Luckily missed the news the other day, even at a distance the news is truly horrid as local fascists tried to break up a local Black Lives Matter. I am amazed the area had a Black Lives Matter event, not sure how people knew anything about it, not amazed that the fascists came out. Horrid reminder of how ghastly things can be, just when everything is ghastly anyhow. Friends in Portugal and on Facebook, brought me up to speed.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-52979267
The Brexit vote was a classic divide and rule exercise. Families and friends divided, libertarians v commumitarians, left v right, xenophobes v xenophiles, nativists v internationalists, and so on. A pandora's box opened and tolerance gone.
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