Canada's record is a 2-hour riot after a hockey win/loss (it doesn't matter which)
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So on the England rioting...
First of all if you google "England riots", it asks you which year do you mean. Do you mean 2024, 2011 or the ones in the 90's (lol, PLURAL. no specific year). so you guys like your riots.
So a mass stabbing in Southport set off this wave of anti-immigration riots. It actually LOOKS and FEELS similar to the origin story for V for Vendetta. If you remember, before High Chancellor Adam Sutler is elected into government, it was because he was an extreme hardliner and there were mass anti-immigration riots going on throughout England.
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the violence, fueled by online misinformation, has spread across multiple cities,
Yeah, seems like social media makes this stuff really easy. I don't know much about the stabbing but in arson cases, it's important to know what started the fire:
July 29, mass stabbing at a dance studio, targetting children. 3 are killed, 10 others (8 children) are injured, one of them really badly. A 17 year olf British citizen born to parents from Rwanda was arrested. This kid was BORN in Wales (that's important). It's not a terrorist-linked plot or anything. Just a solo act. The kid is autistic which isn't going to do great things for autism.
The misinformation, if not obvious, is being spread by right-wing accounts (FAR-right, i should specify). Saying that he isn't british-born, false stuff about his religion and migration status too. Mosques were the first target of attacks and riots. Most recently, houses where asylum seekers are living
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In happier news, Bangledesh threw out their dictator. I'm told by my bengali friends that it's basically xmas in Bangledesh right now. Note that this JUST happened and already the talk is anti-India, they're worried that India will support a pro-india government (....well of course they would, also this means stability in the region, which I think should be seen as a good thing).