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MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]

@ MolotovHalfEmpty @hexbear.net

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  • Gal Gadot is 'prosecuting' UK activists under Thatcher-era trade union laws

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  • Not only was that law a rancid bit of obvious strike breaking designed to give make picket lines illegal, but I'm also pretty sure you'd have to have an almost metaphysical reading of it to actually apply here.

    From what I remember at the time, the activists repeatedly disrupted the film shoots around London by chanting and making noise, until the sound people would call time on a location or the production beancounters would pull the plug on a location because it was costing too much money to have the whole crew sit around all day waiting for protestors to stop making noise and leave.

    Now add in the fact that these shooting locations (the "workplace" that was apparently "restricted") were public spaces in the heart of a capital city that they activists lived in. Being gifted a shooting permit for public space in London doesn't entitle you to demand that no noise is made nearby by the people and the city that exist around it.

    I've worked on shoots in major London train stations and if you'd asked anyone (management, the council, coppers, the public) for everyone to stop making announcements or talking on their phone or doing any one of a thousand other noisy things they would have (rightly) treated you like a crackpot. The production company didn't abandon these shoots because they couldn't continue, they did so because it was easier and cheaper to do so and just fucking green screen it like the rest.

    This is lawsuit harassment almost certainly directed by the like of UK Lawyers for Israel being used in conjunction with extra-legal policing to criminalise peaceful activists, straight up.

  • If a real working class party includes these people I’d rather watch the world burn in hellfire

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  • 'Progressive' liberals:

  • If a real working class party includes these people I’d rather watch the world burn in hellfire

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  • How often is the Majority Report on?

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  • If a real working class party includes these people I’d rather watch the world burn in hellfire

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  • I had a go at it...

    Started with nine-eleven, yeah

    This little career of mine

    You got no time for the livin'

    Workin' for a merc's next dime

    It seems to me

    I could live my life

    A lot better than I think I am

    I guess I could be a better me

    But I'm mercenary, man

    They call me mercenary

    I guess that's what I am

    Kickin' doors & punchin' clocks

    For almost twenty long hard years

    Say I'm doing it for my fellow man

    But summit else is goin' on here

    It seems to me

    I could live my life

    A lot better than I think I am

    Seat that's not in some humvee

    And a senate healthcare plan

    Totenkopf is just customary

    For a mercenary man

    And they call me mercenary

    So I guess that's what I am

    (I forgot how to format so just used Kirby's)

  • Caption this. Wrong answers only.

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  • AlaskaMan™ now comes with authentic accessories including liquid breakfast and disputing neighbour's hands + heads! (chest freezer & crashed snowmobile sold separately)

  • "TRUMP IS TEARING DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE!"

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  • He should tear more of it down and convert it into a full size crazy golf hole where you also have to hit it off the Washington monument.

  • This guy said he's going to beat the shit out of you

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  • Not with that stance, but he will have fun straddling my shoe and riding around the house as I walk around with him on it.

  • Nazi SS tattoo guy: "It's not fair for people to judge me on what I've posted online."

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  • There's definitely some weird astroturfing of this going on too. I don't post about American politics on Twitter, but this stuff crept into my timeline despite never posting or searching for info about it. And almost every post was some variation of...

    'I'm a totally legit communist person of colour & if you care about this guy's nazi tattoo then you're doing Peter Thiel's work for him'

    ...or...

    'This is definitely a hit job by Palantir & the NSA as how could they have possibly found social media posts by him. If you don't embrace the Nazi Merc the real fascists win!'

    I don't doubt that somewhere in this shitflinging that creepy data analysis tools were used and that posting online is basically opting into a panopticon that will be used against you in the future if it needs to be, but acting like this is the unearthing of some teenager's porn views decades later, instead of a guy who still has Nazi tattoos and is running partly on the fact he was a volunteer for WarCrimes Inc until recently, is unhinged.

  • MacroShit is at it again.

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  • Oh, sorry. I saw the emoji and thought you didn't know what the other poster was referring to.

  • MacroShit is at it again.

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  • Nadella is a legit AI zealot who has tied every aspect of Microsoft (mandating AI use, forcing it into every aspect of their business, closing or cutting any section of the company that isn't making fistfuls of cash he can immediately use to pour into inflating the AI bubble) to just dumping cash into the AI bubble in an attempt to either completely capture a future market or (more likely) get the world's largest bailout when the bubble pops. The man brags about how he basically only interacts with his colleagues and even family via dozens of AI chatbots.

  • MacroShit is at it again.

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  • Microsoft are providing support and security updates for enterprise customers for another ten years (because loads of shit that makes companies, institutions, government networks etc run on outdated OS's) but don't give a shit about individual users so are forcing them to upgrade to their AI-infected Windows 11.

    If you pirate the enterprise version it should keep getting security updates etc.

  • Sunday is Gaming Day: What Are You Playing Weekly Thread

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  • I haven't played much as I've been pretty hungover from a friend's birthday, but I played about an hour of State of Decay 2 which is my go-to brain off / audiobook comfort game basically.

    I might start Alan Wake 2 tonight if I'm not too tired. I'm excited to start it but don't want to if I'm not in the mood.

  • Thieves broke into the Louvre Museum in Paris, stealing jewelry of "inestimable heritage and historical value" in 7-minute heist

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  • Well, Napoleon's jewels would be low hanging fruit.

  • NSFW

    Meet the Nutmaxxers Obsessed With Shooting Bigger Loads - GQ Magazine (talks about sex drugs, no images)

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  • Nutmaxxing sounds like a mechanic in a 90s squirrel mascot platformer.

  • Genocide supporting Labour government work to overturn ban of Maccabi Tel Aviv fans

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  • This is a direct attempt to stoke race riots (or more accurately fascist attacks on local communities who, when they defend themselves, will be framed as 'doing pogroms' like was arranged by Israeli intelligence in Amsterdam) by the state.

    For years and years the British government and establishment has not just been tacitly encouraging but sometimes openly requesting the British fash firms to take to the streets to enact violence on their political enemies and local communities that pose an issue for them. Previous attempts have largely ended up in pissed and coked up idiots getting lost in London, looting local Greggs, and fighting the police not protesters.

    After those embarrassments, along with an increasingly losing arguement for Israel, having to drop multiple high profile cases against pro-Palestine musicians and critics, and now failing to stop the appeal in regard to the proscription of Palestine Action, they're rallying around this as a flashpoint of violence they can outsource to the Israeli state directly (while the US/Israel pour funding & organisational capacity into our far right to get them ready for the a post-Labour government). This is also after their best attempts to stoke violence and community divisions around the knife attack last, month where police killed more victims that the lone attacker did, largely fell flat outside of the press.

    They are absolutely desperate for the next, thinnest legal/policy excuse they can point to in order to push their fascist repression of general protest, anti-Israel, and anti-fascist views even further than they already have. Keir Stürmer has now said that the "cumulative effect" of pro-Palestine protests and sayings can be considered antisemetic and as hate and a danger to British Jews even if there is no actual offending language or action within it just due to "repetition". They are desperate to engineer a situation like Amsterdam - going so far as to import foreign intelligence/military personal & fascist football hooligans to violently attack their own citizens - in order to justify ongoing and increasingly extra-legal crackdowns on the left, on protesters, on Muslim communities, and soon on what will be escalating demands for employment and financial survival from an increasingly poor and desperate population as they destroy the country (as stated explicitly in their yearly national security review for the first time ever this year).

    The absurdity of mainstream MPs publicly calling ordinary, routine banning orders on violent football fans as being akin to the Holocaust, whilst deliberately conflating all Jewish people with a football-based violent organised crime, is of course ludicrous, dangerous, antisemetic and beggars belief.

    But it's not naive or stupid as I've seen a lot of people on the left assert in the last 48hrs or so. It's deliberate, targeted, and orchestrated. Anyone who has been paying attention for the last few years (to Israel, to the events in Amsterdam, to the use of the far right here etc) should be well aware of that even without every mainstream MP and pundit all going full-hog with the same pre-prepared talking points at the exact same time.

    This is a strategy of tension. This is a play in the explicitly fascist takeover of Britain.

  • Supermarket worker in UK whips woman for suspected shoplifting.

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  • I have little faith of any restitution, but I hope she sues not only the worker but Iceland into oblivion (or at least a truly massive settlement).

  • We’re gonna need a bigger Hague

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  • After WW2 and the Holocaust there was an effort - by both state linked and independent organised groups alike - to hunt down and prosecute or assassinate Nazis around the world, which continued for 50 years, well into the 1990s.

    I see no reason why history shouldn't repeat itself, especially when it would be so much easier these days with a genocide done and promoted in public by people who can't help but seek the spotlight or social media.

  • Zohran Mamdani states he will have Nazis in his administration

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  • Even in the 1940s American politicians had the sense to recruit Nazis into their political projects in secret. Zohran would be out there tweeting about how awesome Operation Paperclip is gonna be.

  • Maduro trying to give up his nation's/people's wealth to avoid war and to change diplomatic stances is painful

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  • There is no diplomacy to be done with the US. It's a genocidal death cult knowingly trying to consume the world for its own greed and bloodlust before the climate apocalypse it is willfully encouraging. You can't negotiate with a cancer that's spreading through your body. You can only strengthen what's still cancer free and aggressively target the rest. If you can't beat it then it'll eat you alive before it kills you anyway.