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Soph0571

(9,685 posts) Sun May 26, 2019, 09:25 AM May 2019

They appear barmy from a distance, but scratch beneath the surface and they're absolutely terrifying

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"What if a no deal Brexit caused job losses?"

"It'd be worth it."

"What do you think of Corbyn?"

"Lynch him."

This is ideology at all costs.

They appear barmy from a distance, but scratch beneath the surface and they're absolutely terrifying.

Certain age, certain class and white - the demographics are certainly the same

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They appear barmy from a distance, but scratch beneath the surface and they're absolutely terrifying (Original Post) Soph0571 May 2019 OP

Mean-spirited to its core, fascism. Hortensis May 2019 #1

And they cling to this 'ideology'... Gumboot May 2019 #2

Yep, I was thinking that recently, it's all the same. Moronic mean spiritness and void of logic RKP5637 May 2019 #3

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Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

1. Mean-spirited to its core, fascism.

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Sun May 26, 2019, 09:59 AM

May 2019

Gumboot

(531 posts)

2. And they cling to this 'ideology'...

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Sun May 26, 2019, 10:51 AM

May 2019

... no matter what the personal cost. That's the part of it that always baffles me. Tribalism gone mad.

RKP5637

(67,112 posts)

3. Yep, I was thinking that recently, it's all the same. Moronic mean spiritness and void of logic

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Sun May 26, 2019, 11:10 AM

May 2019

and any discretionary thinking. ... basically brainwashed robots separated only by the pond.

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