Quote from: Tamas on October 19, 2025, 03:34:06 PMThe optics of this Aston Villa thing are terrible.https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/oct/19/aston-villa-jews-ed-miliband-maccabi-tel-aviv
Not only the police decided Jews are hated too much in the city for them to protect them during this event, but as it turns out even before that the football club decided that those stewards who find that their (or, I suspect, their family's and peers ) dislike of Jews in this climate is too much, they can stay home.
It is extremely easy for the far-right to paint a picture based on this, that Birmingham is too Muslim to control. And it is difficult to disagree with that assessment, when the local police and the football club appear in agreement with it.
Quote from: grumbler on October 19, 2025, 07:42:46 AMQuote from: Zoupa on October 18, 2025, 03:01:14 AMNot to be a party pooper but these no kings thing seem really performative. What pressure can the administration really feel over 2 rallies, months apart, on a Saturday?
Not to be a party pooper, but all protests are performative.
The No Kings Rallies, like all rallies, exist primarily to demonstrate to people that they are not alone in their outrage. Political rallies during campaigns do the same thing.
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