• jabjoe
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    5 months ago

    If it’s just to make them look silly and not liked, but not actually hurt.

    If someone stabbed Farage, he’d make such hay of it. I’d half expect him to have arranged it! Wouldn’t surprise me if he arranged the odd milkshake too, to keep him in the news.

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      5 months ago

      Oh no, making hay. That totally cancels out getting stabbed.

      Sick to death of this nothing-works attitude. Yeah - there is no course of action that fascists won’t claim proves them right. Stop listening to fascist claims. They lie. They’re fascists. That’s their schtick. But in the same way as deplatformed cranks shouting ‘I was cancelled!’ to an empty room, and spanked children insisting ‘that didn’t hurt!,’ sometimes you can ignore the words coming out of their stupid mouths.

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        5 months ago

        We don’t have to give them a platform. Not quite the same as deplatforming. Farage is given way to much platform for the votes he gets.

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            5 months ago

            Is it “de” if you don’t have it the first place?

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              5 months ago

              Yes. Exclusion is part of it, as surely as preventing the same asshole from starting another account on the same service. Why would you wait and see if someone booted for being a fascist is still gonna be a fascist if given a shiny new megaphone?