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This isn’t left vs right. It’s democracy vs manipulation. People vs profiteers of fear. Radicalisation is reversible - but only if we stop protecting the powerful interests that benefit from keeping us angry at each other. #DeRadicalise #DefendDemocracy #FollowTheMoney

Extremism doesn’t fade because we win arguments. It fades when people feel safer, less isolated, less lied to - and when the outrage machines and corrupt interests driving the radicalisation are exposed and constrained.

What actually works: improving material conditions (secure work, housing, healthcare), rebuilding shared spaces and belonging, teaching how propaganda and algorithms manipulate emotion, restoring trust through accountability, and enforcing consequences for those who profit from division.

You don’t deradicalise people with insults, shame or “owning” them online. That only confirms the story they’ve been sold. You deradicalise by separating people from the lie without stripping them of dignity or community.

Important: this isn’t about intelligence. It’s about insecurity, isolation, loss of trust, and fear. People are not stupid - they’re human, responding to stress in a system that rewards manipulation and punishes nuance.

Conspiracy thinking then locks it in: it explains every failure (“the system is rigged”), flatters believers (“you see what others don’t”), and immunises itself against correction (“they would say that”). At that point, facts alone can’t compete with belonging.

Add in outrage-driven media and algorithmic feeds that reward anger, conspiracy and emotional content, and you get closed information loops where the same claims appear everywhere. Familiarity feels like truth. Dissent is framed as betrayal. Democracy quietly erodes.

This works because fear beats facts. Repetition beats truth. Identity beats evidence. Once a belief becomes who you are, any challenge feels like an attack. That’s why shouting “you’re wrong” or mocking people only hardens the radicalisation.

When living standards fall and the future feels smaller, anger is real. But instead of fixing wages, housing, health or corruption, bad actors redirect that anger toward migrants, minorities, journalists, “elites”, or imagined enemies. Pain is real. The target is engineered.

Millions haven’t “gone mad” - they’ve been radicalised. Fear, identity, & grievance are weaponised by powerful, immoral actors who profit from division while living standards fall. You don’t deradicalise with insults, but with security, belonging, media literacy & truth. #StopTheDivide #AntiFascist

Why is Nigel Farage repeatedly surrounded by questions on campaign funding, spending rules, foreign influence, and inflammatory rhetoric? Why so little transparency, accountability or scrutiny? If you want power, these questions must be answered. #Democracy #FollowTheMoney

"When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich" - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Surely it's about time we get to eat them???

Mass shootings aren’t just tragedies - they’re exploited. Domestic power brokers use “it’s random, nothing can change” to block reform; foreign actors (including Russia) amplify the chaos to deepen fear, division and distrust, pushing people into the hands of the far right.

Individual shooters may seem random, but the pattern isn’t. Other countries have angry, isolated people too - they just don’t have routine mass shootings. That points to access, culture and policy, not “no reason”.

And Russia.