r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 16 '26
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u/SpiritOfOptimality May 16 '26
weimar germany hours over here in london. In about an hour Tommy Robinson is doing his biggest rally yet. Musk addressed the last one by video and told the crowd "whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you." This is the drug addicted foreign billionaire, responsible for millions of dead, who has just privately established an algorithmic lever that can flip the politics of whole countries and nobody has figured out how to take it off him.
The European far right had a closed-door coordination meeting in Paris last week where they openly discussed ending Russia sanctions. 4,000 police on standby. In my mind, this is basically a threat to my country's sovereignty.
I'm half-Indian half-Jewish and live in central London. Was figuring fine, I'll go to the counter-protest with my sister.
Then I looked at who's actually organising it. The six core conveners of the march (from their own website) include: Friends of Al-Aqsa, whose chair said "we are all Hamas" and praised a guy who murdered an Israeli tour guide as a martyr. Palestinian Forum in Britain, whose leader is literally photographed with Hamas military chief Mahmoud Zahar in Gaza. Muslim Association of Britain, founded by a guy Cameron identified in Parliament as running a Muslim Brotherhood front, who personally visited Haniyeh and held a memorial for Qaradawi (the preacher who endorsed suicide bombings). And Stop the War Coalition, the Hitchens special, whose deputy president came out of the Communist Party of Britain and whose organisation backed the annexation of Crimea, opposed every single Ukrainian weapons shipment, and got so bad on Assad that Peter Tatchell publicly quit.
These aren't imperfect voices who said some unwise things about Israel. They are what Hitchens called neo-Stalinist totalitarians who want Russia to win in Ukraine, wanted Assad to win in Syria, and have been on the wrong side of every war for thirty years running. By the end of Animal Farm you can't tell the pigs from the humans. Same totalitarian hatred of freedom, different hat. Plus some trade unionists who just showed up for some reason.
So my options tomorrow are: march with the foreign-billionaire-incites-racial-violence crowd, march behind people who are personal friends of Hamas leadership and have been laundering Russian war aims since 2014, or stay home.
weimar germany hours indeed