Britain's far right is booming on Elon Musk's Twitter (web.archive.org)

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Calling himself a “free speech absolutist”, Musk granted an amnesty to hundreds of accounts that had been kicked off the platform. Within hours, those belonging to right-wing Britain First leader Paul Golding, along with former deputy Jayda Fransen and the party itself, reappeared. “We’re absolutely pleased,” Golding says. “Now that we’re back on Twitter, our following is growing very, very rapidly.

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[-] flipht@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

No, because you feel the need to say "for the moment" and give away your fascist end game. You and those like you cannot be trusted in the moment, because you always have your eyes fixed on your personal favorite form of genocide in the future.

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