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I prefer non-bio. Only non-original jokes here please. Oh and YNWA.

[Thanos Angelopoulos @Th_Angelopoulos]

This post/segment is a textbook example of the populism it warns about in the final line.

It follows the following technique:

It opens with a genuinely horrible crime with specific documented causes.

Then, without pausing,
it slides into theme park discounts for people on benefits.

Then fare evasion.

By the third paragraph you've moved from Nowak's killing to someone not buying a train ticket, and they're presented as symptoms of the same disease.

That's a grievance smoothie with 0 analytical and rational coherence.

It blends a real injustice with petty resentments for working class people and people in poverty until they're indistinguishable, then serve it under "two-tier Britain" so the audience feels everything is connected without having to explain how.

Notice what's missing:

0 policy analysis.

0 investigation to identify the causes.

0 evidence-based data-backed solutions.

Just "ordinary, law-abiding, tax-paying people".

That's the category everyone puts themselves in, from convicted criminals, like Robinson, to my 85 year old neighbour who makes the best scones in Edinburgh.

And it's that "ordinary, law-abiding, tax-paying people" group pitched against an unnamed "them".

That's populism. Not the populism he's warning about at the end. The populism he's doing, right now, in this post by identifying a virtuous in-group, a parasitic out-group, flattens every problem into a single narrative of victimhood, and offers nothing except the feeling that someone finally said it.

PS: Britain, like 99,999999% of all societies that ever existed, has always been a two-tier system; it's called the class system.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

An unelected Lord, appointed “antisemitism adviser”, now feels entitled or even qualified to explain antisemitism to a Jewish national party leader.

To add to all this - he's not Jewish.

Truly rabbit hole stuff.

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@Jennings18Karl @handsdealts @1goodtern The police at the airport are armed, so what's your fucking point? Did that stop this violence against these officers?

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@Jennings18Karl @1goodtern Why? No need at all. You will see more deaths, not less.

[🐢🐢🐢 [email protected] @HarlemJ11]

@Phil_Lewis_ Let em drink it!
Don’t stop them!
Natural selection it’s called

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@Phil_Lewis_ It was probably the raw milk that they consumed. That's probably what made them ill.

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@OyVeyPope @antisemitism The opposite is true.

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@BurkeHellibee @beffybadbelly Ha, I thought the same! Yours is better, although I think the last one would have to be beef-cattle.

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@beffybadbelly As well as tuna fish, as opposed to what, tuna-pork?

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

People show you examples of discrimination against Jews and it’s somebody wearing a watermelon pin or saying “from the river to the sea”. People show you examples of discrimination against Arabs and it’s families being burned alive in Palestine and Lebanon with western backing.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

It’s almost like he’s a misogynistic white supremacist

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@weegieguy @medialens @RonTannert Yes. Are you stupid?

[Media Lens @medialens]

Good question, Ron. Obviously, there is an Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect in London. If UHI and tarmac were the primary drivers of extreme temperature records, Heathrow should consistently blow Kew Gardens out of the water. Yet, on hot summer days, Kew and Heathrow routinely record temperatures within fractions of a degree of each other. Why? Because during an intense summer heatwave, regional atmospheric dynamics completely dominate local ground features.

But critics misunderstand when UHI actually operates. Concrete, brick, and tarmac act like thermal batteries. They absorb heat during the day and release it slowly at night. Because of this, the Urban Heat Island effect is strongest at night and during the winter. On a calm summer night, central London can be up to 5°C to 10°C warmer than the surrounding rural countryside because the city is radiating stored heat. However, national heat records are broken in the mid-to-late afternoon (usually between 3:00 PM and 4:00 PM). At this time of day, the sun has been baking the entire region equally for hours. The air is mixing violently due to convection (rising hot air), which essentially blends the lower atmosphere across dozens of miles.

The afternoon UHI signature in London during a major heatwave drops significantly—often to less than 0.2°C to 0.5°C. Rothamsted and Coningsby are surrounded by open fields, crops, and dirt, completely isolated from London's urban sprawl. Yet they recorded temperatures identical to, or even hotter than, Heathrow and Kew.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

I love how this segment is all about the Jewish community fighting "record levels of antisemitism" but exactly zero antisemitism happens anywhere in this segment. A guy gets frightened by a Jewish woman telling him the Shomrim are coming and they have guns. People are scared that a fire is an act of antisemitic terrorism but it turns out it's just an electrical fire. Someone's car temporarily stalled in front of a Jewish person's house. An imam says he's disturbed by a Jewish man taking photos of him. That's it. Nothing happens. It's an entire news segment about absolutely nothing happening, reported in a solemn and urgent tone.

[Roy Sholay 🇲🇺🦤 @ephemeral1107]

One of the two men charged with public order offences outside the police station in Southampton has been charged with possession of a knife.
Imagine being such a prick that you go to protest knife crime by carrying a concealed knife. And why would you if it was “peaceful”?

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

The IDF has been accused of horrific war crimes in Gaza by the UN Human Rights Council & Amnesty International.

It is just common sense that those involved in war crimes should be held to account.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Sky News ran a segment about how a Jewish volunteer group is on the streets fighting "record levels of antisemitism", and zero antisemitism occurs anywhere in the entire segment. It's just a group of thugs cruising around intimidating non-Jews by impersonating law enforcement.

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@let_part @Heccles94 Ah, that makes more sense! Thank you.

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@icylin36 @doctor_rahmeh @SkyNews @LisaatSky "Don't Gaza, start Germany, wars Japan"

What the fuck does that mean you genocide-apologist clown?!

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@swiveleyed24 @jeremycorbyn Yeah, so maybe we shouldn't waste money on illegal wars in the middle east, on behalf of Israel? Just a thought.