Out of the area? No, just round and around the floor. That’s not how police move people when they’re trying to clear an area. It’s like watching children brawling more than a professional force tasked with securing an airport.
They’re either highly incompetent and overly comfortable with violence or were trying to send a message, because their violence was highly disproportionate with the “offense” committed.
And what part of repeatedly beating with a stick is forcible removal?
They didn’t drag them out of the way, they beat them where they were. Making no attempt to remove them, just repeatedly brutalise them. The arrivals gate became even more congested, not less. Law enforcement created a security incident themselves by acting like barbaric idiots instead of a professional force.
Did you read the article? Do you understand how modern engagement and propaganda through anger works?
This news piece amplifies the voices of the bigots. Yes it may be in ridicule but it still allows their views to take up space in our limited attention. In fact, it may not even be amplifying real bigots views because it only quotes X which famously has a large amount of bot manufactured content.
This video explains why reverse ragebait does a cause a disservice and amplifies the opponent as much as it promotes your side.
Brexit is a perfect example, it was a niche view that David Cameron allowed a referendum on because he thought it would be beaten with ease. But suddenly it divides everyone and they must choose a stance. A near 50/50 split happened. Morrison’s have made the choice to install these bins, there’s no mention of them removing them, only what twats on X have said.
So yes, I’m upset at reverse ragebait because a news organisation should have a far better understanding of how journalism and propaganda are intertwined. How reporting on this story in this manner makes trans people less safe by broadcasting and therefore normalising intolerant views.
Aye it’s not the first time I’ve seen reverse ragebait from Pink News. They’re striving for clicks and views as much as the rest, just with a different angle.
UK records hottest day of year
It’s almost as if the days get warmer in late spring…
Shite headlines like this are the kind of thing that fuel climate sceptics.
Does that justify grievous bodily harm?
Caesar urges Colosseum to make Circus final free to watch.
Context:
Roman practice of providing free wheat to Roman citizens (the Annona) as well as costly circus games and other forms of entertainment as a means of gaining political power. In much modern literature, this represents the Annona as a “briberous and corrupting attempt of the Roman emperors to cover up the fact that they were selfish and incompetent tyrants”.[8]
You could say that…
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage had a Five Guys milkshake thrown over him in Newcastle upon Tyne on 20 May 2019 by a 32-year-old Brexit opponent,[12] who was arrested by police at the scene for common assault.[13] Farage later blamed the rise of milkshaking on “radicalised Remainers” and said that it disrupted campaigning.[14] A spoof JustGiving campaign was set up to crowdfund the purchase of a new suit for Farage following the milkshaking, while instead donating its proceeds to a cancer charity.[15] A few days later, Farage was reportedly trapped on his campaign bus after arriving in Kent to speak to supporters, as a group of people holding milkshakes watched nearby.[16] In June 2019, Farage’s milkshaker pleaded guilty to common assault and criminal damage to Farage’s microphone, and was given 150 hours of unpaid work and ordered to pay £520.[17] An online fundraiser raised more than £650 to cover this cost, within hours of sentencing.[17]
A McDonald’s restaurant in Edinburgh was asked by local police to stop selling the drink during Nigel Farage’s campaign visit in May 2019.[18] Burger King responded on Twitter by advertising its milkshakes in Scotland.[2]
In June 2024, whilst campaigning as Reform UK’s candidate in the Clacton constituency for the 2024 general election Nigel Farage was hit with a McDonald’s banana milkshake thrown by a 25-year-old woman who was later arrested.[36]
Didn’t know that, ta!
Huh, TIL. Ta!
What does (Designate) mean?
It’s not that simple.
This is what The Institution of Engineering and Technology has to say:
Another one of this genius’ great takes:
I don’t think the downvoters understand your comment.
Germany was greatly destroyed in WW2, much of their housing stock was built post WW2. That didn’t happen in the UK, the Blitz didn’t destroy a huge amount of national housing stock, only specific pockets.
We have lots of Georgian and Victorian housing which has had upgrades over the years of vastly varying standards and quality. My wiring certainly isn’t up to scratch.
Breaker boxes, or fuse boxes as they used to be, aren’t designed to protect humans from electrocution as many believe. They’re designed to prevent house fires. If things don’t go as planned electricity can very easily melt wire insulation and start fires. Can we trust every homes wiring that could have been installed anywhere between 1920 and now to still be safe when used in a different configuration than normal? Current spikes in ring mains that have never had that much current before?
I’m all for the increase of solar power, but this needs to be done very carefully or people will die in preventable house fires.
Edit: to be clear, I am for these panels but unless the home was built in the last 20 years it should be thoroughly inspected before any work is done and done so by a qualified person. I’ve been out the industry for a long time now but there are ways of testing wiring insulation such as these meters by Megger.
I’ve read the original report that the Guardian story is based on now and despite having more detail it still reads very weird.
There’s something either being omitted or embellished.
Like the assailants and victim may have known each other but for some reason the victim isn’t disclosing that. Fuck knows. It’s shite being on the receiving end of a beating though, hopefully they recover soon.
The group added: “The Ministry of Justice and the government must ensure the courts are properly resourced so that any prosecutions linked to Grenfell are heard swiftly. Justice delayed any further would be unacceptable.”
Too fucking right. Justice delayed is justice denied and it’s already been almost 9 years.
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Inner city nights, I cannot sleep
Oh Candy, sweetest remedy
Only you can ease my troubled dreams
What? That story makes absolutely no sense.
A Jewish man stepped outside to “make a phone call” and just by pure chance a group of antisemitic thugs happened to be walking past and instinctively somehow knew this man was Jewish and beat him up so lightly that the police could interview the victim within 6 minutes of the incident and proceeded to not take him to the hospital so he visited of his own volition?
Firstly it smells of bollocks, secondly since when has street beatings become national news? They’re usually lucky to make local news, let alone national. Could it be somebody is trying to push a propaganda narrative? Hmm…
Oh aye, we’re fucked. Shite journalistic choices like this though don’t help the cause. If we’ve any hope of reversing course it requires all hands on deck, and a decent chunk of the population still scoff at the seriousness of climate change because they see titles like this and dismiss it straight away. That was my point.