Mr Farage also spoke with shoppers and while standing by a market stall selling eggs, joked that after being covered in a milkshake last week he did not want eggs to be the next thing thrown at him.
Someone ready the eggs
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freeze the egg first and pelt it as hard as possible
Rotten ones would be better. It’s damn hard to get that smell out.
Having been hit in the eye with a frozen egg, I can't condone this as it's like throwing a rock at someone and it really hurts. An unfrozen one is safer and far messier, which makes it funnier.
Oh no, you mean he could get injured? God that is so sad 🥺
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"I will not be bullied or cowed by a violent left-wing mob who hate our country," he wrote about the incident.
Assumes that:
- He is The Country
- Only left wingers hate him
If there really was a "left wing mob" out to get him, I think he would be getting attacked with more than one food item every other day.
He loves this. He loves to play the victim. The underdog. Despite being a being a real life racist rich toff caricature.
If what he loves is a hurled brick, he's welcome to as many as he'd like.
Frankly I have no patience for 'that's just want they want!' as a kneejerk response to any backlash against diet Nazis. They'll claim victory no matter what happens. That's part of what makes the fascists. The nature of bad faith is that there is no right answer.
If this pattern means the only headlines about this asshole go 'asshole hit by [object]' - great. Beats reporting any of the garbage flying from his face.
I think we need to keep being better than them. Not get dragged into the mud with them.
Really? I think you should punch Nazis in the fucking face.
How'd we solve the previous round of Nazis? Polite patience and understanding?
Identifying when people threaten everyone you love and telling them to fuck right off is being better than them.
I'm not saying we tolerant intolerance. Just not we shouldn't be first to violence. Milkshakes fine, rocks, not fine. Mock them don't hit them.
What do you think intolerance of intolerance entails?
... is a milkshake to the face not "hitting them?"
If it's just to make them look silly and not liked, but not actually hurt.
If someone stabbed Farage, he'd make such hay of it. I'd half expect him to have arranged it! Wouldn't surprise me if he arranged the odd milkshake too, to keep him in the news.
Oh no, making hay. That totally cancels out getting stabbed.
Sick to death of this nothing-works attitude. Yeah - there is no course of action that fascists won't claim proves them right. Stop listening to fascist claims. They lie. They're fascists. That's their schtick. But in the same way as deplatformed cranks shouting 'I was cancelled!' to an empty room, and spanked children insisting 'that didn't hurt!,' sometimes you can ignore the words coming out of their stupid mouths.
We don't have to give them a platform. Not quite the same as deplatforming. Farage is given way to much platform for the votes he gets.
Not quite the same as deplatforming.
Incorrect.
Is it "de" if you don't have it the first place?
Yes. Exclusion is part of it, as surely as preventing the same asshole from starting another account on the same service. Why would you wait and see if someone booted for being a fascist is still gonna be a fascist if given a shiny new megaphone?
I originally had a switcheroo joke about being an undemocratic Russian stooge, but then I remembered how he and his like stocked the 2016 nutters, and we lost Jo Cox. As much as I don't like the guy no one should be attacked just for standing democratically.
Stop blaming right-wing violence on backlash against right-wing violence.
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