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UK Politics
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!ukpolitics@lemm.ee appears to have vanished! We can still see cached content from this link, but goodbye I guess! :'(
He's not dead. Sounds like he's being tolerated more than some victims of conservative belief.
So all conservatives are legitimate targets of violence, in your view?
Fascists are - we fought a whole world war about it and everything. Nigel Farage is a fascist.
No, he's not a bloody Fascist. Words mean things.
Yes, they do mean things. I use the word very specifically and deliberately when referring to fascists like Farrage. He is a fascist, in the model of Mussolini more than Hitler
I'd say he's more a quisling, and it's far from coincidental that so many of his talking points exactly match those in Russian propaganda oultlets such as RT.
He can be (and indeed is) both
Binary thinking leads to inane conclusions. For example, calling a lobbed milkshake violence as if that makes it the same as a brick to the teeth or an assassin's bullet.
Get a grip and try to maintain a sense of proportion. We shouldn't be accosting political figures at all, but the real threat is far to the other end of that particular slippery slope, and that's where we should focus resources.