Good thing these four cops are surrounding him in handcuffs. He's obviously making up a huge threat here. Sane and normal.

At least the lawyer is calling them out for being weird as fuck.

Likewise, Luigi Mangione came from a background of privilege, yet gave it all up in the fight for the rights of all Americans.

Turns out you can be born into the working class and still be a piece of shit, and you can be born well off and still be a decent person.

The people writing these opinion pieces should be thrilled to hear that there is still hope for their children.

The US is a walking cautionary tale. I really hope the rest of us learn from it in time to forcefully reject this shit before it hits the fan here as well.

Ugh, that's not worth the watch. They're still kissing his ass for dear life, they just had to change into different programming. The article made it sound as if Fox News for a brief moment recognized that Trump is huge senile weirdo. They did not.

I feel dirty for having watched that. What a sleezy bunch of corporate assholes.

As one cannot view Twitter without an account there, I sort of tend to assume everybody have left it by now. It's crazy to me that this is not the case.

Norwegians are generally leaning pro-Palestine.

In a recent survey, 46% of Norwegians responded that they have more sympathy with Palestinians, whereas only 12% have more sympathy with Israelis. 32% responded that their sympathy with Palestinians has increased in light of recent events.

I can imagine several reasons why Norway is so different from for example Germany and France in this regard.

One is that we have a pretty well-organized civil society, including an organized Jewish community that is actively outspoken about Israeli extremism. My impression is that leading voices in the Mosaic community in Norway are frequently outspoken on the side of humanity.

Another reason is of course that we are still bitter about the collapse of the Oslo Accords. There's simply no question Israel were the ones who killed it.

Even before this, Israel might have had less goodwill in Norway following the Lillehammer affair where Mossad murdered some random waiter who was on his way home from the cinema with his pregnant wife. One of the agents involved in placing 13 bullets in Ahmed Bouchikhi has since stated that they knew they were shooting the wrong man.

More importantly however, it probably relates to the story we tell ourselves as a nation.

We're in all likelihood prouder of our war efforts than most of Europe, and certainly more than pro-Israeli countries like Germany and France. A lot of us (myself included) have family members who helped Jews flee the country following the occupation, at the risk of death penalty should they get caught.

The author of our national anthem took active part in the Dreyfus affair, among other things writing in a French newspaper that the French government was the "most shameless of any civilized people".

Other important national poets dedicated their lives to giving Jews right to statehood, wrote poems urging people to wake the fuck up to the horrors of nazism, or died bombing Berlin.

These people, among others, make up the core of what we consider Norwegian national identity. As a result the average Norwegian might be less afraid of criticizing Israel than the average German (or French), as we consider ourselves to be firmly footed on the right side of history.

Of course, history is more complicated than that. A lot of us will simply not read Hamsun, and never mind that Jews had to be allowed into the Kingdom in the first place. History is complicated, but the stories we choose to tell and the ways we choose to frame them matters a lot.

Also, Norwegians are pretty left-leaning, and we put a lot of effort promoting ourselves as a peace nation. Probably doesn't hurt either.

Here's a Peertube mirror, timestamped at the shout-out to Mastodon and Peertube:

https://peertube2.cpy.re/w/rq6WfwnQTiHfpoWhURLNBS?start=25m14s

Israel is withdrawing their diplomats from Norway. I guess that means random Norwegian civilians are slightly safer today than they were yesterday.

Good riddance and get fucked.

I also love that handful of owl from the source post.

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Anymore? The onion is, and always has been, dead serious.

Don't forget, Germany had the right to defend itself.

One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter, and vice versa.

Terrorism is violence in order to spread fear. The poor CEOs are shitting themselves right now.

Problem is, generally it's defined as violence against civilians. I'm not sure billionaires fit that category.

I don't think anyone is making the point that it's literally the exact same thing.

But what we're witnessing is that Israel can bomb a civilian population to rubble for months and months, and all the intensional community can stutter out is that they "have a right to defend themselves".

Now they are bombing a foreign capital and sending in ground troops to their neighbouring country to fight off a militia that they themselves are responsible for creating by invading in the past, and we know exactly what the chorus will be. Right to defend themselves.

We will see our Lebanese friends and their families murdered, all for Israel's right to defend themselves.

In Germany, the line was that they would stop at Poland. People make up different excuses for different atrocities.

I think a lot of people are rightfully fucking tired of excuses, and that's the point. Not that it's literally the same thing.

Oh no! Somebody organized to further the interests of the free and open internet, and they didn't invite me even though I was active on some IRC channel in 1995!

Cry me a fucking river.

Good thing we have no history of killing women until this point! Never happens!

I guess that's why war is so popular - we just famously never murder any women. Much like ordinary day to day life, really.

Sure is good no women are being murdered.

Just imagine the optics. Surely we would care. Like, a lot.

The fact that you believe these platforms were the same before and after these events makes it sound like you were not, in fact, there to see it happen. In my experience, it permanently changed both platforms, transforming them from weird niche sites to genuine alternatives.

That said, what you find interesting or not is not any of my business.

The Swedish BBC, SVT, has a better write up on this that can be ran through whatever translation service your heart desires.

The biggest lie the "European Conservative" is pushing seems to be that they are police staff: The concerned individuals are police students, yet "European Conservative" doesn't mention the word student even once. The students have since been expelled.

It seems at least some already associated with criminal networks when they applied for the police academy.

I'm the first to say that Swedish policing looks like amateur hour at times, but this is just disinformation. I suspect the "European Conservative" is neither European nor conservative.

I agree completely that Hezbollah makes up a huge problem, and after their involvement in Syria there's not a hint of legitimacy left in the organization if there ever was any.

But one would do well that to remember their origins: They are what's left of the resistance from the last time Israel invaded Lebanon. So that's what a great fucking success that was.

And Hezbollah are not Lebanon. They control territory, and they need to be fought, but this in not how one fights terrorist organizations. This is how you create terrorist organizations. Which is exactly what Israel did the last time they invaded.