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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 200 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] metallic_substance@lemmy.world 39 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Anyone got some background on this? I'm outta the loop

[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 148 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Some asshole going around his school filming and announcing "I support ICE!". He passes this guy who responds "I'm gonna punch you", the filmer says "you'll get in trouble", to which the guy pictured replies "okay" and starts swinging

[–] HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social 23 points 2 months ago

That is what we call "good trouble".

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 67 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] jlow@discuss.tchncs.de 47 points 2 months ago (4 children)

That many ACAB in a school, that country is wild! And OF COURSE they're all cool with the fascist, lol.

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago

Law enforcement requires fascism and power.

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[–] EtAl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There's a link called Context in the post.

[–] metallic_substance@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

Totally missed it. Thanks

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[–] SirMaple__@lemmy.ca 165 points 2 months ago
[–] wattt@feddit.org 156 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Reminds me of this photograph.

The mother of the woman was imprisoned in a concentration camp by the nazis. The guy later killed a Jew.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woman_with_the_Handbag

[–] kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The nazi be like: i was just peacefully spreading hate and was unlawfully attacked by violent antifa!

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[–] LMurch@thelemmy.club 126 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I'm glad this is on Lemmy.

Reddit would put you on a list, send it to DHS, and give you a 3 day ban...just for up-voting.

[–] Chicxulub@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago (4 children)

That's what motivated me to make an account here. Reddit are fascist sympathizers.

[–] variablenine@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Me too. Right now I'm in the middle of a 3 day ban for saying that any country that needs genocide to exist, should not exist.

I don't feel like going back after that one

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[–] LibertyLizard@quokk.au 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I often wonder if DHS is aware of the threadiverse. I would assume so but who knows? At least I don't think our admins would cooperate with them for the most part.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

US law enforcement subpoenas data centers and servers often. For a physical server, the FBI will leave a windows sever running and gain access, if it is a Linux sever however, they will to confiscate the server. I'm not sure what they do for cloud hosted servers.

[–] LibertyLizard@quokk.au 26 points 2 months ago (6 children)

All the more reason to be on a non-US based server right now.

Worth noting that a lot of their subpoenas are BS though and could be fought successfully. Big tech is too scared to do even minor things to protect their users because the regime will retaliate in other ways that could cost them money. Small hobby servers don't have the same avenue of attack, although they might be more vulnerable in other ways.

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[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 months ago

Why are you talking about reddit? Fuck reddit. What a shitty place to be.

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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 92 points 2 months ago (15 children)

WTF are all US schools like that? With all that security it looks like it was filmed in an airport

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 75 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Because we have school shootings all the damn time. It still won't stop them from happening but it's not like we're gonna go after the source of the problem and ban guns anytime soon. Security theater is the best thing administrations can do and the kids are those who end up suffering the most out of it.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 73 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Cops at schools often escalate problems and use excessive force on children.

[–] SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They're part of the youth control complex. They exist to criminalize children, creating a new generation of victim they can use to justify their continued existence. Fuck the police.

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[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

Cops ~~at schools~~ often escalate problems and use excessive force ~~on children.~~

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[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 33 points 2 months ago (11 children)

And we can't go after the guns because patriots are going to use them in case the government ever starts doing tyrannical things like grabbing people off the streets without due process, killing protesters, breaking into houses without warrants, or threatening the voting system.

If any of that happens sometime in the future the good ol' boys will be ready to protect the Constitution and we'll understand that all the dead kids were worth it.

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[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Overpopulated schools with underpaid teachers and a broad culture of "radical individualism" and a school system designed more to occupy children with preparing for work instead of teaching them anything, along with rampant, petty lawsuits from families of children over utter nonsense have led to the US having an abysmal, almost prison-like aesthetic for public education.

Combine all this with a culture that revolves around violence as a glorified solution to problems while also reinforcing division between people and everything's a hotbed for tension and hate and shootings.

We could probably legitimately solve a LOT of America's problems if we used our schools for actual teaching and paid the staff and teachers properly so kids could get actual knowledge, free meals and a sense of safety, but that's not what the corporations want - they want us dumb, numb and isolated from each other.

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 18 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Granted it's been a bit since I've been in highschool but mine didn't remotely have that level of security. We had a rent-a-cop show up maybe twice a week who did breathalyzer tests as people came into the school. There were two entrances though so people just went to whichever one they weren't at. They also tried having a drug dog come in every so often but we revolted and all the students started putting open bags of poppy seeds and dog treats in our lockers so that didn't last long lol

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[–] JayK117@aussie.zone 66 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you are in the same room as a Nazi and you are not punching the Nazi there are two Nazis in the room.

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[–] Vertelleus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 48 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Any word on what happened to this kid?
Are they arresting kids or just suspension or am I just showing my age?

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 75 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not yet sure what happened to the kid that punched the fascist.

However, the fascist was apparently banned from Instagram for pulling fire alarms

[–] variablenine@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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[–] Vespair@lemmy.zip 43 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This kid overnight became the coolest kid in school, maybe the coolest kid in any school.

Boy is an icon.

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[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago

Now that I know the context, the kid is a hero. Us Lemmy people are proud of you.

[–] hellure@lemmy.org 35 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I would like to officially nominate that kid for office of the President of the USA 2028.

[–] nexguy@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago

Not sure the country could handle such a large swing upwards in qualifications.

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[–] Elroc@lemmus.org 35 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)
[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I would too except it's AI :/

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[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 months ago

My grandpa would have approved this and said something like "ah, that takes me back".

[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 months ago

Punching faces, going places.

[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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[–] django@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
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[–] djdarren@piefed.social 18 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The WORST kind of shithead is the one who does shitty things because they're technically legal.

The kid in the original video didn't need to walk around school 'protesting' his support of the status quo. He didn't need to act like he was some kind of fucking minority. Then as soon as his actions met any kind of negative (to him) repercussions he was all like "THAT'S ILLEGAL".

And I don't wish pain or injury on him. I just wish him to fuck off. I nothing him. I wish him a future where he can look back upon this episode with shame that he was such a piece of shit at this stage in his life.

But he won't.

The usual shitehawks and grifters will champion him for their own gain, they'll inflate him and make him feel important, and at worst he'll end up becoming a figurehead for the oppressed, silent, majority. A silent majority who I wish would shut the fuck up once in a while.

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[–] _Nico198X_@europe.pub 16 points 2 months ago
[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

"I support ICE" is the new "I'm a racist"

Prove me wrong.

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