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Today in Bologna two Italian policemen killed Abderrahim Fakir, a 43 year old man who was pepper sprayed, beaten up, tied and then suffocated to death. First responders on the scene just watched without intervening as he asked for help.

This is a tragedy.

Italy actively, shamelessly encourages and executes violence and murder of non white people.

The country needs to burn.

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Primo caso di applicazione del nuovo "Registro Mod. 45 bis" per gli agenti intervenuti

Video of Moroccan man dying while pinned down by police sparks anger in Italy:

ueberdemnebelmeer

La procura ha applicato una nuova norma introdotta dal governo con un recente “decreto sicurezza”

ROME, July 20 (Reuters) - A man in the northern Italian city of Bologna died while being held to the ground by police trying to arrest him,

teaboot

Not to be rhe ten millionth person to say “USAmerican President Donald Trump Is An Incoherent Public Speaker Whose Train Of Thought Can Be Best Described As Scat Jazz” but I just remembered that when he talks at international events it is several dozen people’s job to translate what he’s saying and what he intends to say to world leaders in real time

And I desperately wish to hear how they do it

teaboot

If anyone reading this isn’t fluent enough in English to understand the sentences that man says, please know that he has essentially mixed a number of adjectives and topics together in a hat and is pulling them out at random like a horrible children’s game

teaboot

Like that waxy jaundiced bitch will straight up be like “J'étais sur internet l'autre jour – internet, la plus grande invention américaine. Et la Chine a “internet aussi. Pas un bon internet, pas comme le mien, j'ai un internet formidable. Les gens me disent : « Donald, ton internet est génial ! » On adore l'internet de Donald. Mais la Chine… Chine, Chine, Chine… Vous savez qu'ils mangent des oiseaux ? C'est terrible. J'adore les oiseaux. La Chine mange des oiseaux. Pas comme nous. Pas comme mes oiseaux. Mais vous savez, c'est comme ça, et c'est terrible. Mais voilà ce que je vais faire : je vais sauver les oiseaux. Je vais sauver internet et sauver les oiseaux. Tous ces magnifiques oiseaux. Pour l'Amérique. Et la Chine va nous détester pour ça. Ils vont nous détester parce qu'on est les meilleurs sur oiseaux”. And people will lose their minds

angryraptor13

International translators have had this problem for A While - if they *don't* clean up what he says to sound coherent, they look like they're doing a bad job.

Explore Trump translation challenges, tips for interpreters, and 2025 strategies for accurate political translation and Trumpslation success

teaboot

oh my god

freckles-a-constellation

There was a scandal in Poland because one translator decided to translate him accurately, tone, vocabulary level and word salad tangents and all. Polish conservatives who don't speak English and previously only heard smoothed out translations that sounded coherent and used big words were up in arms about how the translator was "inserting her political agenda", "mocking him", "exaggerating", "purposefully trying to make him look bad" and "incredibly unprofessional". I listened to the translation in question. It was literally just accurate.

kimbureh

5. Sensitive and Controversial Language Trump’s speeches occasionally contain misogynistic, sexist, or inflammatory language. Japanese interpreter Tsuruta, for example, faced challenges when translating sexualized remarks, ultimately opting for standard terminology to maintain professionalism. Similarly, Chinese translator Kumiko Torikai found certain lewd expressions ethically challenging, ultimately leading to her retirement. Navigating these situations requires skillful balancing of accuracy, professionalism, and cultural sensitivity, ensuring that the translation is appropriate without distorting the original intent.

I don't know why the authors of PoliLingua act as if Trump's verbal misogyny and racism wasn't very much part of his "original intent".

it only now dawns on me that millions of people on this planet think Trump is way smarter than he is because translators have neglected to relate his violent speech accurately out of misunderstood politeness. Make the ape sound like a ape

cosmogyros

We had a mini-scandal in the German translation/interpretation community last year about exactly this – the interpreter for the inauguration got sick of Trump's incoherence and made a remark into his mic that was not intended to be heard (here's my post on it).

crossovergeek2005

There's a shit ton of wildfires in Oregon right now...

As a fellow Oregonian, I'm both terrified about what happen, and praying to all the Gods that everyone, ESPECIALLY folks in the Northwest, remains safe and sound 😨😱🙏🏻

byjove

I think about The Man of the Hole so often. 27 years alone. 27 years with no one to speak to but strangers to wave to. Survived a genocide, a massacre that killed everyone he had ever known and later, an assassination attempt. He still tried to warn researches about the traps he built. He was only about 60 when he died in 2022. The people who tormented him in life later desecrated his grave.

byjove

I do think it is important to share the stories of the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island and Ishi and the countless other indigenous people who experienced the profound trauma of being the last survivor but it is important to remember that the last Aboriginal families in Australia to be contacted by Europeans were resettled in the 1980s and the Indian government has proposed a plan that will mean total genocide for the Shompen people. The total eradication of indigenous peoples, their cultures, their languages, their ways of life, is not something which occurred in a distant ugly past but an ongoing process.

#indigenous sovereignty #brazil

aromanticsky

I mean, phobias *are* disabilities. They are not directly fatal like seizures can be but they *are* disabilities. Phobias aren’t just getting a little nervous or grossed out about something. They are clinically debilitating.

unnecessarilyconfused

homophobes actually fall under a medical umbrella known as "clinically stupid"

aromanticsky

so 1) I am talking about clinical phobias, you know, the thing under “specific phobias” under “anxiety disorders” in the DSM. I am talking about disability. I would appreciate you not comparing bigotry to disabilities. 2) in the same vein of not comparing bigotry to disabilities, I would appreciate you not essentially comparing bigotry to intellectual and cognitive disability. Homophobes are homophobic because we live in a homophobic society, not because they are less intelligent, cognitively disabled, or have actual phobias.

el-shab-hussein

Hey all! Normally when I post for Mona's community aid initiative, I post about the communities of refugees she is helping. But today I went to Instagram to update you all and saw that she hasn't posted since April, and we hadn't spoken since then either. She hadn't messaged me updates like she normally does. I was very afraid. It turned out she had broken her phone during a displacement, and she hasn't been able to replace it due to the high costs. Mobile phones are a scarce and expensive resource in Ghazzah but they are a lifeline for the families there. And for Mona it is not just a lifeline for her family but also for the refugee community she has dedicated the last few years of her life serving. She cannot connect with her usual network of volunteers or access funds without her phone (she had to contact me through her mother's phone). Despite helping displaced refugees, her and her family are also displaced refugees also living out of a tent, and she cannot currently afford a replacement. Please please please help her get a new one so she can continue doing the life-saving work she has been doing. Chuffed link to support Mona.

Every single dollar counts!!

hagiomoto

You have to be anti-war to care about climate change, and you have to hate the USA to be anti-war.

weirdgirl247

every year small towns and indigenous communities across canada are burnt to nothing by horrific wildfires and americans go on the internet to complain about it and blame us bc the smoke has spread to their state. i’m so tired.

go yell at mark carney or your own local politicians about climate change and urge them to do more to stop it. the namaygoosisagagun first nation had their community destroyed today. you can find a link to donate to them here. donate to your local food bank. go to the beach next week when the smoke clears and you don’t have to think about it anymore while the people who’s lives have been destroyed will have to pick up the pieces and try to move forward when we are already in a huge cost of living crisis across the country.

weirdgirl247

rbing with other places you can donate to to support those impacted by the fires!

true north aid (an organization aimed at providing support to remote/northern indigenous people in canada)

canadian red cross wildfire fund

ontario spca and humane society (links to their donate page specifically aimed at supporting pets and animals in areas impacted by the fires)

and the anishinabek nation’s page where you can donate to support the namaygoosisagagun nation who had their land destroyed by the fires is still accepting donations

whydidisavethistomyphone

solarpunkcast

It's not prophecy. It's knowing simple history of food regulations. It's knowing how the "crunchy" "woo" NuAge health nuts think.

transgendz

Trying to keep this short, but I have several surgeries coming up, and a PET scan which will tell me if i have cancer. They're thinking i have lymphoma. Below is some of the paperwork from my oncologist with personal info redacted. I need s lot of help to ensure I can have surgery and be prepared for chemo if thats my next step, bc if it is, I won't have much time to prepare.

PP--V--kofi--$C--gfm

$529/$2,000

#chemo

r2x2

The Amnesty International report that JK Rowling is trying to censor through legal threats.

It can also be found on Google Drive here and on Bluesky here.

cbarc

Please save and share this info where possible. This report has since been removed by Amnesty International due to legal threats of libel from JK Rowling. This information is no longer easily accessible.

holdit-againstme

I like how Americans are pretending their country has never seen a wildfire. How much smoke from places like California and Texas do you think floats down to Mexico? Since that’s how fucking wind works. It’s also rich considering a Canadian firefighter was just killed fighting wildfire in Oregon (not a Canadian province last I checked) but yes… please keep bitching and whining about smoke like we aren’t all fucking living through it. Y’all are the most selfish fucking people on this planet and it’s truly unbelievable you think you have a leg to stand on when it comes to inconveniencing your neighbours.

therationaldispatch

Spain is burning as massive wildfires spanning over 250 km^2 rage across the country. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has been criticized for underfunding & understaffing fire prevention infrastructure, flawed land management policies, & withholding centralized emergency resources. Sánchez himself openly admitted that the state’s wildfire preparation and prevention infrastructure have been "clearly insufficient". Critics point to severe nationwide shortages of professional firefighters, regional forest rangers, and advanced predictive software required to catch blazes early. Environmental groups argue the administration has historically treated firefighting as a seasonal summer issue rather than funding a permanent, year-round workforce capable of managing dry terrain in the winter and spring. Government agricultural and environmental policies have faced backlash for failing to clean and maintain public forest floors. Opposition groups note that rural abandonment, combined with a lack of state-sponsored controlled burns and firebreaks, has allowed massive amounts of combustible biomass to pile up, effectively turning the countryside into a tinderbox. Various regional leaders have accused Sánchez’s central government of actively withholding crucial resources. Regional authorities claim that requests for heavy equipment, aerial water bombers, and prompt deployments of the Military Emergency Unit (UME) have been bogged down by bureaucratic delays in Madrid. Spain's highly decentralized system splits wildfire management between individual autonomous regions and the central state. Critics argue the administration has been too slow to enact a unified "National Pact Against the Climate Emergency", leaving different regions to fight mega-fires with uncoordinated, mismatched tools and communications systems.

#interesting how they admit decentralization is now a problem!#climate crisis