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Liz Truss: Oppressed by Tweets, Victimized by Reality (lemmy.ml)
submitted 4 weeks ago by Glasgow@lemmy.ml to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
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[–] rubikcuber@feddit.uk 105 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Things that Liz Truss thinks are equivalent:

"Far left" activists unveiling poster of a googlyeye lettuce.

Far right activists burning down hotels housing refuges; looting bakeries for sausage rolls.

[–] dogsnest@lemmy.world 32 points 4 weeks ago

"If they're brown, flush 'em down!" = "Look at silly lettuce lady."

-- Trussy

[–] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 60 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Has she missed all the rioting in England by far-right activists?

How is that better than a banner being slowly revealed?

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 38 points 4 weeks ago

“If everyone is covered in mud, it makes it less obvious that you’re covered in shit.”

This is Liz and her cohort trying to “both sides!!” away the behaviour they incited.

It’s crab-bucket PR: if they can get enough of the media saying how bad the left is, it makes the right-wing pogroms less horrifying.

Trump did the same thing post-Charlottesville, conflating BLM and Antifa with the rich-setting, “Jews will not replace us” chanting, protestor-merdering neo-nazis who supported him.

[–] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 4 points 4 weeks ago

The media sure has

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 52 points 4 weeks ago

What happened last night was not funny.

I beg to differ, Liz.

[–] Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz 46 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

You didn't have to storm off because there was a picture of a lettuce behind you.

[–] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 16 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

No, she left in a huff for reasons of security of her insecureity.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 5 points 4 weeks ago

She got shot out of the salad spinner.

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 25 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

She can fuck all the way off with that garbage.

[–] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 7 points 4 weeks ago

She can fuck all the way off with that cabbage.

(it was right there )

[–] MrNesser@lemmy.world 16 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I assume far right would have stormed the stage thrown racial slurs around and venerated Liz Truss as the 2nd coming.

But that is just an assumption just like her assumption that she could run an economy.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 16 points 4 weeks ago

I wonder why it feels different when "far right" activists disrupt a public event? Hmmm, hmmmmm I guess it's a mystery

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 10 points 4 weeks ago

Would we see the same reaction if the activists were far right?

No, we would just laugh at them.

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)