Britain's far right is booming on Elon Musk's Twitter (web.archive.org)

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Calling himself a “free speech absolutist”, Musk granted an amnesty to hundreds of accounts that had been kicked off the platform. Within hours, those belonging to right-wing Britain First leader Paul Golding, along with former deputy Jayda Fransen and the party itself, reappeared. “We’re absolutely pleased,” Golding says. “Now that we’re back on Twitter, our following is growing very, very rapidly.

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[-] jimmyjoners@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago

I'm going to go ahead and say this is all by design.

[-] Kara@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago

Yep, now people who buy into Musk's Twitter Blue are boosted on the site, and the only people willing to buy into that are right wingers and bootlickers

[-] 17000HerbsAndSpices@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Yeah this is a feature not a bug

[-] Jaysyn@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

He's desperate to make Twitter profitable, so he's embracing the biggest bunch of marks on the planet, the supporters of right-wing politicians.

[+] Blamemeta@lemmy.world -100 points 1 year ago

Define far-right

Probably just wants common-sense immigration.

[-] Primarily0617@kbin.social 35 points 1 year ago

what an absolutely delicious lack of critical thinking

[-] animist@lemmy.one 20 points 1 year ago

bahahahahahahahahahahaha

[-] 0x815@feddit.de -2 points 1 year ago

@Blamenta

Define far-right

Scroll down a bit, it's a tiny sample what it means.

[+] Blamemeta@lemmy.world -50 points 1 year ago

I did. It's just a bunch of articles, all randomly served up. Looks like common sense immigration policy, common sense environmental policy, that sort of thing.

Man, y'all are just stuck in your echo chambers, aren't you?

[-] toffi@feddit.de 27 points 1 year ago

You keep using this phrase "common sense". I don't think you exactly know what it means.

[-] oatscoop@midwest.social 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Weird. I'm sure it's a coincidence that a favorite tactic of far right agitators and fascists (world wide) is calling their disgusting views/goals "common sense".

[-] Rufio@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Buddy, these are not the people you want to defend. Paul Golding has been arrested a half dozen times for stupid bullshit. He’s been convicted in terrorism charges. Jayda has been arrested with him as well, numerous times for religious aggravated harassment and other things. They are literally a WORSE version of the Marjorie Taylor Greens and Lauren Boebert of the UK.

And you call all these things “common sense” policies which is laughable. Their environmental “policy” is to just deny climate change completely. So common sense is to ignore the scientific consensus?

[+] Blamemeta@lemmy.world -13 points 1 year ago

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[-] Rufio@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

Those are the names of the people mentioned in the OP. Did you not even read it? Lmao

But okay. If you are the type of person to defend people that bang on Muslim owned restaurant windows shouting “Pedophiles! Foreigners!” like these two have been arrested for just because they are on your “team”, well, who am I to convince you that’s a bad look?

[-] 0x815@feddit.de -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Those are the names of the people mentioned in the OP. Did you not even read it?

I guess this is how the far right (and far left) is recruiting its infantry - people like @Blamemeta who don't know the people mentioned, obviously didn't even read the article, but they have an 'opinion' and are accusing others of being in an echo chamber. They are just propaganda parrots very much the same as the so-called 'tankies' here on Lemmy.

[-] Rufio@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Who better to have on your team than people that blindly defend you regardless of how vile your behavior is just because they hate the same people.

[-] toffi@feddit.de 18 points 1 year ago

You keep using this phrase "common sense". I don't think you exactly know what it means.

[-] Entropywins@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Yeah I don't think you know what common sense means there friend... its good to take a serious moral inventory of yourself every now and then. Also it might help to brush up on economics, immigration and human empathy... hope you never find yourself in a situation a lot of immigrants find themselves in...

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