Britain is knee deep in an information war. Young men radicalised at shocking rates, conspiracy trumping facts, swathes willingly participating in subterfuge that goes against their interests. The usual fake patriots at the helm. Our system, lacking checks and balances, exploited.
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I have ideas about how that campaign might work and will be trying to get funding for it.
Are you interested ?
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It feels like a losing battle at the mo....
Thatcher done for that.
Maybe it'll take the Sports Direct Militia trying to kick the door of No10 in, for it to click. Be too late by then mind.....
Society generally considers young men as a threat and the right has seized that feeling.
It has costs.
And
"truth is not truth" Rudi Giuliani
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/19/truth-isnt-truth-rudy-giuliani-trump-alternative-facts-orwellian?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
The fact that we’re a digital first society has led to young men being really susceptible to misinformation looking to blame their isolation on any number of minorities
Sadly Labour seem unwilling to change things so it must be assumed they are complicit.
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There is no simple answer, rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic is not going to cut it.
I'm not sure what will as logic and reason have left the building.
I hope some out there know.
Where that leaves us can best be described as, vulnerable.
This has to be fought dirty.
A little too aggressive imv, I don’t know why it must be“fought dirty”for example;why not clinically/surgically with ‘honest’* journalistic expose of neo-fascist fallacy & politicians with integrity - they’re still out there, heard; they’re just not listened to atm;
calm heads🤔 🌱🕊
What does shock me is Labour haven't even hinted at suspicion or skepticism at recent events. If they won't, who will?
Jeremy Vine is an absolute Tory-mouthpiece and he gets 2x hours a day to whip up the Boomers into an uninformed rage over Muslims cancelling Xmas
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Write your MP. Lobby schools & parent groups on smart phones. Build local voices to resist. We are never helpless.
The far right have been poisoning our youth this way for easily more than a decade.
I'm not the only one in there calling it out. But there's just not adequate systems to deal with the scale of the problem.