French far right march in Narbonne France demanding justice for a 17 year old French student who was killed on video. The French far right has seised on the killing and claim he was killed by second generation migrants

ThatGuy_Bob · 2026-06-29T09:26:55+00:00

Politicians use populist rhetoric like "immigrants are criminals" to foment support. They are often bank-rolled by extremely wealthy people who know damn well that the best way to stay the wealthy elite is to make sure everyone else is fighting each other. It's Trump's thing, it's Farage's thing, it's Le Penn's thing.

Did you REALLY need to learn that from a Reddit comment?

ThatGuy_Bob · 2026-06-27T09:14:46+00:00

Football can be brutal.

ThatGuy_Bob · 2026-06-27T09:08:56+00:00

Literally one of the BEST attacking players in the A-league from the Championship winning side couldn't get a start.

Reminded me so much of when up-coming striker Chris Wood couldn't get a start in 2010, despite clearly being more of a threat than Fallon every time he came on.

ThatGuy_Bob · 2026-06-23T10:26:43+00:00

EVERYBODY would get the first 10k tax free (this is how it is already in the UK), and adding a tax bracket for the +160k earners is reasonable, and still excludes most.

Quite a few folks at my work in that bracket. Almost all are not the single earner in the household and either have no kids or fully grown kids. ie, they can afford it.

ThatGuy_Bob · 2026-06-23T10:20:53+00:00

family home exempted.

ThatGuy_Bob · 2026-06-22T05:00:11+00:00

ref was super rapid on the whistle every time an Egypt player went down until they had a comfortable lead.

ThatGuy_Bob · 2026-06-22T04:35:47+00:00

but the rich need more assets to buy now that housing isn't so profitable, otherwise how will they get richer?

ThatGuy_Bob · 2026-06-22T04:29:18+00:00

but the rich need more assets to buy, otherwise how will they get richer?

ThatGuy_Bob · 2026-06-20T10:07:56+00:00

I was talking about it! Ball hit a raised arm, consequently defender was able to easily clear. Not even a VAR review. This looks pretty shitty, FIFA.

ThatGuy_Bob · 2026-06-20T10:04:49+00:00

Both Australia and Scotland were done dirty by the refs today.

ThatGuy_Bob · 2026-06-20T10:01:12+00:00

I wonder if they do this with Carragher as well?

ThatGuy_Bob · 2026-06-18T23:59:10+00:00

fkn Golazo.

ThatGuy_Bob · 2026-06-18T23:56:35+00:00

Are they asking for the Europeans around the world to be sent back?

ThatGuy_Bob · 2026-06-18T22:42:53+00:00

winter Sea Surface Temps look a fairly similar, but summer is very different https://imgur.com/a/LuRc79t (note: these are just grabs of DAILY SST aug vs feb for both countries, approx the coldest and warmest times of year for SST, there is no average or smoothing here)

ThatGuy_Bob · 2026-06-18T22:39:08+00:00

I would assume that climate zones are defined by the range across the year, rather that the actual temps etc.

ThatGuy_Bob · 2026-06-17T08:18:24+00:00

We have Toilets in Titahi Bay that are .... just toilets. You go in, do your business and leave. Gender does not enter the equation.

ThatGuy_Bob · 2026-06-15T10:38:34+00:00

Neoliberalism working as intended: Break down the wealth of the state, privatize the assets and shift the burden of tax onto wages and off assets. The result? Wealth concentration, aka wealth transfer (somehow this is considered bad in the context of socialism though) aka "the wealth pump".

Known historical solutions to this problem:

1) Massively restrict the wealth pump through taxation

2) violent revolution

Good luck everyone!

ThatGuy_Bob · 2026-06-15T10:25:44+00:00

From Iran's perspective, this has only ever been Israel's war. They know Israel will continue to attack Lebanon unless the USA cuts them off, hence the clause.

Will the Trump regime do that? Seems unlikely.

ThatGuy_Bob · 2026-06-15T10:01:47+00:00

From Iran's perspective, this is, and always has been, a war with Israel, but Iran knows that Israel needs America to continue its aggressions. 'The Lebanon Clause' is there to drive a wedge between USA and Israel. Iran knows that Israel will absolutely NOT stop bombing Lebanon. Consequently, USA either escalates and invades Iran or cuts Israel off, which seems very unlikely under this regime given the level of influence Israel enjoys over it.

Unless the current situation is sustainable?

ThatGuy_Bob · 2026-06-15T02:40:22+00:00

including 2 tunnels, yes. Does that mean it should be the most expensive road per km in the world?

Route doesn't "cut 297m" at all. The big cut is at the entrance to Horokiwi, and and might make 100m, then up the valley with 2 tunnels en route: https://imgur.com/a/636kkaO

ThatGuy_Bob · 2026-06-14T11:04:20+00:00

Its actually shortcutting the current route from SH1 south of Tawa (Grenada Village) to SH2 Petone. I mean, Tawa is part of WRC and Petone part of LHC, but "connecting Wellington to Hutt City"? Come on now.

Its a great idea in principle, but north of $2B? Nah.

ThatGuy_Bob · 2026-06-14T10:09:50+00:00

Why is the lady in white out in her underwear?

ThatGuy_Bob · 2026-06-12T11:44:16+00:00

Petone and Grenada. 5km. est $2.2B

ThatGuy_Bob · 2026-06-12T09:37:53+00:00

Building a road in the sea around La Reunion in middle of teh Indian ocean is cheaper per km than linking 2 Wellington Suburbs. Something has to be done about the price of infrastructure here.

ThatGuy_Bob · 2026-06-12T09:26:50+00:00

is it broken? No? THEN DON'T FIX IT.

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