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by JumpCrisscross 601 days ago
> see the documentary he created, it's eye opening, scary, true

How can you trust him given his personal history of violence, fraud and lying? Are his accounts corroborated by someone reputable?

From his record on Wikipedia and the facts in this article, he's either an idiot with impulse-control issues, or a provocateur who repeatedly gets himself in trouble to play victim for views. Neither suggests a reliable narrator.
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jalapenos 601 days ago
Do you need to trust your own eyes? You can validate claims made yourself can't you
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imperial_march 601 days ago
It's more established there is a smear campaign against him, with bots and shills trying to smear him as it's pretty hard to refute what he says.

Guy been put through hell, in the new UK where free speech is nonexistent and people are imprisoned for opposing 'the party'.

Mind you, I'm not English nor do I live there, but it's scary seeing what is happening there and how it seems to be spreading

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JumpCrisscross 601 days ago
> more established there is a smear campaign against him

A smear campaign forced him to assault "an off-duty police officer in a drunken argument," "illegally [enter] the United States using a friend's passport," repeatedly violate simple court orders, repeatedly libel people including children and stalk journalists [1]?

> it's pretty hard to refute what he says

I literally asked for reputable corroboration of his accounts.

> the new UK where free speech is nonexistent and people are imprisoned for opposing 'the party'

I'll file this under the category of people whose speech we are discussing because it's available, been amplified and is being reported on yelling into a microphone and/or on TV that they're being silenced. (Reminds me of South Park's "The Worldwide Privacy Tour" [2].)

Looking deeper, the guy is an entertainer. He says provactive stuff--some of it racist, some of it stupid, a little of it true (though never novel)--to an audience that wants to believe it's edgy and oppressed by supporting someone cosplaying a martyr. The role isn't unique to the right or left, but it is the domain of extremists.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Robinson#Early_and_per...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Worldwide_Privacy_Tour

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amenhotep 601 days ago
> I'm not English nor do I live there

What a shock.

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