Far right riots in the UK

I say riots. These bear some of the hallmarks of pogroms.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/0804/1463392-uk/

It started with the knife attack last week and idiots who erroneously blamed Muslims. "Protests" were organised and now where have been mosques, libraries shops and other businesses burnt down with fascist gangs roaming the streets seeking out non-white people to beat up. The police are unable to contain things.

Of course, the political and media classes are casting around aimlessly looking for the cause of this, as if they hadn't spent years whipping up xenophobic sentiment.

It's redolent of this. And the same Irish far right are disgracing themselves yet again by getting involved too.

And yet there are still cunts who maintain it's wrong to punch a Nazi.

These fuckers need reminding we did far worse than punch them back between 1939-1945.

And that not a single one of the braindead brownshirts out wrecking a Greggs qualifies for Operation Paperclip.

Scum, pure and simple - need locking up.

Masked rioters launched lengths of wood and sprayed fire extinguishers at police officers outside the hotel in South Yorkshire.

I’m guessing it is just an Irish English way of saying ‘threw’ but what I pictured when I read ‘launched’ lengths of wood:

As to the topic from what I’ve read most of those arrested are from outside the area. Fuck them. I’m gonna guess in the UK throwing the book at them just means a stern lecture and extracting promises to behave but if they can be locked away for a good long time they should.

They recently sentenced a group of environmental protestors to 4 and 5 years in prison for planning disruptive protest. It will be interesting where this lands compared with that.

I’d like to see them line rioters against the wall and shoot them - probably save the state a fortune in dole money.
Our weak government will probably just slap their wrists.

If the Nazis are rioting then it is perfectly fine to punch them and you should use something much more painful and larger to hit them with.

No one says you can't punch a Nazi ever. You just have to wait until the proper time, or be willing to go to jail for your fun.

Isn’t prison overcrowding one of the issues that got the Tories chucked out like week old chips?

This is what The Telegraph is going with as the fash storm a hotel housing asylum seekers. And it's by no means unrepresentative of the media.

Holy shit, y’all are just now getting spice? That shit was HUGE in the community 15 years ago. Weed you couldn’t get tested for.

It was harsh and dangerous but it got the job done.

"Anti-fascists confront protestors" was another good one.

If only we knew what the opposite of anti-fascists was.

spice was OK, but some of the other synthetics were holy shit out there. I do miss the experimentation, but it probably wasn't all that good for the brain.

The effects of spice is nothing like weed

I totally missed this stuff...

probably jsut as well. Shatter dabs nearly did me in.

Its far more hallucinogenic people go into their own little world for like 15mins, im not a fan.

ugh... so like a synthetic salvia? uke:

However, I'm loving the fuck out of "moon rocket" prerolls.

Yeah thats a pretty close comparison tbf, ive not done it, i stopped trying new dugs in my mid/late 20s, im nearly 41. But my pal who i did tons and tons of trying with said that was a good similarity. I was there when he did it and from an outside perspective is after the insane staring and giggling stopped the best description would be "The lights where on but no one was home".

Not sure what y’all are calling spice then. This is what I’m talking about which was big in the late 2000s/early 2010s here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_cannabinoids

It's the same stuff, but we're beginning to realise a lot of issues - also vaping can cause dosage issues:

https://www.aru.ac.uk/news/zombie-drug-is-now-being-found-in-some-vape-liquid

Vapes (particularly flavoured) are also highly appealing to kids and easy for them to get muddled over what they're using:

It’s been almost 15 years since I last did it and they kept changing the formula in order to get around bannings but the spice back then was as I said just like a harsher more chemically weed. Now maybe at higher doses it is different. I’ve never been a ‘smoke yourself retarded’ guy.

I guess I am just shocked it is still around but then again y’all haven’t legalized weed so you can’t just pop into a dispensary and buy a vape cartridge of tested, certified, real deal weed for $12.

It may differ from region and brand as it really is not terribly regulated and there seems to be no real standards to it. There are some that I have smoked that have had similarities to some strains of weed. There is certainly a difference in a lot of them. I would not say nothing like, but then again I probably have not had the same chemical as you have.

It was supposedly a synthetic canniboid sprayed onto some smokable base. A place I knew had a large display of multiple different "flavors" which seemed to have slightly different experiences.

Then there was the others. The spice was a bit tame compared to some of the alternates I tried. There was something called Bizzaro and Neutronium that wass holy fucking shit when you smoked it. From what the guy in the shop said, crackheads were preferring some of those chemicals to crack.

It was a long time ago, and weed chased that shit away when it became much more available and semi legal. I remember smoking one of the blends and feeling like someone just took the top my head off and my brain was exploding into space. When you can feel your brain, that is probably not a good thing. I had a few guys I knew who were serious psychonauts who freaked out on the shit due to the intense sensations.

How about we declare open season on ANYONE who gives themselves special permission to wreck shit and hurt people? No?

Right. That's why the whole "punch nazis" meme rings hollow: blatant fucking hypocrisy.

Socially I'm probably more right wing than average, but even I agree "punch a Nazi" is a good policy.

current taste treat. "Pink Gas" $90cdn/oz

If we are giving out special permission to beat the fuck out of someone who wrecks shit and hurts people I call dibs on @Uncle Albert . Just have kamala let me know when to purge him and I will fix his problems good.

I make something called a weed shot. I take a little bit of oil, and fry the fuck out of some ground up bud for a few minutes. I let the pan cool slightly and then hit it with tomato sauce until it comes to a boil for a good minute or two. It should happen real fast, beware the splatter. I am using a smallish cup, maybe half a mug of coffee size. Then while it is hot I throw in some sharp shredded cheddar and top it with some grated parm and romano cheese.

The cheese cools it right down to a warm fuzzy weed, cheese, and tomato shot. I go a little bit low on the weed and smoke to the proper altitude. You do not need to use a lot, but it makes a great 2-3 hour base with a couple of puffs for a boost when the right song comes on.

The spice must flow.

Which would probably put you on the center-left in the U S