• JTskulk@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Trump said something similar, he said if he lost to Biden he would move out of the country. Unfortunately that was lie like everything else.

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    8 hours ago

    Who could have thought, that separating yourself from one of the top three economic blocks on the planet, would have negative consequences?

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    Same guy who thought it’d be a good idea to have Sargon of Akkad join UKIP.

    I used to feel weird when my niche internet obsessions started bleeding into the real world, but nowadays it’s become so common that I barely react when some obscure internet drama that I think is funny, suddenly blooms into real world politics and I’m just sat here like “oh… again, huh?”

    Anyway, one could probably have seen it coming that brexit wouldn’t be a smart decision, but whatever, man.

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      They seriously let that clown join the national party of clowns? I guess he fits right in there, but wtf is a youtuber doing in a political party?

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        He wasn’t even alone. Count Dankula also joined, and later left because he found the party to be unserious and cringe. He made a video about it at one point. I don’t agree with Dankula about every opinion he has, but I do find him to be smarter and more level-headed than most of his peers.

        Sargon of Akkad went from being a youtuber who was a bit full of himself, to getting a minor god complex once he joined UKIP and spent an embarrassing amount of time trying to impress the infamous internet troll Mister Metokur, which is a whole saga in its own right. It was fucking hilarious to follow in real time.

        Meanwhile, the press did what the press does and dug up all kinds of stupid shit that sargon had been saying over the years and, well, he quickly became a liability.

        I had been pretty pissed with Sargon since the Candid scandal that most people seem to have forgotten since, so I was just enjoying the show, watching this dumbass making an utter fool of himself. I think a lot of UKIP’s bad press and failure as a party can be traced back to Sargon because when he joined the party, they were still somewhat seen as a respectable party that you could take seriously even if you disagreed with their politics. After sargon, they were seen as a clown show and I also think Farage left the party shortly after - unless I’m misremembering. It’s been awhile.

        I don’t watch reality TV because I have the internet and it’s lolcows. The fact that these politicians allowed sargon of akkad into their party without doing a proper background check is fucking insane 🤣 they allowed him and Dankula in their party to catch the attention and support of their followers and they paid dearly for that, lol. In ignorant theory, it seems like a good idea to try and utilize influencers to further your party’s cause and reach a younger crowd - potentially - but back then, politicians did not understand internet culture nor how fucking insane it is. Overall, politicians seem a tiny bit more aware today, but they are still not getting it. That mixing brain dead entertainers with your cause could possibly backfire. Especially if your party appeals to the more reckless among us in society.

        Of course, there could be many more factors as to why Farage decided to leave UKIP and for the party kinda falling apart at the seams other than just Sargon, but it is incredible how fast shit hit the fan after thel let Sargon join their party. Everybody who knew about Sargon knew that this was gonna end badly and we were all there for it. Rightwingers as well as leftwingers. Joined in harmony, laughing at the circus.

        Somehow still more entertaining than when Kanye West hired Nick Fuentes and Milo Yiannopoulos as his campaign managers.

        At some point you can’t do anything but laugh.

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    It was always meant like: “If I fuck up with this Brexit, you guys can pay the price! I will live comfortably somewhere else!”

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    To be fair this is no self inflicted punishment whatsoever.

    The guy basically said: “If I turn the place we all live in into a living hell, I will leave it”

    No shit Sherlock, I am sure a lot of your compatriots are doing just that right now

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    The issue I see here is, and I believe I’m speaking for the entire rest of the world here, we don’t want him

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      He should just be exiled to some random, remote uninhabited island. Then he’ll never have to deal with another foreigner again and we wouldn’t have to deal with him

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      That’s what Dyson did, didn’t they? They supported Brexit with a ton of money to transform UK into a no-worker-rights hellhole, and when that didn’t happen fast enough, they moved production to Asia.

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        Farage: “On second thought, I think I will stay around and fuck up some more of your shit.”

        Voters: “Yes please!!!”

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    Oh, so if your policy fails, you’ll abandon ship ?
    And you want to be a politician ?
    Listen, it’s time for you to stand in front of the wall
    You and that other blond hair ducker
    We have suffered your continued existence long enough.