Hitler was a very nice fellow until SJWs started calling him a Nazi.: Today in Tweets

@Alan

if you dial 99955, the operator will put you through to the police but no-one will speak to you. They’ll just listen and run a trace on the call.

This popped up on my facebook and on a bunch of news sites earlier this year; was there some specific event that triggered it?

Also, are you sure that they’ll be silent? Far as I can tell, you’ll get a (possibly automated) system that’ll ask you to do something, like press 5 a couple of times, to confirm that this is a genuine emergency call and that you’re unable to speak.

Curiously, I can’t see any mention of a similar system being used elsewhere, which seems surprising. Surely other countries must experience the same issues?

Yay kupo! I hope it goes great. You deserve a nice job!

@ pie

was there some specific event that triggered it?

Some people used it during the Borough Market attack so the police could listen in without giving away that people were hiding under tables.

possibly automated)

Over here emergency calls are handled manually. If you use the 99955 number the call centre mutes the outgoing signal and the operator doesn’t go through the “Emergency, which service do you require?” routine.

Hello! I don’t comment here a lot but I do lurk. I’ve had a rocky start here in the past. That said; I’m glad that the tide is turning against the Far-Right jerks.

Fake-Prez Jabba The Fartt and these NeoFascist Nazi freaks have only awakened a mighty Progressive giant with their evil, brutality and ridiculous antics. As always; Tyrants shoot themselves in the foot by being tyrants.
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The good ol’ “Tarkin Effect” as STAR WARS fans would call it….TO PARAPHRASE: The more you tighten your grip, the more power/people/etc. will slip through your fingers!

These bigoted bozos need to understand that the protests and brutal crackdown thereof in Tienanmen Square was an exception (the Democracy Movement just gave up rather than strengthen in resolve) to the rule….When tyrants try to crack down, they only strengthen The Resistance. Even when the Resistance is temporarily defeated (the Occupy protests), they rise again in another way.

Jabba being “elected” instead of Hillary has ironically been the greatest thing to happen to the Progressive Movement.

The whole present “Administration” is illegitimate! When we demand “Jabba” getting impeached we must also include Pence and Ryan! They believe the same junk as the Orange Menace but unlike him, actually are in full control of their faculties! Pence is stable and somewhat competent and THAT’S SCARY. At least Trumpypoo is an erratic giant baby who tends to put the spanner in his own works with sheer dumbassery, openess and Twitter-addiction!

Anyway; I wish to be a full member of the gang and I love this site….
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….and I’m a HUGE KITTY-FANATIC!
(That’s my sister’s cat. Sadly; The cutie now lives in Kitty-Heaven but we can enjoy the wonders of her magic tummeh)

QUESTION: Is there another type of file I can use to post pics? I see the [img] thingies.

We also learned that the 112 number (common to all Europe) was introduced because skiers in the Alps kept falling down mountains and not knowing what country they’d landed in.

Oh, image posting, you can use files ending in .jpg, .gif, and .png.
“.jpeg” doesn’t work though.

“Still think you can control them?”

Hexum7:

“Still think you can control them?”

I’ve been thinking of that scene more and more, and I wish that were not the case.

Still working to get a response from google on whether they’re really hosting it, or somebody screwed with whois.

Cloudflare is definitely involved.

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The CBC had an interview with Andrew Anglin yesterday. I just found out, haven’t watched it yet, but… I have no words.

EDIT: Sounds like they are reporting how Trump didn’t call out the neo-nazis, after an infuriating few minutes of the CBC both-sides’ing themselves.

Aheheh, okay, the interview segment isn’t fawning. Starts around seventeen minutes in, and it’s actually Spencer, not Anglin. It starts with Trumpistas shouting “Heil Trump”, follows with creepy music under film of Trump’s election and the nazis bein’ nazis. Spooky music throughout. Drawing a clear line between the Alt-Right and racism, sexism, violence and fascism. Clips of counter-protesters are very reasonable, no mention of all-sides violence. Spencer comes across as a creepy racist shitbag and a Nazi. At the end is a piece with a former Neo-Nazi and leader of the group Life After Hate. The guy says quite clearly “The Alt Right is Neo-Nazi.” Ends with a bit of both-sides’ism that’s disappointing.

Don’t know what to think about it. I wish they would’ve just used clips of him instead of giving him a platform to speak. Fascinating that he talked so much about “identity politics” as if that were a good thing, though. It’s a pretty clear cover for his shitty racism, but I’m surprised he used the term.

Ugh. Would’ve been so much better without having an actual interview with the shitbag, creepy music background or no. “Rising violence! Everyone’s angry! Political division!” Fuck off, CBC, they’re fucking Nazis.

Fuck, don’t bring the Sega Genesis classic Streets of Rage into it, Nazis!

(I focus on this, because everything else going on makes me want to stick my face into wood chipper.)

Welp, glad to see Chris Ray Gun is still a colossal point-missing moron. Does this guy have to have a 1488-tatted up skinhead shoved in front of him to acknowledge that maybe, just maybe there’s a problem with Nazis out there?

This actually brings to mind a point that I think needs to be made more prominent to people like Chris: politics takes knowledge to understand. It doesn’t lend itself well to hot-takes, as hot-takey as a lot of news can be. Dick Coughlan took a whole hour to lay out why fears of multiculturalism are rooted in white supremacist talking points. If Chris doesn’t understand this, he needs to stop commenting on politics and read up on this stuff from those of us who have spent time in the trenches and understand the history of these talking points. And Chris is not alone in just assuming that these opinions have no history or context behind them and they’re offered as genuine opinions rather than dog-whistle talking points. It speaks of a naiveté and a laziness that I’ve seen far too often on Twitter, on Facebook and on YouTube.