Blocked him lol, total weirdo

It’s hard to tell that’s what I’m saying

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I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

On the other hand, this shit is deliberately nasty, stupid and designed to appeal to people’s most base and ugly resentments, and there really is no way to address it or explain why it’s bad without being very clear that it’s dumb, ugly and mean.

It’s difficult because in my experience, it’s just Yer Da: comfortable, sometimes well off people who haven’t had lots of formal education and already have a grudge about being talked down to by smartarses like e.g. Me. And your Farages know very well how to push the buttons of those resentments.

it does make you angry though?

I see a lot of this from the commentariat, cartoons depicting solely skinheads with 'Ingland' shirts and the like. I wonder how much of it is to wash their hands of blame. Far-right violence just being the poors, acting unprompted. Not decades of posh people stoking up racial hatred.

Not really. The greens leader is challenging these kinds of views head on with facts and passionate rebuttals. You can still speak to people on a level while disagreeing with them

Well yeah. They’re not even really any more racist than labour these days

You can't fault reformcurious voters as long as the other 2 main parties are being just as racist

Well yeah but the poverty shaming just further entrenches them into this “I’m working class and you’re a leftie snob” mentality doesn’t it, even if as you say most of them will be comfortably middle class themselves even if from a working class background

I agree!

I agree, I feel like they should be called out. It’s just that we keep doing it in the wrong way over and over

Yes I’ve seen a lot of comments about people being unemployed, on benefits, dropping out of school. As someone whose been unemployed and on benefits for long spells recently it makes me pretty angry even if I also disagree with the cunts they’re talking about

I don’t have an answer to this btw I genuinely don’t really know what to do because these views should be called out, it just feels like a lot of people do it in such a patronising way. If I was spoken to or about like that I would immediately think “fuck you” and want revenge lol

End of the day a lot of these people have racist views and they’re either not being honest with themselves or are really stupid for saying they don’t. But on the other hand if we constantly tell them they’re the worst people going then the right will always accept them and gain more power

I’m torn on a lot of the reaction to the racist march because in a lot of ways we need to stop pandering to these kinds of views and people and pretending they’re legitimate. But on the other hand the constant belittling and condescension of these people is why they always feel welcomed by the right

We‘ve lost one of the most foundational unifying aspects of being British: our shared hatred and distrust of everything yank. No wonder we’re all so divided

There are but I’m afraid there is no other choice. British politics is full of cunts but only a few parties can make an actual difference. Allegiances have to be made with people you don’t like or agree with, the right do it all the time

I admire Corbyn and wish more politicians had his integrity and compassion but he should have done more to pass the torch on after 2019. Rightly or wrongly he was finished after that. There’s no going back - the Left in the UK has to move on to survive.

The Greens are offering a solid platform to build off, we’re going to need a coalition of them, Lib Dems and whatever is left of the Labour left to even stop reform sweeping the whole country, if that’s even possible. All this new party shit is just a distraction

Will always love Corbyn for making me feel like politics could have some kind of hope in the UK but him and Zarah need to give this shit up and join the Greens. There is no time for fucking around and I’m sorry there‘s already a few dodgy people in Your Party anyway