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[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 100 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Godspeed, you hero of gyros, you hoagie heroine, you rigoletto of Ruebens...

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 32 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 33 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] j_roby@slrpnk.net 24 points 5 days ago

An American Gyro

[–] nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 days ago

My goodness, so poetic - I love it! And I fully agree with you.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

Sammie Samaritan.

[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 69 points 5 days ago (4 children)
[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

The way they leapt at him the moment he threw it tells me that what he was saying and doing was actually getting to them.

We need more of this.

Also, I know I often laugh when I'm uncomfortable, so maybe that's it, but the camera man is about to find out that maybe having the Gestapo take over your city isn't actually funny.

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The way they leapt at him the moment he threw it tells me that what he was saying and doing was actually getting to them.

I mean, I highly doubt it. They were paying keen attention to the fellow screaming and yelling within a chucked sandwich distance, and he then threw a sandwich at them. They'd probably been considering what they could get him on (besides white or rye) for the entire time he was yelling at them because anyone close and loud is likely the biggest 'threat' much more so than any of them having a brain at the point of them going in with any seriousness after being ordered into a city with a lower per capita crime rate than the white house.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 days ago

Right, but like all of them took off after him lol

this was beautiful thanks for sharing it

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago

Damn! He was close when he threw it. Solid work getting away.

[–] Chivera@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That sub belongs in a museum

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[–] j_roby@slrpnk.net 62 points 5 days ago
[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 54 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Are those the dangerous gangmembers Trump was talking about?

[–] RedPostItNote@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago

Don’t you know it’s worse than Baghdad!

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 43 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 26 points 5 days ago

But he does have a wrapsheet that's a foot long.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 5 days ago

Some just have hero sandwiches?

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What's the charge? Delivering a footlong meal? A succulent foot-long meal?

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It would be assault of a police officer and resisting arrest. Looks like that guy in pink was running in slow motion vs the special forces wanna be's wearing 50 lbs of armor and equipment.

Throwing sandwiches should become the new protest en masse.

[–] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago

I think it's just a play on succulent Chinese meal guy (he's dead now).

[–] beatnixxx@fedia.io 28 points 5 days ago (2 children)

a domestic terrorist using a sandwich of mass destruction. /s

[–] FuckFascism@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Sandwich of ass destruction.

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[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 22 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] aegis_sum@lemmy.world 26 points 5 days ago (11 children)
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[–] RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago

Nah he was a hero delivering justice

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 21 points 5 days ago

That slow run was like ballet.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago

Cops love sandwiches.

[–] maam@feddit.uk 6 points 4 days ago

Never mess with the heavy eating his sandwich

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

Fucking fantastic!

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 days ago

what a hero

handoff food delivery for those fine fucks, whoops folks, in the gestapo

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 days ago

"assault and resisting arrest".

[–] Jumi@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago

So... I gotta know. Was it a hero's hero he launched?

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 days ago (7 children)

I keep trying to formulate a plan in my head:

On one hand ACAB: They all promote the national security culture within the law enforcement sector that we civilians are the enemy. The departments are all corrupt through and through

On the other hand the non ICE officers hate being used as S𝑖𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑟ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑡𝑠𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑡 or Einsatzgruppen (German SD, or Death Squads, respectively) to pick on innocent civilians to be shuttled away to concentration camps. And I wonder if there was a way for the public to tell them we're sorry they are being abused by being repurposed as general goon squads, and if that might encourage them to resist more than they do.

Also, ICE agents, either pre-Trump used to sometimes engage in action that at least had the appearance of legitimacy, e.g. tracking people with violent records. New recruits (post OBBBA Budget) were told they'll be hunting the worst of the worst and then are picking up day laborers and ice-cream vendors, which is soul crushing for even MAGAs who wanted to be the hero.

We need to be able to take these sentiments and weaponize them against the system, and the policy-makers that are forcing them to be evil fucks for The Man.

I don't know the specifics, but there's a schematic in there somewhere.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago

Oh? They "hate" that, do they? Cite your references to that claim, please. Otherwise, your comment seems to stop at "ACAB" in its efficacy. 🤌🏼

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