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Pride festival criticized for "throw a milkshake at Nigel Farage" game (www.lgbtqnation.com)

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[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 89 points 3 months ago

Nigel Farage's fear of being the next target is a stark reminder of the dangers of political violence. The 'toss a milkshake at Nigel Farage' game at a Pride Festival is not just disrespectful, it’s a dangerous precedent.

Seriously? They were throwing milkshakes at a cardboard cutout of him. Seems pretty mild. You'd have to slide a fair way down the not-so-slippery slope to even get to throwing a milkshake at the real frog-faced twat, let alone trying to actually harm him.

[-] snow_bunny@lemmy.world 50 points 3 months ago

The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a milkshake is a good guy with a milkshake.

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 3 months ago

That's why I always open-carry a milkshake with me at all times

[-] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 22 points 3 months ago

But also - he has dedicated his entire career to openly harming others, not only marginalised people, but our entire society, for his own personal gain. If he can't take the fucking harmless milkshake to the fucking face (or, honestly, any consequences to his very deliberate actions), maybe he should stop actively making the lives of the people in this country worse, and fuck off back to the bog he crawled out of. ¯\(ツ)/¯

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Yeah, but Britain has been burning a guy in effigy once a year for centuries. Imagine if 'Nigel Farage Day' took over for 'Guy Fawkes Day' and instead of bonfires, you had thrown milkshakes everywhere! Imagine the mess! The smell! Britain can't handle such things!

[-] nehal3m@sh.itjust.works 43 points 3 months ago

Is the political class that chemically castrated Alan Turing for being gay ultimately causing his suicide bitching about a parlor game?

[-] cashmaggot@piefed.social 39 points 3 months ago

It's a protest. I mean pride itself is a protest for the rights of the LGBTQA+ So like...what!? When did we stop permitting a wide variety of opinions, ideas and expressions? So freakin' bananers.

[-] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago

We should take it back to the original pride and throw bricks at the cut out of Nigel Farage.

[-] sandbox@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Why settle for an imitation when you can have the real thing?

[-] cashmaggot@piefed.social 2 points 3 months ago

Hahaha, I once wrote this whole take it to the streets thing for a buddy of mine. Cause he had the crazy idea of asking my ass to write him a monologue to do. Prompted some strong ass street justice, and definitely was not mixed-company appropriate (gays x straights). He did some monologue from that Radcliff play instead. Made me laugh my ass off. I love that man, what was he thinking =P!?

TAKE IT TO THE STREEETSSS HAHAHAHAHA!

[-] puchaczyk@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 3 months ago

No decent person in the article criticized the game. It's just Farage and his friend trying to play a victim card.

“And frankly, Chesterfield Pride needs to grow up, because they would not accept this if this was against a gay politician.”

If Farage was gay people would still throw milkshakes at him. Right wing politicians tend to concentrate on person's identity and not what they say, because their own platform is just (conservative) identity politics without any policy to actually help people.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

If Farage was gay, people might be more inclined to throw milkshakes at him. People aren't big fans of traitors.

[-] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 31 points 3 months ago

Throwing pretend milkshakes at a pretend Nigel Farridge is disrespectful.

We should be burning effigies of him on bonfires.

[-] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

You're mixing up traditions there, one is a cooling summer time activity, the other is reserved for helping light up the long winter nights (also - No Nige November has a nice ring to it 🤔), we can observe both!

nige effigy

(effigy of Nige on its way to the bonfire a couple of years back)

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 months ago

the legendary Lewes bonfire no less

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

He should just be happy that they're not putting rocks in the milkshakes before throwing them.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 months ago

And they're throwing them at a picture of him.

[-] magic_smoke@links.hackliberty.org 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Fuck that, if he wants to whine about it, make an effigy and burn the fucking thing on the end of a rope.

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 14 points 3 months ago

By "for" they mean "in favor of", right?

Also, the past tense is "milkshook".

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 8 points 3 months ago

I criticize the criticizers.

[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Oh, like criticized that milkshakes don't go hard enough? Makes sense.

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago

Oh no! Not criticism! How will they ever recover?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

“I’m all for a laugh, but this goes too far,” Farage said on Thursday. A Derbyshire local agreed, saying the game was “not just disrespectful, it’s a dangerous precedent.

If only irony could throw milkshakes...

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Maybe he could have supported the opinions of the people he's supposed to "represent"...?

[-] HeathenPope@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Could've been worse. Could've been a shooting game.

[-] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 1 points 3 months ago

Criticised by who? Gammons?

[-] wurzelgummidge@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I can think of much better things to throw at him

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca -1 points 3 months ago

What a waste of milk, makes you cry

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