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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 44 points 8 months ago

This is high art. This needs to be on display at the Tate.

[–] porkchop@midwest.social 38 points 8 months ago (2 children)

For the non-Brits, who is this guy?

[–] fubarx@lemmy.ml 38 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Jacob Rees-Mogg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Rees-Mogg

Incidentally, the hedge fund he co-founded just announced it was shutting down: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-67648262

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Is there actual reason to think this guy had something like a short position on the British economy before contributing to Brexit or is it just a meme

[–] TawdryPorker@lemmy.world 33 points 8 months ago (2 children)

There's the small matter of his Dad, a former editor of The Times, having written a book about how to profit from disaster capitalism.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The apple didn't fall from the tree

[–] TawdryPorker@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is what people not from the UK (and a fair few who are) always fail to recognise: the Upper Class are engaged in economic war against everyone else, their goal is to maintain a local hegemony and they have been doing this continuously since at least the 11th Century.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

A revolution would be glorious.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 points 8 months ago
[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 months ago

That's something, I guess. Maybe we wouldn't know specifically how he took advantage of it because the trades aren't public record.

[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 9 points 8 months ago

There's every reason to get believe the worst about this guy, he's so evil he would be out of place as a comic book villain. Well, maybe unless it was one of those edgy political comics.

That said the cash is just a side effect and the actual reason he put this together, as i understand it, is to get revenge for Britain banning fox hunting.

[–] wieson@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Jacobry Smog

[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

He's the worst.

[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago
[–] aew360@lemm.ee 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I’m pretty sure it’s just because they dislike immigrants

[–] 13esq@lemmy.world 23 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The elite love immigrants. Why pay a stuck up English cunt £35000pa when you can get a desperate migrant that's willing to live in your slum and work for minimum wage?

Immigration was just a useful tool to turn the plebs against the EU whilst the elite worked to protect the game that they've rigged against the average man.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Exactly. Don't mistake conservative politicians for their knuckle dragging electorate.

[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Is this how they love in UK?

[–] 13esq@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

It's a type of love

[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 months ago

One does not exclude the other.

[–] sunbytes@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

As a note, the guys who publish these mashups are called PoliticsJOE and they have a great YouTube channel for independent British news.

They also for some reason publish these.

Not that I dislike the videos, that's how I found the channel.

It's just they make up maybe 5% of the posted content (the rest of which is actual journalism lol).

[–] TehBamski@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)