Kulturkampf

[benji]

It's some kind of self-declared-intellectual tell that a person thinks the most likely thing in a situation is a massive vast conspiracy where everything is supposed to have benefits for the Zionists ten steps down the line and that require ten other things to happen with perfect control all based around some vague sense of what's in everyone's interests with nothing concrete versus that some Morocco official probably just did something stupid or by mistake.

[Potato]

Let's just humour the conspiracy for a bit...why is Spain's border security so lax that 50,000 people can just swim around a fence and wander around without a problem? 

If your national sovereignty is so weak that Israel just starting a rumour is enough to have you successfully invaded, then maybe Israel isn't the problem...

[Besticus Maximus]

I think there actually are some stupid games going on with Morocco, way too early to write it off and the EU intelligence agencies are behaving as though something is guiding them. Where I'd differ is I'd say this is trump and vance's bullshit and has little to do with israel. It's quite clearly something new, something coordinated and intended to have maximum PR effect.

[DavidCroquet]

Can't it be as simple as 1, 2, 3?

1. Spain's Supreme Court relaxed language around migrants arriving by water.
   
2. Aspiring migrants (with access to the phone and the internet, because it's 2026) rightly or wrongly construed this as an attractive migration loophole.
   
3. Migrants swim to Ceuta.
   

[Alpacx]

   
 

[DavidCroquet]

*Tweets from people disparaging The Wire*

I've got some unfortunate news for these haters of The Wire:

[benji]

Can't it be as simple as 1, 2, 3?

1. Spain's Supreme Court relaxed language around migrants arriving by water.
   
2. Aspiring migrants (with access to the phone and the internet, because it's 2026) rightly or wrongly construed this as an attractive migration loophole.
   
3. Migrants swim to Ceuta.
   

Yeah, maybe if you're dumb enough to not ask who ordered the Spanish Supreme Court to make that ruling and how they benefited.

[Alpacx]

Another Jason Arday lie! 

[HaughtyFrank]

Ladies and gentleman, what possible other proof could you need?

[benji]

Someone posted this in the replies, in case you're still doubting the Zionists would do this:

Translated from Spanish
My congratulations to the President of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, for his profound commitment to welcoming immigration and "human diversity." 
As someone who demonstrates great concern for Hamas and the residents of Gaza, I call on you to translate words into actions: open the doors of Spain and grant refuge to the residents of Gaza who seek to emigrate. This is an excellent opportunity to contribute a little more to Spain's "human diversity."

edit: Wasn't this one of the famous Twitter COVID "experts" back in the day?

[Uncle]

it's like none of these people have ever watched AntiRacist Hitler (2013)

[benji]

[benji]

You can find a lot of incredible stuff on X, the everything app:

And for our, ugh, males who fetishize every woman.  

Translated from Italian
In Italy, we'd have 758 quotes that say, "Can I say something?"

Translated from Italian
I'm crying from laughter reading the quotes ahaha. There are quotes from the rest of the world and then there are the Italian quotes, inimitable in their pure Italianness

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

[HaughtyFrank]

The left: "Migrants are our strength and we need to open the borders (The German Linke already suggested importing all the migrants from Ceuta)"

The right and somehow also the left "Israel is trying to destroy Europe by flooding it with migrants"

[DavidCroquet]

Why does Spain get to have insane-tier smokeshow babe nazis?

All we get in the US are literal gay guys and Hasan. 

[Polident]

The left: "Migrants are our strength and we need to open the borders (The German Linke already suggested importing all the migrants from Ceuta)"

The right and somehow also the left "Israel is trying to destroy Europe by flooding it with migrants"

I think the reality of seeing tens of thousands of adult men makes it hard to spin. Maybe that fella with a full beard is an eleven-year-old girl.

[HaughtyFrank]

[HaughtyFrank]

Another Jason Arday lie! 

At this point I want someone to take it all at face value and make a movie about his life

[Alpacx]

At this point I want someone to take it all at face value and make a movie about his life

Arday's life would make a great comedy.

[benji]

I thought we cancelled this woman for calling the police on anti-genocide protesters? So much for cancel culture. Giving her a pass sounds about white-adjacent.

[HaughtyFrank]

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[Alpacx]

More from that Current Affairs article

 


Also:

And more Arday: he complained to police about a journalist "harassing" him and they took him seriously enough to call the journalist.

[benji]

Forgot this.

[benji]

[benji]

Checking the quote tweets as always:

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

[DavidCroquet]

And more Arday: he complained to police about a journalist "harassing" him and they took him seriously enough to call the journalist.

I was browsing NeoGAF and there was a thread about some guy who was wrongly sentenced for 18 months because of a mixup in the amount of underscores in his discord name. Anyway, I bring it up because in that case, authorities also mentioned mental health as a reason they refrained from getting more specific details from the victim (that likely would've cleared things up ahead of time). 

I get that mental health is a thing, but a default postion of "someone is having a mental health, therefore everyone else must stop doing their own jobs" is totally retarded.

[benji]

It's probably because the (totally predictable) bureaucratic response to "accommodate" mental health like most everything is to try to avoid it lest you accidentally discriminate or stigmatize and get in trouble. It'd be neurotypical harassment to question a designated victim with mental health problems too deeply. Just another arm of the wholocide.