• Ginny [they/she]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    45·
    7 months ago

    Non-UK people should read up about Laurence Fox if they want a good laugh.

    Some career highlights:

    • Destroyed his acting career and his marriage by being an upper class right wing shit.
    • Destroyed his subsequent gig as a right wing pundit on GB News by being too misogynist on air.
    • Called some drag queens paedophiles after they called him racist. He was sued for defamation and he countersued. He lost on both counts.
    • Stood for election as an MP and lost his deposit.
    • Stood for election as London Mayor and lost his deposit.
    • Tried to stand for election as London Mayor a second time and didn’t get on the ballot because he didn’t fill in the paperwork correctly
    • Stood for election to the London Assembly and lost his deposit.
    • Apepollo11@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19·
      7 months ago

      To be fair to him, on his first run at London Mayer, he did get nearly twice as many votes as Count Binface, a candidate who claims to be from space and wears a dustbin on his head.

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        18·
        7 months ago

        Not sure about Count Binface since I don’t really follow UK politics, but if he’s anything like Vermin Supreme his platform is likely both preferable to and more realistic than the mainstream conservative party candidates’ plans.

        • Apepollo11@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          7 months ago

          Novelty candidates are a highlight of UK politics - practically every high profile election has some.

          The brilliant thing is that they’re treated as seriously as the main party candidates by the election machinery - they appear on politics programmes and appear onstage stood next to the career politicians on count day.

          H’Angus the Monkey, the Hartlepool FC football mascot, even got elected as mayor of Hartlepool a few years back.

          There’s an entire novelty party, The Monster Raving Looney Party, which has been going strong since the 80s, and fields candidates across the country.

          • PapaStevesy@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            7 months ago

            Don’t forget Tarquin Fin-Tim-Lin-Bin-Whin-Bim-Lim-Bus-stop-F’tang-F’tang-Olé-Biscuitbarrel from the Silly Party, that was even earlier!

          • Machinist@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            7 months ago

            I could search this, and probably should. Is the The Monster Raving Looney Party a real thing?

            That’s like so fucking English.

    • ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      7 months ago

      What does “lost his deposit” mean in the context of UK elections? Do you only get your money back if you win? Is there some decorum standard he violated or something?

      • ohulancutash@feddit.ukEnglish
        10·
        7 months ago

        You lose your £500 deposit if you win 5% or less of the valid votes cast in the constituency. It’s to discourage no-hopers from taking part.

    • ohulancutash@feddit.ukEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      Not his money though. He’s bankrolled by noted Steam train owner Jeremy Hosking, who provides Fox with a central London office, secretary, company car and very large expense budget, expecting no return on investment at all, just to spread hate. Reportedly Fox spends most days snoozing at his desk.

  • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
    172·
    7 months ago

    they went from bullying kids for being too weak, too sensitive etc to fucking satanic panic. what a bunch of pussy ass bitches.

  • caboose2006@lemm.eeEnglish
    14·
    7 months ago

    I’ve seen this post a couple times and just scrolled on last. Didn’t realise it was an anti-pride post because it looks cool as hell.

    • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      In São Paulo a couple of pride month parties are being announced as priDE MONth party, guess is being used around the world like this too.

  • takeda@lemm.eeEnglish
    14·
    7 months ago

    Why it has two sets of horns? It looks like first one weren’t intimidating enough so they added another set to wrap the “DEMON”.

      • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
        151·
        7 months ago

        100%. Not just because of the style, but topological issues (where do the top horns go? Looks like they turn into hair?) or duplication are hallmarks.

      • .Donuts@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        7 months ago

        I looked up the handle from the watermark, but I regret it. Just right wing hate post after post. Yuck

        • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
          3·
          7 months ago

          He really is a hilariously pathetic individual. Every time he shows up in the media it’s always an absolute hoot, he’s the biggest own goal in history.

          He’s such an enormous tool that he managed to get fired from the racist media network for being too racist.

            • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
              2·
              7 months ago

              Yeah but have you noticed how the media have stopped reporting things on Twitter as news now. He can stay there for all I care, trying to out racist the republicans and other MEGA talking heads.

        • Apepollo11@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          7 months ago

          Laurence Fox?

          It’s a sad story with him. He was a good actor, coming from a big family of actors and was really making a name for himself. He married singer/actress/Dr Who companion Billie Piper and had a couple of kids with her.

          Then he started going a bit weird in interviews. Being rude to people.

          By the time COVID hit, he was well-and-truly off the rails. His wife had left him and he was very vocal against, well, basically everything sensible.

          Didn’t realise he’d gone full homophobe now, especially given that he’s an actor, but maybe it was the last box left on his right-wing bingo card.

          • .Donuts@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            7 months ago

            I actually meant the @drclownphd watermark you can faintly see on the bottom right of the image. But that an interesting albeit sad story nonetheless

    • meeeeetch@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      7 months ago

      The computer that will tell you ‘strawberry’ only had two R’s in it or that no country in Africa starts with k, not even Kenya probably drew it.

  • Jerb322@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    7 months ago

    “Look if you just take a couple letters from this word and some from this word, carry the one…”

    • Dragonstaff@leminal.spaceEnglish
      01·
      7 months ago

      3+2+2 = 7

      Resident Evil 7: Biohazard

      That’s exactly what I’d expect a climate change denier to say!

  • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.netEnglish
    10·
    7 months ago

    Said it the first time this “Pride Month hides Demon” stuff went viral

    Pride Demons is a bomb ass name for a political group focused on queer liberation in the same vein as the Black Panthers were for black liberation.