"Anarchy!" screams the caption of a photo of a group of police apprehending a couple of people.
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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"
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.
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.
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.
I just looked out of the window and I can confirm: we’ve not fallen ( Luxemburg).
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.
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.
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.
Sky News Australia is complete batshit, as opposed to Sky News in the UK which is more "normal" mainstream news.
It is very interesting to compare Sky News in the UK vs Australia.
Sky News UK is a relatively normal news channel. That is because UK broadcasting is governed by codes of conduct and Ofcom (the governing body) can reprimand, heavily fine or shut down channels which violate its rules. The rules require fairness, impartiality, the right of reply and other safeguards in news reporting.
Sky News Australian is rabidly far right channel that exaggerates and lies about everything. It punches down on minorities because of religion, ethnicity, sexuality or any other reason and does so with impunity. It is not required to be fair or impartial and never is. That is because Australia has no similar code of conduct.
So the issue here is Australia needs to get its broadcasting rules sorted out.
Has it stopped the nonsense of GB News? YouTube loves pushing their videos and they've very similar thumbnails.
Sky News UK isn't a Murdoch operation anymore and the Aussie one is. That's the main difference.
If the UK were entirely owned by Murdoch it would still be compliant otherwise it would have been fined out of the wazoo. Ofcom isn't fucking around when it expects news reporting to be impartial.
The planetary ecosystem is undergoing a K-T scale mass extinction. Isn't that enough for everyone?
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 equivalent to Fox or GB News.
Yep, also free to air in rural parts of the country. Murdoch knows what he's doing.
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.
Old Rupert making shit up? SAY IT ISN'T SO!
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.
Sky news in Australia is far worse than Fox in the US. It’s little more than a shout box for small minded racists.
Sky news be like:
~~Europe~~ London Has Fallen
shows random clip from the movie
its also owned by murdoch. they always have that creepy indian anchor with the wierd smile on all the time.
What, Priti Patel is a newsreader now?
Rupert Murdoch is proof that being an evil son of a bitch makes you practically immortal
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.
mfks living in a utopia and scream the end of the world when they see a black person, ok
Victorian here, i see our african gangs are on the move
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.)
I can imagine an Auzzie tabloid running that story if that happened England, in part for funsies, but what's the beef with Europe?
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.
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.