XR founder calls for the "take down of society"

[LHRFlightman]

https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/nick-ferrar...

They're anarchists, nothing more.

[Not-The-Messiah]

I've always thought with your anarchist types is if they ever actually got their way they would be fked. Most of them are middle class hippie types that would be stabbed to death and left in a ditch within days. Idiots.

[easytiger123]

And there I was thinking these people clambering on planes, gluing themselves to buildings and stopping traffic for days on end were well-meaning and upstanding citizens.

[gruffalo]

Well I am shocked.

[Ridgemont]

LHRFlightman said:

https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/nick-ferrar...

They're anarchists, nothing more.

bonkers said:

“And it is part of our duty in my opinion that we've also got to not only take down civilisation but shepherd ourselves and incoming generations back into a state of wilding as it were, into like a feral consciousness that is also one of the biggest tasks remaining to us”.

Wibble.

[Murph7355]

Not-The-Messiah said:

I've always thought with your anarchist types is if they ever actually got their way they would be fked. Most of them are middle class hippie types that would be stabbed to death and left in a ditch within days. Idiots.

No they wouldn't.

Animal Farm to them is an instruction book, not a fable.

[CAPP0]

I'm sure I read fairly recently that XR had been added to some sort of proscribed organisation list? Possibly even extremist/terrorist?

[anonymous-user]

Murph7355 said:

Not-The-Messiah said:

I've always thought with your anarchist types is if they ever actually got their way they would be fked. Most of them are middle class hippie types that would be stabbed to death and left in a ditch within days. Idiots.

No they wouldn't.

Animal Farm to them is an instruction book, not a fable.

I think his point is that these anarchist types wanting the end of society or whatever, would be least able to survive if they get their wish. They thrive at the moment because they are cocooned and protected by the world that they rage against and often have financial support from their parents and other capitalists not because they are “wildings” or part of a “feral consciousness.”

[DickyC]

I'll put my XR4 ambitions on hold for a bit.

[Four Litre]

Like I've always said, XR and a lot of other similar groups are really just a hard left organisation determined to cause trouble with the objective being -

Bring down any conservative government
Bring down Donald Trump
Bring down any successful capitalist organisation.

You can spot it a mile off, by the type of person seen across our news channels, with Greta being the ultimate rouge.

[otolith]

Mental.

[DrDeAtH]

50 caliber resolution required....

[anonymous-user]

Gadgetmac will be along soon to defend them.........they’re just misunderstood.

[Blib]

DrDeAtH said:

50 caliber resolution required....

His views need to be heard far and wide. Only then will society understand what it is dealing with.

[Digga]

anonymous said:

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And now?

What is terrorism if not forced societal change?

[Gecko1978]

sounds to me what we are dealing with is some batst crazy former student radical who has never made much of his life and thinks this gives him status. No differnet to stupid fkin hippies in the 60s thinkng the end is nigh while 90% of people just got st done.

[mikeiow]

anonymous said:

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I imagine they are on a "back-burner" list to keep an eye on though ;-)

They do say "Simon’s views as expressed in this video do not represent the position of Extinction Rebellion as a whole"....clearly some nutters are more extreme than other.
I'm mildly of the nutty view that we do currently consume too much of the resources on Planet Earth (& I am as guiltily hypocritical as anyone, indeed more than many), and doing something about it would be a good thing to help future grandchildren not be struggling to find water to drink....but then much of the planet struggles with that already

Does that make me crackpot crazy?

[gruffalo]

Blib said:

DrDeAtH said:

50 caliber resolution required....

His views need to be heard far and wide. Only then will society understand what it is dealing with.

Exactly, show them for what they really are and watch their support dwindle until they are irrelevant.

[austinsmirk]

"Anarchists- don't forget to smash the state, after you've cashed your giro".

bit of 1980's alternative comedy for you.

[techguyone]

mikeiow said:

I imagine they are on a "back-burner" list to keep an eye on though ;-)

They do say "Simon’s views as expressed in this video do not represent the position of Extinction Rebellion as a whole"....clearly some nutters are more extreme than other.
I'm mildly of the nutty view that we do currently consume too much of the resources on Planet Earth (& I am as guiltily hypocritical as anyone, indeed more than many), and doing something about it would be a good thing to help future grandchildren not be struggling to find water to drink....but then much of the planet struggles with that already

Does that make me crackpot crazy?

I don't know, will you glue yourself to a plane? or bring down society?

If not, you're probably ok.