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[–] scrchngwsl@feddit.uk 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think it's clear that he did, in fact, believe that he could hypnotise women's breasts bigger. And then backtracked when he became a politician and realised this would look bad for him.

Right now I would still vote for the Greens but my god can't we have someone with good policies AND who has never tried to hypnotise women's breasts bigger??

PS. Here is what his website looked like a year after the Sun article was written: https://web.archive.org/web/20141025071852/http://www.zackpolanski.com/page/1/. The main page doesn't advertise breast enlargement, but the blog does mention positively the Sun article. He clearly wasn't ashamed of it, or trying to "defend" himself from misrepresentation. I think we can safely conclude that the guy genuinely believed in hypnotherapy -- him being a professional hynotherapist charging £200 a session and all -- and that this extended to breast enlargement. Whatever he currently believes, I don't like the left denying this apparently basic truth.

[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Oh ok so he was a professional hypnotherapist grifting about making big booba with his mind waves.

I mean shrug-outta-hecks a man’s gotta make money some way, I guess? At least it’s not him having poor judgement and being wishy washy on the topic of Corbyn being an anti-semite, which he was

[–] scrchngwsl@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What do you mean by that last bit? Was he wishy washy on Corbyn's anti-semitism? I saw that he was wishy washy on the "Zionism is racism" motion.

[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

He lent tacit support to the accusations iirc