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thaddeus:
Out of morbid curiosity I clicked through a post that someone shared on Facebook. Some on here seem to think that Starmer is a soft touch and yet about a quarter of the posts on that group are them laying into Starmer.
SpoilerThis is the group if anyone is interested in looking at what is brewing in this country: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063601725502. It's primarily anti-migrants with a particular focus on Muslims, anti-BLM, anti-trans, anti-BBC, denying Covid and glorifying the goold old days. They also champion Fico but call Zelensky corrupt.[close]
The lad that shared it is someone I used to play football with. He was a fun lad but always one of those that revelled in saying outrageous things and I'm sure he had a crush on Jeremy Clarkson. In the lead up the GE he started posting lots of further-right (not far right) content and voted Reform UK. I'm not sure how Labour ever really reconnect with people like him when they're in an echo chamber of unrelenting hate.
Red-Soldier:
The social media companies are run by c*nts, and need calling out.
Red-Soldier:
I wonder if Wlad gave these far-right riots, the thumbs up, before they kicked off.
Red Beret:
--- Quote from: Dr. Beaker on August 4, 2024, 06:15:51 pm ---I love hearing the journalists (especially on BBC) asking the politicians what they are going to do. What are the media going to do? They've shoved Fartage down our throats for years, while the public repeatedly rejected him, until he became such a media celebrity that they couldn't resist him.
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Yeah. The media should stop giving platforms to extreme views in the interests of "balance", no matter how well represented they might be in the country. They're well represented because the media offered the platform in the first fucking place.
This isn't about balance. It's about a section of the population demanding that they have things ALL their own way. That's not what countries are built on.
Red Beret:
--- Quote from: Red-Soldier on August 4, 2024, 06:50:53 pm ---The social media companies are run by c*nts, and need calling out.
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I think the EU and UK genuinely need to look into banning Twitter on the grounds it has become an unregulated platform for hate speech. Fuck Musk and the Saudi money backing him.
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