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Former British MP Warns of Ritual Sacrifice in the UK (hexbear.net)
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[–] [email protected] 58 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

  • lacks any specificity (what organs? what animals?).

  • expects the reader to believe that any lab in this country can get results back fast enough that you'd get a conclusive answer next day.

  • scientists can just look at some miscellaneous organs and determine how their owner died apparently.

  • fails to properly gesture at a target minority.

  • call to action is just look into it please.

  • transparently the anti-Haitian panic from US politics transplanted over here.

0/10, shoddiest moral panic I've seen in a while, the Tory party really is slipping.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 weeks ago

Apart from the fact she’s probably trying to dogwhistle here, I’m pretty confident she has no trouble eating animals she doesn’t consider pets. Would she then apply the same logic to herself? I’m calling on the Home Secretary of UK to look into this, if she’s eating dead animal bodies or secretions what else is she capable of?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

In fairness to point one, attached was actually a picture of said entrails CW: Bloody entrails..

Everything else, yeah. It's probably just from local hunting.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 weeks ago

Funny if all this was referencing fox hunting

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

That literally does just look like what people do when hunting if they aren't interested in doing anything with the innards, it's simpler to get everything out right away so that there's no risk of contamination.

I'd say that assuming this is near a regular walking route its definitely some extremely bad manners from whoever did it in that case though. It's one thing to leave stuff out where it's safe to assume other animals will get to it, but near where regular people walk is nasty.

Apparently there isn't supposed to be hunting around there, but the alternative scenario in that case surely would be that some other animal carried it there or whatever. What sort of supposed satanic ritual just coincidentally leaves a set of internal organs that look identical to when a hunter is trying not to puncture anything and get nasty organ stuff all over?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

It was around Leeds, plenty of places around Leeds were people would hunt. Even if they're not meant to be (eg poaching).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

Really odd that someone'd leave it so close a trail. All the folks I knew who'd, like, lamp for rabbits or whatever would bury what they stripped.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I think this kind of anti-African panic has been long simmering in the UK too, I recall reading about a 2002 case where the remains of a young black boy were discovered in the Thames, and the "loony" opinion was that it was satanists, while the measured and reasonable opinion printed in shit like the Telegraph was that it was probably "African witch doctors"

Aside from that, the organs in the attached photo just actually look intact and relatively unremarkable aside from not being inside of an animal, surely the only thing you could test for in that case would be if stress hormones or similar are built up, which could be any kind of pain and stress, or like if they find weird poison in a stomach?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

somewhere there's a very sad person who couldn't make haggis because of a hole in their grocery bags

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago

Focken hell!

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 weeks ago

Same energy as an old white lady seeing a group of black guys hanging out and thinking it’s a drug deal

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 weeks ago

The scary browns, back at it again with their ritualistic sacrifice.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 weeks ago

Morrissey-ass tweet

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 weeks ago

Britain's cannibalistic appetite for mummy parts did huge damage to archaelogy

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 weeks ago

Blood libel is an important part of western culture.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 weeks ago

pagan druids are stalking the UK forests once again folks, the west has fallen

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

amogus

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I remember my local community going on a witch hunt because they found like a stone or a birdskull or something wrapped in a surah page, and people were calling it black magic and a curse and such. Turns out it was just an old algerian good luck charm.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago

who-did-this

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago

Oh shit RFK in the UK

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