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.
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 :)
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
This post is for voting on /c/rage's Lemmyvision 2 song nomination.
Over the past few weeks, our community has submitted nominations, and we have until April 1 to pick a winner. Our Lemmyvision representative, @Gorgritch_umie_killa, has delegated our election to an independent agency, the Aussie.zone Eureka Commission (AEC).
Anyone who has recently commented a few times on aussie.zone before today is allowed to vote. (This includes, for example, some quokk.au users and various Australian Lemmy users on other instances)
This election uses preferential Instant-Runoff Voting^[wiki]^ just like our federal elections. Put simply, this means that if your [1] choice has no chance of election, your vote then runs over to your [2] choice, and so on, so there's no disadvantage in picking an unpopular song you love for your first votes, your vote is not 'wasted' at all. Vote sincerely.
A couple of the nominations weren't released during 2024, we've received confirmation from the organiser that they're allowed!
Here are the entries. Please listen to them all before voting:
Here is the ballot template for you to fill in. Copy and paste it as a new reply to this post, and number ALL boxes from 1 to 10 in order of your choice. [1] is your first preference, [10] is your last preference.
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**LemmyVision 2 /c/rage Nomination Ballot**
Place a number inside the box next to ALL songs, ranking them from 1 to 10 in order of preference.
```java
[] Tanzer - International
[] TISM - ʹ70s Football
[] Budjera - Is It Ever Gonna Make Sense
[] San Cisco - Under The Light
[] Amyl and the Sniffers - U Should Not Be Doing That
[] Gurridyula - From the river to the sea
[] Tom Cardy - Transcendental Cha Cha Cha
[] The Wiggles - Friends of Dorothy
[] MUDRAT - I HATE RICH CUNTS
[] Heleina Zara - Boundaries
```
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Yeah, I need a team to convince myself once winter hits, like a cycling group or sport team.