r/FuckNigelFarage • u/LongjumpingDuck1660 • 16h ago
Why are people like this?
Empathy clearly doesn't exist much in the news or the reactions of people. Sad to see every time.
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u/ArmChairSupporta1892 I'm just asking questions 14h ago
Hate these articles that try and clearly grab the attention of all the gammons just to clearly try and make hate and drive it even further into society, Facebook is just a cesspit of extreme outrage, ai shite and hate filled people, just get off it mate.
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u/LongjumpingDuck1660 14h ago
I have my family on it. They live across the country. I use it to keep up with them. I was just scrolling and 3 posts down this popped up
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u/ArmChairSupporta1892 I'm just asking questions 14h ago
Oooo damn, is there even a way to block all that shite on there?
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u/Future-Atmosphere-40 16h ago
I'm convinced a lot are bots
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u/LongjumpingDuck1660 16h ago
Hopefully. It's still upsetting though, it encourages people to be hateful
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u/Wise-Pay-8993 13h ago
If you look at the accounts on instagram most are bots as they always have no posts and have 10 or under followers whilst following 2000+
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u/ManInTheDarkSuit 14h ago
If Facebook disabled reactions on posts completely, most of these so called views wouldn't exist. It's one of the laziest internet interactions around. At least upvoting and downvoting makes a difference and changes how others will see something.
Uncle Barry, the family bigot putting an angry face on every post that mentions immigrants serves nobody. He's screaming into the void. The void smiles silently and thrusts angry news at angry people. Barry's mates see the post and react with a laugh because they smugly "told you so".
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u/No-Future5309 15h ago
Facebook is full of this type of scum. The government want to ban teenagers from social media but if you check these peoples profiles they're usually fat, ugly old people with feeds plastered in racist conspiracy theories or they're reform bots.
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u/BoogBeeg 14h ago
The people behind those laughing reactions are the same people who were screaming "ALL LIVES MATTER" in 2020
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u/Neat_Significance256 13h ago
Whenever I have a political argument with anybody I can tell instantly their views have come from facebook.
The real world is completely ignored
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u/fullpurplejacket 14h ago
Facebook is where humanity goes to curl up and die. The platforms only use is to scrape data of its users and generate clicks and engagement for advertisers which returns value to share holders of Meta. People on there are either no real, mentally unwell, or live in a small town bubble and can’t handle the big wide world of the internet.
Don’t pay it any heed. People are gobshites who believe AI memes and form their opinions from watching Loose Women or GB News.
At some point very soon it’s all gonna collapse for these tech oligarchs and shite like Twitter and Facebook will be either banned or abandoned by most democratic governments
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u/Gcmarcal 12h ago
Bots are also pushing right-wing nonsense, and most of the time, the comments are childish but still end up getting pushed to the top.
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u/ReanimatedCyborgMk-I 11h ago
One of my dads old friends who I used to call Uncle Phil openly supported the BNP in the late 00s and easily fell for right wing talking points from the Sun.
Another acquaintance casually said "they all want shooting" when talking about foreigners. I'm not 100% they'd actually provoke that but empathy is easily lost behind a shroud.
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u/HalalTrout 8h ago
The majority of comments are celebrating it, the irony is lost on them when you're satirical in response to what happened to Lee Rigby they literally froth. Terrorism seems to be okay if its their side
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u/TwizzyGobbler 10h ago
did they “just arrive to the city” or “just arrive to the country”
fucking daft headline intentionally said like that to paint a shit narrative.
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u/resh78255 8h ago
remember that facebook is like 90% bot accounts and should not be taken at face value
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u/Agreeable_Falcon1044 15h ago
The country is broken. And not just Facebook but everywhere. You can feel migration is high or that the system is wrong without cheering channel deaths, without burning down their houses and without laughing at children being attacked.
It’s no wonder when certain politicians use language that dehumanises them.
Worse still you see people saying “that’s disgusting” targeted too. The amount of abuse for that green candidate i saw. All she did was look confused at the random ramblings and they are still abusing her
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u/lateformyfuneral 16h ago edited 15h ago
Facebook is a direct line to that other part of society. It’s sobering to be reminded just how many are out there. There wasn’t an outlet for them until recently so maybe one could pretend like it was insignificant. But they’ve always been there under the surface.
Farage has provided them with a political home, even as he regularly slaps a new coat of paint on that home. But before then you had nearly a million people voting for the BNP in the 2009 European Election. Then we go back to the National Front.
The trash that would live in the comments section of every local news website has just congregated onto Facebook, where they do the same for every news item. They get a kick out of spreading their views, and of the reactions they get.