To feel unsettled by the riots in Belfast, Paris and Brussels in the last week?

[Polkadotpompom]

Just as the title says really. It feels like chaos is creeping in. My UK town had riots in 2024 and it's scary to see/experience on your doorstep.

Sometimes I feel terrible that I brought children into the world. It's just an absolute dumpster fire at the moment. 😞

You are certainly not unreasonable to feel unsettled. feel that tensions are rising. Everytime a horrific act is carried out by someone who has been welcomed into the country, someone who has often arrived with no known history, no background checks, and sometimes with a deep distrust and hatred of the people they are living amongst...it gets worse.

We had riots in the 80s and 90s nothing new and the worlds still turning

Brussels protests were for any entirely different reason. They seem to be proposing a law where rioters have to pay for the damage - that doesn't seem like a bad idea.

a very important point, the demonstrations in Paris are the drop thet brought the camel back after decades of lowering the justice budget.

we re demonstrating because it is injust that women and children are not protected. So i hope you dont add this one in your bag.

to your point, the riots in paris after the football match were horrible and nobody should (and they dont) condone them. They were hooligans (got i hate football) and people who saw an opportunity which is bad.

it s a real shame that some supporters behave like hooligans, i would probably be able to like the sport if it wasnt for them.

i dont know enough about the other riots you are talking about to comment so cant say

I know the riots are all for different reasons. In a way I find that more unsettling! There is so much unrest amongst people against their governments for all sorts of reasons and the fact it is spilling out into violence is scary to me.

It's not nice but not exactly new. There were at one point so many riots in South London in the 1908s there is a part of Brixton that was jokingly referred to as the "frontline".

More police were injured in the Black Lives Matters 'protests' in 2020 than have been in Belfast but nobody seems to want to mention that for some reason

Must be scary if you live locally to riots/protests. But I think this is something we will begin to see more of sadly

Is it relevant? The riots in NI have been in Belfast and some shit backwater towns with tiny populations. The entire population of NI fits in London several times over.
It’s no surprise more police were injured in a larger disturbance.

As far as NI riots go this one has had a relatively small turn out and the agenda seems to be distraction towards property, the actual violence towards the police has been very mild by NI standards.
The cops have more stones thrown at them at any march in the summer months than the past 2 nights.

I feel more unsettled at the African man trying to behead someone in the street.

Not supporting murders/rapists/ child traffickers... you'll be branded a racist. Get your tin hat

Sign of the times, truly…

The cesspool also contains predominantly white British men who've got firm for being mindless thugs eg Craig Henderson jailed for a series of assaults, Andrew Hews for rape, Callum Peacock for beating his partner with a golf club amongst other things. Those were just some from a brief internet search.

I don't want this to be a thread that's just about the events in Belfast, or specifically about immigration etc.

I feel like this late stage capitalism that the world is in, means we have so much inequality in our societies, and people are angry.

It makes me wonder what will happen.

Will there be more revolts and riots?
Civil wars in developed countries?
More and more violence? 😞

I guess I'm just worried about the state of the world in general really, and how people are reacting to it.

Sad but true. I wonder how the people that vocally support these rapists and murderers would feel if a member of their family was attacked?

This is very irrational.
A single attack on one individual leaves you more unsettled than violence and attacks on thousands of innocent people?
Strange.

Honestly OP when you've lived over 65 years and studied history.......this is nothing new.

Mostly young men who want to fight someone. Anyone will do.

We just had this exact thread a day ago

No one was burnt out of their home in the BLM protests either though.

What are you whittling on about? The vast majority of marches pass off completely peacefully.

Whose throwing stones? Your making things up to suit your own agenda.

So scroll on then?

If you don’t understand a comment you don’t need to reply.

Throwing stones at the police is a common and regular occurrence in NI, the current unrest has much less violence targeted at the police and instead is targeted at civilian property hence the number of police injured is very low and has nothing to do with the number of police injured at BLM riots in London.

Again, my comment wasn’t to you, if you don’t understand it you don’t need to insert yourself.

People are rioting (rightly or wrongly) because they are not being listened to by the government.

These riots haven’t sprung up out of thin air, they are a result of years and years of people feeling ignored. The finger of blame should be pointing at the establishment.

I do understand your comment. I am from NI. Your implying that the majority of Orange Marches that take place in the summer descend into violence with stones being thrown at the police, which is simply untrue.