Al Carns has warned of a "shadow of war" at Europe's door, as hostile intelligence activity against the UK has jumped by more than 50% over the past year.
  • Edamamebean [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Yeah that’s about it. When I told him I think we should defund the military he said that there are “people who would slit your throat the second they get the chance if you let them”. Just the most chauvinistic old school racist savage barbarians at the gates type nonsense. It was a good reminder why I stopped trying to talk to him about politics.

    • miz [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      1 day ago

      people who say shit like that creep me out, it feels like they would murder people if they think they could get away with it. makes me think of the God-humpers who will say “everyone would just [redacted] and murder without God” but reasonable people say “I’m doing as much of that stuff as I want right now: zero”

      there’s also of course zero thought as to what kind of material conditions would make the putative throat-slitter so desperate or how those conditions came to be. nope, they’re just evil brown savages or whatever