Police warn of more riots today as far-right violence erupts across UK - live
www.independent.co.uk
Families forced to flee as far-right riots rocked Liverpool, Bristol, Manchester, Hull, Belfast, Stoke and more

Full on roaming EDL gangs. Pretty insane stuff. This article doesn't do it justice. Most of the footage I've seen has been on Instagram.

The craziest part is they started in response to a misogynist terror attack in Southport. The suspect of the terror attack was Welsh born, with parents from Rwanda, and is most likely Christian. So naturally they started lynching Muslims.

EDIT: This next part is dubious.

Apparently before it all kicked off there was a russian clickfarm that posted a fake article calling the suspect 'Ali Muhammad' or some sort of very stereotypical islamic name, before all the real information had come out.

I mean, not that you can really blame it all on that. It was just a fuse waiting to be lit.

More accurately investigated here: https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024-08-02/did-russian-disinformation-fuel-the-southport-protests/

    • footfaults [none/use name]
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      1 month ago

      Hexbear celebrated brexit, because according to them back then, it was a leftist victory made by the bleeding-heart brits out of solidarity towards greece

      This is revisionist. First off, Hexbear didn't exist when the whole Brexit debate was happening.

      I don't really even remember any threads on Hexbear about Brexit. Mostly because we don't have a large contingent of UK users and Hexbear is mostly US focused (for better or worse).

      Thirdly, I think many people who were aware of Brexit were at the very least, not enthusiastic about voting to stay in a undemocratic and neo liberal institution like the EU. Amber did an episode that had a lot of nuance that I'd have to re-listen to but I remember that it was mostly ambivalent. Not voting to leave, but not really enthusiastic about voting to stay.

      • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 month ago

        There were quite some people on reddit back then who did celebrated brexit as left wing triumph. I remember some struggle sessions.
        I guess it seems it didn't changed much in the retrospection, fash would be empowered either way and both EU and UK would still jump headfirst into USA made vassalisation crisis regardless if UK was still in EU.

    • SuperNovaCouchGuy2 [any]
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      1 month ago

      Now the UK who has so eagerly thought itself above fascism, a "cultural condition of the european continent"

      very rich coming from the UK after they brutally murdered millions of people in their colonial genocides and contributed a good chunk of the world's current immiseration