so many apocalyses to choose from and yet

"Anarchy!" screams the caption of a photo of a group of police apprehending a couple of people.

So... not sure if that's where the picture comes from, but what seems to be happening in Europe right now is roaming gangs of nazis causing violence.
I'm impressed by the dilligence seeding the lie, just in case the news pierces the veil.
- Europe = One town in Spain.
  
  There are plenty of right wing extremist groups all across Europe. I'd not call them 'roaming' but they're here, and they're visible.

I just looked out of the window and I can confirm: we’ve not fallen ( Luxemburg).
- here in Austria we have fallen (below 30°C)
  
  Same in Sweden, and thank fuck for that. I can't handle 28C+, it's just uncomfortable. The past 4 days have been over 30C but today it's been 23C at most with several short bursts of rain with thunder. A few were right over my apartment so I've really enjoyed opening a window and sitting by it with a cup of tea just listening to the rain and thunder, and then when it fades away the birds start singing, so damn cosy!
  
  i am ready to fall asap
  
  Congrats!
- Moïen!

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!
- Also the very government drives through the street with a huge truck at 3am. Extends a robot arm to pick up the glass bin and empties it loudly. It's a warzone out here.
  
  It's just too loud but also necessary. Chaos!

I live in California.
Do you know how many fearful conservatives have told me the place I live in has collapsed into a wasteland of violent criminal chaos? I can only go outside to check and make sure they're wrong so many times before I just have to assume they're fucking idiots.
Reminder that Australia produced the shitstain gutter scum that we call Rupert Murdoch.
- Australia also runs concentration camps for refugees on remote islands with practically no legal oversight. The Aborigines were considered part of the local "fauna" until the 1960s.
  Australia gets way to less flak for how deeply deeply racist that country is.
  
  I feel obligated to provide some context here.
  Australia certainly is, like most countries, "deeply racist" but exactly what that means and how we compare to other countries is contentious.
  Calling immigration detention facilities "concentration camps" is disingenuous and has connotations that dont apply. At last count in 2021 there were 107 residents, all of whom could leave at any time, and were provided multiple resettlement options outside of Australia.
  There are criticisms to be made but they are not "concentration camps".
  The fauna thing is an obvious myth that doesn't withstand a moments critical though. There's a more comprehensive rebuttal here:
  https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-20/fact-check-flora-and-fauna-1967-referendum/9550650
  Australia does have deeply embedded tensions around race. They're not easily solvable problems. Are more salient example might be the recent rejection of the voice referendum, but that would take more than a few moments to read and understand.
  
  The reality is not better, but the "fauna" thing is a common myth
  
  up until the 1930s Australia had ships that would kidnap indigenous people to enslave them for plantations in a practice called blackbirding
  
  Hey, Kevin said sorry so it's all good now.
  Then we had the voice referendum and all the racists came out of the wood work for that one
  
  Australia itself was a concentration camp for prisoners just saying ;)
- Bro I've spent some time in South Texas and conservatives don't know there has been a border wall since mid 00s.
- Everywhere in Cali must look like the beginning of Predator 2. Frankly it's amazing that any infants survive to gang member age.
- portland here. same issue. i have people who visit that refuse to leave my house because they are terrified of the city. many aren't even conservative and are liberal. propaganda has done it's work well. it's hilarious and sad.

Sky News Australia is complete batshit, as opposed to Sky News in the UK which is more "normal" mainstream news.
- Curious, is this a joke? I'm not familiar with their broadcasts in Europe or Australia
  
  Nope, it's serious. Sky News Australia is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, which explains the far-right lunacy that it is known for.
  Sky News UK is owned by Comcast, and is generally considered to be a much more professional and respectable news outlet. Not perfect, but more BBC than Fox News.
  
  Took me a while to find this, sorry, but here is a bias fact check for Sky and for Sky Australia
- Are you insane? It’s just as biased and rage bait in the Uk and the comments on their YouTube videos are just right wing monsters.
  
  I'm talking about the actual television channel and news site. They're very different to the Australian Sky News which is just a soapbox for crazies.
  the comments on their YouTube videos are just right wing monsters.
  What do you expect? YouTube comments are always a cesspit.
  
  in Germany all public broadcasters have turned off comments because of russian bots and right wing nutjobs. It's a sad state of affairs everywhere

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 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.
- I AM PLANNING A VACAY-CAYS. While on a proper mass transit. Vacaycays, I can afford them and I will be paid for days off.
  I also cannot decide to which cultural event to go. There is like some open air cinema, with classics screening. Or go for a niche artsy stuff.
  I think Europe is in a bad shape.
  And nazi russia should rush in and just fucking raze it to the ground.
- 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.
  
  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.
  
  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?
  
  some immigrant issues (almost 30% of it’s population it’s non-eu immigrants)
  Do elaborate.

"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.

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

To add a little bit of context, what happened in Spain was actually the opposite: gangs of fascists terrorising immigrant communities.

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
  
  Some minorities (and especially homeless) set fire to things just to stay warm. They're the real enemy!
  (Don't look at my private jet or business empire plz!)
  
  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.

Sky news be like:
~~Europe~~ London Has Fallen
shows 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.

I can imagine an Auzzie tabloid running that story if that happened England, in part for funsies, but what's the beef with Europe?
- It's Rupert Murdoch (and his bastard spawn Lachlan), owner of Fox News, The Sun, Sky News Australia, and more. The master of misinformation, sensationalism, and ragebait. He's been doing this everywhere for such a long time now.
  
  The master of misinformation, sensationalism, and ragebait.
  It's not even really that good. It's just everywhere. Flip on your TV, turn on the radio, pop open a browser, and you're hit with a legion of professional reactionaries screaming "Whitetopia Has Fallen! Brown Menace End Times Are Upon Us!"
  There is no longer anything resembling "normal" news. It's just wall-to-wall cop worship, racism, and crime hysteria.
- I imagine it's far right propoganda to distance their viewers from considering views coming from France/Spain to be reasonable, and wanting them to listen to views coming from elsewhere that agree more with their rhetoric. The only real article Ive seen from them was about criticizing their own ambassador because "Trump doesn't like him."
  
  More like "pooppaganda".
- australias border policies are even more draconian then those of europe, the aim is to claim moral legitimacy by making a (racist obv) self defense argument. Most racism is rooted in self defense about some paranoid story
  
  We did our immigrant hysteria 20 years ago. Nobody is talking about it now, and it would not be beneficial for the right to start, so no its not that because no party gives a fuck.
- Racism.

Sky news in Australia is far worse than Fox in the US. It’s little more than a shout box for small minded racists.

Old Rupert making shit up? SAY IT ISN'T SO!

This reminds me of an interaction I had here the other day. There was an article about ICE kidnappings in San Francisco and someone asked why the armed gangs weren’t doing battle with ICE. There are no roving armed gangs in San Francisco, despite what shitty right wing media fantasies claim.
- There used to be roving gangs of nude joggers, but they went and changed the law in 2012 and ruined everyone’s fun.
- I guess the question is more in the line of "wasn't the 2nd amendment exactly for this precise situation?"
  
  No, they would have said that if they meant that. I cannot overemphasize just how many Americans truly, actually believe that there are just bands of colored men with rifles walking around in the city streets.
  
  It reads:
  A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
  Beau of the Fifth column said it best, the purpose was to put down civil insurrections (now there's cops for that, supposedly), and to fight government employees: the foreign kind, in the send of an invasion where the people would support the military; and the domestic kind, if the government went tyrannical.

West Norway, it's falling hard. Serious rainfall that is.
- And sun, at the same time, blue skies and pissing rain when going to the shop.

Anarchy in Europe? I wish!
- I'd much prefer anarchism.

More deranged far right media tossing smoke grenades at and setting off fireworks in the faces of already deranged right-wingers, calling it WWIII. Earth keeps turning, sun keeps burning.

Rupert Murdoch is proof that being an evil son of a removed makes you practically immortal

mfks living in a utopia and scream the end of the world when they see a black person, ok

Europe Has Fallen! Gangs Run Rampant!
Cops_Harassing_Shirtless_Guy.jpg

EUROPE HAS FALLEN
AH IS OUT OF MY BRAND OF SOY MILK

If you want to learn about a nation’s politics, go to the international news coverage of that nation. If you want to learn about a nation’s level of violence, check their local news.

Australian media has fallen.

Victorian here, i see our african gangs are on the move
- Looks like that flew over someone's head.
  (Sky news and a right wing politician infamously tried to claim that African gangs were rampaging through victoria and people were afraid to go out at night. This was, shockingly, a lie.)
- Victorian here, I see you watch shitty fear mongering rightwhinger TV.
  
  that was sarcasm, you moon faced pie. Fucks sake, we're literally talking about sky news being full of shit, someone refers to something else sky news posted that was also full of shit and you somehow think this was a non sarcastic comment complaining about africans
  Dude. I'm fucking autistic and asking what the hell is wrong with you.

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.

Nobody worth talking to takes Sky News seriously.
Several members of parliament do, but I digress.

I figured this would be about the summer temperatures finally arriving. Moved to Germany from San Diego years ago and it’s comedy to watch them panic once it hits 85f. Parks empty, streets empty (save for ice cream stands, which practically print their own money). Germany, steadfastly refusing to acknowledge air conditioners have existed for 7 decades.
It’s as if… wait for it… they are made of sugar!
- No, we're only made out of sugar when it rains
  
  No, in that case we explicitly aren't.
- 85F (not even 30ºC) is only slightly above tonight's temperature here in some parts of Spain. Right now where I live it's 29ºC... at midnight.
  
  Yeah I'm in Spain too and it's exhausting :( The last week was kinda cool but now the heat is back

I'm in Finland. Over here every summer there's always some streets that are being repaved or major public service buildings that gets closed due to "renovations". Ha, I know that's just a government cover-up. They don't want us to know about the looting gangs who apparently have access to stealth technology!

2025: RIP in peace Europe

its also owned by murdoch. they always have that creepy indian anchor with the wierd smile on all the time.

Europe is falling, but not for this reason.
- Actually, it's summering right now. Falling will take place in a month and a half

Not sky news but another Australian news site. Israel bombs Iran; Middle east conflict rises. Iran bombs Israel; Iran strike on Israel.

Yeah it's a riot and only a small one at that. The ones in London and Paris were way worse.

Oh yeah. It’s horrible here. Please stay away.
- If you come, you won't go back! Either cause you'll like it better here, or US customs won't allow you back in.

Billions must die
- Finally, someone gets it.

Maybe they're talking about the city of Europe,(CA)

Which client is this?

To any Australians, Europe is in total anarchy, expats are out pricing natives on the housing market and gentrifying cities while living in their own expat shadow society. They don't even integrate, they don't respect the local culture and you can't even speak the native language in many yuppie neighborhoods anymore. smh.
- I'll just leave this here...
  
  Since when are expats refugees?

Europe hasn't fallen, its just as racist as ever.

- Just a bigot and their incestuous family.
  See I can be hyperbolic too.
  Funny as I live in Manchester, a major city and I see great schools and lots of integration. After all it’s the ex-pats who came to live here that clean up after riots and bombs, not us natives.
- kinda sounds like you're the one who doesn't want to integrate
- Good to know your racism is working out for you.