Same in Sweden, and thank fuck for that. I can't handle 28C+, it's just uncomfortable. The past 4 days have been over 30C but today it's been 23C at most with several short bursts of rain with thunder. A few were right over my apartment so I've really enjoyed opening a window and sitting by it with a cup of tea just listening to the rain and thunder, and then when it fades away the birds start singing, so damn cosy!
I am atheist but just yesterday I prayed to god for not pushing us above 30° for the next 2 weeks in eastern Germany. I am melting over here and did not sign up for 38°C temperatures, so the siberian winds are a godsent for me. I wish you all the strength to get through this heat my friend!
I'm in Spain, and can confirm, It's pandemonium and anarchy here. For example, one of my neighbors has spent more than an hour making drilling noises, and someone hasn't picked up their dog's shit. We are a few hours away from total collapse!
Also the very government drives through the street with a huge truck at 3am. Extends a robot arm to pick up the glass bin and empties it loudly. It's a warzone out here.
Do you know how many fearful conservatives have told me the place I live in has collapsed into a wasteland of violent criminal chaos? I can only go outside to check and make sure they're wrong so many times before I just have to assume they're fucking idiots.
Reminder that Australia produced the shitstain gutter scum that we call Rupert Murdoch.
Australia also runs concentration camps for refugees on remote islands with practically no legal oversight. The Aborigines were considered part of the local "fauna" until the 1960s.
Australia gets way to less flak for how deeply deeply racist that country is.
Australia certainly is, like most countries, "deeply racist" but exactly what that means and how we compare to other countries is contentious.
Calling immigration detention facilities "concentration camps" is disingenuous and has connotations that dont apply. At last count in 2021 there were 107 residents, all of whom could leave at any time, and were provided multiple resettlement options outside of Australia.
There are criticisms to be made but they are not "concentration camps".
The fauna thing is an obvious myth that doesn't withstand a moments critical though. There's a more comprehensive rebuttal here:
Australia does have deeply embedded tensions around race. They're not easily solvable problems. Are more salient example might be the recent rejection of the voice referendum, but that would take more than a few moments to read and understand.
The sentence you quoted links the Wikipedia article about the pacific solution, and the paragraph explains why calling them concentration camps is disingenuous. Well done.
But that is not an issue unique to one race. Pakastanis who live in the northern territory do not have meaningful representation. Should they get a bespoke group of representatives too? What about Sweedes? Or Brazillians? Or white Australians?
This is a problem with our democracy, not a race problem. Why make it one?
portland here. same issue. i have people who visit that refuse to leave my house because they are terrified of the city. many aren't even conservative and are liberal. propaganda has done it's work well. it's hilarious and sad.
Nope, it's serious. Sky News Australia is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, which explains the far-right lunacy that it is known for.
Sky News UK is owned by Comcast, and is generally considered to be a much more professional and respectable news outlet. Not perfect, but more BBC than Fox News.
I was more familiar with the UK one and thought I came across a fake account when I first saw the Australian one. It felt like an over exaggerated caricature of far-right rage bait
I first understood that maybe 15 years ago, when I was in the UK during the supposed mass riots there. My parents read about that in the media (European public service broadcast news) about the anarchic circumstances and were worried about me.
I was in one of the cities hit hardest, according to the media, and my flat was actually right at the location this was about.
All that really happened was a single demonstration that was mostly peaceful without any vandalism. That's it.
I'm assuming you were talking about the London riots, there were a few days of violence but it was only idiots who were after a free TV and PlayStation, and of course the one unimaginative guy who famously stole some rice and then posted about it on Facebook. But of course no one has any guns so once the police turn up everyone tends to calm down.
I was in a bar in the middle of the riot watching them run up and down to stay away from the police. They did manage to set fire to Miss Selfridge though!
Looks arouns: families making a living, my doctor visit was for free, and a friend is about to take a huge redundancy package thanks to state laws that mandate his company to compensate.
You pay for your doctor visit with taxes. It wasn't free.
Europe is a big place, France is in heavy crisis because of their debt. Torre Pacheco in Spain has some immigrant issues (almost 30% of it's population it's non-eu immigrants)
Just pointing out it's not free. That's how you get government official saying public money belongs to no one.
Edit. I never did the math on which costs me more money but it's around 2k for public healthcare in Spain per person, but my employer pays for my private healthcare (if I add another person is about 40€, including dental which public healthcare doesn't cover everything), but also if I have to get surgery they would send me to the public one...
Wild thing about this line of argument is that it almost solely comes out of american mouths, you know the place that pays more per capita then anyother nation on health care.
Oh you're one of them. Real relation that you're providing everyone there.
Except it's actually not strictly speaking true, yeah everyone pays some taxes and some of those taxes go to healthcare but it's not a separate tax, it's just part of the tax everyone pays. Some of it goes to healthcare, but some of it goes to road maintenance, some the police. It's all just in a big lump of tax.
It's not as if your tax rate goes up depending on your health. You pay the same amount of tax regardless of your current medical status so to say you pay for health with tax is a rather disingenuous.
Plenty of people, like students and old people, who didn't pay taxes because they don't have income. Who still get the same service.
To them it is free.
Also, even if your statistic isn't made up (which I doubt), why should it matter that 30% are non-eu immigrants? Are they not allowed to live there or something?
Students sure, but everyone that is an adult pays for that. Elder people already paid for that their whole live.
why should it matter that 30% are non-eu immigrants? Are they not allowed to live there or something?
Of course they are allowed, as long as they are legal but they are also being allowed being illegal. And the point of that reply was to point you can't expect 30% population increase and no crime increase so the population that was living there is experiencing more crime than before.
Total population: 41.684
National Population: 28.780
EU population: 977
Non-eu population: 11.927
39% crime increase in 2022, 4,1% increase in 2025. 10,7% increase in robberies, more sexual related crimes.
The population has grown over 60% since the start of this century. Most of that immigrant population is from Maghreb. Some are illegal but the exact number is unknown. The current protests began when 4 illegal immigrants beat an elder man.
We had similar shit years ago when Americans thought Europe is communist. Or years later when Americans thought Sweden became a Muslim state. Or any other bullshit a 12 year old or someone with the mind of a 12 year old believed in the last decades.
And every time the epicentre of stupidity is Rupert Murdoch. No wonder they love Russia. Both are masters of making up insane bullshit.
Maybe Murdoch is the epicentre, but I remember Oprah being very worried on her show because the socialist party came third in the Dutch elections (in the early 2000's).
Did she ever know that the socialist (well, social-democratic) party ruled Spain from 1982 to 1996 (first part with absolute majority), from 2004 to 2010 and from 2019 up until now?
The Socialist party was first in Portugal... let's forget it's barely socialist but ok.
Oh and up until recently the (actual) Communist party was third.
Conservative news everywhere. Society has had some form of crime since civilization existed. Never gonna get rid of it. But conservatives clutch their pearls at it and exclaim the end of the world is nigh. Meanwhile conservatives want to suffocate everyone slowly under a pillow of religion while looting their victims pockets of power and money.
My most hopeful take is that now that the global oligarchy is multi-ethnic and multi-racial, this narrative is on its last legs. Alternatively, we can pivot it from regular minorities to billionaire minorities.
It's Rupert Murdoch (and his bastard spawn Lachlan), owner of Fox News, The Sun, Sky News Australia, and more. The master of misinformation, sensationalism, and ragebait. He's been doing this everywhere for such a long time now.
The master of misinformation, sensationalism, and ragebait.
It's not even really that good. It's just everywhere. Flip on your TV, turn on the radio, pop open a browser, and you're hit with a legion of professional reactionaries screaming "Whitetopia Has Fallen! Brown Menace End Times Are Upon Us!"
There is no longer anything resembling "normal" news. It's just wall-to-wall cop worship, racism, and crime hysteria.
I imagine it's far right propoganda to distance their viewers from considering views coming from France/Spain to be reasonable, and wanting them to listen to views coming from elsewhere that agree more with their rhetoric. The only real article Ive seen from them was about criticizing their own ambassador because "Trump doesn't like him."
australias border policies are even more draconian then those of europe, the aim is to claim moral legitimacy by making a (racist obv) self defense argument.
Most racism is rooted in self defense about some paranoid story
This reminds me of an interaction I had here the other day. There was an article about ICE kidnappings in San Francisco and someone asked why the armed gangs weren’t doing battle with ICE. There are no roving armed gangs in San Francisco, despite what shitty right wing media fantasies claim.
No, they would have said that if they meant that. I cannot overemphasize just how many Americans truly, actually believe that there are just bands of colored men with rifles walking around in the city streets.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Beau of the Fifth column said it best, the purpose was to put down civil insurrections (now there's cops for that, supposedly), and to fight government employees: the foreign kind, in the send of an invasion where the people would support the military; and the domestic kind, if the government went tyrannical.
More deranged far right media tossing smoke grenades at and setting off fireworks in the faces of already deranged right-wingers, calling it WWIII. Earth keeps turning, sun keeps burning.
If you want to learn about a nation’s politics, go to the international news coverage of that nation. If you want to learn about a nation’s level of violence, check their local news.
(Sky news and a right wing politician infamously tried to claim that African gangs were rampaging through victoria and people were afraid to go out at night. This was, shockingly, a lie.)
that was sarcasm, you moon faced pie. Fucks sake, we're literally talking about sky news being full of shit, someone refers to something else sky news posted that was also full of shit and you somehow think this was a non sarcastic comment complaining about africans
Dude. I'm fucking autistic and asking what the hell is wrong with you.
Sarcasm doesn't work on anonymous forums. Nobody knows who you are or has any context for you; if a post isn't able to stand individually in a zero-trust environment, then you can't complain when others misunderstand. Sarcasm only works if you're amongst people who know you.
yeah but that cuts both ways. If you're the only one who appears to be taking something in the wrong context, then you need to stop and go "I have made a whoopsie" not double down and start hurling fashy accusations
It is very interesting to compare Sky News in the UK vs Australia.
Sky News UK is a relatively normal news channel. That is because UK broadcasting is governed by codes of conduct and Ofcom (the governing body) can reprimand, heavily fine or shut down channels which violate its rules. The rules require fairness, impartiality, the right of reply and other safeguards in news reporting.
Sky News Australian is rabidly far right channel that exaggerates and lies about everything. It punches down on minorities because of religion, ethnicity, sexuality or any other reason and does so with impunity. It is not required to be fair or impartial and never is. That is because Australia has no similar code of conduct.
So the issue here is Australia needs to get its broadcasting rules sorted out.
If the UK were entirely owned by Murdoch it would still be compliant otherwise it would have been fined out of the wazoo. Ofcom isn't fucking around when it expects news reporting to be impartial.
I'm in Finland. Over here every summer there's always some streets that are being repaved or major public service buildings that gets closed due to "renovations". Ha, I know that's just a government cover-up. They don't want us to know about the looting gangs who apparently have access to stealth technology!
I figured this would be about the summer temperatures finally arriving. Moved to Germany from San Diego years ago and it’s comedy to watch them panic once it hits 85f. Parks empty, streets empty (save for ice cream stands, which practically print their own money). Germany, steadfastly refusing to acknowledge air conditioners have existed for 7 decades.
To any Australians, Europe is in total anarchy, expats are out pricing natives on the housing market and gentrifying cities while living in their own expat shadow society. They don't even integrate, they don't respect the local culture and you can't even speak the native language in many yuppie neighborhoods anymore. smh.
Okay fine even if the housing market problem isn't the fault of expats, that they don't want to be part of the local community and don't even learn the local language is just straight up disrespectful. Why move abroad then? And I'm not asking them to speak the local language at a high level. They even refuse to learn the basics. I know many expats who live here in the Netherlands for more than half a decade and they can't even string a basic sentence together. And these are people who pride themselves for being educated and having master degrees. It's just elitism, they don't see themselves as immigrants so they feel like integrating is beneath them since that's what immigrants do. If these were brown working class immigrants people would call them out immediately for their lack of effort, yet because these are white high educated expats it's somehow okay. And before you say "but their kids will learn the language" Nope these elites even feel the public education system is beneath them so they send them to private international schools where they barely learn Dutch. So even their kids can't speak Dutch. I'm a son of immigrants and my parents had to work hard to integrate and learn the language and fight for respect and their place in the community. That these expats don't give a shit about it all and everyone thinks that it's fine is just a slap in the face of immigrants like my parents.
Funny as I live in Manchester, a major city and I see great schools and lots of integration. After all it’s the ex-pats who came to live here that clean up after riots and bombs, not us natives.
"Anarchy!" screams the caption of a photo of a group of police apprehending a couple of people.
So... not sure if that's where the picture comes from, but what seems to be happening in Europe right now is roaming gangs of nazis causing violence.
I'm impressed by the dilligence seeding the lie, just in case the news pierces the veil.
Europe = One town in Spain.
There are plenty of right wing extremist groups all across Europe. I'd not call them 'roaming' but they're here, and they're visible.
It'll only get worse.
I'll take care of it.
I just looked out of the window and I can confirm: we’ve not fallen ( Luxemburg).
here in Austria we have fallen (below 30°C)
Same in Sweden, and thank fuck for that. I can't handle 28C+, it's just uncomfortable. The past 4 days have been over 30C but today it's been 23C at most with several short bursts of rain with thunder. A few were right over my apartment so I've really enjoyed opening a window and sitting by it with a cup of tea just listening to the rain and thunder, and then when it fades away the birds start singing, so damn cosy!
Yeah can't wait for autumn....
Lucky you. We're tomorrow at 41C.
I am atheist but just yesterday I prayed to god for not pushing us above 30° for the next 2 weeks in eastern Germany. I am melting over here and did not sign up for 38°C temperatures, so the siberian winds are a godsent for me. I wish you all the strength to get through this heat my friend!
Last week near here they were at 43🤷♂️
i am ready to fall asap
Congrats!
Moïen!
I'm in Spain, and can confirm, It's pandemonium and anarchy here. For example, one of my neighbors has spent more than an hour making drilling noises, and someone hasn't picked up their dog's shit. We are a few hours away from total collapse!
Also the very government drives through the street with a huge truck at 3am. Extends a robot arm to pick up the glass bin and empties it loudly. It's a warzone out here.
It's just too loud but also necessary. Chaos!
Yes I just wish that they did it at a slightly different time 😅
I live in California.
Do you know how many fearful conservatives have told me the place I live in has collapsed into a wasteland of violent criminal chaos? I can only go outside to check and make sure they're wrong so many times before I just have to assume they're fucking idiots.
Reminder that Australia produced the shitstain gutter scum that we call Rupert Murdoch.
Australia also runs concentration camps for refugees on remote islands with practically no legal oversight. The Aborigines were considered part of the local "fauna" until the 1960s.
Australia gets way to less flak for how deeply deeply racist that country is.
I feel obligated to provide some context here.
Australia certainly is, like most countries, "deeply racist" but exactly what that means and how we compare to other countries is contentious.
Calling immigration detention facilities "concentration camps" is disingenuous and has connotations that dont apply. At last count in 2021 there were 107 residents, all of whom could leave at any time, and were provided multiple resettlement options outside of Australia.
There are criticisms to be made but they are not "concentration camps".
The fauna thing is an obvious myth that doesn't withstand a moments critical though. There's a more comprehensive rebuttal here:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-20/fact-check-flora-and-fauna-1967-referendum/9550650
Australia does have deeply embedded tensions around race. They're not easily solvable problems. Are more salient example might be the recent rejection of the voice referendum, but that would take more than a few moments to read and understand.
Someone hasn't heard of Nauru and the Pacific Solution...
The sentence you quoted links the Wikipedia article about the pacific solution, and the paragraph explains why calling them concentration camps is disingenuous. Well done.
The reality is not better, but the "fauna" thing is a common myth
up until the 1930s Australia had ships that would kidnap indigenous people to enslave them for plantations in a practice called blackbirding
Australia itself was a concentration camp for prisoners just saying ;)
Hey, Kevin said sorry so it's all good now.
Then we had the voice referendum and all the racists came out of the wood work for that one
I'm aboriginal and I voted no.
The way to solve racism isn't to create more destinctions between us. I already have a voice in parliment. I voted for them and they were elected.
I'm aboriginal and I voted yes, almost all aboriginals in the Northern Territory wanted the voice to go through.
People out in the communities don't get any meaningful representation in Australia.
But that is not an issue unique to one race. Pakastanis who live in the northern territory do not have meaningful representation. Should they get a bespoke group of representatives too? What about Sweedes? Or Brazillians? Or white Australians?
This is a problem with our democracy, not a race problem. Why make it one?
So you think newzealand must have it wrong then?
Bro I've spent some time in South Texas and conservatives don't know there has been a border wall since mid 00s.
Everywhere in Cali must look like the beginning of Predator 2. Frankly it's amazing that any infants survive to gang member age.
portland here. same issue. i have people who visit that refuse to leave my house because they are terrified of the city. many aren't even conservative and are liberal. propaganda has done it's work well. it's hilarious and sad.
Sky News Australia is complete batshit, as opposed to Sky News in the UK which is more "normal" mainstream news.
Curious, is this a joke? I'm not familiar with their broadcasts in Europe or Australia
Nope, it's serious. Sky News Australia is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, which explains the far-right lunacy that it is known for.
Sky News UK is owned by Comcast, and is generally considered to be a much more professional and respectable news outlet. Not perfect, but more BBC than Fox News.
I was more familiar with the UK one and thought I came across a fake account when I first saw the Australian one. It felt like an over exaggerated caricature of far-right rage bait
Ah that makes sense, so Sky News UK is basically NBC in the U.S. (Also owned by Comcast)
Took me a while to find this, sorry, but here is a bias fact check for Sky and for Sky Australia
Are you insane? It’s just as biased and rage bait in the Uk and the comments on their YouTube videos are just right wing monsters.
I'm talking about the actual television channel and news site. They're very different to the Australian Sky News which is just a soapbox for crazies.
What do you expect? YouTube comments are always a cesspit.
in Germany all public broadcasters have turned off comments because of russian bots and right wing nutjobs. It's a sad state of affairs everywhere
The Australian bit of Sky News is the bit that Rupert Murdoch still owns.
The man is a premier league cunt and always has been.
If you ever see bullshit racist twaddle being peddled as "news", just do a quick search and you'll often find it leads back to this prick.
I just feel sorry for his many wives, who will have had to witness what Karl Pilkington once described as "like a tortoise without a shell on"
Don't they got paid and choose to do it.
I first understood that maybe 15 years ago, when I was in the UK during the supposed mass riots there. My parents read about that in the media (European public service broadcast news) about the anarchic circumstances and were worried about me.
I was in one of the cities hit hardest, according to the media, and my flat was actually right at the location this was about.
All that really happened was a single demonstration that was mostly peaceful without any vandalism. That's it.
Speaking of european news I was in Southeast asia when the Spanish blackout happened and they didn't report it.
I'm assuming you were talking about the London riots, there were a few days of violence but it was only idiots who were after a free TV and PlayStation, and of course the one unimaginative guy who famously stole some rice and then posted about it on Facebook. But of course no one has any guns so once the police turn up everyone tends to calm down.
I was in a bar in the middle of the riot watching them run up and down to stay away from the police. They did manage to set fire to Miss Selfridge though!
Looks arouns: families making a living, my doctor visit was for free, and a friend is about to take a huge redundancy package thanks to state laws that mandate his company to compensate.
We are so fallen.
I'm not working today, yet I'm still being paid thanks to employment law ensuring full paid time off.
No, obviously we'd be much better under the American style hyper-capitalist system. Especially now.
You pay for your doctor visit with taxes. It wasn't free.
Europe is a big place, France is in heavy crisis because of their debt. Torre Pacheco in Spain has some immigrant issues (almost 30% of it's population it's non-eu immigrants)
Just pointing out it's not free. That's how you get government official saying public money belongs to no one.
Edit. I never did the math on which costs me more money but it's around 2k for public healthcare in Spain per person, but my employer pays for my private healthcare (if I add another person is about 40€, including dental which public healthcare doesn't cover everything), but also if I have to get surgery they would send me to the public one...
No it was free, see my previous comment.
Wild thing about this line of argument is that it almost solely comes out of american mouths, you know the place that pays more per capita then anyother nation on health care.
Oh you're one of them. Real relation that you're providing everyone there.
Except it's actually not strictly speaking true, yeah everyone pays some taxes and some of those taxes go to healthcare but it's not a separate tax, it's just part of the tax everyone pays. Some of it goes to healthcare, but some of it goes to road maintenance, some the police. It's all just in a big lump of tax.
It's not as if your tax rate goes up depending on your health. You pay the same amount of tax regardless of your current medical status so to say you pay for health with tax is a rather disingenuous.
No shit! Happy to pay taxes to keep healthcare public.
Me too, but I don't consider what I pay for "free" and I pay respect and value a lot what costs me money too.
In fact I wouldn't mind paying more taxes for even better services.
It's good to be considerate with money indeed. Better services are there though, but private in most cases, at least there is the alternative.
Plenty of people, like students and old people, who didn't pay taxes because they don't have income. Who still get the same service.
To them it is free.
Also, even if your statistic isn't made up (which I doubt), why should it matter that 30% are non-eu immigrants? Are they not allowed to live there or something?
Students sure, but everyone that is an adult pays for that. Elder people already paid for that their whole live.
Of course they are allowed, as long as they are legal but they are also being allowed being illegal. And the point of that reply was to point you can't expect 30% population increase and no crime increase so the population that was living there is experiencing more crime than before.
Do elaborate.
39% crime increase in 2022, 4,1% increase in 2025. 10,7% increase in robberies, more sexual related crimes.
The population has grown over 60% since the start of this century. Most of that immigrant population is from Maghreb. Some are illegal but the exact number is unknown. The current protests began when 4 illegal immigrants beat an elder man.
You to know that correlation does not equal causation, right?
"Europe is about to fall, the end is near"
Sorry, I can't stand it not hitting the thing.
You're a saint
I've never seen this before holy shit that's awesome
Sky News in Australia is equivalent to Fox or GB News.
Yep, also free to air in rural parts of the country. Murdoch knows what he's doing.
We had similar shit years ago when Americans thought Europe is communist. Or years later when Americans thought Sweden became a Muslim state. Or any other bullshit a 12 year old or someone with the mind of a 12 year old believed in the last decades.
And every time the epicentre of stupidity is Rupert Murdoch. No wonder they love Russia. Both are masters of making up insane bullshit.
Maybe Murdoch is the epicentre, but I remember Oprah being very worried on her show because the socialist party came third in the Dutch elections (in the early 2000's).
And here I was thinking I can’t dislike that woman even more.
Did she ever know that the socialist (well, social-democratic) party ruled Spain from 1982 to 1996 (first part with absolute majority), from 2004 to 2010 and from 2019 up until now?
The Socialist party was first in Portugal... let's forget it's barely socialist but ok.
Oh and up until recently the (actual) Communist party was third.
Conservative news everywhere. Society has had some form of crime since civilization existed. Never gonna get rid of it. But conservatives clutch their pearls at it and exclaim the end of the world is nigh. Meanwhile conservatives want to suffocate everyone slowly under a pillow of religion while looting their victims pockets of power and money.
It is not conservative news. It is propaganda
Yes but crimes are done by foreigners so it's different. /s
To add a little bit of context, what happened in Spain was actually the opposite: gangs of fascists terrorising immigrant communities.
The planetary ecosystem is undergoing a K-T scale mass extinction. Isn't that enough for everyone?
No no you see it has to be something we can blame minorities for /s
Some minorities (and especially homeless) set fire to things just to stay warm. They're the real enemy!
(Don't look at my private jet or business empire plz!)
My most hopeful take is that now that the global oligarchy is multi-ethnic and multi-racial, this narrative is on its last legs. Alternatively, we can pivot it from regular minorities to billionaire minorities.
Yeah but its not a cool apocalypse with like, zombies.. or caused by brown people that we can wage a big war against.
Its caused by the vroomvroom juice we really really love, and thus must be ignored at all costs.
Sky news in Australia is far worse than Fox in the US. It’s little more than a shout box for small minded racists.
I can imagine an Auzzie tabloid running that story if that happened England, in part for funsies, but what's the beef with Europe?
It's Rupert Murdoch (and his bastard spawn Lachlan), owner of Fox News, The Sun, Sky News Australia, and more. The master of misinformation, sensationalism, and ragebait. He's been doing this everywhere for such a long time now.
It's not even really that good. It's just everywhere. Flip on your TV, turn on the radio, pop open a browser, and you're hit with a legion of professional reactionaries screaming "Whitetopia Has Fallen! Brown Menace End Times Are Upon Us!"
There is no longer anything resembling "normal" news. It's just wall-to-wall cop worship, racism, and crime hysteria.
They should ask any dog/cat/horse breeder what happens if you don't mix the genes outside of the same group.
Or an Hapsburg, sure. Doesn't keep eugenicists from trying.
I imagine it's far right propoganda to distance their viewers from considering views coming from France/Spain to be reasonable, and wanting them to listen to views coming from elsewhere that agree more with their rhetoric. The only real article Ive seen from them was about criticizing their own ambassador because "Trump doesn't like him."
More like "pooppaganda".
australias border policies are even more draconian then those of europe, the aim is to claim moral legitimacy by making a (racist obv) self defense argument. Most racism is rooted in self defense about some paranoid story
Racism.
The only entertaining part of that film is when another Scotsman appears and Gerard Butler has to fight to keep his real accent under control.
Rupert Murdoch is proof that being an evil son of a bitch makes you practically immortal
This reminds me of an interaction I had here the other day. There was an article about ICE kidnappings in San Francisco and someone asked why the armed gangs weren’t doing battle with ICE. There are no roving armed gangs in San Francisco, despite what shitty right wing media fantasies claim.
There used to be roving gangs of nude joggers, but they went and changed the law in 2012 and ruined everyone’s fun.
I guess the question is more in the line of "wasn't the 2nd amendment exactly for this precise situation?"
No, they would have said that if they meant that. I cannot overemphasize just how many Americans truly, actually believe that there are just bands of colored men with rifles walking around in the city streets.
My bad. Sometimes I forget that there is no physical limit of stupidity.
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." – Albert Einstein
It reads:
Beau of the Fifth column said it best, the purpose was to put down civil insurrections (now there's cops for that, supposedly), and to fight government employees: the foreign kind, in the send of an invasion where the people would support the military; and the domestic kind, if the government went tyrannical.
West Norway, it's falling hard. Serious rainfall that is.
And sun, at the same time, blue skies and pissing rain when going to the shop.
Anarchy in Europe? I wish!
I'd much prefer anarchism.
You and me both, pardner
More deranged far right media tossing smoke grenades at and setting off fireworks in the faces of already deranged right-wingers, calling it WWIII. Earth keeps turning, sun keeps burning.
mfks living in a utopia and scream the end of the world when they see a black person, ok
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If you want to learn about a nation’s politics, go to the international news coverage of that nation. If you want to learn about a nation’s level of violence, check their local news.
EUROPE HAS FALLEN
AH IS OUT OF MY BRAND OF SOY MILK
Australian media has fallen.
Victorian here, i see our african gangs are on the move
Looks like that flew over someone's head.
(Sky news and a right wing politician infamously tried to claim that African gangs were rampaging through victoria and people were afraid to go out at night. This was, shockingly, a lie.)
that was sarcasm, you moon faced pie. Fucks sake, we're literally talking about sky news being full of shit, someone refers to something else sky news posted that was also full of shit and you somehow think this was a non sarcastic comment complaining about africans
Dude. I'm fucking autistic and asking what the hell is wrong with you.
I've noticed most of lemmy doesn't really get sarcasm, kind of odd.
Sarcasm doesn't work on anonymous forums. Nobody knows who you are or has any context for you; if a post isn't able to stand individually in a zero-trust environment, then you can't complain when others misunderstand. Sarcasm only works if you're amongst people who know you.
yeah but that cuts both ways. If you're the only one who appears to be taking something in the wrong context, then you need to stop and go "I have made a whoopsie" not double down and start hurling fashy accusations
self-awareness level: 0
Bit of adifference between calling someone a pie and calling someone a shitty right winger though.
You were not once abused by them?
But you certainly were abusive yourself.
That's BS, it can and it does, quite often, but the lemmy crowd seems to be more obtuse than most.
No, this isn't sarcasm.
My dear hamster in christ the whole damned post is sledging sky news
It is very interesting to compare Sky News in the UK vs Australia.
Sky News UK is a relatively normal news channel. That is because UK broadcasting is governed by codes of conduct and Ofcom (the governing body) can reprimand, heavily fine or shut down channels which violate its rules. The rules require fairness, impartiality, the right of reply and other safeguards in news reporting.
Sky News Australian is rabidly far right channel that exaggerates and lies about everything. It punches down on minorities because of religion, ethnicity, sexuality or any other reason and does so with impunity. It is not required to be fair or impartial and never is. That is because Australia has no similar code of conduct.
So the issue here is Australia needs to get its broadcasting rules sorted out.
Has it stopped the nonsense of GB News? YouTube loves pushing their videos and they've very similar thumbnails.
Sky News UK isn't a Murdoch operation anymore and the Aussie one is. That's the main difference.
If the UK were entirely owned by Murdoch it would still be compliant otherwise it would have been fined out of the wazoo. Ofcom isn't fucking around when it expects news reporting to be impartial.
Nobody worth talking to takes Sky News seriously.
Several members of parliament do, but I digress.
its also owned by murdoch. they always have that creepy indian anchor with the wierd smile on all the time.
What, Priti Patel is a newsreader now?
I'm in Finland. Over here every summer there's always some streets that are being repaved or major public service buildings that gets closed due to "renovations". Ha, I know that's just a government cover-up. They don't want us to know about the looting gangs who apparently have access to stealth technology!
I figured this would be about the summer temperatures finally arriving. Moved to Germany from San Diego years ago and it’s comedy to watch them panic once it hits 85f. Parks empty, streets empty (save for ice cream stands, which practically print their own money). Germany, steadfastly refusing to acknowledge air conditioners have existed for 7 decades.
It’s as if… wait for it… they are made of sugar!
No, we're only made out of sugar when it rains
No, in that case we explicitly aren't.
Depends really if we want to go outside or not
85F (not even 30ºC) is only slightly above tonight's temperature here in some parts of Spain. Right now where I live it's 29ºC... at midnight.
Yeah I'm in Spain too and it's exhausting :( The last week was kinda cool but now the heat is back
Luckily by Friday it will fall again.
2025: RIP in peace Europe
Actually, it's summering right now. Falling will take place in a month and a half
Not sky news but another Australian news site. Israel bombs Iran; Middle east conflict rises. Iran bombs Israel; Iran strike on Israel.
Yeah it's a riot and only a small one at that. The ones in London and Paris were way worse.
Maybe they're talking about the city of Europe,(CA)
Billions must die
Finally, someone gets it.
Oh yeah. It’s horrible here. Please stay away.
If you come, you won't go back! Either cause you'll like it better here, or US customs won't allow you back in.
Which client is this?
To any Australians, Europe is in total anarchy, expats are out pricing natives on the housing market and gentrifying cities while living in their own expat shadow society. They don't even integrate, they don't respect the local culture and you can't even speak the native language in many yuppie neighborhoods anymore. smh.
I'll just leave this here...
Since when are expats refugees?
The point i was making but it doesn't need explaining if you (want to) think about it.
This is what made me reply:
Have a nice day.
Okay fine even if the housing market problem isn't the fault of expats, that they don't want to be part of the local community and don't even learn the local language is just straight up disrespectful. Why move abroad then? And I'm not asking them to speak the local language at a high level. They even refuse to learn the basics. I know many expats who live here in the Netherlands for more than half a decade and they can't even string a basic sentence together. And these are people who pride themselves for being educated and having master degrees. It's just elitism, they don't see themselves as immigrants so they feel like integrating is beneath them since that's what immigrants do. If these were brown working class immigrants people would call them out immediately for their lack of effort, yet because these are white high educated expats it's somehow okay. And before you say "but their kids will learn the language" Nope these elites even feel the public education system is beneath them so they send them to private international schools where they barely learn Dutch. So even their kids can't speak Dutch. I'm a son of immigrants and my parents had to work hard to integrate and learn the language and fight for respect and their place in the community. That these expats don't give a shit about it all and everyone thinks that it's fine is just a slap in the face of immigrants like my parents.
On that we agree.
On society's perception: if you're rich you're an investor (or educated expat), if you're poor you're an immigrant.
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Just a bigot and their incestuous family.
See I can be hyperbolic too.
Funny as I live in Manchester, a major city and I see great schools and lots of integration. After all it’s the ex-pats who came to live here that clean up after riots and bombs, not us natives.
kinda sounds like you're the one who doesn't want to integrate
Good to know your racism is working out for you.