A short while ago, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage condemned protesters in Dover covering their faces.

He said he “deplored” anyone wearing masks or balaclavas at public demonstrations.

“You should not be allowed to be masked up, balaclava-ed up and go out and protest on the streets of our country. It is wrong at every level. So I deplore what is happening in Dover today,” Farage added.

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Accuracy isn’t the problem, if they’d come out and said we’re changing the map to be more accurate I would have been like, great!

But this whole, Africa needs justice for appearing smaller on a map, I cried tears of joy etcetc this is about social justice etc what a load of wank

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tbf

“Resolutions like this and the ideological agenda they promote, are barnacles on our work here, and the reason this institution is losing its credibility,” the statement read.

He’s not wrong

Supporters of the Correct the Map campaign say a different projection could help provide a fairer visual representation of the world and challenge longstanding misconceptions about Africa’s size and importance.

I don’t think it’s the size of Africa on a map that is weighing down it’s importance… I don’t recall anyone saying wow africa is so small… 😳

Ben Gvirs idea is still insane, tho…

Yeah I just feel like after 9/11 America invaded Afghanistan and Iraq with popular support:

Even before his speech, Americans were inclined to believe the worst about Hussein’s regime. In a survey conducted a few weeks prior to the State of the Union, 73% favored military action in Iraq to end Hussein’s rule; just 16% were opposed. More than half (56%) said the U.S. should take action against Iraq “even if it meant U.S. forces might suffer thousands of casualties.”

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/03/14/a-look-back-at-how-fear-and-false-beliefs-bolstered-u-s-public-support-for-war-in-iraq/

And remember at the time

On 15 February 2003, a coordinated day of protests was held across the world in which people in more than 600 cities expressed opposition to the imminent Iraq War. It was part of a series of protests and political events that had begun in 2002 and continued as the invasion, war, and occupation took place. The day was described by social movement researchers as “the largest protest event in human history”.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_February_2003_Iraq_War_protests

And Iraq and Afghanistan had the shit kicked out of them anyway with Dick Cheney acting as a Ben Gvirs type character

Nothing galvanises support for military action quite like a nation that has been attacked, and Oct 7th was the perfect in its genocidal massacres of kids dancing at a music festival:

Shortly after the October 7 attacks, there was broad support in Israeli society for military operations in Gaza.[690][691] A public opinion poll conducted in December 2023 by the Israel Democracy Institute found that 87% of Jewish Israelis supported the war in Gaza.[692]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war

I just don’t know if the gamble Hamas took with Palestinian lives has paid off in a way they hoped it would (and who knows maybe in 20 years time after spending 10 trillion zillion dollars Israel will pull out of Gaza as well)

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The IDF could have deleted Gaza 7 times over by now, calm down

thanks!

The party promises emigrants an “absorption package” including “assistance with travel, initial housing, vocational training, employment and support for up to 24 months,” as well as payments to host countries based on the number of Gazans they take in. Turkey, Ethiopia, the Congo and unspecified Arab countries are being considered as potential destinations, according to the party.

Sounds like this could work for a significant number of people:

JERUSALEM, May 6 (Reuters) - Almost half of Gazans may be willing to apply to Israel to help them leave to other countries, according to a survey on Tuesday that also showed significant support for anti-Hamas protests.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/almost-half-gazans-willing-leave-survey-finds-2025-05-06/

Is this a serious news source?

We are hoping buddy!

NO POLITICS FFS

i love when left wing progessive lemmys loop around and turn into hard right conspiracy theorists

this also isn’t a meme, does this comm have any moderators?

⚠️ reported! this is ai ⚠️

🙅🙅 we are strictly a no ai zone! 🙅🙅

the lemmy police will be around to arrest you shortly

this might be the most garbage post i’ve ever seen

you wrote shit in paint on a picture of lettuce

if this low quality crap is what counts for a meme these days just bring on the ai already fuck me

i know i hate it!

i’m not arguing that there are no reasons to dislike ai data centres, like dickfingers and israel and ai and windows and big tech there are plenty of reasons to dislike things

I’m arguing you guys are as boring as a nuns cunt, you seem to consolidate around whatever the left wing progressives are virtue signalling this month and spam the absolute shit out of this place while jorking it

Lemmy hates AI data centres, hot take 109823103123091931

It’s all good man, enjoy your inoffensive monoculture