• -RJ-@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Why was Farage at a World Leader conference? He doesn’t run any countries? Just another excuse to not be in his constituency I guess.

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          I wasn’t trying to rank them

          There must be 1000s of people that lead a state that aren’t there (given ~200 countries). What makes this guy’s presence so special? Or, perhaps, his presence is also out of place

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            California is 2/3 the size of the UK.

            Farage is an MP of a constituency of 75 thousand, and won the election for that position with 21225 votes. He’s not a minister, he’s not an appointed leader of anything, he’s not even the leader (or any official part) of the official opposition in the UK parliament. Hell he’s not even doing a passable job at being an MP given he’s missed like, 70+% of parliamentary meetings, and hasn’t held any significant surgeries in his constituency either. He’s the literal definition of paid for doing nothing politician, shuffling around Fasc-a-Lago hoping to earn some favours by having his nose so far up Trump’s ass he could diagnose the tangerine tyrant’s appendix…

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      The only words I want to hear from Farage are **Charlie ** Kirk’s final words. “Oghrg. Gurgle. Ahhh.”

      Edit for clarity.

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        For a moment I thought you meant Captain Kirk, and wondered when in Generations did he say that.

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    7 hours ago

    He just has to adopt the shittiest views possible. So predictable. Must be his kink or something.

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      7 hours ago

      It’s a similar tactic to Trump that being permanently seen and heard is more important than any of the content.

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        Curious your comment was minimized under “more comments.”

        That is the way these far right operate, they are loud, bombastic, aggressive. They get attacked but because everyone knows how fucked our system is right now, they appear to be fighting the system.

        They are fighting to make it worse, the way to stop them would be to offer popular reform honestly. But alas that is more dreaded amongst our “left” parties than the right winning, or fascists.

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      6 hours ago

      It’s how he reaches out to the dumbest members of society and maintains some kind of support.

      Same tactic Trump uses.

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      At this point I’d go a step and a dairy product further, and sacrifice even a whole ass wheel of Parmigianino just to make the frog-faced cunt shut up.

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      The right wing movements of all western countries are not really movements of that country. They are movements that are subservient to capital. The ultimate servants of capital will always serve the interest of the United States.

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        They are now, but if they achieve the absolute power they are trying to get, they will in alliance with factions of capital, especially the parasitic ones, cannibalize the rest. It is as inevitable as winter following summer.

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      It’s Nigel Farage, one of the chief proponents of Brexit. He’s still sticking to his guns that it was an inspired idea and a net positive, despite abundant systemic and anecdotal evidence to the contrary. So the real takeaway is “Farage continues to spout idiocy”.

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      Put them all on Epstein island then finally dispose of all the leftover napalm in the same place.

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          Not radioactive enough, and way too tropical to be a suitable punishment. My vote would be the South Sandwich Islands, but I’d also accept St. Helena (where they sent Napoleon) if marooning them on an uninhabited polar island is considered too “inhumane” or something.