He thought it’d be cool, so he did it.
Don’t get me wrong, they do think it’s funny and laugh about it, but this is not just a prank or joke. It’s intentionally terrorising people who bring cameras to expose their actions. We saw the same targeting of the press during BLM.
So blatant that an aussie satire article called that out.
haha they edited that line out afterwards. I guess someone realised the protesters weren’t shooting rubber bullets.
Oh no no no, they were *checks original copy of the article* “caught in the crossfire”.
One of the important points is people sharing the uncensored message. This is a cut-and-dry example of unintentional promotion. For example, I tried looking up the initial news on /r/Melbourne and the mod team wisely said something like “The Guardian has chosen not to share the image in their article and we will do the same”, locking the thread so that no accounts, whether sincere curious people or Nazi astroturfers, can say " what did it say", “it said X, how fucked up”, “omg how can this happen?”. That’s an example of the no platform tactics , which given the nazis’ goals, is an effective tactic in the arsenal.
On the other hand, you’re right that Tanuki is raising awareness of the event. I think their perspective is, if they have a platform, it’s best to make crystal clear how pathetic these people are behind their anonymity. (And I’m not saying that as a blind claim, these people have had their own members embezzle them, get repeatedly infiltrated by current affairs shows, have major financial donors lose their jobs and half their members and promoters are headed to the camps one train after the socialists and Jewish). Their recruiting effort relies on trying to show they’re better than all those failed neo-Nazi groups like Patriot Front and Atomwaffen, so we if we must talk about them (ignorance doesn’t work), we should make sure to laugh at them too, show we have a community willing to fight these alienated tourist flash mobbers.
And I think you raise an excellent point about unnecessarily naming a specific group, pointing potential recruits towards them more easily and making it a more common name to hear. I would be guilty of that too.
Yeah. Listening to body cam audio from BLM, pigs are laughing about which media company’s reporters they hope they hit. They see the Media jacket and they don’t blink – a camera is a camera.
And, in case it needs to be plainly stated, this is a form of terror against press.
Good on you for sharing the wage fund.
I was aware of a similar exploit with some Kia cars… last year maybe? (edit: SwizzleStick already explained this in more detail)
Connecticut Kia Boyz (Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan)
I appreciate the write-up, friend. Thanks :)
For sure. It feels like it’s for intimidation or just fantasy cosplay rather than any logical reason.
There’s some truth to it, but on the other hand, many projects have been bought or simply adopted by malicious actors after a maintainer desperate for a new maintainer to take over finally sees an eager ‘volunteer’. We mustn’t be overconfident and assume FOSS implies security.
What a loser. Great to see this kind of thing gets discovered, it was one of my concerns when joining Lemmy (and one of my motivations for leaving sites like reddit).
I often downvote Hotznplozn’s posts because those posts are exclusively warmongering propaganda. That is literally the only posts they make here, so I’m usually downvoting those whenever they appear here. Other users have reported them, and their previous aliases, in the Overseas News comm so I’m not alone in thinking this.
edit: looks like an admin has assumed I’m involved and banned me from a few .world comms, along with some other users, so I might contest some of them once I have spare time
Out of all the countries to take high-speed rail inspiration from, I would hold off until that US line is actually operating.
Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillo, Mayor of Marinaleda from 1979 to 2023 (among other things) has been described exactly as a “modern Robin Hood” in newspapers[1], especially in reference to their supermarket raids:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Manuel_Sánchez_Gordillo
In mid August 2012, Sánchez Gordillo attracted considerable media attention both within Spain and internationally due to his role in raids on supermarkets in nearby towns, Seville and Cádiz, where food was stolen and handed out to poor families and to food banks. The items stolen were part of a list chiefly made of rice, sugar, pasta, milk, olive oil and flour. Sánchez Gordillo did not personally remove food, but was outside in the car parks while members of his union conducted the raids. Several of these members have been arrested and later released, though Sánchez Gordillo himself has immunity from prosecution. Sánchez Gordillo has however said he is happy to waive his immunity and go to jail for his cause, in fact he said he expected to be jailed in order to make his message spread further.
And stole from the poor, not the rich.
If anything, a software pirate at home is a far greater example.
“live rent free in their heads” doesn’t mean to be aware of someone, it’s talking about obsession. That cm lad constantly tries to bring up “.ml” out of nowhere to incite drama, and I just took a glance at their user profile and holy moly it’s almost entirely just reposting from lemmy.ml.
Like just look at https://lemmy.world/post/30613970/17403019, a content creator is asking them to stop reposting their work to a certain community and telling them how it’s harmful, and cm0002 is just using that as an excuse to handwave it and soapbox. This is unhealthy antisocial behaviour.
A business would likely retort: “But there’s demand for it!”
That’s also the rationale I’ve heard from cocaine dealers, but at least they had the high ground to say “and I can make sure they get the safer pure stuff”.
Ah good, finally in effect.
Yeah, I need a team to convince myself once winter hits, like a cycling group or sport team.