Neither.

They’d have buses shuttling in OAPs until the minimum was met then shut it down.

Wouldn’t the world be rapidly conquered by some Thrud the Barbarian type leader then?

Inconceivable!

God demands equal justice!

It is material support for US and Israeli illegal warmongering.

It’s the Guardian. It’s been a mouthpiece of the UK intelligence services since they capitulated over the establishment push back it got over publishing the Snowden leaks. So nothing it prints with regard to Western hegemonic machinations can be trusted. Especially anything to do with supporting the US and Israel. Which is what they are clearly doing.

Operation Gladio.

Probably the same thing they thought when they were training and arming fascist terrorist groups throughout Europe…

“…We’re the good guys. He he he he.”

Side splitting isn’t it

Radio Free Asia up to its usual tricks I see.

US funded propaganda outfit seeds further outlandish attack pieces.

Maybe. But mostly it just looks like the boomerang effect.

Shocked. I am shocked. Shocked I tell you.

It was clearly fascism when Project 2025 was leaked.

Which goes to show that one of the mightiest weapons against the oligarchs turning the people against each other is the teaching of critical thinking in schools.

That’s why this cultural virus attacks teachers and coups education boards. The pay off is these automatons believing that there is a direct mirror between the egoless Dredd having the ultimate power to end a criminal’s life within the boundaries of a harsh but ultimately unprejudiced set of laws and their own prejudicial bloodthirsty fascism that constantly corrupts the law to suit their ingroup and individual needs.

Not to be overly Comic-book-guy but:

Judge Dredd is never portrayed killing someone for his own gratification in 2000AD. He isn’t racist, or to my knowledge, even a classist.

Yes, he is a ‘judge’ in an ultra violent society that devolves execution, due process and investigation to the officer on the beat.

But no one is above the law as far as he concerned not even the judiciary. There probably isn’t a president of the US that he wouldn’t have arrested for their crimes, and quite a few he’d execute for their crimes against humanity. Trump wouldn’t have made it to this millennium.

These ICE thugs are just cowardly fascist scum. Law is just a weapon of suppression to them. For Judge Dredd the law was sacred and the only thing preventing humanity from eating itself in his post apocalyptic future hellscape.

That’s a design feature.

At what cost!!?

I’ve been subscribed to Private Eye for about 22 years now. I don’t think it has changed all that much in that time. It’s not as apolitical as it would claim I think because it suffers from a little bit of Capitalist Realism. It doesn’t pull its punches regardless of who it sets its sights on however I feel it fails to tie together overarching themes.

I get your point but this type of action has always been part and parcel of settler colonialism. They cynically write their own history/propaganda. The same shits that deny these things haven’t happened over and over again are terrified of immigrants because of their own internalised behaviours.