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.
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.
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.
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)
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Which client is this?
Europe hasn’t fallen, its just as racist as ever.
Not sky news but another Australian news site. Israel bombs Iran; Middle east conflict rises. Iran bombs Israel; Iran strike on Israel.
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?
The point i was making but it doesn’t need explaining if you (want to) think about it.
This is what made me reply:expats are out pricing natives on the housing market
Have a nice day.
Okay fine even if the housing market problem isn’t the fault of expats, that they don’t want to be part of the local community and don’t even learn the local language is just straight up disrespectful. Why move abroad then? And I’m not asking them to speak the local language at a high level. They even refuse to learn the basics. I know many expats who live here in the Netherlands for more than half a decade and they can’t even string a basic sentence together. And these are people who pride themselves for being educated and having master degrees. It’s just elitism, they don’t see themselves as immigrants so they feel like integrating is beneath them since that’s what immigrants do. If these were brown working class immigrants people would call them out immediately for their lack of effort, yet because these are white high educated expats it’s somehow okay. And before you say “but their kids will learn the language” Nope these elites even feel the public education system is beneath them so they send them to private international schools where they barely learn Dutch. So even their kids can’t speak Dutch. I’m a son of immigrants and my parents had to work hard to integrate and learn the language and fight for respect and their place in the community. That these expats don’t give a shit about it all and everyone thinks that it’s fine is just a slap in the face of immigrants like my parents.
On that we agree.
On society’s perception: if you’re rich you’re an investor (or educated expat), if you’re poor you’re an immigrant.
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!
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.
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.
Billions must die
Finally, someone gets it.
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.
We had similar shit years ago when Americans thought Europe is communist. Or years later when Americans thought Sweden became a Muslim state. Or any other bullshit a 12 year old or someone with the mind of a 12 year old believed in the last decades.
And every time the epicentre of stupidity is Rupert Murdoch. No wonder they love Russia. Both are masters of making up insane bullshit.
Maybe Murdoch is the epicentre, but I remember Oprah being very worried on her show because the socialist party came third in the Dutch elections (in the early 2000’s).
And here I was thinking I can’t dislike that woman even more.
Did she ever know that the socialist (well, social-democratic) party ruled Spain from 1982 to 1996 (first part with absolute majority), from 2004 to 2010 and from 2019 up until now?
The Socialist party was first in Portugal… let’s forget it’s barely socialist but ok.
Oh and up until recently the (actual) Communist party was third.
Rupert Murdoch is proof that being an evil son of a bitch makes you practically immortal
Australian media has fallen.
