• Ginny [they/she]
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    9918 days ago

    Non-UK people should read up about Laurence Fox if they want a good laugh.

    Some career highlights:

    • Destroyed his acting career and his marriage by being an upper class right wing shit.
    • Destroyed his subsequent gig as a right wing pundit on GB News by being too misogynist on air.
    • Called some drag queens paedophiles after they called him racist. He was sued for defamation and he countersued. He lost on both counts.
    • Stood for election as an MP and lost his deposit.
    • Stood for election as London Mayor and lost his deposit.
    • Tried to stand for election as London Mayor a second time and didn’t get on the ballot because he didn’t fill in the paperwork correctly
    • Stood for election to the London Assembly and lost his deposit.
    • @Apepollo11@lemmy.world
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      4318 days ago

      To be fair to him, on his first run at London Mayer, he did get nearly twice as many votes as Count Binface, a candidate who claims to be from space and wears a dustbin on his head.

      • @grue@lemmy.world
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        2718 days ago

        Not sure about Count Binface since I don’t really follow UK politics, but if he’s anything like Vermin Supreme his platform is likely both preferable to and more realistic than the mainstream conservative party candidates’ plans.

        • @Apepollo11@lemmy.world
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          Novelty candidates are a highlight of UK politics - practically every high profile election has some.

          The brilliant thing is that they’re treated as seriously as the main party candidates by the election machinery - they appear on politics programmes and appear onstage stood next to the career politicians on count day.

          H’Angus the Monkey, the Hartlepool FC football mascot, even got elected as mayor of Hartlepool a few years back.

          There’s an entire novelty party, The Monster Raving Looney Party, which has been going strong since the 80s, and fields candidates across the country.

          • @PapaStevesy@lemmy.world
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            418 days ago

            Don’t forget Tarquin Fin-Tim-Lin-Bin-Whin-Bim-Lim-Bus-stop-F’tang-F’tang-Olé-Biscuitbarrel from the Silly Party, that was even earlier!

          • @Machinist@lemmy.world
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            117 days ago

            I could search this, and probably should. Is the The Monster Raving Looney Party a real thing?

            That’s like so fucking English.

    • @ayyy@sh.itjust.works
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      2118 days ago

      What does “lost his deposit” mean in the context of UK elections? Do you only get your money back if you win? Is there some decorum standard he violated or something?

      • @ohulancutash@feddit.uk
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        2218 days ago

        You lose your £500 deposit if you win 5% or less of the valid votes cast in the constituency. It’s to discourage no-hopers from taking part.

        • Krudler
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          lmao “no hopers” is going into excessive rotation for me now

    • @ohulancutash@feddit.uk
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      Not his money though. He’s bankrolled by noted Steam train owner Jeremy Hosking, who provides Fox with a central London office, secretary, company car and very large expense budget, expecting no return on investment at all, just to spread hate. Reportedly Fox spends most days snoozing at his desk.

  • @caboose2006@lemm.ee
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    2517 days ago

    I’ve seen this post a couple times and just scrolled on last. Didn’t realise it was an anti-pride post because it looks cool as hell.

  • @pyre@lemmy.world
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    2117 days ago

    they went from bullying kids for being too weak, too sensitive etc to fucking satanic panic. what a bunch of pussy ass bitches.

  • Midnight Wolf
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    1718 days ago

    I’m gay, furry, disabled and satanic, and I approve this message

    • Lemminary
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      418 days ago

      That’s God’s way of punishing your sins, by making you a furry. HERETIC!

      • Midnight Wolf
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        217 days ago

        “Officially” TST, though I found out a couple years ago about Queer Satanic and so I’ve been eyeing their struggle. So at the moment I’m unsure, you could say.

        I’m of the “there is no god, but if there is he/she/they/it is a massive piece of shit” camp, so atheist looking for some recognition, really.

        • @nyctre@lemmy.world
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          117 days ago

          Just read about the queer satanic thing. Petty thing to do by the satanic temple. Then again, the whole stealing fb page and posting stuff and all… it’s all just internet drama. If they wanted to speak out against tst, I feel like there were better, more mature ways to do it.

  • @Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca
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    1618 days ago

    That’s metal as fuck! I don’t own any Pride Month merch, but want everything I own to have this on it.

  • @takeda@lemm.ee
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    1518 days ago

    Why it has two sets of horns? It looks like first one weren’t intimidating enough so they added another set to wrap the “DEMON”.

      • @brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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        1918 days ago

        100%. Not just because of the style, but topological issues (where do the top horns go? Looks like they turn into hair?) or duplication are hallmarks.

      • .Donuts
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        918 days ago

        I looked up the handle from the watermark, but I regret it. Just right wing hate post after post. Yuck

        • Echo Dot
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          618 days ago

          He really is a hilariously pathetic individual. Every time he shows up in the media it’s always an absolute hoot, he’s the biggest own goal in history.

          He’s such an enormous tool that he managed to get fired from the racist media network for being too racist.

            • Echo Dot
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              218 days ago

              Yeah but have you noticed how the media have stopped reporting things on Twitter as news now. He can stay there for all I care, trying to out racist the republicans and other MEGA talking heads.

    • @meeeeetch@lemmy.world
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      618 days ago

      The computer that will tell you ‘strawberry’ only had two R’s in it or that no country in Africa starts with k, not even Kenya probably drew it.

      • Echo Dot
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        318 days ago

        See artificial intelligence is useful. I would have sworn that Kenya started with a K. Shows what I know.

    • don
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      118 days ago

      Gotta make that shit hyper extra super sinny and feary for begodded ones

  • @Jerb322@lemmy.world
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    1417 days ago

    “Look if you just take a couple letters from this word and some from this word, carry the one…”

  • Sal
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    1417 days ago

    Why do conservatives always make their opponents look significantly more badass than they actually are?

    • @outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Because they hate everything cool and good and their whole deal is a hatred of complexity, a fear of understanding¹ so everything thry dislike converges, in their minds, into a single point of white hot hate.

      I mean, um… You’re more badass than you actually are! Poopyhead!

      ¹no coincidence that lovecraft named his cat that and wrote about the kind of horror he did