“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.
Bro I’ve spent some time in South Texas and conservatives don’t know there has been a border wall since mid 00s.
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.
Everywhere in Cali must look like the beginning of Predator 2. Frankly it’s amazing that any infants survive to gang member age.
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”
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 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!
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.
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.
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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)
no fucking shit. Everyone knows it was paid for by taxes, but it’s still significantly cheaper than paying for it up front like you would in america.
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.
You pay for your doctor visit with taxes.
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.
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.
some immigrant issues (almost 30% of it’s population it’s non-eu immigrants)
Do elaborate.
Total population: 41.684 National Population: 28.780 EU population: 977 Non-eu population: 11.92739% 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?
Sky News in Australia is equivalent to Fox or GB News.
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.
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.
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.
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
We did our immigrant hysteria 20 years ago. Nobody is talking about it now, and it would not be beneficial for the right to start, so no its not that because no party gives a fuck.
Racism.
