Young Bob said that police told him it was 'by far the most high-profile assault case they've seen'.
  • just2look@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1012·
    29 天前

    Anyone who aspires to be like Charlie Kirk should enjoy the exact same ending as Charlie Kirk.

    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      39·
      29 天前

      No, we are British. Stabbed and left to bleed out on the floor is more of our style.

      • Noxy@pawb.socialEnglish
        15·
        29 天前

        It really is best if fascists around the world experience a wide and diverse range of mechanims of finding out

        • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.socialEnglish
          3·
          28 天前

          For some, a bullet, for others, a knife in the kidney beans, for yet more, grenades in a ditch, from each according to their ability.

        • ᓚᘏᗢ@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          28 天前

          Aren’t most ‘chavs’ just 30 something millenials now? I don’t think the youth still use that word.

            • ᓚᘏᗢ@piefed.socialEnglish
              2·
              28 天前

              From what I’ve gathered no, as ‘roadman’ means a hard guy who deals drugs and that sort of dangerous machismo is appealing to young men, hence so many of them emulating the look.

              Chav wasn’t gender or age specific, so had a much wider catchment for who it could describe.

              I really don’t know what the new ‘chav’ is though, you’d have to ask a teenager.

  • Tenebris Nox@feddit.ukEnglish
    44·
    29 天前

    I had no idea who Young Bob was until a video of him in the front lines of the rioting in Southampton and then being interviewed by Owen Jones in Makerfield. He’s certainly not a British Charlie Kirk: has zero charisma, couldn’t understand Jones’ (pretty basic) questions and struggled to articulate coherent answers. Jones had to continuously repeat and simplify his questioning and even then Young Bob couldn’t comprehend. He’s the big, loud-mouthed rightwinger who sits in Year 11 classes who won’t stop giving his racist and misogynist views and everyone hates.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      22·
      29 天前

      I like the bit where he thinks he’s been oppressed because he got fired from McDonald’s for been an arse. You just know that he was insufferable to work with.

    • tomiant@piefed.socialBannedEnglish
      81·
      29 天前

      It doesn’t matter. If you get over a certain threshold of views and interactions it’s like starting a fire, it spreads on its own. The right jump right on it, they love this shit, and more and more people get radicalized because it gets in their feed and since everything is black and white and about outrage and culture war shit you get people on your side simply because if you’re not on “the other side” you’re by definition on their side, or so it’s framed.

      And yeah, I believe at some point violence is the answer.

      I’d rather fight obese chavs now than having to storm Normandy in 20 years.

      • Tenebris Nox@feddit.ukEnglish
        2·
        29 天前

        Was that a reply to me? I’m 100% in agreement with you. At some point it will come down to force.

    • Schmoo@slrpnk.netEnglish
      4·
      28 天前

      So he’s less of a British Charlie Kirk and more of a British Nick Shirley.

  • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    29 天前

    Under a banner that read ‘Reform should be more radical’, he argued that subjects of the British Empire shouldn’t necessarily be welcome in the UK.

    As a crowd gathered behind him, he said: ‘All of you who throw water are cowards. You don’t actually want to fight for what you believe in.’

    . . . That was when he was kicked to the floor before his phone was smashed and his camera and banner were stolen.

    . . . Eventually, a Black man he had been debating with steps in to protect him.

    • FalcoLombardi1@lemmy.worldEnglish
      33·
      29 天前

      You missed the best quote from this little piss stain. “One responded: ‘I’ll fight you, b****’, before telling Moffitt to get a job. He said he had one, but was fired from McDonald’s for his political views.”

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
        20·
        29 天前

        Having worked in McDonald’s I can guarantee that he was actually fired for been lazy and difficult to work with. If you just do the job and don’t mount off you can have whatever political view you want.

        • tomiant@piefed.socialBannedEnglish
          3·
          29 天前

          The beauty of capitalism.

          We don’t care if you’re a nazi. As long as you make us money we could literally not give less of a shit.

      • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        11·
        29 天前

        Fuck me, to get fired for your views at McDonald’s you must have really been an obnoxious little cunt.

      • Avicenna@programming.devEnglish
        9·
        29 天前

        The idiot, even after working in the hospitality sector, does not realise that this whole sector depends on the immigrants, among others. He is probably the kind of idiot that goes to a curry house after an anti-immigrant march.

    • Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5·
      28 天前

      Takes a special level of suicidal to go to a city with a location called The Curry Mile and say British subjects shouldn’t be welcome.

      • ohulancutash@feddit.ukEnglish
        3·
        29 天前

        There are still subjects knocking around. Indians and Irish born before 1949, for instance. There are 17,000, of which 15,000 have right of abode in Britain.

  • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
    27·
    29 天前

    And just like Charlie Kirk I’d never heard of him until he got beaten up. If the media would just stop talking about these idiots they wouldn’t be famous they’d just be random Twitter racists and we could all ignore them. But now the little dweeb has got a following.

    • ikt@aussie.zoneEnglish
      13·
      28 天前

      Yeah I mean

      What I saw that day was a group of migrant lads being egged on by left-wing agitators

      They couldn’t have cemented his beliefs more, this is perfect for him

      Like left wing progressives being beaten up by police this is the goal of attention seekers and they handed it to him on a silver platter

  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.socialEnglish
    22·
    28 天前

    There’s a reason the Kirk-types always do this on college campuses with campus security looking over their shoulder and not fucking Manchester lmao

  • MrSulu@lemmy.mlEnglish
    21·
    29 天前

    Bell end. For those not from our beloved Manchester, this is a traditional “tough love” term of endowment for someone, who, despite the multitude failures of their logic, debate weaknesses, lack of corroborative evidence will persevere nonetheless.

    If he returns, let’s promise 20 quid for the first person to de-bag him. For those not familiar with Manchester phraseology, this is a raconte driven loss of your trousers.

    If we can find five people who at school with this chap, queued to copy this gentleman’s homework, I will desist from further mockery. Until such time, he remains on the open season list for candid ridicule of his arguments

  • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
    15·
    29 天前

    ‘If I were… ever able to have the opportunity to speak to Erika [Kirk], I would firstly give huge admiration towards her husband on the formula and ideas that I [drew] great inspiration from’.

    He can save his breath, she’s utterly ecstatic that her husband is dead.

    • tomiant@piefed.socialBannedEnglish
      2·
      29 天前

      “the formula”

      “I wanted to thank you for your husband’s method of psychological indoctrination and spreading hate, we owe all our wealth to this pioneer”

  • als@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    13·
    29 天前

    This rag is doing some heavy lifting for this piece of shit. I hope he sees the error of his ways or ceases to be able to vote or interact with anyone.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
        6·
        29 天前

        The quote is Moffat telling the media that he says the police said that it’s high profile. I highly doubt they did because it doesn’t really make sense.

        It can’t be a high profile attack because no one knows who he is. Anyone who went to where he went, and said the things he said, would have got punched, his celebrity or lack thereof is it irrelevant.

          • Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.mlEnglish
            11·
            28 天前

            No they didn’t, that’s the byline from the source. OP hasn’t added anything to the body.

            • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
              11·
              28 天前

              I can’t tell if you’re just blatantly lying, or don’t understand what most of the words mean …

              • Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.mlEnglish
                1·
                28 天前

                Both wrong, unfortunately, you just don’t know how Lemmy works. The quoted section comes from the metro website, that’s why the section is outlined in green - if OP had added something, it would be outlined in grey.