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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Fri Aug 16, 2019, 05:25 AM Aug 2019

Arron Banks 'jokes' about Greta Thunberg being involved in a boating accident during her trip across

the Atlantic

Thunberg, who has become a target for online harassment and ridicule by climate change deniers, was subjected to an apparent 'joke' from Banks, who retweeted Lucas adding 'freak yachting accidents do happen in August.'

[link:https://www.indy100.com/article/arron-banks-greta-thunberg-joke-tweet-atlantic-trip-climate-change-9059506|

Jokes about drowning teenage girls are hilarious, insist people who had a fit when people made jokes about milkshakes

He explained, “Everybody is claiming to be horrified just because a dodgy millionaire has made jokes regarding the death by drowning of an autistic teenage girl. But where was their outrage when people made jokes about Nigel Farage being shown milkshakes? Where were their angry tweets when people were making jokes about Tommy Robinson’s imprisonment?

“Once again it’s one rule for them and another rule for us lot. I’m sure if I looked long enough I could find a prominent Remainer making jokes about wanting young girls to die. Just because Google doesn’t find anything doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.”

][link:https://newsthump.com/2019/08/15/jokes-about-drowning-teenage-girls-are-hilarious-insist-people-who-had-a-fit-when-people-made-jokes-about-milkshakes/|

They are just hideous people. Why are they not hiding in the shadow corners where they should be??


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Arron Banks 'jokes' about Greta Thunberg being involved in a boating accident during her trip across (Original Post) Soph0571 Aug 2019 OP
Aaron Banks, Nigel Farage and a cast of thousands are the jokes abqtommy Aug 2019 #1
I do wish right wingers would engage with Thunberg properly T_i_B Aug 2019 #2
Should be noted that Newsthump is satire! LeftishBrit Aug 2019 #3

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
1. Aaron Banks, Nigel Farage and a cast of thousands are the jokes
Fri Aug 16, 2019, 06:09 AM
Aug 2019

and should be led away by kind people, as the English would say. Perhaps to vacant cells in The Tower
of London...

T_i_B

(14,737 posts)
2. I do wish right wingers would engage with Thunberg properly
Fri Aug 16, 2019, 07:03 AM
Aug 2019

Even if it is only to state why they disagree with her.

Instead they just lob insults and abuse. It's pretty dreadful when the best that right wingers can do in response to environmentalism is schoolyard bullying.

LeftishBrit

(41,205 posts)
3. Should be noted that Newsthump is satire!
Fri Aug 16, 2019, 04:52 PM
Aug 2019

Maybe not so far from the real thing when it comes to Banks, though!

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