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[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 84 points 1 week ago (3 children)

And people are stupid and hateful enough to believe this bunch of woman-beaters are the party of "protecting our women and girls".

Why are they not being arrested for assault? It's right there on video.

[–] spacegoat@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Police are too busy arresting people for internet posts

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

...and for holding up paper signs.

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don't worry the internet will create a go fund me defence for the woman in question so that she can take legal action.

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 11 points 1 week ago

This isn't a civil matter, this is assault, it's for the criminal justice system, not civil litigation.

[–] Malica@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Those guys working forces

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 76 points 1 week ago (5 children)

"She looked like she was going to do herself an injury."

That's EXACTLY how abusers talk about their victims. What is there left to say about that utter failed human? Is there literally no depths he won't gleefully plumb?

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 13 points 1 week ago

Look what you made me do!

[–] crapwittyname@feddit.uk 12 points 1 week ago

The good news, if you can call it that, is that he is having a very bad week.

[–] Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk 9 points 1 week ago

He's disgusting. By saying that in front of his supporters it's giving the message it's ok to behave that way. Vile price of shit.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago

He said that after laughing about her getting assaulted

Farrage needs to meet tar and feathers and that would get him off super lightly

[–] Malica@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

He's a narcissist so no

[–] moderatecentrist@feddit.uk 46 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I know it's a cliche to say it, but I think the tech billionaires bear a lot of responsibility for this. A lot of Brits are consuming hateful content on things like Facebook and YouTube, because a profit-maximising algorithm is pushing that content. It radicalises people to the point where they feel it's justified to assault a woman because she voiced opposition to the right-wing.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Those tech billionaires show me the same propaganda and yet I’m not a miserable old cunt that beats women…

[–] moderatecentrist@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago

Fair enough. I still think the massive, for-profit social media platforms are harmful to many people though. They push stuff you want to hear so you'll keep watching and engaging, and you end up in an echo chamber. It's not like real life where you might come across someone with a bit of a different view, and you think "okay, I can see where they're coming from", and then your own views become a bit more moderate.

[–] Malica@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

They've done it in more than one country, they've become very good at it

[–] Curiousfur@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

That's a lot of old cunts.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago

Well the good news is that it looks like his supporter base will be around for maybe another 2 years tops.

Those old fucks need their legs broken. By golfing in Minecraft.

[–] LocalAreaMan@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] incompetent@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] LocalAreaMan@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

That's Trash from Return of the Living Dead

[–] snarkysadierose@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

mixed up Nigel farage and Nigel Richards and was very confused why a scrabble player had people this mad at him