this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2026
444 points (99.8% liked)

World News

57354 readers
1418 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News !news@lemmy.world

Politics !politics@lemmy.world

World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 185 points 5 days ago (2 children)

If throwing a can of paint is the same as throwing a bomb then why not throw bombs? Seems like a dumb thing for a government to promote...

[–] timewarp@lemmy.world 42 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

This is their way of subduing the populace even more. If politicians and corporations were actually scared to fuck people over, we'd live in a much better world.

[–] Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Thats actually what they want. They are engineering a reason.

[–] WraithGear@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

again it seems like they got their terrorism charge, so it didn’t matter what the person did. i find the argument that we should never do anything they could use to justify their fascism ridiculous, when we are talking about a live demonstration of said fascism being justified with non violent resistance.

[–] Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] WraithGear@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

then if you agree, i am sorry for assuming the worst

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 18 points 5 days ago

Both outcomes benefit them. Either it scares and subdues everyone or does the exact opposite which gives them even more 'justification' for crackdowns.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

We'd better not give them a reason, or they might start doing fascist things.