Starker on 22/2/2024 at 04:59
This is something that happened in Birmingham a year ago. Any particular reason why you are worried about it a year later?
RippedPhreak on 22/2/2024 at 12:14
Jut saw it on Twitter. So Birmingham is probably even worse now, a year later.
RippedPhreak on 22/2/2024 at 14:14
No, as I've stated before America is in a post-Imperial collapse. This is not news. What's new is that the UK looks to be collapsing as well.
Nicker on 22/2/2024 at 14:19
Yeah. We noticed, since you seem determined to turn every thread in Com Chat, even the most benign, into a soapbox for your crypto-Trumpian propaganda.
Really. Notice taken.
Starker on 22/2/2024 at 15:14
You remember when all this racist fearmongering over non-Anglo-Saxon immigrants came true last century and the US collapsed? Yeah, me neither. A country will not collapse just because a bunch of young people get rowdy, are arrested, and have to do community service or whatever.
demagogue on 22/2/2024 at 19:10
Is something wrong in Birmingham? Yeah, right wing nuts are cherry picking videos to blast the message that non-white folks aren't welcome because of a few non-white hooligans while conveniently ignoring videos that show bad behavior by white hooligans. That's what's wrong.
If you're really worried about the future of a country, the place to look is public education. Developing countries have poorer education systems because they're expensive, so I think it's reasonable to invest extra in public education particularly in minority and immigrant areas. But I think public education has been slipping across the board, especially among poor whites, and especially in civics and social studies. The state is failing both sides of that coin.
Then every couple of generations gets this fascist hysteria that minorities and immigrants are going to collapse society; the fear mongers go way overboard and commit massive human rights violations and set the country back by years of lost development, if not drag us into outright conflict; then when the smoke clears everybody understands how monumentally wrong they were from the beginning, as easily predicted, and we have start redeveloping our country from the pit of their fail years.
It happens over and over. Blaming immigrants is the first stage of fascist idiocy. We know the playbook. We've seen it so many times. It should be shut down right at the start.
Nicker on 22/2/2024 at 21:24
Yep. Generational Amnesia. The financial sector is also prone to the recurring fresh idea that massive amounts of money can be made with little effort and even less value created.
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Nicker on 24/2/2024 at 04:25
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