The UK is deploying a Royal Navy warship

You can just say the Royal Navy warship, I think we only have one these days, right? 🥲

Wild how the terms of the cease-fire allow both sides to continue to attack each other, amirite?

Isn’t Politico owned by that rich mental dick head btw? Should we be using it as a news source?

Do butterflies infest homes and destroy property?

I feel like it’s less what they look like, and more how they impact us. It’s still very human-centric, but ya know, not so much a beauty thing as one might think at first.

Everyone and their mums is packin round here

Aren’t Nike kinda known these days for being cheaply made crap that just tries to lure in people who care more about looking cool than having truly functional shoes for sports, etc?

Posers, as the saying goes.

It’s not something I’m into though so maybe I’m a bit wrong!

Suddenly? Hasn’t it been a common go-to line from those in charge for thousands of years?

Did it spread? Last I saw it was just a few cases onboard one ship.

But the big headlines today are the Americans bombing Iranian ships, today?

Funny looking cease-fire.

That said, even a real cease-fire doesn’t mean the two nations aren’t at war. It’s a cease-fire, not a peace deal. There still exists a state of war between them which can (and has, in this case) returned to active conflict.

The USA is at war with Iran, whether they like it or not.

I assume that’s a lot in whatever country that is (it doesn’t mention location or currency, but we can infer, I’d wager)

Thought it was about sick pay at first with the “ill pay”, haha.

Sometimes we can forgo punctuation, sometimes we can’t.

If I’m AI generated, why do I hate myself so much?

lol, this was on when I was growing up and I, along with a great many of my peers, were rolling with undiagnosed ADHD, autism, depression, etc, because the teachers and adults around us didn’t know shit about mental health, and didn’t help any of us.

Have we reached the point now for my generation that younger people assume those times were better, where people were magically wiser etc, and where older people have rose tinted glasses and start telling the youth how much more mentally healthy everyone was, etc?

People were people then just like they are now. People had mental health problems then just like they do now. It wasn’t heaven on Earth, it was just a few decades ago, that’s all.

Yeah, as a little kid I hated seeing this on TV, it felt really creepy and disgusting. I still don’t like it :-(

My first question would be who are these middle east eye lot, not a news outfit I’d heard of. Wikipedia has this to say, for what it’s worth:

Middle East Eye (MEE) is a United Kingdom-based media website and channel that primarily focuses on news related to the Middle East, North Africa, and the broader Muslim world. Though the organisation denies it and will not disclose its funding sources, it is widely believed that the organisation is funded by the government of Qatar.

When you think about it, that’s kinda exactly what it is. Which is very cool :-D

Just a big random boulder in space amongst a whole solar system of random boulders, taken with a light for illumination because it’s dark, yo

Our modern anti-protest laws are, if anything, even more restrictive than the old Emergency Powers Act.

Nope. The country is too brainwashed by whatever propaganda is fed to us through their only window into the world these days (phone, TV, newspaper, but importantly not the world and people around us).

We no longer have any real grip on the reality around us, no grounding in our local community, no heads up looking at what we can actually see.

Everything we take in is fed to us through carefully crafted algorithms and long term propaganda campaigns designed to make us think what they want us to think (they being a wide range of actors none of whom have our best interests at heart - the government, the rich media owners, foreign powers looking to damage our society, etc).

Can a society (can we even call ourselves a society, if we’re now just a bunch of strangers who never look up from our phones to notice each other exists? Are we a society if we don’t even know our neighbour’s names? Or what’s happening in our community?)

…Can a society come together to take any sort of strong meaningful action after so much brainwashing, turning us is against each other, convincing us our rich ruling class masters know best, building so many anti-protest and anti-freedom laws that they can lock you up if they feel like it with no reproductions, for any made up reason they like?

And in the mean time, constantly spy on you, observing where you spend your money, what websites you visit, where you go, who you speak to, etc, every single day, in order to identify those who would be a threat to their power?

No. There won’t be another General Strike in the United Kingdom, and if there were some small, fractured last gasp attempt at one, it would quickly crumble under the boot of our capitalist overlords.

Thank you for censoring the word gun, can’t have such naughty words on the internet now can we?

Sad that, of all the things that have changed in the world, nothing about this has changed one bit since then.

I don’t believe in a brighter future any more.

I feel like we’re watching different news reports, and yours sound way more entertaining

Missing the decades in which they tried persuading, debating, discussing and educating up to this tipping point, this final straw, all to no avail.

Are we supposed to just keep trying forever, pointlessly? Exhaustingly? Every day? For another 30 years?

At some point for our own mental wellbeing it’s time to consider that some people will simply never change, are closed to any and all discussions, and it’s best for ourselves to stop trying over and over, and focus on our own mental health instead.

I was idealistic once, and would have said there’s never a time to stop trying to fix other people, to help them see a different viewpoint, or mortality, etc, but some people just can’t be fixed. All you’re really doing by continuing to try is breaking yourself in the process. Be kind to yourself <3