General News Thread

[Trav Le Bleu]

7 minutes ago, Lionator said:

 

this is quite funny tbf 

It's all about him.

[Samilktray]

33 minutes ago, The Bear said:

Imagine encouraging your own son to turn himself in knowing he'll likely get the death penalty. 

 

If it was me I'd be driving over the border into Mexico and keep going until I'm deep in South America somewhere. 

Yeah gonna have to agree with you here. The dad must be a maga weirdo, what an odd country 

[Foxdiamond]

21 minutes ago, Samilktray said:

Yeah gonna have to agree with you here. The dad must be a maga weirdo, what an odd country 

A lot of jumping to conclusions without full facts

[Dahnsouff]

36 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

I thought it meant they believe that when you die you get reincarnated in a ZX Spectrum game.

Manic Miner seems appropriate in Trumps case, if somewhat undeserved

[Lionator]

Gun culture is still the/a main issue here. In 99% of countries in the world, if you want to murder someone you disagree with, you have to go properly out of your way both physically and emotionally. Stab wounds for example are survivable in most cases. When you have easy access to weapons that can blow people’s heads off from 500m away, it actually overcomes a lot of psychological barriers that prevent people from murdering in the first place. 

[Beechey]

52 minutes ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

Imagine if he was president during 9/11. 

Reporter: Your thoughts Mr. President. 

Trump: A dark day for our country. Btw, I got my golf handicap down this morning.

He did a phone-in interview on 9/11 and one of the things he said was that his building was now the biggest building in downtown Manhattan.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/09/11/and-now-its-the-tallest-trump-in-otherwise-somber-9-11-interview-couldnt-help-touting-one-of-his-buildings/

Edited 12 September 2025 by Beechey

[The Bear]

1 hour ago, Lionator said:

 

this is quite funny tbf 

General Melchett: Oh well can't be helped, can't be helped. 

[leicsmac]

Par for the course, I think. (Which I'm assuming he will be on at some point today.)

[ClaphamFox]

18 minutes ago, Lionator said:

Gun culture is still the/a main issue here. In 99% of countries in the world, if you want to murder someone you disagree with, you have to go properly out of your way both physically and emotionally. Stab wounds for example are survivable in most cases. When you have easy access to weapons that can blow people’s heads off from 500m away, it actually overcomes a lot of psychological barriers that prevent people from murdering in the first place. 

Exactly. The murder rate in the US is around six times that of the UK. And while that may be partially down to cultural differences, it is mainly because we don’t allow our weirdos and nutjobs easy access to deadly weapons that can kill large numbers of people at the squeeze of a trigger. 
 

The absolute refusal of the US pro-gun lobby to accept that having a vast amount of deadly weapons in circulation = lots of people being murdered is one of the most flagrant and bizarre examples of collective self-deception the world has ever seen. But it won’t change. 

 

Edited 12 September 2025 by ClaphamFox

[Parafox]

17 minutes ago, Beechey said:

He did a phone-in interview on 9/11 and one of the things he said was that his building was now the biggest building in downtown Manhattan.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/09/11/and-now-its-the-tallest-trump-in-otherwise-somber-9-11-interview-couldnt-help-touting-one-of-his-buildings/

Paranoid narcissism. 

 

Key Symptoms of Paranoid Narcissism

Symptoms often manifest as a blend of traits from both Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) and Paranoid Personality Disorder (PPD). 

Narcissistic Symptoms

Grandiose self-importance: Exaggerating achievements and talents, expecting to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements. 

Excessive admiration: Requiring constant, excessive praise and admiration from others. 

Sense of entitlement: Expecting special treatment and privileges without having earned them. 

Exploitation of others: Taking advantage of people to achieve personal goals. 

Lack of empathy: An inability or unwillingness to recognize the needs and feelings of others. 

Envy and belief of being envied: Being envious of others or believing that others are envious of them. 

Arrogance and haughtiness: Displaying arrogant, haughty behaviors and attitudes. 

Edited 12 September 2025 by Parafox

[OntarioFox]

1 hour ago, Lionator said:

 

this is quite funny tbf 

It's not. It's coming out in the washing that the fella who did this is a terminally-online edgelord who grew up in a white republican family and was trained to use guns by his own father. Trump is pulling the same quirky nonsense Boris Johnson used to when an inconvenient truth came up. The kid doesn't fit the profile of the people the media are blaming (shame on our rag newspapers for parroting the "trans rights" dogwhistle line by the way, if the bullet engraving comments really are true it's more like the sort of shite 4Chan users still think is funny).

 

Expect this to conveniently leave the news cycle in record time.

Edited 12 September 2025 by OntarioFox

[leicsmac]

2 minutes ago, OntarioFox said:

It's not. It's coming out in the washing that the fella who did this is a terminally-online edgelord who grew up in a white republican family and was trained to use guns by his own father. Trump is pulling the same quirky nonsense Boris Johnson used to when an inconvenient truth came up. The kid doesn't fit the profile of the people the media are blaming (shame on our rag newspapers for parroting the "trans rights" dogwhistle line by the way, if the bullet engraving comments really are true it's more like the sort of shite 4Chan users still think is funny).

 

Expect this to conveniently leave the news cycle in record time.

Of course they were going to go there, though. 

[whoareyaaa]

Some people suggest Israeli was behind it but can't see that, probably just some nutter with a gun.

[whoareyaaa]

1 hour ago, Lionator said:

Gun culture is still the/a main issue here. In 99% of countries in the world, if you want to murder someone you disagree with, you have to go properly out of your way both physically and emotionally. Stab wounds for example are survivable in most cases. When you have easy access to weapons that can blow people’s heads off from 500m away, it actually overcomes a lot of psychological barriers that prevent people from murdering in the first place. 

Most stab wounds end in death I would imagine, take the girl on the subway that got murdered the other day.

[bovril]

4 minutes ago, whoareyaaa said:

Some people suggest Israeli was behind it but can't see that, probably just some nutter with a gun.

Wasn't he fanatically pro Israel as well as guns? American right wingers two favourite things. 

[whoareyaaa]

2 minutes ago, bovril said:

Wasn't he fanatically pro Israel as well as guns? American right wingers two favourite things. 

Not recently 

[st albans fox]

12 minutes ago, whoareyaaa said:

Some people suggest Israeli was behind it but can't see that, probably just some nutter with a gun.

The tin foil hat brigade plus huge numbers of Chinese and Russian bots according to x 

oh and of course someone on foxes talk repeated it ……..

3 minutes ago, whoareyaaa said:

Not recently 

That’s also contrived info via creatively clipped footage from his broadcasts  

id have a word with your algorithm if I were you 😄

Edited 12 September 2025 by st albans fox

[whoareyaaa]

4 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

The tin foil hat brigade plus huge numbers of Chinese and Russian bots according to x 

oh and of course someone on foxes talk repeated it ……..

That’s also contrived info via creatively clipped footage from his broadcasts  

id have a word with your algorithm if I were you 😄

my algorithm is not the best  or it's just X in general.

[Rusko187]

3 hours ago, The Bear said:

Imagine encouraging your own son to turn himself in knowing he'll likely get the death penalty. 

 

If it was me I'd be driving over the border into Mexico and keep going until I'm deep in South America somewhere. 

 

2 hours ago, Samilktray said:

Yeah gonna have to agree with you here. The dad must be a maga weirdo, what an odd country 

Not sure the father had a great deal of choice in the matter, way too high profile a situation for him to get away with. Either that Dad did it, or one of his friends will no doubt have shopped him in time.... still though, his dad can get a new Chevy now with that 100k!

 

13 minutes ago, bovril said:

Wasn't he fanatically pro Israel as well as guns? American right wingers two favourite things. 

Word is that his views on Israel were changing and he had concerns Mossad were going to off him at some point. Instead it was some juvenile 22 year old engraving memes on bullets... weird old world!

[st albans fox]

4 minutes ago, whoareyaaa said:

my algorithm is not the best  or it's just X in general.

X is just horrendous - yep 

 

If people are going to spend time on it then I recommend clicking on tweets offering very different views to try and encourage some balance. 

 

the number of Americans who are trying to keep their conspiracies going now the FBI have arrested a loner is mad - they’re disappearing down their own rabbit holes ! 

 

[whoareyaaa]

2 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

X is just horrendous - yep 

 

If people are going to spend time on it then I recommend clicking on tweets offering very different views to try and encourage some balance. 

 

the number of Americans who are trying to keep their conspiracies going now the FBI have arrested a loner is mad - they’re disappearing down their own rabbit holes ! 

 

I'm thinking of coming off there completely tbh it's all negative stuff apart from the odd positive animal rescue, I don't take anything for granted on there most of it it is just farming for views, likes etc.

[Guest Umbungo78]

3 hours ago, The Bear said:

Imagine encouraging your own son to turn himself in knowing he'll likely get the death penalty. 

 

If it was me I'd be driving over the border into Mexico and keep going until I'm deep in South America somewhere. 

So you'd support the murder of someone that had different opinions to the child you'd raised so badly that the only way they had to express themselves was to murder someone that they couldn't debate with? 

[st albans fox]

7 minutes ago, Rusko187 said:

 

Word is that his views on Israel were changing and he had concerns Mossad were going to off him at some point. Instead it was some juvenile 22 year old engraving memes on bullets... weird old world!

This is mainly based on his podcast last week with Shapiro where he brings up a question posed to him by someone and it’s been clipped to make it look like they’re  his own thoughts. 
 

the mossad comment is based on someone told someone who told someone and they tweeted something that Kirk said.  Completely unsubstantiated and certainly can’t be denied now. 
 

of course now the nutters have had this placed into their minds, they will struggle to believe anything about this kid being responsible. Only their ‘leaders’ such as jones, Carroll and Fuentes denying its veracity will be effective. I doubt they’ll do this cos it could affect their clickability. 

[CornwallFox]

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Edited 12 September 2025 by CornwallFox

[hackneyfox]

49 minutes ago, whoareyaaa said:

Most stab wounds end in death I would imagine, take the girl on the subway that got murdered the other day.

That would of course be very dependent on where you get stabbed, I would imagine that most stabbing don’t end in death.