Zombie

Times are tough, but that doesn't excuse becoming a fascist's foot soldier. Join a union, organise, protest, fight for a better life, become politically active. You still have the pretence of democracy in America, use it.

https://www.iww.org/

https://youtu.be/kvj2WEaFtrQ

Times are tough, we all could use a helping hand
Troubles weighing on your mind, quickly sinking in this sand
Thinking thoughts about your future, trapped on this hellish land
I heard that death is what happens while you're making other plans
Looking 'round for help, may as well dig the grave yourself
Make your way out of the hole you made, you've got to save yourself
You've got to save your self

Run, run, run, you ain't never gonna win
Looking right, looking left, or at her, or at him
You ain't never gonna be anything that you wanna be
If you play it safe and place your real dreams under lock and key

Yeah, no one's gonna help you 'cause this world is so cold
And it likes to make examples out of all the brave and bold

But you've got to carry forward, can't afford to lose your soul

You don't look around for help, you've got to do it on your own
You've got to save... your... self

Fight, fight, fight, just as hard as you can
Change your luck, change your style, change the cards in your hand
I know life's getting peak, it's a mountain to climb
With the worry in your heart and that doubt on your mind

Yeah, no one's gonna help you 'cause this world is so cold
And it likes to make examples out of all the brave and bold
But you've got to carry forward, can't afford to lose your soul
You don't look around for help, you've got to do it on your own
You've got to save... your... self

Save yourself!

Oh winter is coming.

It's just going to take a while, but it will come.

And it will either be a nuclear winter or an ice age. Yay!

Aye, happened in Aberdeen too.

An independent basement gig venue, with a standard old man pub on the ground floor, been there for years without issue. Right in the city centre so no expectation of peace and quiet, pubs and shops all over that street. Gigs finished at 11pm normally as well so not like it was a club playing music until 3am.

Then someone moved into a flat nearby. Made a noise complaint, kept pushing the council about it despite public backlash, got the gig venue shut down because they couldn't afford £80,000 for extra insulation, and then the cunt moved out and left to another city.

Aberdeen lost a brilliant independent venue that hosted the small obscure bands that other venues often wouldn't, and then a month later the pub shut down too.

RIP Downstairs and The Malt Mill

https://lemmy.world/c/leftymusic

A good place for protest music

https://consumerrights.wiki/Brother_ink_lockout_%26_quality_sabotage

Mixed messages coming from this write up.

Too fucking right. If you're around, there's an anti Trump protest in Aberdeen this Saturday. Starts at 12 noon at the Wallace statue on Union Terrace.

https://stoptrump.org.uk/stop-trump-scotland-protest-details-26-july/

"Davon haben wir nichts gewusst" was a shit excuse back then and an even worse excuse now, in the internet connected world.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_of_the_Holocaust_in_Nazi_Germany_and_German-occupied_Europe

/c/askuk

US

Fucking self absorbed nation

test comment, please ignore

More than 100 BBC employees are accusing the corporation of providing favourable coverage toward Israel and are calling on the broadcaster to “recommit to fairness, accuracy, and impartiality” over its reporting on Gaza.

In a letter sent to Tim Davie, signed by more than 230 members of the media industry, including 101 anonymous BBC staff, the corporation is criticised for failing its own editorial standards by lacking “consistently fair and accurate evidence-based journalism in its coverage of Gaza”.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/bbc-israel-gaza-letter-tim-davie-bias-palestine-b2636737.html

In 2006, shortly after this study was published, research commissioned by the BBC’s Board of Governors and carried out by Loughborough University confirmed many of its key findings. In addition, the BBC’s independent panel report highlighted the corporation’s “failure to convey adequately the disparity in the Israeli and Palestinian experience, reflecting the fact that one side is in control and the other lives under occupation” and stressed the BBC’s need “to fill in the gaps, most obviously in respect of context and history”.

Despite this, emerging research on BBC reporting since 7 October 2023 has produced similar findings, such as a lack of historical context, and differential use of language in relation to Palestinian and Israeli victims. Imbalances in coverage appear to be a long and consistent feature of BBC reporting.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/bbc-impartiality-trust-israel-gaza-media-experts/

They are most definitely bias. They're only changing their tune now after months of pressure and because the government, since Lammy visited, is changing their tune too.

This isn't their first explicit bias either:

So, on the objective evidence presented here, the mainstream TV coverage of the first year of the independence referendum campaigns has not been fair or balanced. Taken together, we have evidence of coverage which seems likely to have damaged the Yes campaign.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/bbc-bias-and-scots-referendum-new-report/

Well of course they do. She's too left wing for Keir's right wing party.

Take the hint that they don't want you Diane and join Corbyn and Sultana in making a genuine left wing labour party. Fuck the red Tories, let their party bleed.

If enough jump ship they might finally take the hint that pandering to Reform and the far right, when they're meant to be the party of unions and the working class, is fucking moronic and traitorous.