We bombed a civilian water supply (pretty sure that’s a war crime, not that they’ll care), they’ve completely shut the Strait, Trump threatened a massive strike threatening to seize some oil/infrastructure - best guess was Kharg Island. Now that’s off, again - at least not until he gets his late night drug fix and riled up by Fox.

Hunh. You know how he keeps flip-flopping on what he’s planning to do? I wonder if that’s because there are different news/opinion hosts on the weekends.

Sorry for the links to hellsite, but:

Here’s a video of a masked mob going down a Belfast street, trying and sometimes succeeding in breaking down doors to get into houses of suspected immigrants. And here’s one where they set a vehicle on fire and sent it down the street.

Edit: add in this video of people who set fire to a stopped van and push it down the road so it can crash into - well, whatever it happens to hit, I guess, not their problem …

If you google for more Belfast videos, make sure to specify something like “mobs”, “fires”, “riots”, etc, as the video of the second stabbing is fairly prevalent online.

The Wikipedia article is getting updated regularly, but is obviously not as polished as events are still evolving.

Ugh. Okay, so: last December, Henry Nowak (a dual UK-Polish citizen) was stabbed by Vickrum Singh Digwa (a UK-born UK citizen of the Sikh faith). After the altercation, Mr Nowak was handcuffed by the police, who did not believe he had been stabbed, and died on the sidewalk. Mr Digwa was convicted of the murder on June 1st, and the bodycam footage of Mr Nowak was released last week. The UK right-wing (and their foreign sponsors) have spent several months using the incident to help foster anti-immigrant sentiment.

A couple days ago, a Sudanese man living in Belfast stabbed his neighbor, a disabled man named Stephen Ogilvie. Right-wing figures claim that it was an attempted beheading; I do not know enough details of the attack to definitively refute that, but believe it unlikely. Elon Musk, himself an immigrant of dubious origins and even more questionable beliefs, echoed the calls from various UK right-wing figures for anti-immigrant protests, with at least one figure saying, “Do not make peace with evil. Destroy it.”

Mobs formed, some going down streets and breaking into houses where they suspected immigrants were living. They torched cars and sent them rolling down the street, stole a bus and set it on fire, etc. The UK right wing (as far as I can tell) appears to be doing little (if anything) to de-escalate the situation. It is not a good time to be a visible minority in parts of Ireland, Scotland, or the UK.

The gentleman in this video is attempting to show one of the masked mobs in the streets, and is promptly attacked for being a visible minority.

No, but thank you. I honestly just wanted to thank you for all the work you’ve put in to create and maintain the instance and let the rest of us play here, and congratulate you on your instance’s birthday :) Thank you so much for improving the fediverse!

He’s saying it because he thinks he can get more concessions from both countries if he threatens to tank the deal.

Man is asked about inflation and says the hit to the stock market was worth it. The man literally does not understand inflation.

What a fantastic picture - thank you for sharing it!

Congratulations, to Lemmy.zip and to the upcoming winners! I’m not a member, but I appreciate your hard work and dedication to keeping the servers up and running these past years - you make the fediverse a better place. Thank you, and congratulations again!

Edit: no! Please delete entry #12 (and I’m not eligible anyway)! I just wanted to say thanks and congratulations! :(

The FCC is proposing the data collection partly as a way to combat scammers

Lol, that’ll never happen, it’s just part of the domestic surveillance network.

Conveniently, that give billion dollars for “unforseen costs” will nicely cover both the one billion for the ballroom and the 1.8 billion treason payment fund.

Google translation of the text under the post

DON’T EXPECT good news 1:38 ‼️I was expecting a call from the kindergarten, but received an offer to sign a contract.

Nadezhda Bondareva, a resident of the Kaliningrad region, reported an unusual call she received shortly after her child was enrolled in kindergarten. At first, she thought it was another call about registration, but they introduced themselves as employees of the military registration and enlistment office. They offered to sign a contract, promising a payment of approximately 3.1 million rubles.

She claims she immediately declined the offer, but her answer was not accepted.

“To which I immediately said: ‘No, thank you, I’m not interested.’ They immediately cut me off, didn’t let me finish my sentence, and asked me to try anyway.”

Instead, she was told that the final decision would have to be confirmed later—preferably by appearing in person at the military registration and enlistment office and writing a statement of acceptance or refusal. Furthermore, during the conversation, the officers inquired whether any adult men were living with her.

The woman was particularly perplexed by the fact that she, with no connection to the military or medical fields, received this offer. She was also informed of a government program that, if she signed the contract, would supposedly guarantee her child care and supervision. This raised questions about the practice of such requests and the criteria used to select citizens for such offers.

Texas, the One Star State.

There’s a saying that I’m probably misquoting, to the effect of “it is very difficult for a person to believe something is wrong when their livelihood depends on it being right”. He sells about $160,000 a day in various raw milk products; he will never believe that he’s wrong.

Right. This from the guy who thinks neurodivergent people and people with mental health or addiction issues should be sent to rural “wellness farms” to detox, work hard and be “re-parented” until they’re ready to “fit in” with “society”.

I’m sure that nothing bad will happen once they get their hands on that data, that it will be perfectly anonymized, won’t be used in other “research” or sent on to other departments, we should just trust them …

If you see something like this again, tell us. We rely on your feedback and vigilance.

Or … you could ensure something like this doesn’t happen again yourselves. It’s not our job to police your social media purchases.

Plus, it seems like you were notified and got feedback - just that it happened way more publicly than you wanted. Which again, isn’t our problem to deal with.

he’s like most of his [Conservative] clients, who “feel like they can’t talk politics with people on their street.”

There’s a difference between “talking politics” and red-faced screaming at people that they’re evil and don’t deserve to exist, threatening people walking by with assault rifles, hunting down and murdering a jogger, spitting on people wearing masks, etc.

They also want to be somewhere they don’t feel judged for their political beliefs […] they really feel like they’re alone, alienated, ostracized,"

See prior comment. They want to be racist, sexist, homophobic, fascist, assholes, and they don’t want to get any pushback for being racist, sexist, homophobic, fascist assholes.

As for the buildings, maybe we’ll see some creative uses like indoor farms or something.

Nope, though I admire your optimism. They’ll get repurposed into concentration camps.

That’s the title on the cover. The title of the article inside the magazine is

How to fight back against Gen-Z socialism

The me-first doctrine is a threat to prosperity

Link to article; link to archived article.

The core of their argument seems to be:

they broadly agree on three core principles. First, that growth does little to help ordinary people. Theirs is a zero-sum mindset, where a better outcome comes not from creating but from taking—as they fear ai barons will soon do on a vast scale. Second, that spending can be paid for by the richest. Once the left wanted higher taxes for everyone; Gen-Z socialists demand handouts funded by billionaires. The third tenet is a remarkable hostility to private enterprise. Gen-Z socialists are uninterested in letting the market rip and redistributing the proceeds. They would have chunks of everyday life, from housing to groceries, governed by state diktat.

designed to deter companies from becoming involved in a proposed West Bank settlement that would split the territory in two

Not deter Israel from stealing more territory, just deter companies from participating.

Private trackers?