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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 43 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

If Nigel Farage had died in that plane crash this genuinely wouldn't be happening. They have no beacon to organise around without Farage. There is nobody else with his ability to play the game.

You can all talk about great man theory this and that not being true sure but this shitbag has been forged through 45 years of experience as a successful crypto fascist and if he were gone there simply is no replacement but getting someone who has gone through that many years of experience as a crypto fascist again.

I am convinced that this movement would collapse without him. He is and always has been the lynchpin of the far right's access and influence in the mainstream.

[–] tim_curry@hexbear.net 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He is unrelenting I don’t think many people have the same energy to be that much of a shitbag all of the time

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 28 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yeah there's that too. But the fact of the matter is that none of the other fascists have the ability to straddle the boundary between conservatism and fascism in a way that successfully convinces people it's not fascism.

All the others? They all fall into revealing themselves. Farage is teflon. He avoids being tarred with the fascist label extremely successfully, to the point that he left his own party when it had too many open fascists in it. And it collapsed the moment he left it as everyone recognised it as fascist.

He's fucking good at it. None of the others can do it. If he were dead right now none of this would be happening. These dickheads hanging flags would be getting correctly labelled as the same people who chanted EDL. He is the one making this movement avoid the fascism label and keeping it from being pushed to the fringe where it belongs.

[–] tim_curry@hexbear.net 50 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It’s funny reading this and yet hearing many brits complain that their favourite tourists destinations don’t want them anymore. Maybe Spain should vote to send British tourists to prison camps

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 25 points 3 days ago

Unironically

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 52 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Cursed country, talk about fucked. Imagine looking at the Supreme Court and being like yeah that shit rules give me that. Yankoid tendencies but with even less talent, less population, less industrial base. Just utterly doomed to misery.

[–] picklemeister@hexbear.net 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

the us is to a coconut as england is to a tree

[–] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

sorry but Britain has plenty of talent let's be real

for a tiny island it's cultural output and sports and so on is realistically quite strong

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

not adjusted for population

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

Ok you win england is cool

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 42 points 3 days ago

Wow it's almost like most Westerners are nazis

[–] Frivolous_Beatnik@hexbear.net 40 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 3 days ago

Was expecting higher lol

[–] iByteABit@hexbear.net 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's what the "Labour" in the name really stands for after all

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago

Should have "shall set you free" appended.

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 32 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Sink the whole island into the sea. Give the Scottish life boats.

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 29 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

luckily Wales is already buoyant pseudorca

[–] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

the Scots are also shit

have followed Britains lead for centuries

That's why I said lifeboats. They can row to safety, I won't be rescuing them.

[–] SmithrunHills@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

Cthulu please, my life will be yours

[–] VibeCoder@hexbear.net 34 points 3 days ago

Look at my socdems dawg

[–] miz@hexbear.net 27 points 3 days ago (1 children)

if I were supreme leader we would do a study like this where everyone who approves of concentration camps gets sent to one

[–] BeanisBrain@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

It's like the modern version of the fairy tale trope where they make a traitor think they've wrongly convicted someone else and ask the traitor what his sentence should be. The traitor (not knowing they've figured him out) suggests a grisly punishment, only for them to reveal that they knew it was him all along and give him the punishment he just advocated.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

it's not quite the same thing, but it reminds me of the a Chinese saying (成语) that goes "Invite the gentleman to enter the urn".

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago

GOOD chengyu

[–] Cat_Daddy@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago

38% of labour, fuck

[–] mayakovsky@hexbear.net 21 points 3 days ago

Nazi country

[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 19 points 3 days ago

Expect nothing less from TERF island

[–] Amir@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago

"Hey UK how are you doing?"

"...Jesus Christ"

[–] EatPotatoes@hexbear.net 16 points 3 days ago

Like in that Johnny English movie, the whole country needs become one big gulag.

[–] Meltyheartlove@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago

Death to uKKK ukkk