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Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by Richard Hakluyt - Today at 03:24:38 AM

The no-go zones in my city are a couple of tiny areas that are 100% white. Essentially the council puts all its most problematic families in the same couple of sink estates. These are the sort of areas which taxis do not go to and where a visiting ambulance of fire engine is stoned. It is like fractional distillation but with people. One of my walks takes me through the main Muslim area of the town, about half Muslim I would say, slightly less if anything, it is perfectly safe and even has quite nice vibes for what is a poor area.

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Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by Josquius - Today at 02:55:11 AM

The American right used to go on and on about "no-go" zone in Britain.  I thought it was complete bullshit, but this year football fans from a certain country were told not to show up in a certain city because it wouldn't be safe.  So I guess there are no-go zones now?

Also, this Egyptian guy, was he the same lot that got gunned down while people on Languish cheered 10-15 years ago?

This happens quite often in European competitions.
E.g.
https://www.tntsports.co.uk/football/uefa-europa-conference-league/2023-2024/legia-warsaw-fans-banned-for-five-away-matches-after-trouble-at-aston-villa-in-uefa-europa-conferenc_sto9919453/story.shtml

There's far more "no go zones" in the US than the UK.

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Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by Valmy - December 29, 2025, 10:27:29 PM

Sometimes I wish I did not understand the English language at all so I didn't have to be aware of the goings on over there.

Damn. Me too man. Me too.

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Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by Legbiter - December 29, 2025, 10:06:38 PM

I want to be the UK ecumenical patriarch.

I laughed for a good, solid, minute at your post. Just scrolling by now brings a chuckle.  

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Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by Razgovory - December 29, 2025, 09:04:43 PM

The American right used to go on and on about "no-go" zone in Britain.  I thought it was complete bullshit, but this year football fans from a certain country were told not to show up in a certain city because it wouldn't be safe.  So I guess there are no-go zones now?

Also, this Egyptian guy, was he the same lot that got gunned down while people on Languish cheered 10-15 years ago? 

#6

Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by Legbiter - December 29, 2025, 07:49:07 PM

Just to note these influential online americhuds that use "Europe" as a punching bag for demographic displacement and economic malaise seem to mostly live off of relentlessly scamming their followers with supplements with various meme-y names like "Tiger Blood", etc... Also "Europe" seems currently a handy scapegoat as the US sinks further into internal navel-gazing. Sometimes I wish I did not understand the English language at all so I didn't have to be aware of the goings on over there.

I'd pay for a reality tv show where these ultras were transported to upper NY state and told to invigorate the place.

#7

Gaming HQ / Re: What are you playing? (Red...

Last post by Jacob - December 29, 2025, 07:26:56 PM

The funny thing is that the Skyrim numbers is almost all "tweaking the mod-list, checking the build, updating MCM settings" rather than actually playing.

#8

Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by Josquius - December 29, 2025, 07:01:01 PM

The two tier policing thing always particularly bemuses me.
As far as they is two tier system, and data suggests there does seem to be in places, the courts too... This is very much of the opposite form to those pushing this idea imply.
White people tend to come odd for the better of the disparities.

"communal tensions" - yeah, racial tension exists in some towns.
But as shown in for instance the riots in Sunderland the other year a more common problem is tensions with a very different community to the usually imagined "Brown people".
It's very obvious what sort of communities tend to be targeted by the flag nonsense. This is for a reason.

#9

Computer Affairs / Re: Alternative search engines

Last post by Josquius - December 29, 2025, 06:54:23 PM

Yes, I'd also like something else.
I've tried Ecosia and duck duck go but always end up back at Google as their results are just usually very poor - and often scam sites posing as the real thing.

#10

Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by Sheilbh - December 29, 2025, 06:32:55 PM

The kind of communal tensions Twitter dreamed into being sinply don't seem to exist, af least not yet but if the fascists push for them hard enough they might come.

Maybe. In general I've said before that I find it weird how the UK is sort of the imagined failed state of multiple strands of politics (especiallin the US). Simultaneously the whole "Yookay" thing and "rainy fascist island". It's strange.

On the communal thing I think there are issues around that but it depends where you are. I think there are communal tensions in parts of the West Midlands and North-West towns. Broad brush - but often ex mill towns of one type or another, often areas that had the race riots in the 2000s and were the BNP did well - but also, on the other side, where in other areas of the same city/town the Gaza Independents have won seats or done very well (in many ways, look at seats where George Galloway has stood and there's a reasonable chance you'll find communal tensions). I think Birmingham is an area where I think there's something going on or where something could happen. The Gaza Independent campaign to unseat Jess Philiphs was very nasty and very sectarian - that's also the same seat where you had the protests against LGBT+ content in sex education and citizenship. I could be wrong but I think there's some fairly hardline organising going on in that area which helped drive both of those.

In the North-West at least I think there is a connection there with the grooming gangs issue - it was exactly this reason that local MPs in those areas such as Jack Straw raised as a reason why the police were very reluctant to investigate too much. There are other factors as well but that has been one of them.

The other type communal tension which I think is worth watching is ones that in effect reflect that with social media we can keep consuming the media from around the world. So I think of the Hindu-Muslim clashes in Leicester a couple of years ago, but more generally some of the behaviour of BJP supporting communities in the UK and think there's communal tensions there that could kick off. It's not communal but there's been similar (if smaller) clashes between competing British-Bangladeshi groups tied to the big parties in Bangladesh. As I say I think a lot of what's new here is actually just the immediacy of social media and the internet, which I think means a controversy in Bangladesh can mobilise young men in Whitechapel within hours. That's very new the layers of mediation have been stripped and I don't think the unrest in Leicester is the last time we'll see something like that. But I suspect that's going to be a global phenomenon.