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[–] just2look@lemmy.zip 83 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Anyone who aspires to be like Charlie Kirk should enjoy the exact same ending as Charlie Kirk.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 35 points 1 month ago (5 children)

No, we are British. Stabbed and left to bleed out on the floor is more of our style.

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It really is best if fascists around the world experience a wide and diverse range of mechanims of finding out

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[–] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 49 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I had no idea who Young Bob was until a video of him in the front lines of the rioting in Southampton and then being interviewed by Owen Jones in Makerfield. He's certainly not a British Charlie Kirk: has zero charisma, couldn't understand Jones' (pretty basic) questions and struggled to articulate coherent answers. Jones had to continuously repeat and simplify his questioning and even then Young Bob couldn't comprehend. He's the big, loud-mouthed rightwinger who sits in Year 11 classes who won't stop giving his racist and misogynist views and everyone hates.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 19 points 1 month ago

I like the bit where he thinks he's been oppressed because he got fired from McDonald's for been an arse. You just know that he was insufferable to work with.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It doesn't matter. If you get over a certain threshold of views and interactions it's like starting a fire, it spreads on its own. The right jump right on it, they love this shit, and more and more people get radicalized because it gets in their feed and since everything is black and white and about outrage and culture war shit you get people on your side simply because if you're not on "the other side" you're by definition on their side, or so it's framed.

And yeah, I believe at some point violence is the answer.

I'd rather fight obese chavs now than having to storm Normandy in 20 years.

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Ha! Keeping the trash out of your streets

That's because he didn't go to debate, he went to shit stir and play the victim when confronted. Slap it up ye. Ballbag.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago (11 children)


okay which one of you was this. i need to pay you for the beans

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No recompense for the urine?

[–] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That's the neat part it's free

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

And just like Charlie Kirk I'd never heard of him until he got beaten up. If the media would just stop talking about these idiots they wouldn't be famous they'd just be random Twitter racists and we could all ignore them. But now the little dweeb has got a following.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 6 points 1 month ago

They get the following from social media and far right fraternity, not from media coverage.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Under a banner that read ‘Reform should be more radical’, he argued that subjects of the British Empire shouldn’t necessarily be welcome in the UK.

As a crowd gathered behind him, he said: ‘All of you who throw water are cowards. You don’t actually want to fight for what you believe in.’

. . . That was when he was kicked to the floor before his phone was smashed and his camera and banner were stolen.

. . . Eventually, a Black man he had been debating with steps in to protect him.

. . . Moffitt also hinted that he would return to the same spot for further debates on ‘remigration’ – the forced return of migrants and their descendants – but next time would bring a ‘team of lads’ for security.

[–] FalcoLombardi1@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago (4 children)

You missed the best quote from this little piss stain. "One responded: ‘I’ll fight you, b****’, before telling Moffitt to get a job. He said he had one, but was fired from McDonald’s for his political views."

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Right-wing politics is dominated by losers turned grifters.

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

One small correction in that they don't stop being losers

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Having worked in McDonald's I can guarantee that he was actually fired for been lazy and difficult to work with. If you just do the job and don't mount off you can have whatever political view you want.

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[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 month ago

Fuck me, to get fired for your views at McDonald's you must have really been an obnoxious little cunt.

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 9 points 1 month ago

The idiot, even after working in the hospitality sector, does not realise that this whole sector depends on the immigrants, among others. He is probably the kind of idiot that goes to a curry house after an anti-immigrant march.

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[–] Moodel@feddit.uk 24 points 1 month ago

What a cunt. Deserved it.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 22 points 1 month ago

There's a reason the Kirk-types always do this on college campuses with campus security looking over their shoulder and not fucking Manchester lmao

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I love that for Manchester.

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

We do things differently here.

[–] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bell end. For those not from our beloved Manchester, this is a traditional "tough love" term of endowment for someone, who, despite the multitude failures of their logic, debate weaknesses, lack of corroborative evidence will persevere nonetheless.

If he returns, let's promise 20 quid for the first person to de-bag him. For those not familiar with Manchester phraseology, this is a raconte driven loss of your trousers.

If we can find five people who at school with this chap, queued to copy this gentleman's homework, I will desist from further mockery. Until such time, he remains on the open season list for candid ridicule of his arguments

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Nah mate, let's pick him up, dump him in a canal, and then pelt him with bits of broken brick as he tries to swim and climb out whilst calling him an absolute melt.

[–] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

On second thoughts mate, bin him

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[–] godlessworm@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 19 points 1 month ago

He looks like a caricature of a British person.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

‘If I were… ever able to have the opportunity to speak to Erika [Kirk], I would firstly give huge admiration towards her husband on the formula and ideas that I [drew] great inspiration from’.

He can save his breath, she's utterly ecstatic that her husband is dead.

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[–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This rag is doing some heavy lifting for this piece of shit. I hope he sees the error of his ways or ceases to be able to vote or interact with anyone.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So is OP...

They quoted the shit stain saying the cops told him he was high profile.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The quote is Moffat telling the media that he says the police said that it's high profile. I highly doubt they did because it doesn't really make sense.

It can't be a high profile attack because no one knows who he is. Anyone who went to where he went, and said the things he said, would have got punched, his celebrity or lack thereof is it irrelevant.

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[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Counting or not counting hooligan violence?

[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

So the UK news will refer to you by your chosen online name? Interesting.

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[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago

A rare British w

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Moffitt also hinted that he would return to the same spot for further debates on ‘remigration’ – the forced return of migrants and their descendants – but next time would bring a ‘team of lads’ for security.

He said: ‘This is England. I do not want to become a demographically replaced hellhole. What I saw that day was a group of migrant lads being egged on by left-wing agitators.’

Oh, buddy, you just don't get it.

He said: ‘This is England. I do not want to become a demographically replaced hellhole. What I saw that day was a group of migrant lads being egged on by left-wing agitators.’

" … and then I would cum in my pants cause I was led to all this hate by a corridor of online voices telling me that it was everyone else's fault that I can't talk to girls like a regular person." [he didn't really say that part, your slander laws are stupid UK]

Though I am anti-violence, I found this delightful. Fascists getting what fascists deserve. Sorry, "lads."

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[–] matelt@feddit.uk 7 points 1 month ago

It warms the cockles of my heart!

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

This is the way.

[–] slartibartfast141@piefed.zip 5 points 1 month ago
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