“Anarchy!” screams the caption of a photo of a group of police apprehending a couple of people.
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.
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 AM PLANNING A VACAY-CAYS. While on a proper mass transit. Vacaycays, I can afford them and I will be paid for days off.
I also cannot decide to which cultural event to go. There is like some open air cinema, with classics screening. Or go for a niche artsy stuff.
I think Europe is in a bad shape.
And nazi russia should rush in and just fucking raze it to the ground.
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.
No shit! Happy to pay taxes to keep healthcare public.
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.
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.
The reality is not better, but the “fauna” thing is a common myth
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.
Calling immigration detention facilities “concentration camps” is disingenuous
Someone hasn’t heard of Nauru and the Pacific Solution…
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 ;)
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.
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.
“Europe is about to fall, the end is near”
Sorry, I can’t stand it not hitting the thing.
You’re a saint
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.
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.
To add a little bit of context, what happened in Spain was actually the opposite: gangs of fascists terrorising immigrant communities.
Sky news in Australia is far worse than Fox in the US. It’s little more than a shout box for small minded racists.
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
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!
Sky news be like:
EuropeLondon Has Fallenshows random clip from the movie
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
Anarchy in Europe? I wish!
