Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "Patrick Boyle" channel.

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  11.  @ljragsandfeathers  : It’s forgivable for thinking that, especially if you watch a lot of YouTube and follow what its algorithm shoves in front of you. But the evidence is that people are more interested in fixing the world’s problems than you may think. On the news, yesterday, I watched hundreds of thousands of people in Britain, from a wide range of backgrounds, march together for peace in Palestine, calling for a ceasefire. They did so, despite countless lies being told about them in the media and direct threats from the far right. They did so, despite the egregious mischaracterisation of their intentions, route and motives by Britain’s actual HOME SECRETARY, who actually INCITED VIOLENCE through dog whistles and downright lies! These were brave, motivated and young people, for the most part, who knew they were taking a risk with their own futures, as well as the possibility of direct violence on the day, merely by showing up and calling for peace! They do not fit your description. Ironically, there were several acts of violence committed on that day, but none of them occurred on the peace march. They actually happened a mile and a half away, around the cordoned off Cenotaph. And they were ALL committed by far right extremists, answering Suella Braverman’s dog whistles. They broke the police lines, knocked the cameras out of news teams hands, issued death threats and several were arrested for actual acts of violence. All whilst being too thick to realise that their target was a mile and a half away, because they believed the Home Secretary’s deliberate lie and thought they would all be at the Cenotaph. What we can learn from this is that people on both sides are highly active and motivated. And that the far right nut jobs are vastly outnumbered, as well as fail to grasp any form of reality, which is helpful to the reasonable human. The web is a distorted, fun house mirror, which only shows you what you feed it. “We see, as through a glass, darkly.”
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