RSS Bot@lemmy.bestiver.seMB to Hacker News@lemmy.bestiver.seEnglish · 21 hours agoCount Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-electionwww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1161file-text
arrow-up1161external-linkCount Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-electionwww.bbc.comRSS Bot@lemmy.bestiver.seMB to Hacker News@lemmy.bestiver.seEnglish · 21 hours agomessage-square14fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareGeneralEmergency@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·16 hours agoOf course he didn’t. But that wasn’t the point. The entire point was to draw attention to the situation. Anyone who seriously thought Binface would or could win. Knows fucking nothing about politics. So while He didn’t win the vote, that was never the goal. The same way it’s never the goal to win the vote for any novelty joke candidate. Binface’s entire thing is to try and get people into politics.
He didn’t win?
Of course he didn’t.
But that wasn’t the point.
The entire point was to draw attention to the situation.
Anyone who seriously thought Binface would or could win. Knows fucking nothing about politics.
So while He didn’t win the vote, that was never the goal. The same way it’s never the goal to win the vote for any novelty joke candidate.
Binface’s entire thing is to try and get people into politics.