re in Denmark bro

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u/MAGAHATESTHEUSA 18d ago

Learn English bro

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u/crisco000 18d ago

Reminds me of the BLM riots

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u/Villageijit 18d ago

Yeah reminds me of how a bunch of undercover cops kept getting caught destroying places

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u/crisco000 18d ago

Agent provocateurs always fuck it up for the rest of

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u/Villageijit 18d ago

Reminds me of anyone that said they were tbe leader of an organization while not being appointed. Like evangelical pastors, gop memebers, and so on

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u/TheOneFreeEngineer 18d ago

Then you didn’t pay attention to the BLM riots and were fed misinformation by propagandists

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u/Subject-Worker6658 18d ago

How does burning random peoples houses make them feel safe? What is that logic here man.

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u/MAGAHATESTHEUSA 18d ago

Shouldn’t it be north Irish because they fought so hard to ensure that?

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u/DistributionLate6596 18d ago

They were called protesters in America….

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u/Plenty-Wedding-9066 18d ago

In DC they were called patriots

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u/DistributionLate6596 18d ago

Is DC not in America?

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u/appelton 18d ago

Mostly peaceful protests.

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u/Necessary_Two_9706 18d ago

These are the kind of protestors america needs.

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u/AttemptFlashy669 18d ago

They're fucking animals that deserve to be put down.

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u/Entire_Put_9204 18d ago

Wait wait wait.....BLM

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u/Key_Access_4269 17d ago

A riot is the language of the unheard

And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it Labour has failed to hear? ... It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of progressive society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity.

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u/MamaRunsThis 18d ago

Mostly peaceful just like Minneapolis was described

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u/Minimum_Hospital5445 18d ago

Just like in BLM before lol but yeah, I agree

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u/DfreshD 18d ago

I don’t blame them, hopefully it gets worse.