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[-] unmagical@lemmy.ml 144 points 1 week ago

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

[-] MudMan@fedia.io 124 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] VeganCheesecake 22 points 1 week ago

Europe = One town in Spain.

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[-] notsosure@sh.itjust.works 79 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 62 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

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[-] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 74 points 1 week ago

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!

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 63 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Saleh@feddit.org 20 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 week ago

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.

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[-] brisk@aussie.zone 11 points 1 week ago

The reality is not better, but the "fauna" thing is a common myth

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[-] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Bro I've spent some time in South Texas and conservatives don't know there has been a border wall since mid 00s.

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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.

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 week 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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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 45 points 1 week ago

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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[-] squaresinger@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago

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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[-] Zezzoz@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago

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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[-] hsr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 week ago

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

[-] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Sorry, I can't stand it not hitting the thing.

[-] reptar@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

You're a saint

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[-] rustyfish@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] zout@fedia.io 14 points 1 week ago

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).

[-] rustyfish@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

And here I was thinking I can’t dislike that woman even more.

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[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 24 points 1 week ago

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

[-] ilovepiracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 week ago

Yep, also free to air in rural parts of the country. Murdoch knows what he's doing.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

It is not conservative news. It is propaganda

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[-] Amberskin@europe.pub 21 points 1 week ago

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

[-] ZMoney@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] Redfox8@mander.xyz 15 points 1 week ago

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

[-] mhague@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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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[-] bluetardis@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week 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.

[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago

Sky news be like:

~~Europe~~ London Has Fallen

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[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago

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.

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[-] aeternum 14 points 1 week ago

Old Rupert making shit up? SAY IT ISN'T SO!

[-] Bigfishbest@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] SparrowHawk@feddit.it 13 points 1 week ago

Anarchy in Europe? I wish!

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[-] don@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week 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.

[-] potato_wallrus@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Luisp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 12 points 1 week ago

Victorian here, i see our african gangs are on the move

[-] Nbard@aussie.zone 12 points 1 week ago

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.)

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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Europe Has Fallen! Gangs Run Rampant!

Cops_Harassing_Shirtless_Guy.jpg

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