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[–] SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 106 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

It's good to see more trumpian competence in action...

Twenty-nine year old Chandler Patey has been regularly protesting outside his local ICE facility in South Portland for months, offering up his apartment to fellow protesters to use the bathroom or wash off pepper spray, according to local news.

To the Department of Homeland Security, “he is the leader of Antifa in Portland, OR.”

Elementary my dear epstein.

BTW, sounds like a fucking legend. I hope I am so good when the bullshit arrives where I am.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 58 points 2 weeks ago

offering up his apartment to fellow protesters to use the bathroom or wash off pepper spray

Wow what a terrorist! When other citizens walk in with pepper spray on them he lets them wash it off?

I bet he and his co-conspirators were involved with the undcheduled shut down of the Orphan Crushing Machine too!

[–] robomuffin79@lemmy.world 86 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

When the leader of a group of anti-fascists becomes the bad guy. American world war 2 soldiers who died on the battlefield must be turning in their graves

[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 23 points 2 weeks ago

Read it as burning in their graves. Still made sense.

[–] furzegulo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 49 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I guess it's over then 😟

[–] 6nk06@sh.itjust.works 43 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not yet, he's friend with l33t hax0r and the Anonymous man.

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[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 weeks ago

They've got em. Our most closely hidden secret leader. What will the cabal do without him?

[–] DrYes@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

better send Kyle Reetenhouse back in time

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[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 42 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

next they will "identify" the "leader of lgbtq+"

[–] WhiteRice@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Who assumed the crown after Freddy?

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I didn't know anyone had been crowded since Prince died.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Umm, prince was pretty famously hetero.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

But was he cis though? Anyway I once heard him referred to as a purple love gnome, so that's where he sits in my brain.

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[–] verdi@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 39 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I see they follow the gestapo playbook. Why use the legal system when you can just say "belongs to terrorist org" and snag whoever you want off the street. 

[–] ServantOfRa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 weeks ago

I mean, that's one step too many.

[–] manniesalado@piefed.social 37 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I feel so sorry for the Yanks having to live through this Trumpian nightmare.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 5 points 2 weeks ago

Thank you. Truly. So much schadenfreude going around.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I appreciate that, you guys are gonna also have a hard time with this spreading virus, I mean more than you already have. But I really think the citizens need to keep the alliance alive and we need to all work together to fight this growing tide of oligarchy-fueled fascism that knows no borders or humanity.

I've seen a LOT of hate directed at American people, even right here in Lemmy, supposedly from Europe and Canada, and I can only assume it's more bots and paid shills trying to drive wedges between us. We need to be really vicious in calling it out and shaming these donuts as hard as possible.

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[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 36 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I heard he was teaming up with the hacker known as "4chan"

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Fun fact, in the Epstein files it shows Moot, founder of 4-Chan met with Epstein and made /pol the very next day, the politics forum that saw the revival of centralized neo-nazism and racism on the internet.

There is a lot of evidence pointing to the idea that Epstein and a multitude of other right-wing figures, along with various international groups, have deliberately been working to sabotage democracy since the 2000's and this entire societal decay in the US was planned. Even the seeding of Q-anon as misdirection.

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[–] arararagi@ani.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

I heard that hacker uses steroids!

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Just like they identified Tylenol is the cause of autism…

[–] Tujio@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

I mean, they gotta figure out some way to blame the mom before Baron gets diagnosed.

[–] Zier@fedia.io 29 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wrong, it's not a man. It's my Aunt Tifa. FFS

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago

I can tell you for certain that dude won’t be experiencing “the male loneliness epidemic”

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I hear he hangs out with anonymous, from the Internet!

But who is 4chan, leader of Anonymous?

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

no offense dude, but him?

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Axiochus@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] Focal@pawb.social 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I really read this as inspirational and cool once upon a time. Part of me still does. There's a lot of good we've done on social media that make my trans friends and family more safe in who they are, broadly speaking...

But there's also a whole lotta bad as well, and it's been increasingly less OUR internet as the tech companies just monopolize and censor and steal data.

I'm not so sure I can manage to find this time mag cover as inspirational anymore.

[–] _Nico198X_@europe.pub 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

it was a different time. aspirational and naive.

[–] Focal@pawb.social 6 points 2 weeks ago

Naive is probably the exact word for the feeling I have. Good pick

[–] hector@lemmy.today 4 points 2 weeks ago

I can assure we some of us were not optimistic.

[–] Nastybutler@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

I still put on my resume that I'm the 2006 Time Person of the Year

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 13 points 2 weeks ago

That guy owes me money! According to MAGA, the only reason any of us is resisting is because we're being paid. I've been fighting the Right for decades, and I've never seen a penny, he owes me a bunch.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 2 weeks ago

I want to subscribe to his newsletter.

[–] RadioEthiopiate@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 weeks ago

"Everyone who disagrees with me is a ~~Nazi~~ domestic terrorist."

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No, they got it wrong. It was me! I am the leader! Don't believe the feds, those lying pigs.

[–] how_we_burned@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago

I'm Brian and so is my wife

[–] MyOpinion@lemmy.myserv.one 7 points 2 weeks ago

Too bad they miss the current leader of Pedos our commander and cheeto.

[–] HaveAnotherTacoPDX@lemmy.today 3 points 2 weeks ago

Funny, he never gave me any orders. I used to take my orders from a chicken named Jack, but these days they come from the frogs. Because they are too strong when they're together, y'know.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Jackie Joyner Antifa....Join Antifa for short.

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

This is the way.

[–] Aljernon@lemmy.today 2 points 2 weeks ago

Wow, what (not) a surprise. All those terrorism and surveillance laws passed after 9/11 were exactly as much a bad idea as people who didn't hate muslims were warning them to be.

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