• Andrew@piefed.social
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    12 days ago

    When the Daily Mail says anybody 'faces fierce backlash', they mean a fierce backlash that they're about to stir up.

    • smokebuddy [he/him]@lemmy.today
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      12 days ago

      Fierce backlash - a few irrelevant people made some tweets that got like 14 favourites and half that of retweets even after being embedded in the article all day

  • flamingos-cant@feddit.uk
    hexagon
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    12 days ago

    You might think I'm being factious with that title, but no, these people are genuinely beyond parody.

    *removed externally hosted image*

    • OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml
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      12 days ago

      It's a recurring thing.

      Right wing astroturfing groups keep trying to get control of the national trust.

      https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/06/right-leaning-group-fails-to-wrest-control-of-national-trust-from-political-takeover

      If it's not vegan food, they're complaining about pride, or people explaining where all the money for these big country houses came from.

      The group's actually run out of the same place as a Tory think-tank. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/28/national-trust-captured-by-well-funded-fake-grassroots-group-restore-trust