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• Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Do you know what else terrorists use all over the world? Cars! How long will we allow these dangerous contraptions to be freely available?

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    So that’s why the US banned Toyota Hyluxes.

    It’s not. The real reason is so much stupider. IIRC it happened partially because of eggs.

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    • aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      TIL www.investopedia.com/terms/c/chicken-tax.asp

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  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You are now an admin on /c/fuckcars

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  • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Cars have legit gotten somewhat popular as a rampage weapon in Europe. I think knives are still number one but there’s a trend for sure.

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    • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Those poor mass murderers just couldn’t get their hands on a gun. So unfair!

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Knives are still number one because some of us can’t afford a car!? Mass murder isn’t the cushy gig it once was, between enshittification, inflation, corporate greed, etc.

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• Vespair@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Real talk, we have to figure out how to handle this kind of chronic fear and paranoia, because this shit ain’t normal, but it is frighteningly common.

  Like yeah this is a hilariously over-the-top example, but the amount of people you and I both know who go through life genuinely thinking that they’re going to be the victim of a kidnapping or worse at any given time is astounding. And it’s not without impact either, because this is exactly the unfounded sense of fear that conservatives/fascists seize on to manipulate the population.

  I don’t know the solution, but a world where everyone is afraid of their own shadow is a literal hellscape.

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  • BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    If I were a betting man, I’d wager this woman spends a lot of time scrolling through right-wing posts on Facebook about the “invasion” of Britain. A Brexit type, if you will.

    That’s just speculation in this specific case, but the amount of fear-mongering right-wing content on social media is absolutely a contributor to this kind of worldview more broadly.

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    • Vespair@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      A contributor? I would call it a primary source, tbh.

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  • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    There were people who went out an shot at water towers during the radio airing of War of the World’s. Floridians will routinely try to make hurricanes go away by shooting at them. Police get hundreds of calls about Venus every year.

    There’s no fixing this type of stupid. All we can hope for is to keep it from spreading too far.

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    • aramova@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      God damnit, stop making the case for eugenics already. Let RFK’s absurd health advice do its thing, weed them out, and we can hand out the Darwin awards in a few years.

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  • MithranArkanere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The way to handle it is to find the “The Architects of Fear”, getting rid of them, and making sure no new ones take their place.

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    • iii@mander.xyz ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t think you’ll ever be able to get fully rid of terrorists

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  • Toneswirly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The solution is multi-factorial and will take a generation to implement. Expand the social safety net, expand public education to encompass critical thinking skills and researching skills, restrict private media monopolies that hold public consciousness in a deathgrip.

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• Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  How deep do you need to be in the propaganda to think like that?

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  • Jesus_666@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I remember the early 2000s when basically 90% of all Americans were absolutely certain that jihadists were going to attack their local supermarket any minute now because Power Cable, Nebraska was such a strategic target.

    Heck, there was a bomb scare because of an advertisement campaign for Aqua Teen Hunger Force that involved placing PCBs with LEDs on them that would display characters from the show. Because surely Al Quaeda would put conspicuous LED displays on their bombs.

    News media want people to panic so they keep tuning in. Panicked people tend to come up with remarkably stupid scenarios like “Al Quaeda have unlimited resources and can show up anywhere to shoot people at random” or “Hamas want to take Dorcester as a strategic location to strike at Israel from”.

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    • Rusty@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I remember in 2008 when Putin was invading Georgia (the country) there were some confused and scared people from Georgia (US state).

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    • TheRealKuni@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      In Nate Bargatze’s recent standup special he talked about how he, a water meter reader at the time, was tasked with protecting his town’s water tower after 9/11. With a flashlight. He did a much better job making it funny than I can, but I remember that level of fear. “It’s called terrorism because they make you afraid they can hit anywhere!” I remember hearing.

      Which is silly in retrospect, Al Qaeda only hit major, symbolic targets in the US and never did “hit anywhere.”

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    • _core@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I was working for a company that was renovating and upgrading the water filtration system in the ass end of nowhere and we had some official show up to ask us what we were doing b/c someone called us in thinking we were terrorists sabotaging the water system.

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    • orcrist@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      No. 90% were not scared. It was the corporate media that hyped up every single flimsy lead. The rest of us knew that we would be perfectly fine.

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  • abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I literally had an old lady tell me that black lives matter was going to take over destroy the UK and take over Britain. Like the organisation. There are some people that are so deep in right-wing newspaper and Facebook shit that they will unironically spout something like that.

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    • Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That is literally frightening. I honestly feel bad for her. That is not a good life. Pushing hate like that requires a lot of internal suffering.

      Don’t do social media, kids.

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  • CaptPretentious@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I lot of people are like this. They don’t conceive a world outside their own. When I was in grade school, so many people in my hometown thought that… we were going to be the next Columbine (not like there were any kids actively acting odd, just the feeling that we were somehow important enough to have such a tragedy). They also thought several big companies were going to open up shop (like Best Buy, Red Lobster, etc… it was the 90s). Currently, some people still live there who think they have the highest number of Somalians living there (they don’t), the largest amount of Muslims (they don’t), and they’re like the drug central for the state (they’re not).

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    • Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      and they’re like the drug central for the state (they’re not).

      To be fair you never know. There is a small town fairly near where I live that had one of the largest meth production operations in the country at one point. Turns out it’s pretty easy to make a lot of drugs and not get caught when you do it in the middle of nowhere.

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  • possumparty@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Average right-wing american levels

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    • twice_hatch@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Britain might be better off banning American TV for a bit

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  • Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Don’t forget that in WW2 UK civilians were taught to pay attention to other peoples’ shoes because of rumours of hairy-handed nuns in Fallschirmjäger issue boots. This kind of shit is nothing new.

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    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There genuinely were German spies in Britain though.

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• EldenLord@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Holy propaganda victim

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  • Anomalocaris@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    victim of mass media brain rot

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  • Plesiohedron@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    My thougts as well.

    It makes me wonder about my own fears. How many of them were put there by propaganda?

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    • iii@mander.xyz ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      For one, there’s journalists picking the dumbest tweets and pretending it’s news. Then screenshots of the “news” article of a dumb tweet getting propagated on other fora.

      It’s ragebate, conditioning us into a default distrust of and condescension of others.

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• yagurlreese@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  for a second I thought this was a fucking onion article lol

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• bratorange@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Sorry to Americans, but at first I thought this must have been from the US.

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  • PlaidBaron@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Dont worry. The Brits are dumb as fuck too.

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• Ghosthacked@lemm.ee ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  These are the same types of idiots that think they’re going to be targets of a terror attack in some small backwater town.

  These types of propaganda methods really resonate with boomer types.

  I remember someone that thought that they were going to be mailed anthrax back when they had the anthrax scare in the US.

  1. How much anthrax do you think terrorists have that they could afford to mail it to you, a random person in the US?

  2. Why do you think you’re so important that you’re going to be targeted?

  You need to either be clueless or really full of yourself to think these scenarios apply to you.

  The only time you’re possibly going to be caught up in something is if you’re going to an important or significant place, or you’re interacting with people much more important than you are.

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• zazous@lemmy.funami.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That picture is not Doncaster, It’s Devils Dyke in Sussex, UK. It is facing East toward Chanctonbury Ring (furtherest hill in the distance). Behind the photographer will be a pub and a carpark. Its a drive of about 230 miles. #justsaying

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  • crank0271@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Well, duh. The photo isn’t of Doncaster because it’s already fallen to Hamas.

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  • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    So you’re #justsaying that the chickenshit woman is also full of regular human shit?

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    • Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      More likely the ‘journalist’ just grabbed a stock image (it even credits Getty Images) of paragliders.

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• barnaclebutt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Image

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• andybytes@programming.dev ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Stupid ass

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• recall519@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  sLaMs

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• RedFrank24@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “AAAHHH! Hamas are attacking… Doncaster?”

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• phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Oh yeah, hamas is very well known for their incredible Airforce and paramilitary units and operations

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  • krashmo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Even aside from that, I see 12 guys in the picture. If we assume this is a stock photo and the actual number was 5 times higher that’s still only 60 people. If a foreign country or terrorist organization was invading you with 60 dudes in parachutes you could almost call the local shooting club and let them handle it. That’s hardly worth the label “invasion”.

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    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I mean the island of Sark was invaded by a single dude in 1990 (apologies for the terrible linked source, its just one of the first search results that wasn’t a random reddit thread or other even less reputable source)

      The local volunteer Constable, the only law enforcement on the island, being informed of the invasion thanks to the notices, decided to take the threat seriously. On the morning of the invasion, Constable Perrée began to plan the island’s defense, which was a two stage scheme. First, he went looking for Mr. Gardes. He found him sitting on a park bench in army fatigues preparing for the massacre that was about to befall this island. As the Constable approached the invading army (a.k.a. Gardes), he saw Gardes loading his automatic weapon.

      The first “showing up” stage now complete, Mr. Perrée executed the second stage of the plan. He complimented Mr. Gardes on his choice of gun and convinced Gardes to remove the magazine and let him see the instrument of the island’s assured defeat, so the constable could better admire it. When Gardes acquiesced, the Constable took the gun and punched him in the nose. The invasion was over. The gun used in the attempted coup now sits in the Sark Museum next to old ships and a dedicated exhibit to one of the island’s two original telephone calls.

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    • chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Well, there was Operation Red Dog by 13 (3 being agents so really more like 9-10) people who tried to take over Dominica and make it a white ethnostate…

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  • dan1101@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Paramilitary, paragliders, I never made the connection before!

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• ThePyroPython@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Well she is from Doncaster so that explains a lot of her delusional thinking.

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• hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Ah yes, because paragliders obviously are a very good invasion method. How indoctrinated do you have to be to think this???

  also before i clicked the imagine i thought it was the flag of estonia of a sec

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  • Anomalocaris@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    tbf,

    the fact that a handful of paraglider managed to overcome one of the most advanced and well financed military on the world, through one of the most militarised and surveilled borders in the world, into one of the most militarised countries in the world, is quite impressive.

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    • herrvogel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      There is a trick to bypassing the Israeli defenses. Just make sure what you’re doing will be giving the unhinged leader of the genocidal regime a casus belli to launch a war of conquest that they can sell as a defensive war, and suddenly you’ll find you can do anything.

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  • Hupf@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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  • gens@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    AFAIK It did happen in brittain… in ww2.

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Old woman yells at cloud paragliders.

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• Shardikprime@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Image

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  • nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    sauce?

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Junji Ito for sure

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    • Shardikprime@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Gyo, it’s the same guy who created Uzumaki

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• Jimmycakes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  We should study her brain

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  • gon@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Maybe, but I think there’s something much more insidious going on here than a random person with weird delusions. I think this is a symptom of the panic narrative that’s being boosted all over the world by far-right parties and candidates, social media, and incompetent - or at least misguided - news networks.

    If you keep hearing about how the big evil is all around you - it’s your neighbors that looks different, your colleagues with a weird accent - and that that evil is coming to get you sooner rather than later, then when you see something that looks different than usual, what are you gonna think it is? The big evil you’ve been hearing so much about, of course.

    This time, it’s some old lady thinking paragliders are Hamas, but many times it’s some other people saying “the gays” are trying to spread communism and infect the children.

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    • Exusia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      This was my takeaway. Shes so spun up with fear she sees on TV she thought it possible it could show up at her door.

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  • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It would be useful as a paper weight

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• Moonweedbaddegrasse@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeah, I’ve taken drugs, too.

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• frezik@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Takes me back to the early post-9/11 days. Not back to anyplace I wanted to be, but it does take me back.

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  • roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Boston mooninite panic

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    • cdf12345@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I hope he can see this, because I am doing it as hard as I can.

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• nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “Slams”

  😐

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  • EldenLord@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Image S.L.A.M 😐

    Those poor paragliders

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    • Etterra@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I know there’s no such thing as overkill, but JFC. You’re gonna need a microscope to identify the remains.

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    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Sir, !noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works is leaking out and beginning to spread

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  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Woman performs double suplex on paragliders

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• postmateDumbass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They found a photo of the leaderImage

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  • Thcdenton@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Dont u dare conflate hg for pg >:[

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• RizzoTheSmall@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Oh no! If they take out Doncaster, who will eat all the Gregg’s?

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• atlien51@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  D O N C A S T A H

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• umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  oh no they got SLAMMED

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  • iii@mander.xyz ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    By a single tweet. It was so effective!

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• A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  the british have to be the most over sensitive people on the planet, for some of the shit I’ve seen them complain about that made the news cycle.

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  • Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Nothing real ever happens here. So me picking bits off the scab on my left knee has a good chance of making the national press.

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• podperson@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Paraglider pilot here. A paraglider would be literally the worst way to invade/attack/terrorist-whatever any target. You need the right wind conditions to launch (or you have to have someone tow you up, but that only gets you so high); if there are no thermals, you can’t travel any kind of distance (unless your target is on a coastal ridge with onshore wind); you pretty much have to “attack” during the day (for above reasons); you move incredibly slowly (trim speed for your average wing is around 25-3mph); and you need both hands to operate the controls (I guess you could have a tandem passenger to work the weapons or whatever, but then you’re 2 people for every one weapon you have). Paramotors (paraglider plus big ass fan) makes all of this even less ideal, since you’re still very slow moving, and you’re loud.

  In conclusion, this lady is a nutcase and badly needs a hobby.

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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Aw naw! They’re comin’ from Bradford!

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• betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’d watch this Red Dawn reboot.

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• aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Did any of them have those dumb little, loud ass engines attached? Because, if so, I understand a little more.

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