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”
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”
Don’t they got paid and choose to do it.
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!
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.
Speaking of european news I was in Southeast asia when the Spanish blackout happened and they didn’t report it.
I’m assuming you were talking about the London riots, there were a few days of violence but it was only idiots who were after a free TV and PlayStation, and of course the one unimaginative guy who famously stole some rice and then posted about it on Facebook. But of course no one has any guns so once the police turn up everyone tends to calm down.
I was in a bar in the middle of the riot watching them run up and down to stay away from the police. They did manage to set fire to Miss Selfridge though!
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.
I’m not working today, yet I’m still being paid thanks to employment law ensuring full paid time off.
No, obviously we’d be much better under the American style hyper-capitalist system. Especially now.
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You pay for your doctor visit with taxes. It wasn’t free.
Europe is a big place, France is in heavy crisis because of their debt. Torre Pacheco in Spain has some immigrant issues (almost 30% of it’s population it’s non-eu immigrants)
no fucking shit. Everyone knows it was paid for by taxes, but it’s still significantly cheaper than paying for it up front like you would in america.
Just pointing out it’s not free. That’s how you get government official saying public money belongs to no one.
Edit. I never did the math on which costs me more money but it’s around 2k for public healthcare in Spain per person, but my employer pays for my private healthcare (if I add another person is about 40€, including dental which public healthcare doesn’t cover everything), but also if I have to get surgery they would send me to the public one…
No it was free, see my previous comment.
Wild thing about this line of argument is that it almost solely comes out of american mouths, you know the place that pays more per capita then anyother nation on health care.
You pay for your doctor visit with taxes.
Oh you’re one of them. Real relation that you’re providing everyone there.
Except it’s actually not strictly speaking true, yeah everyone pays some taxes and some of those taxes go to healthcare but it’s not a separate tax, it’s just part of the tax everyone pays. Some of it goes to healthcare, but some of it goes to road maintenance, some the police. It’s all just in a big lump of tax.
It’s not as if your tax rate goes up depending on your health. You pay the same amount of tax regardless of your current medical status so to say you pay for health with tax is a rather disingenuous.
No shit! Happy to pay taxes to keep healthcare public.
Me too, but I don’t consider what I pay for “free” and I pay respect and value a lot what costs me money too.
In fact I wouldn’t mind paying more taxes for even better services.
It’s good to be considerate with money indeed. Better services are there though, but private in most cases, at least there is the alternative.
Plenty of people, like students and old people, who didn’t pay taxes because they don’t have income. Who still get the same service.
To them it is free.
Also, even if your statistic isn’t made up (which I doubt), why should it matter that 30% are non-eu immigrants? Are they not allowed to live there or something?
Students sure, but everyone that is an adult pays for that. Elder people already paid for that their whole live.
why should it matter that 30% are non-eu immigrants? Are they not allowed to live there or something?
Of course they are allowed, as long as they are legal but they are also being allowed being illegal. And the point of that reply was to point you can’t expect 30% population increase and no crime increase so the population that was living there is experiencing more crime than before.
some immigrant issues (almost 30% of it’s population it’s non-eu immigrants)
Do elaborate.
Total population: 41.684 National Population: 28.780 EU population: 977 Non-eu population: 11.92739% crime increase in 2022, 4,1% increase in 2025. 10,7% increase in robberies, more sexual related crimes.
The population has grown over 60% since the start of this century. Most of that immigrant population is from Maghreb. Some are illegal but the exact number is unknown. The current protests began when 4 illegal immigrants beat an elder man.
You to know that correlation does not equal causation, right?
“Europe is about to fall, the end is near”
Sorry, I can’t stand it not hitting the thing.
You’re a saint
I’ve never seen this before holy shit that’s awesome
I’m embarrassed at how many times i watched that thinking it wasn’t a looping clip.
The planetary ecosystem is undergoing a K-T scale mass extinction. Isn’t that enough for everyone?
No no you see it has to be something we can blame minorities for /s
My most hopeful take is that now that the global oligarchy is multi-ethnic and multi-racial, this narrative is on its last legs. Alternatively, we can pivot it from regular minorities to billionaire minorities.
Yeah but its not a cool apocalypse with like, zombies… or caused by brown people that we can wage a big war against.
Its caused by the vroomvroom juice we really really love, and thus must be ignored at all costs.
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.
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.
It is not conservative news. It is propaganda
Yes but crimes are done by foreigners so it’s different. /s
Old Rupert making shit up? SAY IT ISN’T SO!
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:
EuropeLondon Has Fallenshows random clip from the movie
The only entertaining part of that film is when another Scotsman appears and Gerard Butler has to fight to keep his real accent under control.
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?
Anarchy in Europe? I wish!
I’d much prefer anarchism.
You and me both, pardner
