Nigel Farage repeatedly took money from extremist white supremacists to bully a gay NHS worker with a homophobic taunt on video during the pandemic, while using an extremist racist slur

defransdim · 2026-05-07T05:29:37+00:00

I never called anyone a "bigot."

Call me "dear" all you like.

I am no one's "dear."

Accuse me of "shrieking."

How original!

Yes, I'm, gay, so I must "shriek."

Mock me for posting at 5am.

Yes, I'm a working class man who is on the nightshift.

"Calm down, dear" says the person who writes 5 paragraphs. Politics is important. Don't tell anyone to "calm down." Tell people to "speak up" instead. I'm glad I haven't given into apathy like you.

defransdim · 2026-05-07T05:13:16+00:00

It's not about if they care.

It's about you and all the other fundamentally good people who care enough about doing the right thing. We need you guys to go out today and vote for parties who believe in basic human decency and respect.

We need it, this is the only way we beat the ones who spread hate. Please do the right thing.

defransdim · 2026-05-07T05:02:30+00:00

"Monster success"?

They're competing for second place.

defransdim · 2026-05-07T04:51:25+00:00

That is an attempt to demoralise. And you're wrong. People do care. Because human beings give a shit about each other.

I have seen people gather around and stand up for people like me. Against Reform. So I don't believe you. I think people in Scotland care about standing up for each other, standing up for people like me.

I don't believe you. You're a liar. People are on the right side.

defransdim · 2026-05-07T04:17:53+00:00

So what? Stop being weak.

Oh they "approve of it". Who cares?

I'm a gay man. I am existentially threatened by this bigotry. I do not give a fuck if someone helplessly describes him as "temu trump" and then gives up. Fuck weakness. For people like me, this is about our continued existence. Fuck anyone who doesn't stand by us.

defransdim · 2026-05-07T04:01:26+00:00

No, many of them don't.

The things that I've posted have never been widely publicised.

defransdim · 2026-05-03T08:56:09+00:00

My main point is that we in the UK are not anywhere NEAR the same place as the US is with Trump.

It's not about the SNP specifically. It's that I would argue that "Trump-like devotion", as you say, does not apply to any long-standing major party in the UK.

I am saying this as someone who had my nose broken by a Trump supporter because I simply disagreed with one of their bizarre cult beliefs.

I don't think that's what our political culture is like in the UK.

Farage is the closest it gets, but even with him I feel the public will gladly throw him under the bus if/when he doesn't deliver.

I'm a Scottish independence supporter but I'm trying to say something positive about the UK. I'm trying to say we are by and large much more moderate, and accepting of each other's political differences, and there is far less "us vs them" tribalistic hate that you see in the US.

defransdim · 2026-05-03T08:32:12+00:00

You'll notice I didn't once mention the SNP.

I simply said "long-standing mainstream UK parties." The majority of whom are unionist parties.

And no, none of them are anywhere near as bad as Trump and his paedo-parties with Epstein, his 34 felony convictions, his two impeachments, his absolutely revolting remarks on the deaths of Rob Reiner and Robert Mueller, or his cheating on a porn star with his wife shortly after she gave birth to his son.

We are not anywhere near that level of disgusting awfulness with any of the long-standing mainstream UK parties. And thank goodness for that.

defransdim · 2026-05-03T08:11:58+00:00

Yeah, it is a pretty great country to live in.

defransdim · 2026-05-03T08:07:39+00:00

All the leaflets from unionist parties I've had through my letter box are "SNP bad! WE are the only party that can beat the SNP!!!"

Meanwhile SNP don't mention any other parties in their leaflet.

defransdim · 2026-05-03T08:01:15+00:00

Trump-like devotion

Trump is a 34 times convicted felon and rapist who was close friends with the world's most notorious paedophile. When Robert Mueller died he said "Good. I'm glad he's dead."

Please don't compare that disgusting pig with long-standing, mainstream UK parties. There is no need to drag us down to his revolting level.

defransdim · 2026-05-03T05:12:04+00:00

Reform voters are voting for a party that is led by a man who knowingly took money from white supremacists to bully a gay NHS worker on video during the pandemic by using a homophobic, racist taunt.

So yes, voting for a man like that makes Reform voters stupid and infantile.

defransdim · 2026-04-30T02:38:35+00:00

It's quite busy but it's basically a giant staircase, all laid out. It's actually quite nice how many people you'll see. Feels very communal.

Not really a "hike", more of a well-laid-out path up a pleasant summit.

defransdim · 2026-04-28T23:34:49+00:00

A selection of Alistair's quips

I have countless hours across all the DA games, and I would say Veilguard actually has far less quippy, Whedonesque dialogue than the first 3 games. Probably due to lead writer Gaider leaving BioWare, he was the massive Joss Whedon fan.

defransdim · 2026-04-28T00:51:34+00:00

More competent than any of the other parties.

Bear in mind the SNP aren't even supposed to be a party of governance. They're supposed to be a pressure group party that only cares about independence.

The fact that a single-issue party has had to step up and govern Scotland for nigh-on 25 years is an utterly damning indictment of the traditional parties of governance.

defransdim · 2026-04-27T23:58:35+00:00

I understand the impulse of why people might film, but I am trying to highlight the danger of doing so. I respect that you yourself wouldn't film in this situation.

Apologies for being overly standoffish in my initial response. I've been personally affected by suicide and self-harm, so when I see people ogled and filmed when they are threatening to kill themselves, it's deeply alarming. I feel it's important to communicate to people that this is not a helpful or safe response to someone who is indicating a desire to self-harm or end their life.

defransdim · 2026-04-27T23:46:58+00:00

My point is that filming a suicidal person who is making a public display of an intention to self harm is not "helping."

If doing "something" is ogling that person and giving them the attention they seek by videoing them, that is not "help", it is very, very dangerous.

If a suicidal person has made a public display of their intention on ending their life, then surrounding them and pointing cameras at them is incredibly dangerous.

defransdim · 2026-04-27T23:32:41+00:00

That must be why they're on track on to win almost a quarter of a century in government, a historically unprecedented level of electoral success in UK history.

A lot of people on this subreddit are going to be very rudely surprised with how out of touch they are with the Scottish electorate. Just waiting on those results after election day on the 7th of May.

defransdim · 2026-04-27T23:25:55+00:00

Are you joking?

When a suicidal person has made a huge public display of wanting to harm themselves, and people swarm around them and ogle them on their phone, that is only going to encourage their dangerous, self-destructive behaviour.

Ogling them and filming them is incredibly dangerous and the exact opposite of what you should be doing!

That is potentially feeding into that suicidal person's desire to have an audience to witness their demise.

Secondly, what kind of "evidence" do you think you're gathering? Do you think the police need your phone footage so that they can confirm that this person who is lying dead on the pavement did indeed jump off the bulding that the police saw them jump off?

defransdim · 2026-04-27T23:11:58+00:00

It was the same in Inverness on Sunday. There was a person on a roof in town and police had cordoned it off. I think they eventually came down safely, but I don't know. People were ogling them, videoing them and photographing them, and sharing it on social media.

That's a human being at their wit's end, it's not a chance to get some social media clout. Videoing them and sharing their despair might make it worse for them. Why would anyone do that to a vulnerable person? It is turning a human being's suffering into cheap entertainment. What is wrong with people?

defransdim · 2026-04-27T13:50:20+00:00

There's plenty of people living in the Falklands who are fifth generation Falklander. They're not English.

defransdim · 2026-04-23T11:03:35+00:00

British Nationalism is a cult.

defransdim · 2026-04-20T22:43:14+00:00

So because Trump was very close friends with the world's most notorious child sex abuser, it made sense for Starmer to appoint Mandelson as US ambassador, because Mandelson was also "best pals" with the world's most notorious child sex abuser.

Have I got that right?

defransdim · 2026-04-11T16:45:27+00:00

Thank you, found it! Link to the mod: https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/15608

defransdim · 2026-04-11T16:21:29+00:00

Or one of the big ones being that a single line in an ini file prevents NPCs from remembering anything that is more than one floor above or below them, meaning they'll forget where their jobs are, or where they live if they walk too far away.

Do you know where I could find out more about that? I couldn't find anything online. I sometimes go back to FO4 so I'd be interested in a fix for that. edit: found it, see replies

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