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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.

[–] Aljernon@lemmy.today 2 points 6 days 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.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 112 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] OfCourseNot@fedia.io 61 points 1 week ago (1 children)

*Johnathan Tifa

Edit: came back from the article, his second name is actually Jonathan lol. He must be the son of our former legendary leader Mary Ann Tifa.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 16 points 1 week ago

Is he related to Tifa Lockhart?

[–] SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 98 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 53 points 1 week 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 84 points 1 week 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 1 week ago

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

[–] furzegulo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I guess it's over then 😟

[–] 6nk06@sh.itjust.works 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

Ahh, yes, Anon Edward Mousely, I know him well. Decent dude.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 week ago

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

[–] DrYes@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

better send Kyle Reetenhouse back in time

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

We will organize the factions and all the underground clans and unite to free our leader!

You may see this as a defeat, but this may be the driving force that finally brings together the Seven Barista Legions in the West and the Mighty Purple Hairs of the South, along with the scattered troupes of Transamurai that are now walking the wastes without a master.

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[–] manniesalado@piefed.social 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago

Thank you. Truly. So much schadenfreude going around.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week 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.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

you guys are gonna also have a hard time with this spreading virus,

The American example is proving to be a bit of a wakeup call for the more passively progressive people in my country.

[–] verdi@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 35 points 1 week 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 12 points 1 week ago

I mean, that's one step too many.

[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

I remain unconvinced that it's since the 2000s, mostly because this shit started in '81 at the latest. If you blame any modern societal problem on Reagan, you will almost always be right, at least in USAmerican

[–] arararagi@ani.social 2 points 1 week ago

I heard that hacker uses steroids!

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Just like they identified Tylenol is the cause of autism…

[–] Tujio@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Zier@fedia.io 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

Oh good old aunty T with the beat rush!

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

But who is 4chan, leader of Anonymous?

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

no offense dude, but him?

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Axiochus@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] Focal@pawb.social 12 points 1 week 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 1 week ago (2 children)

it was a different time. aspirational and naive.

[–] Focal@pawb.social 6 points 1 week ago

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

[–] hector@lemmy.today 4 points 1 week ago

I can assure we some of us were not optimistic.

[–] Nastybutler@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

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

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 13 points 1 week 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 1 week ago

I want to subscribe to his newsletter.

[–] RadioEthiopiate@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago

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

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week 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 3 points 1 week ago

I'm Brian and so is my wife

[–] MyOpinion@lemmy.myserv.one 7 points 1 week ago

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

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

This is the way.