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[–] 222 points 9 months ago (3 children)

If ol’ Nige were to migrate from England to the US the average IQ in both countries would go up.

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  • [–] 58 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    It's a similar tactic to Trump that being permanently seen and heard is more important than any of the content.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago

    Curious your comment was minimized under "more comments."

    That is the way these far right operate, they are loud, bombastic, aggressive. They get attacked but because everyone knows how fucked our system is right now, they appear to be fighting the system.

    They are fighting to make it worse, the way to stop them would be to offer popular reform honestly. But alas that is more dreaded amongst our "left" parties than the right winning, or fascists.

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  • [–] 177 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Yep, trust the Brexit guy. That’s going just fine.

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  • [–] 72 points 9 months ago*

    The world would be better place if Farage failed to exist.

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  • [–] 71 points 9 months ago (22 children)

    Why was Farage at a World Leader conference? He doesn't run any countries? Just another excuse to not be in his constituency I guess.

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  • [+] -9 points 9 months ago (18 children)
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  • [–] -2 points 9 months ago (14 children)

    I wasn't trying to rank them

    There must be 1000s of people that lead a state that aren't there (given ~200 countries). What makes this guy's presence so special? Or, perhaps, his presence is also out of place

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  • [–] 23 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    California is 2/3 the size of the UK.

    Farage is an MP of a constituency of 75 thousand, and won the election for that position with 21225 votes. He's not a minister, he's not an appointed leader of anything, he's not even the leader (or any official part) of the official opposition in the UK parliament. Hell he's not even doing a passable job at being an MP given he's missed like, 70+% of parliamentary meetings, and hasn't held any significant surgeries in his constituency either. He's the literal definition of paid for doing nothing politician, shuffling around Fasc-a-Lago hoping to earn some favours by having his nose so far up Trump's ass he could diagnose the tangerine tyrant's appendix...

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    What's a surgery? Is that like a town hall?

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    Drop in session/office hours type deal for constituents. Our mps can help citizens (usually by writing strongly worded letters) with small civil matters like planning/building regulations, issues with county council (local government) and so on. It's also an opportunity for people to lobby their mp about national concerns too.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    California is 2/3 the size of the UK.

    In population, that's true.

    In terms of GDP, California's is a bit over $4 trillion, while the UK's is $3.6 trillion. And in land area, California is 1.6 times larger than the UK.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Yeah, my pedantic unnecessary retort was going to point out the GDP thing but then note that there's some interesting commentary around saying "size" when five Canadian provinces are larger. But mostly that was me still being annoyed at the Davos soundbites

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Well, politicians are supposed to represent their electorate, which happens to be people, not land, or profits.

    Though given the recent years' heavily publicised American approach to elections, I'm surprised you guys haven't made the change to "land votes" or "money votes", given the former seems to be what most of Americans believe to be true (especially when looking at election maps), plus the latter seems to be true anyway...

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Isn’t California quite large economically?

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)

    Fair. The US state with the next largest GDP is Texas and Greg Abbott is there

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    As a Californian, I really wanted to jump in with the "Fuck Newsom" crowd.

    But California's economy rivals most countries. Last time I checked there were only five countries with larger economies.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (1 child)
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    My grammar is admittedly pretty farm boy, so I thought I'd check. This might be saying the sentence was fine. But either way what your suggesting is nothing like how I hear people speak

    Some authorities prescribe that restrictive relative clauses (where the relative clause is part of the identification of the noun phrase) should only use that as the introductory pronoun, and non-restrictive relative clauses should only use which or who/whom as the introductory pronoun. In practice, either pronoun is commonly used to introduce a restrictive relative clause, including in edited prose. In contrast, it is not usual in edited written English to use that to introduce a non-restrictive relative clause, though there are occasional rare attestations.

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/that

    I saw at least one typo there and figured I'd leave it for you

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  • [–] 50 points 9 months ago

    Fuck off frog face

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  • [–] 41 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    The world would be a better place if Nigel was under some green land.

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    [–] 40 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Nigel continues to lick the sweat off of Putin's balls. As the Red Coats say, "Sod off."

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    Farage owns the Reform Party. The leader of Reform in Wales just got a 10+ year prison sentence for taking Russian bribes to promote Russian agendas. Nigel often speaks favourably of Russia and Putin and regularly made paid appearances on Russian television before sanctions made that impossible.

    It seems highly likely that Farage has also been well paid by Russia for his lifes work of disrupting UK-European relations.

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  • [–] 30 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    N**el Farage is responsible for Brexit. UK would be better place if he withdrew from politics.

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  • [+] -17 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    Farage is responsible? I heard it was a national referendum and the vast majority of votes were for Brexit. British are as bad as "I have no idea who voted Trump" Americans.

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  • [–] 18 points 9 months ago

    vast majority of votes

    Pfffttt... 51.8% and as if it wasnt a bunch of old assholes who saw a bus and didnt think it would impact their holiday to complain about not being able to retire to Spain immediately after.

    We don't all have to talk like we know everything all the time.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    the vast majority of votes were for Brexit

    It was 52% to 48 on low turnout. Real fucking landslide. And much of the funding came from Arron Banks, who went to Russia as a young man and came back with a fortune, the origin of which he has never convincingly explained.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    British are as bad as “I have no idea who voted Trump” Americans.

    Hard truths. New Labour only ever knows how to run to the right of the opposition and the old Conservatives can't campaign their way out of a paper bag. So it's Reform UK in the next election, strictly due to liberal incompetence.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Shows what you know.

    Seriously you might want to look it up because majority does not mean 51% of those who bother to turn out. Which was mostly no one because it was seen as a political performance piece and not a real idea.

    Then the idiot government screwed it up further by running headlong into a brick wall with zero plan. It was always going to be bad but they could have managed the split better.

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  • [–] 28 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    The world would be a better place if this clown would STFU.

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  • [–] 27 points 9 months ago

    The world would be a better place if Greenland took over the US ...

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  • [–] 19 points 9 months ago

    World would be a better place without Nigel Farage in it, says me.

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  • [+] 18 points 9 months ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Unfortunately farage is the only one running for popular reform, nevermind they are full of shit on changing anything for the better we all know the voting population doesn't know that.

    People know they are being screwed, and labour, the "good" option, is cancelling the magna carta and instituting total internet surveillance, masterbaitorbases of every page you have considered whacking off to, and secret social scores by palantir type companies. Illegalizing protest, bad faith terrorism designations and bad faith false equivolence of protesters with the proscribed group, disallowing of legal defenses to the protest laws, what else, they've done more damage than the tories in the last ten years.

    There is zero chance starmer keeps the far right allied to the us president out, and zero chance they restore the former glory of the republic before oligarchs ratfucked it.

    Popular reform would take it, but we don't have that, and labour will make sure corbyn types don't succeed in doing that in a new party, because preventing popular reform from the "left" is their raison de etre, not beating the other parties.

    The fascists, far right, allied with the US and Russia, plan on fixing elections everywhere. So them getting in could be a rather final problem. It's not just a few years of bad leadership, it's decades of the worst leadership, across the west.

    Seriously, labour is the Enemy.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Seriously, labour is the Enemy.

    You write that like there can only be one enemy. Labour are being rubbish just now, but Reform UK the party of Putin would be worse. Reform is the biggest enemy.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    Obviously yes, but people on these threads think that labor are the good guys and not the controlled opposition to the oligarchy that is throwing us into the arms of the Reform Party that believe it or not plans on fixing elections just like the United States whether they know it yet or not.

    It is the exact thing in the United States with the democrats, in France with their bullshit parties, and the netherlands, everywhere. The far right is the only reform option and Society is degenerating into plutocracy and everyone knows they're being screwed but not necessarily by whom.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    labour is the Enemy

    This is a fucking shit take when the current poll leaders are reform.

    Labour are a bit crap, but reform are truly awful. You sound like the idiots who thought Kamala was the worse choice.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    Cancelling the magna carta, freedom, surrendering your populations to big tech companies and putting Thiel's palantir and their ilk in charge of making secret social scores on you from every scrap of information, IS the danger. You surrendered.

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  • [–] 17 points 9 months ago

    Having been born in Scotland, I would kick this sassenach English bastard in the balls but I doubt I'd find any on his person.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    This loser will say anything to try to get some attention

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago

    This guy just supports any notion that can destabilise the EU and weaken the west. If he's not a russian plant, he's fucking excellent at hiding it.

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    I wonder if there will be a bus promising an extra £350 million a year for the NHS if Trump colonised Greenland?

    Scary thought, given how badly Starmer is doing, Farage might gain an even louder voice...

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago

    Man, the world is fucking depressing lol

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago

    Fuckheaded Brexit leaders should not be listened to.

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  • [–] 27 points 9 months ago

    Fucking twat.

    This is fucking stochastic terrorism

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (5 children)
  • It’s Nigel Farage, one of the chief proponents of Brexit. He’s still sticking to his guns that it was an inspired idea and a net positive, despite abundant systemic and anecdotal evidence to the contrary. So the real takeaway is “Farage continues to spout idiocy”.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    The right wing movements of all western countries are not really movements of that country. They are movements that are subservient to capital. The ultimate servants of capital will always serve the interest of the United States.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    They are now, but if they achieve the absolute power they are trying to get, they will in alliance with factions of capital, especially the parasitic ones, cannibalize the rest. It is as inevitable as winter following summer.

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  • [+] 12 points 9 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    The world would be a better place if Trump and Nigel Farage were fired off into the sun.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Remember when somebody cracked an egg over his head?

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Trump's simp friend wants his human god to do well. Go figure.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    There goes a man who knows who butters his bread and has no problems in getting his nose brown...

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