Spyke
lemmy.world

It was a setup. The woman is the girlfriend of a reform party member. Farage has form for this sort of publicity stunt.

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https://ibb.co/wsygrdp

Farage is all anyone is talking about at the moment, the stunt seems to have worked.

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According to the BBC a woman’s been charged, so it seems like the initial skepticism was misplaced.

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obelixreply
lemmy.world

Could be. I’ve no trust in The Express though. It’s a right wing rag.

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GiveOverreply
feddit.uk

She looks exactly like every other British girl that age. This proves nothing, you're chatting pure shit

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obelixreply
lemmy.world

I’m not chatting anything you biff, I shared what I saw. You can make your own mind up.

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I didn't say you're chatting shit, I'm just commenting on what I saw.

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correply
slrpnk.net

while i’m inclined to believe you, some sort of source or even the woman’s name would help a lot….

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obelixreply
lemmy.world

Of course, you’re right. I’ve edited my post to include what I read earlier.

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Staged to get into the media spotlight by any means necessary. The security guy is wearing that jacket zipped for a reason; is looking right at her; is not reacting in any way to stop her. Looking at the reaction of the crowd, it looks like the work of a sophist; the true hallmark of the Right.

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If it is staged, we should all be pouring milkshake on the guy everywhere he goes until he stops.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophist

Plato

As only small portions of the sophists' writings have survived they are mainly known through the works of Plato. Plato's dialogs present his generally hostile views on the sophists' thought, due to which he is largely responsible for the modern view of the sophist as an avaricious instructor who teaches deception.

Before Plato, the word "sophist" could be used as either a respectful or contemptuous title. It was in Plato's dialogue, Sophist, that the first record of an attempt to answer the question "what is a sophist?" is made. Plato described sophists as paid hunters after the young and wealthy, as merchants of knowledge, as athletes in a contest of words, and purgers of souls. From Plato's assessment of sophists it could be concluded that sophists do not offer true knowledge, but only an opinion of things. Plato describes them as shadows of the true, saying, "the art of contradiction making, descended from an insincere kind of conceited mimicry, of the semblance-making breed, derived from image making, distinguished as portion, not divine but human, of production, that presents, a shadow play of words—such are the blood and the lineage which can, with perfect truth, be assigned to the authentic sophist". Plato sought to distinguish sophists from philosophers, arguing that a sophist was a person who made his living through deception, whereas a philosopher was a lover of wisdom who sought the truth. To give the philosophers greater credence, Plato gave the sophists a negative connotation.[22]

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lemmy.world

No one man has done more harm to the UK in recent years than Farage.

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Avicennareply
lemmy.world

He is just a vulture flying on top of the destruction caused by David Cameron's political incompetence

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He fucking caused Cameron's incompetence.

farage stoking the fires of Brexit existed long before Cameron's idiocy. Ukip

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Just because the main two were in on it doesn't mean the bystanders have to be

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sh.itjust.works

404 no hero found

It was either political violence or a false flag operation. Either way, no heroes were involved.

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sh.itjust.works

No such thing as bad publicity so might as well have an acquaintance's life-size barbie embarrass you with a milkshake.

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psudreply
aussie.zone

an acquaintance's life-size barbie embarrass you with a milkshake.

Because women are property in the mind of @[email protected]

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psudreply
aussie.zone

Of course the horribly sexist comment was intended as a joke. A sexist joke is sexist.

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lemm.ee

Calling someone a life sized Barbie is a sexist comment, but writing the comment makes the commenter sexist in the same way that playing the T-1000 makes Arnold Schwarzenegger an android from the future.

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psudreply
aussie.zone

I had more of a problem with the ownership words than the description of the woman as looking Barbie-like

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Still, you're not getting it. The commenter is speaking from the perspective of the type of person who would do this. They are doing so to mock that type of person. If you give the commenter the benefit of the doubt, assuming that they are not on the side of the rightwing psychopaths they are explicitly criticizing, then it makes sense.

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I was hoping that milkshakings return after Andy Ngo pretended he suffered severe brain injury from one, and it's a staged one...

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And if so, would you make a comparative review of it?

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