Comment on British public more likely to prefer Count Binface wins Clacton by-election than Nigel Farage

• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But this isn’t a normal by-election this is a by-election caused by someone who is under investigation for parliamentary misconduct and also is simultaneously under police investigation for criminal conspiracy to handle stolen money.

  The normal rules don’t apply.

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  • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is a candidate with a fucking bin on their head, are you seriously questioning whether they’re a joke candidate?

    Look, I get that we all really want Binface to win but that does not mean he is not a joke. That’s the whole bloody point.

    And, in context, because he is a joke candidate wearing a bin, there will be lots of people who won’t bother voting for him. (While many of Farage’s faithful will turn out) Sorry to break to you what every sane person with an opinion is predicting…

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  • Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t they? Do you think they didn’t know exactly who they were voting for last time? And if the only other option is a guy who plays a space alien with a bin on their head do you think they’ll actually show up?

    The option isnt necessarily one or the other, its “do I even bother to show up at all?”

    If you have two joke candidates, why bother voting for either? Meanwhile the people who have voted for Farage in the past will likely continue to do so.

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• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And Nigel Farage is not a joke candidate? He took a £5M bribe in crypto, now seeks re election?

  Ich bin ein binliner.

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  • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And Nigel Farage is not a joke candidate?

    Did I say that? Try to stay on topic.

    You don’t even think that Farage is a joke candidate in the same way that Binface is. Sure, Binface can crack a joke that Farage is a “joke candidate” and it makes sense but it is not the same sense.

    You think Farage is a joke because he’s deserving of ridicule. But Binface is a joke because he purposefully invites ridicule.

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    • yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I got jumped on on reddit for suggesting the same thing. It feels like an active attempt to muddy the waters and dissuade honest discussion/criticism but I can’t work out exactly why.

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      • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It’s because calling someone a joke sounds disparaging… even if they’re a literal comedy character played by a comedian. So that’s enough to put it in the wrong bin when people are making black and white judgements of “does this person wholly align with my views or not”

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    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You don’t get it. Farage manipulation of the electoral process, and the behavior of the other parties is the joke here.

      Farage is just another Trump, staying in power to avoid prison.

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      • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        staying in power to avoid prison

        What power is Farage using here? This is incoherent.

        You don’t get it

        I understand perfectly, you just want to talk about something I never talked about. Even when I try to meet you where you are you don’t bother replying to it.

        Please don’t reply to me again if you’re going to ramble on about something unrelated.

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• BlaestEgnen@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But he’s the establishment candidate! Just ask Farage!

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    My grand voted for a bin, my parents voted for bins…

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• SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Because he is a lot more sane than the other candidate.

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  • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Being sane relative to someone else is completely unrelated to being a joke candidate. Next?

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    • starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      “joke candidate” usually implies someone who enters with no chance of winning just to make a joke. The implication doesn’t match in this case because he has a nonzero chance of winning.

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