In contrast to the social and news media entourages that used to follow them, the return of Extinction Rebellion (XR) to Westminster’s streets has received little attention. A few tweets, mostly from those affected by today’s occupation of Tufton Street, drew more notice than XR’s own. “The unemployed and weird take on 55 Tufton street,” said Anna Ridgway of Students for Liberty. “Soapdodgers at it again outside 55 Tufton Street,” said the Global Warming Policy Foundation’s Ted Newson.
The group officially declared that its style of “public disruption as a primary tactic” had come to an end at the end of 2022. “What’s needed now most” in its place, they claimed “is to disrupt the abuse of power and imbalance, to bring about a transition to a fair society that works together to end the fossil fuel era”. But the truth is that there was no bunch of idiots more capable of drawing rage – not against the climate crisis and the cause of the climate crisis, but against themselves and their radical environmentalism. It had been founded as part of the broader ‘Climate Mobilisation’ movement, which aimed to radicalise the public by doubling down on climate alarmism. But instead it beclowned its own fold.
As I’ve pointed out: just look at them. Do they look to anybody else like the kind of people we might turn to for expertise on society’s functioning? They are not dressed to be taken seriously. And they do not
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I am begging the adults in the room to take back their country. The children are unable to run a country, manage public order or a budget. Please take back your country.
As a reminder:
This is what one of the founders of XR Stuart Basden had to say. It’s the usual tropes, and it’s open ended of course, and I’m sure he would also say “there is so much more to be done”.
“And I’m here to say that XR isn’t about the climate. You see, the climate’s breakdown is a symptom of a toxic system of that has infected the ways we relate to each other as humans and to all life…
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All this stuff is clearly state sanctioned.
Get on the house roof of a serving PM? Getting airside at airports?
Blocking roads?
Imagine (say) anti transdenrism protesters trying that, they would be in prison or dead.
According to the theory of Cliodynamics the downfall of the current Elite is caused, in part, by the ‘overproduction’ of Elite sons and daughters seeking rarer and rarer elite jobs.
Hence you get Henrys and Henriettas getting Elite adjacent jobs in charities, NGOs, political parties, the media, and, as seen here, protest groups.
Eventually this overburden becomes too great to maintain and a new Elite arises.
Are we there yet?
No, not yet
anyone who has had the misfortune to have to work all their lives to ‘live’, knows full well that these are layabouts. because if they did work, they would be too tired to parade up and down the streets disrupting other people trying to get to work or return home from work.
Yeah, basically, as far as I can see, there seem to be two endpoints for the progression of the post-Christian societies:
1.) Extreme woke marxo-fascist nihilism (Extinction Rebellion being a current example)
2.) Totalitarian islamo-fascism
Two terrible options …
Yes although ultimately they will both self-destruct.
The woke marxo-fascists are on borrowed time anyway, because as soon as they are no longer useful for the islamo-fascists, they get killed off. But they are too stupid to realize this.
Ultimately I don’t see a future for Islam either: the whole philosophy is based on permanent conquest and war, which makes it very unstable.
But no, it’s not a pretty picture.
This is, however, the path Britain is on, unless something changes radically.
Yet another Tory failure. Weak on crime, weak on the causes of crime.
As the article points out the loathsome Gove encouraged it.
I’ve always thought it’s used as something of a distraction by the government – give people someone else to get angry about vs the government…
Financed by Christopher Hohn and other lunatic philanthropists.
I always call them “philanthropaths”.