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Hey if you’re struggling to get your Antifa membership card renewed let me know, I work at head office.

Usually I’m organising boycotts of innocent local businesses who are just exercising their right to be American, but I know the guy that handles the membership assignments.

Don’t worry, it’s not the Conservatives, it’s the Labour Government implementing this!

Good thing Labour will never be anything like the Tories amirite fellow chokers?

If the fascists do attack Europe, it will be with overwhelming force across the ocean to destroy us, rather than invasion. I don’t really see a way we win that.

Sure, we could fight back with our own nukes, but they number in the hundreds, and the USA is too large for that few to truly end the threat of renewed attacks :-(

Aye, in terms of actual numbers there was a small hard right in Germany in the 1930s…

Sometimes you can seize power as a minority if you’re sneaky and underhanded enough, or if your opponent is complacent and weak.

People are easily fooled into acting against their own interests and helping their enemies defeat them (Brexit being an obvious recent example).

dial tcp4 81.91.32.40:0->144.64.198.203:80: connect: connection timed out

That’s the website I keep seeing crop up here that never seems to work. Ah well.

Fuckin Cylons, man.

Who are the GOP?

Murderous fascists gonna murder fascistly.

If ya liiiiiike a lotta chocolate on ya biscuit go somewhere else

Ah yes, what a lovely content not viewable

Pacific Rim. Building giant robots to fight large creatures… Ridiculous, but fantastic film!

You… you know those are fiction, r-right?

“little Greta”

…ew. Who talks about an adult woman like that in the news?!

It’s strange seeing an article in something like the New York Times about my city. I’d have thought they wouldn’t have much interest in what goes on in Manchester just in general! They never seem to care about us. Usually it feels like Americans think London is the entire UK.

Bloody windy here today anyway, that’s my local news update, bit of a storm passing through, so it’s a day of rain and gusty galey winds sadly. A real change compared to the crazy warm sunny dry year we’ve had so far! Winter is finally approaching I suppose…

I wanted to move to Jellyfin, but there isn’t an app for it on the LG WebOS library like there is for Plex, so I wouldn’t be able to watch stuff on my TV, which sadly makes it useless for me :-(

I don’t have the money to be going out and buying extra add-ons for my TV to watch stuff either, sadly. So, Plex it is for now!

If you’re against fascism, you’re now an enemy of the state.

Better start doing Nazi things to hide your true anti-fascist terrorist feelings, so you don’t get arrested!

Honestly, there’s too many school shootings to keep track of over there, it’s basically just routine now. Awful as it sounds, reporting on them seems as pointless as reporting on motorway crashes - they keep happening regardless and are horrible preventable tragedies, but are limited in scope of their effect on a national or international scale.

High profile political activist assassinations are far less frequent though, and far more impactful on that country and potentially on an international scale depending on how the country adjusts it’s policies or social norms (it’s not a good thing I know, but they have become jaded to shootings in their schools and barely bat an eye when it happens on a national scale any more, so it doesn’t really affect anything worth reporting on over here).

So, I can understand why one would get more attention than another, even if it’s not remotely just or fair.

But yes, I can’t imagine why our government would offer condolences or anything positive towards that fascist’s memory or family. We’re not afraid of calling a spade a spade over here, but our government isn’t exactly stellar, alas.

I have long hoped that they would sort out their school slaughter problem, it’s ridiculous that they’ve built and maintain a society that not only allows it to happen in any but the rarest most extreme of circumstances, but that they aren’t interested in fixing the issue enough to actually make meaningful change.

Heck, I see them installing special equipment to slow down gunmen, I see them trying to arm their teachers (insanity), and give kids bullet proof backpacks and such. It all sounds ridiculous looking in from the outside so I don’t know how much of that is even true, but it seems they’re trying to treat the symptoms not the cause :-(

Anyway yeah, our current government sucks, I certainly didn’t vote for them. Their stances on a great many things don’t represent my views.

Now hold on, the United Kingdom’s Labour government in all their infinite wisdom and omnipotent godlike knowledge just concluded that there is no genocide there, so who do I believe?!

They were allowing kids to use phones in classrooms up to that point…?

When I went to school, if you were seen with your phone out during class it was confiscated until the end of the day. And back then all you could use them for was texting anyway haha.

Anything that might distract from the lesson would be treated the same way, that’s just basic sense for any teacher.

Why would teachers stop caring about phones in classrooms, especially given how famously addictive and problematic to attention etc we now know them to be?

49% chance the world will end in just 25 years

Giant meteor coming to wipe out all of the world’s life?

predicted civilisation could collapse by 2050

Oh, so just the collapse of current civilisation. That’s happened many, many times already.

While not a good thing for those experiencing it, consider this. As we look back on previous civilisations, would we consider ours to generally be the best up to now? I’d say so. Perhaps what comes next will be even better.

The collapse of a particularly large civilisation is usually a slow affair that is difficult even to spot from the inside as it’s happening (consider the slow crumbling of the USA currently for example).

So while it is a period of turmoil and not a small amount of suffering, it’s not like everybody is going to die and humanity will go extinct, or anything.