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A Boring Dystopia

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News is from last year, but it's still dystopic for anyone that missed it:

At a European Commission press briefing in Brussels on 13 October, Nunziati asked the spokesperson Paula Pinho: “You’ve repeatedly said that Russia should pay for the reconstruction of Ukraine. Do you think Israel should also pay for the reconstruction of Gaza, given that it destroyed much of the Strip and its civilian infrastructure?

on 27 October, the journalist received a letter terminating his working relationship with the news agency, which, however, did not specify the reasons for this decision.

The Agenzia Nova news agency told Fanpage.it that Nunziati’s question was “completely out of place and technically incorrect” and had created “embarrassment for the agency”

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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 10 points 6 hours ago

The Agenzia Nova news agency told Fanpage.it that Nunziati’s question ... had created “embarrassment for the agency”

Embarrassment for the agency = CEO's pee tapes released?

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 20 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Israel must have video of world leaders doing some really crazy shit. The fact that every single country is bending over backwards to capitulation to Netanyahu is insane.

[–] MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Have you watched the TV show "Happy!"?
It was cancelled out of nowhere after two seasons.
I bet someone wanted to keep that plot out of the cultural zeitgeist.

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 9 points 6 hours ago

Have you watched the TV show “Happy!”?

No..

I bet someone wanted to keep that plot out of the cultural zeitgeist.

What was the plot?

[–] Horsey@lemmy.world -2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

My guess is that they’re calculating that it’s better to capitulate than to have to rehome the millions of Israeli citizens if Israel ceases to exist. They’re trying to keep Israel as a containment zone, because if Israel falls, where the Jews go? I can’t think of a single country in the region that would take them willingly. They’d have to migrate to the US or Europe.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

Have we tried just not being dicks to eachother?

Nope, better bomb some elementary schools then I guess cuz we're all out of ideas, and we've tried nothing else.

[–] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 hours ago

Or maybe, just hear me out, live in peace with your neighbors?

[–] MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Netanyahu's spies must have a lot of people under their control.

[–] wpb@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)
  • Israel's spies

Netanyahu wasn't around during the nakba, he wasn't PM for the 1967 war, he wasn't PM during the Sabra and Shatila massacres, he wasn't PM when the Landau report legalized torture against Palestinians, and so on. The problem is the country, not its PM du jour.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 12 points 15 hours ago

The agency probably doesn't get invited to conferences anymore.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Being fired for it is obviously not the correct response, but also Israel is not in Europe. I'm not sure the European Commission is the right group to ask about that.

[–] merdaverse@lemmy.zip 7 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Israel is a European & American colony, so it is a very pertinent question to the EU.

[–] GirthBrooksPLO@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

Kinda seems like the other way around

[–] Jiral@lemmy.org 0 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Colony is certainly the wrong term here. Israel is hardly getting exploited by Europe or the US, nor is Israel being settled by a Europeans and/or US Americans in general. While one could make the point that those settlers have been Europeans/US Americans, that is not really how they viewed themselves or what was their motivation either.

[–] merdaverse@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

My bad. Should have written settler colony. The first "Israelis" (of the modern state) were settlers from Europe & America. They replaced the indigenous people there. Early zionist thinkers were clear that zionism was a colonial endeavor and were insipired by European colonialism. What their motivations were is irrelevant, as the methods and the end effect was the same.

There is a long list of proof for this argument in BE's video

[–] Jiral@lemmy.org 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

They don't consider themselves European however and haven't really when the settled there either. So they might be colonists from Europe/the US but they are not European colonists. Yes, European colonial powers sold land that wasn't theirs for that but that doesn't change that point. Zionists don't see themselves as Europeans. If they were inspired by European colonialism? Not saying they weren't.

This isn't about motivation. Israel is simply not a European colony, which European capital exploits and controls it after all?

[–] merdaverse@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Israel is simply not a European colony, which European capital exploits and controls it after all?

In the age of global capitalism, chests of riches don't need to be delivered to the empire's capital. They are distributed among capitalists that profit from the region, like NVIDIA and many others, some of which have also been called out in the UN.

Besides, settler colonialism, unlike extractive colonialism, doesn't necessarily result in the subordination of the newly created society. The USA, Canada and Australia are still useful to European interests even centuries after their creation. In fact they've formed a major world block (including Israel) that is aligned in almost everything:

[–] Jiral@lemmy.org 1 points 2 hours ago

The USA, Canada and Australia were all exploited by the crown, when it still had a strong control over them.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

This was months ago, and I don't see any newer news stories about him, I guess he did not get reinstated?

[–] merdaverse@lemmy.zip 16 points 17 hours ago

Probably not, can't find any other news on him. Knowing how things work, he's probably had to pivot careers at this point.

[–] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 178 points 1 day ago (9 children)

And today he has been proven right as nations begin to demand Israel pay for their crimes in Palestine: https://www.thejournal.ie/ireland-israel-compensation-school-palestine-destroyed-7022442-Apr2026/

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