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[redwallzyl]

I bet before there were cave paintings people were making impressions into the sand of their dicks.

Craved into the stone in ages long past:

Spoiler: technically dirty I guess (click to show/hide)

You though it was going to be a dick didn't you? how sexist!

[scriver]

That's clearly an insect mandible alien.

[hector13]

Fool, it's clearly a muncher.

[Arx]

You guys need to extract your minds from the gutter. That's a perfectly innocuous carving of a leaf.

[martinuzz]

Fuck, explosion in London metro. No reports of dead, but there's wounded people with fire burns, and wounded peopl that got trampled in the panic.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41278545

[Antioch]

Fuck, explosion in London metro. No reports of dead, but there's wounded people with fire burns, and wounded peopl that got trampled in the panic.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41278545

Looks like a failed bomb.

[Loud Whispers]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-europe-41280080
Icelandic government collapses after pedo scandal

[smjjames]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-europe-41280080
Icelandic government collapses after pedo scandal

That's the second time it's happened in the past year and a half or so. The first time was after the Panama papers stuff.

[Loud Whispers]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-europe-41280080
Icelandic government collapses after pedo scandal

That's the second time it's happened in the past year and a half or so. The first time was after the Panama papers stuff.

Seems like the daggers are all out

[Silverthrone]

Today, there was an unregistered Nazi rally and march through the Swedish city of Gothenburg. It is, of course, the Nordic Resistance Movement, of whom I believe we have talked of before. Quite possibly a sort of dress rehersal for the greater rally on September 30th (which, by co-incidence, happens to be Jom Kippur, and the city synagogue is some two streets away from the planned route. Oh, well. Do not attribute to malice amongst the police that can easily explained by simple ignorance).

I am happy that I missed them, for it would have been such an awful way to begin the day, wouldn't you agree?

It was completed in an orderly fashion; not wanting to further disturb the peace and starting a street-fight, the police escorted them for the duration, and remained on-site if the Nazis overstepped any further. Minor scuffles only. I suppose one could not have asked for it to go any better, given the circumstances. I do hope that there will be some sort of future reprimand, however, when public order is not directly on the line.
Since it was a calm affair (and occured out here in the provinces), it has failed to make much of a splash at all, which is why I thought it would be noteworthy.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Speaking of the NRM, their English wikipedia article claims they hold a municipal seat somewhere in Sweden, but doesn't list a source. Can any Swedes weigh in on this? I know this is super specific but it bothers me that I can't find where this information came from, and whatever municipal government is held by Literally Hitler is a real political oddity for sure.

[scriver]

Bravely risking to have my browser history associated with those pieces of shit for all eternity I did a quick search: This articlea bout racism activity in the Valleys from Expo, a Swedish anti-racism magazine (you'll probably know it better as Millenium from the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo books), which says they have one commune seat in Ludvika and one replacement seat in Borlänge (so technically not an actual seat there I guess? I wasn't aware replacement seats could shift party). They mention that the seat in Ludvika was "couped" but don't go into detail, so i looked a little more and found this article from 2014 explains that they got into the commune because the Swedish Democrats got 7 seats but only had 5 names on their namelist, the NMR got one of the two remaining chairs by writing an NMR name on SD party and blank-party votes.

So they basically had to cheat the system to get in. The Valleys are the main support hold of thr NMR in Sweden though, according to that Expo article, with the movement apparently going as far as encouraging their members to move there so they gain more influence.

Which is ironic in itself because the Valleys have one of the most individual stand-out of the Swedish cultures (Not counting the Gutes as they are east-Germanic instead of north-germanic).

[MetalSlimeHunt]

And so the mystery is solved. Is it me, or are neo-nazis disturbingly good at system disruption? I can't imagine any other political faction getting away with cheating into a seat like that.

[scriver]

Well they don't hold any popular support, so they have to do that to gain any power.

I can't say if any other organisations have tried that trick though, but I've certainly never heard of it. Then again I had completely forgotten about the above too (but I will insist that I do have a faint memory of hearing about it back then that I can recall now that I've read up on it, but that may just be afterconstrcuction memory shenanigans for all I know). All I can think of is the old joke that one should organise a Kalle Anka/Donald Duck party (That's a common thing to write on protest votes here) and steal the votes of everyone who doesn't even know the party exists.

[martinuzz]

The Spanish police arrested 12 high officials from the Catalonian regional government, for preparing an illegal referendum.
Police raided and searched the Catalonian 'ministries' of Economy, Foreign Affairs, Social Affairs & Unemployment, and Internal Affairs.

The Catalonian officials claim they have not done anything illegal, since criminal law says nothing at all about referenda.

Immediatly after the arrest, dozens of protestors appeared at the ministries, and at the Ramblas, protesting the arrests, and covering police cars in election posters.
A lot of civil servants working in the raided ministries joined in the protest not much later.

Spain, please do not devolve into civil war.