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Daniel Dunne's avatar

Musk and Tommy Robinson would like everywhere to be like Northern Ireland. Decent people must stand together. No one should be made feel unsafe in their home. No one.

Pat's avatar

Lock them up. Both.

Susan Blackwell's avatar

Your commentary makes me sad for the repetitive hate-filled actions accruing in Belfast and across the US. Good and moral individuals must unite to fight the injustice and violence against those whose origins are elsewhere. Otherwise what kind of world exists for our children?

Maa's avatar

You're insught and writing are exceptional.

Maa's avatar

My fingers are fat and I hate auto correct.

Your insight and writing are exceptional.

Re:Traction's avatar

Horrific events, but your prose is a joy to read.

Jim Pollock's avatar

Well written. The echoes of history now with Musk and Robinson instead of Goebbels and other fascist fanners of flames.

Henri Mellett's avatar

Great writing, Dante of the emerald Isle, we should be listening to your marvellous metrical mirages of the paradisio, not sighing captivated by vividly brandished tragic language through the same old, tired, worn out and tediously stereotyped theme of the virulent ghosts of demented empire in the flaming saddle of agonised human fallibility, so sad...

Dave Davis's avatar

Pass legislation to make social media publishers. Make the companies responsible for the content they disseminate.

The companies will throw hundreds of millions if not billions of $/£/€

at lawyers and lobbiests to prevent it.

Doesn't matter. It's our society, our future is our choice if we want it.

Abhcán's avatar

Far right thugs and their backers want more pogroms.

"A network of Russian far-right extremists steeped in neo-Nazi antisemitism – created under the umbrella of a sanctioned oligarch close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, and now openly promoted by Tommy Robinson – has been driving ‘White Lives Matter’ propaganda over the murder of 18-year-old student Henry Nowak, Byline Times can reveal."

https://bylinetimes.substack.com/p/revealed-the-russian-neo-nazi-network

Deirdre Mooney's avatar

A very insightful and descriptive piece

Shocking how quickly social media string-pullers can incite such violence

It shows that it’s bubbling inside these people all the time - just needing a little push to release it fully.

Becky's avatar

We live in a violent ecosystem with earthquakes, tsunamis, cyclones, tornados, forest fires, floods, landslides, erupting volcanos….and the perfect storm of human grievances. The universe owns us and will do what it wills. It invented the atom bomb using human ingenuity. Humans created by the universe.