TIME TO COOK UP SOME DAMN GREEN PIGS TOO THEN! 🤬🔥 for real though these fuckers better not!
Edit: This is in Scotland but jfc don’t give the United Nazi States any ideas! Also, Scottish comrades please be safe out there! 💜💜💜
It’s the UK, the Scottish government aren’t this stupid. The British government, who govern the whole UK, is.
‘don’t give the United States any ideas’ THIS IS STILL! NOT! ABOUT! YOU! NOT EVERYTHING IS ABOUT HOW IT IMPACTS AMERICA!
consider: not everything is about you. not every bad thing is related to trump. in the UK there is a concentrated victimisation of the poor, the disabled, immigrants and people of colour that our government are doing ALL ON THEIR OWN, not in response to or as a message to America. And that’s about us not about you. just like Bolsanaro’s genocidal rhetoric is a problem for people because if how it affects Brazilians, not just because he’s ‘like Trump’ or interacts with Trump. just like European nazism is a problem for the countries it pops up in, not because it ‘emboldens American nazis’. it isn’t about you, it was never about you, and it constantly feels like everybody else is able to concern themselves both with local politics and with American politics but American discourse goes ‘this is what’s happening to us, and this is how your bad thing is also happening to us’.
When I was on the Trump march in Edinburgh, we went to the pub afterwards and every time we tried to discuss the Hostile Environment raft of policies, the Americans in our group derailed to talk about American anti-immigration rhetoric and how our government persecuting immigrants was going to embolden Trump. but that wasn’t what we were talking about and British anti immigration sentiment is worth addressing on its own terms, not as an offshoot of American politics, which it isn’t. When I’ve posted on Facebook about the ongoing collapse of the UK government, I’ve had American friends comment on it saying ‘oh its like what’s happening here is spreading’.
British militarisation of the police has been happening for decades, and this article is also about the imminent collapse of our economy and infrastructure with Brexit, which has nothing to do with ‘giving Trump ideas’ (he…also doesn’t need that idea, he’s already sending armed police to gun down women and children at the border?) and has in fact been percolating since the referendum six months before Trump was elected. The reason the government is considering armed military forces in the street is because they’re afraid of riots and looting in the event of No Deal Brexit, when they expect to have to ration food and manage profound shortages across the UK if we crash out of Europe with no trade deal and no continuity of supply lines, because it will take time to both reestablish the necessary infrastructure to run a separate economy and the trade lines to bring in food and necessary supplies. This is the version of Brexit that many higher-ups in the government are agitating for, because they’re filthy rich and it won’t affect them nearly as much. This is not a signal to America or an offshoot of American issues or a product of American politics. This is the British government making plans for what they’ll do if they starve their own people out.
And this my friends is why you fact check before you reblog something.
Lol thanks @avoidingthebinaryliketheplague it’s got an unnecessary amount of notes. Good that people are seeing it but genuinely terrible they are assuming it to be about America.
all the nonsense and bullshit in the notes aside, i am genuinely scared about what’s gonna happen after Brexit. Westminster already doesn’t give a shit about poor people or immigrants, and you can bet the most vulnerable and disenfrachised communities will bear the brunt of whatever shitshow we’re plunged into. i hope Cameron and Farage are proud of themselves.
The increase in racist abuse being thrown at poc in public, as well as the shitty treatment of immigrants, especially the Windrush generation and black immigrants in general involving them being kicked out of the country is representative of this whole Brexit mess, to be honest. Not to mention how many homeless people there are freezing in the streets now. The Tories got us into this mess and we’re just surrounded in chaos, but of course they don’t give a shit that they’re fucking everyone over. Fuck them.
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