https://youtu.be/8S0aD6QLTxQ

There really is nothing nice about USA
You go to the hospital you gotta pay
The dollar is the language that they all speak
They don’t really bother about the radiation leak

Fuck the USA

They keep their secrets undercover
The rich don’t bother about those that suffer
This ain’t the land of milk and honey
Cause all they want is money money money

Fuck the USA

Nuclear bombs are fuck all new
You’d better start running when they drop on you
Run into a shelter, play hide and seek
Cause when you die your body reeks

Fuck the USA

There really is nothing nice about USA
You go to the hospital you gotta pay
The dollar is the language that they all speak
They don’t really bother about the radiation leak

Fuck the USA

Not too dissimilar to how one of the officers struck a protestor with a sledgehammer mere seconds before.

Watch the video yourself, it has been released.

The officer was signed off for 3 months. For a back injury. That’s nothing as back injuries go. The other officer that they tried to spin as also brutally mauled by barbarian terrorists wasn’t even taken to hospital because the injuries were so superficial. This is so clearly an attempt by the police and government to spin one action done in the heat of the moment in an act of self defence as the premeditated actions of an entire group.

Even if the intention was to grievously harm an officer, GBH is not terrorism. GBH by one member does not reflect the entire group and its intentions. If that were the case then the police are also a terrorist organisation (wait… actually…)

It’s kayfabe. Blindboy (Irish musician) explains it well here with Ash Sarkar (English journalist/activist):

https://youtube.com/shorts/gs1-ebayUIs

If you watch the video that was released you’ll see it’s not as clear cut as your comment makes out.

For example, the officer was also wielding a sledgehammer, a protestor had just slipped on the wet floor and as they were getting up again the sledgehammer wielding officer used the handle to shove them to the ground again.

Only parts of the footage have been released and the parts they did release didn’t paint the picture of an innocent bobby being brutalised by terrorists, as they tried to portray in multiple press releases beforehand.

They also released the footage during the midst of an active trial despite having it for months prior.

The police’s actions are not those of an impartial or innocent organisation.

Fuck off with this xenophobic derogatory stereotyping.

Also, if you’re going to be a bigot, at least get it right and use sheep shagging as your insult, Buckie and heroin are stereotypes of the central belt, not Aberdeen/shire.

Fit? Is ther mair than jis me fae aroon ih Sil’er City on ih Fediverse?!

I kent thon central belters wihr here bit I’ve nae seen ohny teuchters yet!

Foo’s yer doos?

Haven’t you seen? He’s rounding up all the foreigners, anyone else he deems “other”, and picking a fight with Venezuela. What more could you possibly want him to do?

Gut international aid?

Shut down the education department?

Remove science from the centre for disease control?

Use the media regulator to pressure and shut down dissenting voices?

Threaten universities?

Deploy troops on the streets?

He’s doing these things already. America will be great again™ in no time!

/s

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-work-for-an-evil-company-but-outside-work-im-actually-a-really-good-person

This article is a fun read.

The system only works because millions of cogs step in line and allow the machinery of that system to work.

I have been part of a larger evil system. Because where I grew up that’s what everyone did, you went into the industry propping up the local economy (oil and gas). As I grew older I learned of the evils of fossil fuels, about climate change, and no longer work in oil and gas. I have no intention of ever doing so again.

So you could quite rightfully call me a bastard. But I left and will never be returning, does that absolve me of the bastard title? I don’t know. But while you’re actively part of the machinery you’re definitely a bastard. Especially if you’re the part of the machinery that is systemically racist and assaults and restrains people on a daily basis.

Intentions vs actions.

All cops are bastards because it doesnt matter what their intentions are when their actions mean they prop up injustice, legal slavery, oppression of the right to protest, and corruption.

Cops enforce what their boss tells them to enforce, as is the way in extremely hierarchical organisations. Their intentions no longer matter, they do as they’re told.

Anyone who still approves of him is a fucking idiot.

🌏 🧑‍🚀🔫

Always has been.

Scots is common throughout the country. There’s also a local variant in the north east called Doric which to others is near impossible to understand. It’s perhaps more rural only, although there’s certainly still people in Aberdeen that speak it.

Do you know where in Scotland this person was from? That might help narrow it down.

Was there a lot of Fs? In Doric the “wh” from English questions is changed to an F.

What? - Fit?
Where? - Far?
When? - Fan?
How? - Foo?
Why? - often how is asked to mean why, or just fit why will be asked

If you are in a Doric shoe shop you can legitimately ask “Fit fit fits fit fit?” which means “Which foot fits which foot?”

This appears to have been under the previous Conservative government.

However, with the actions of the current Labour government against pro-Palestine groups and supporters it wouldn’t surprise me if they are doing similar.

Westminster is full of scumbags. Scottish independence can’t come fast enough. Fuck the union, fuck this racist, classist, moralless, support of genocide. Fuck the intimidation of war crimes prosecutors. David Cameron should be prosecuted as an accessory to genocide for doing so.

Go do 20 minutes on your paper.

What’s 20 minutes?

You got this!

Life is fucking hard, but a step at a time can make it more bearable. I believe in you SexualPolytope

This is a memes page…

Being part of the racket has nothing to do with it. It could be an advert for anarcho-communists and it would still be an advert.

I specifically said I have no problem with it. But a signature is still a form of advertising and there was a complaint that it wasn’t shown, which I just thought was funny considering the premise.

I think it should be the norm to display a discrete signature on comics. I just thought it was a funny comment in this specific scenario.

What a way to kill the fun.

Whoever cropped the… advert?

(I have no issue with signatures, there’s more to their purpose than just to advertise. But they are also a bit of an advert so it’s funny considering the message of the comic.)

Because of capitalist policies or because of advancements in science, engineering, and medicine culminating around the same time that just happened to coincide with capitalism’s birth?

Capitalism only benefits capitalists.

Fewer people are poor despite the capitalists, not because of.

Their giant hoards of wealth exemplify how many more could have been pulled out of poverty in the last 100-150 years.

I noticed a lack of Taskmaster in your list. If you haven’t already seen it, you’re in for a treat.

It doesn’t say refuse work. It says refuse the concept that a person’s worth is linked to how much or what type of work they perform.

Worth as in human worth, not monetary value. Social standing, respect, etc

Not in the UK, which this thread is about.

The NHS provides healthcare free at the point of service, for all.

Not everywhere is the United States of Fascist America.