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[–] LuckingFurker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Has anybody failed upwards more than Nigel fucking Farage? What does he actually do other than be utterly fucking detestable?

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He helps cover up what other, richer people are doing.

But I don't even get that - I look at him and instinctively think "liar", how does anyone else not?

[–] gwilikers@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

That bald alt right American guy who wears the beanie and has nothing but shit takes. I think he's failed upwards more.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not that he has much to offer anyone, except possibly a tempting target, but what on Earth is he going to offer the Aussies? He barely knows anything about the UK.

[–] JohnSmith@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week ago

I think you nailed it, a tempting target for spare milkshakes.

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nah, you cunts can fuckin keep him ay.

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I thought you guys were used to snakes?

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah, doesn't mean we want anymore tho. Stop sending your criminals to us, I'm pretty sure we're not a prison anymore.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah but it's Murdoch that hired him, so I feel like this is your fault.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You mean you live there by choice?

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Of course, it's fuckin awesome, yeah I might get bitten by a spider from the hell dimension or bitten by a snake while having a piss in my own back toilet and yeah the magpies will attempt to remove both your eyes and scalp you by dive bombing you at mach 3, but it's a great place to get drunk at all the time.

[–] Zip2@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It would be a really good time to find out just how dangerous Australia can be…. He should go and visit some salt water crocs.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

He spent 23 days there for an ITV reality show, but he came back again.

[–] Frjttr@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sky News Australia is like Fox News in US: they all are fake news outlets.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They aren't fake. They are the fascist corporacratic-state propaganda machine.

Their only purpose is to conduct psychological warfare on a global scale, until they con the working class into supporting dictatorship. Their goal is the complete destruction of democracy.

[–] dicksteele@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

Still exporting criminals to Australia in 2025

[–] serialdeviant@kopiti.am 3 points 1 week ago

@blackn1ght

Wow. He works so hard.

[–] pappabosley@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

Suddenly I'm feeling anti-immigration