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[–] 134 points 1 year ago

"Anarchy!" screams the caption of a photo of a group of police apprehending a couple of people.

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  • [–] 60 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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"

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  • [+] 42 points 1 year ago (8 children)
  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Curious, is this a joke? I'm not familiar with their broadcasts in Europe or Australia

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  • [+] 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    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

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 75 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    I just looked out of the window and I can confirm: we’ve not fallen ( Luxemburg).

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  • [–] 60 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

    here in Austria we have fallen (below 30°C)

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Lucky you. We're tomorrow at 41C.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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!

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  • [–] 68 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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!

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    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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  • [+] -11 points 1 year ago* (13 children)

    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)

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  • [–] -5 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    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...

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    No shit! Happy to pay taxes to keep healthcare public.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    some immigrant issues (almost 30% of it’s population it’s non-eu immigrants)

    Do elaborate.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago* (1 child)
    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.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    "Europe is about to fall, the end is near"

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    [–] 109 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    Sky news in Australia is far worse than Fox in the US. It’s little more than a shout box for small minded racists.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    I can imagine an Auzzie tabloid running that story if that happened England, in part for funsies, but what's the beef with Europe?

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    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."

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago

    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

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  • [+] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Anarchy in Europe? I wish!

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    mfks living in a utopia and scream the end of the world when they see a black person, ok

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Rupert Murdoch is proof that being an evil son of a bitch makes you practically immortal

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Sky News in Australia is equivalent to Fox or GB News.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    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).

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    West Norway, it's falling hard. Serious rainfall that is.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago*

    Europe Has Fallen! Gangs Run Rampant!

    Cops_Harassing_Shirtless_Guy.jpg

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    To add a little bit of context, what happened in Spain was actually the opposite: gangs of fascists terrorising immigrant communities.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    The planetary ecosystem is undergoing a K-T scale mass extinction. Isn't that enough for everyone?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    No no you see it has to be something we can blame minorities for /s

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    EUROPE HAS FALLEN

    AH IS OUT OF MY BRAND OF SOY MILK

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Australian media has fallen.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    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.

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