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Britain's far right is booming on Elon Musk's Twitter (web.archive.org)

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Calling himself a “free speech absolutist”, Musk granted an amnesty to hundreds of accounts that had been kicked off the platform. Within hours, those belonging to right-wing Britain First leader Paul Golding, along with former deputy Jayda Fransen and the party itself, reappeared. “We’re absolutely pleased,” Golding says. “Now that we’re back on Twitter, our following is growing very, very rapidly.

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[-] jimmyjoners@lemmy.world 56 points 2 years ago

I'm going to go ahead and say this is all by design.

[-] Kara@kbin.social 19 points 2 years ago

Yep, now people who buy into Musk's Twitter Blue are boosted on the site, and the only people willing to buy into that are right wingers and bootlickers

[-] 17000HerbsAndSpices@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

Yeah this is a feature not a bug

[-] Jaysyn@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago

He's desperate to make Twitter profitable, so he's embracing the biggest bunch of marks on the planet, the supporters of right-wing politicians.

[-] Blamemeta@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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[-] Primarily0617@kbin.social 36 points 2 years ago

what an absolutely delicious lack of critical thinking

[-] animist@lemmy.one 22 points 2 years ago

bahahahahahahahahahahaha

[-] 0x815@feddit.de 15 points 2 years ago

@Blamenta

Define far-right

Scroll down a bit, it's a tiny sample what it means.

[-] Blamemeta@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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[-] toffi@feddit.de 27 points 2 years ago

You keep using this phrase "common sense". I don't think you exactly know what it means.

[-] oatscoop@midwest.social 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Weird. I'm sure it's a coincidence that a favorite tactic of far right agitators and fascists (world wide) is calling their disgusting views/goals "common sense".

[-] Rufio@lemm.ee 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Buddy, these are not the people you want to defend. Paul Golding has been arrested a half dozen times for stupid bullshit. He’s been convicted in terrorism charges. Jayda has been arrested with him as well, numerous times for religious aggravated harassment and other things. They are literally a WORSE version of the Marjorie Taylor Greens and Lauren Boebert of the UK.

And you call all these things “common sense” policies which is laughable. Their environmental “policy” is to just deny climate change completely. So common sense is to ignore the scientific consensus?

[-] Blamemeta@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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[-] Rufio@lemm.ee 16 points 2 years ago

Those are the names of the people mentioned in the OP. Did you not even read it? Lmao

But okay. If you are the type of person to defend people that bang on Muslim owned restaurant windows shouting “Pedophiles! Foreigners!” like these two have been arrested for just because they are on your “team”, well, who am I to convince you that’s a bad look?

[-] 0x815@feddit.de 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Those are the names of the people mentioned in the OP. Did you not even read it?

I guess this is how the far right (and far left) is recruiting its infantry - people like @Blamemeta who don't know the people mentioned, obviously didn't even read the article, but they have an 'opinion' and are accusing others of being in an echo chamber. They are just propaganda parrots very much the same as the so-called 'tankies' here on Lemmy.

[-] Rufio@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

Who better to have on your team than people that blindly defend you regardless of how vile your behavior is just because they hate the same people.

[-] toffi@feddit.de 18 points 2 years ago

You keep using this phrase "common sense". I don't think you exactly know what it means.

[-] Entropywins@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago

Yeah I don't think you know what common sense means there friend... its good to take a serious moral inventory of yourself every now and then. Also it might help to brush up on economics, immigration and human empathy... hope you never find yourself in a situation a lot of immigrants find themselves in...

[-] 0x815@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

As one had asked to define 'far right': I just stumbled upon the article on a white nationalist publisher’s data exposed in Amazon cloud leak

The right winger in the article is the US citizen Greg Johnson. His views reveal a completely insane state of mind. How out of touch can one get?

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