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How does Tommy Robinson have such a massive following when he’s making a fool out of himself in every video ever published online? (hexbear.net)
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
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It’s incomprehensible to me that limey fash look up to the guy. Can someone from TERF island explain to me what’s happening on the ground, how is he mobilizing millions of pedophiles across the country when he’s doing the proverbial pants shitting routine on camera every day?

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[–] 31 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Because they are losers as well. The whole narrative revolves around injured British pride.

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  • [–] [S] 15 points 4 days ago* (3 children)

    Do they just latch on to any old schmuck? Because if so, some of you UK comrades need to start grifting stat. Last video I saw of him, he goes up to a random black dude to humiliate him and the man turns out to be the Somali migrant who saved German school children from an ISIS sympathizer.

    You are competing against absolute clowns, go get that money.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 days ago*

    Well, for one, I am not in the UK, I just listen to a lot of UK podcasts and have friends from there, and two, the majority of the right-wing social media out there is already grift, mostly from the UK, but also a substantial portion is from people in South-East Asian and India who barely understand English politics but understand that racism gets clicks. It's literally just people following the algorithm and capitalizing on the aggrievement market.

    It's not just any old schmuck though, TR has a long history within the far right in England, however you can very easily make up and capitalize on the racist narratives, if you wanted to do that.

    So, like, get on it, king. Ride that Zuckerberg and Musk money.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

    Perhaps a random comparison, but it's the same reason the right ditched the more polished Ben Shapiro in favor of the more far right Asmongold in the Youtube sphere.

    Unless you have a complete lack of appeal you're not viewed as authentic by an increased number of cultivated losers as the social decline also produces a decline in the quality of its figureheads.

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