• moss_icon [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Because Farage convinced people that it would stop immigration.

      Unfortunately the average voter has a shit memory span so they’re falling for the exact same grift again.

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        The only opinions allowed by the UK media are:

        • We must do fascism, it only failed before because we didn’t do enough.
        • No, that’s too cool and definitely would work. We will do a little fascism to get a taste for it.
        • Don’t we all just hate the parking in Exclusive Upperclass Neighborhood? Ever since I got back from my yacht trip with the CEO of Elbit, and started my new vitafit buddho-kundalini V2.0 meditation stack, parking has just…

        Anything else is simply too childish to print.

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        Which was extra dumb when you learn that the UK was never part of the open-border Schengen Zone in the first place, bc the EU allowed them to have an opt-out. So they had strict border & visa controls the entire time they were fear-mongering illegal middle eastern refugees coming in from the rest of the EU

        And like in the 2015 EU Refugee Crisis, Germany received over 2 million migrants in a single year, while the UK only received 1/3 of a million, and the large majority of the UK’s weren’t even from the middle east!

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          I specifically remember that Farage’s original targets were Poles, Romanians, and other Eastern European people. He is doing the exact same grift except against a different group now.