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[-] Kid_Thunder@kbin.social 95 points 10 months ago

Paranoid extremists get together and become paranoid that everyone else in the group are feds trying to trap them. Trip starts with group praying for guidance and immediately get lost.

This could have been an article in The Onion.

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

I wish this were an Onion headline. :-(

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's funny how everything that happens to them is "god testing them," and "he works in mysterious ways," but when something bad happens to literally anyone else (or even everyone else if we want to talk about disease and natural disasters), it's God punishing them/us for not wanting to kill trans people or something.

How come they never run into a situation like this (pray for guidance and immediately getting lost), and view it as God telling them they're doing something wrong? How come that's never the conclusion they come to when it involves them?

[-] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

You phrase that like a question but literally everyone, including them, knows they're just using religion as a tool for hatred. There's no deeper meaning, it's not that they're misguided. They're literally just malicious.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 71 points 10 months ago

When the convoy did finally come together in a hotel parking lot in Norfolk, Virginia, there were a few dozen people and around 20 vehicles, based on video footage reviewed by WIRED and comments made by the livestreamers responding to questions from supporters.

The day began with a speech from Craig Hudgins, one of the organizers, who stressed that the event was a "peaceful, peaceable demonstration.” Hudgins also claimed—without evidence—that he had heard that up to “40,000 truckers from all over the country and Canada” would be joining the convoy—although not a single one of those trucks managed to join the group during the first day.

[-] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 51 points 10 months ago

"Up to 40,000" doesn't give a lower bound, 0 is within that range. I have up to $1,000,000 in my bank account but won't be going yacht shopping any time soon.

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 44 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

If you want to make it sound really impressive, you should and "or more" to it. That way it covers every dollar amount ever!

I have up to $1,000,000 or more in my bank account

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 14 points 10 months ago

I like the way you people think.

[-] Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Will that work when I try to get a loan for a yacht?

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

It may.

(that also works for pretty much anything)

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 41 points 10 months ago

Whenever they start talking about a Civil War remember that most of them can barely find the local IHOP.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 48 points 10 months ago
[-] nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago

ROTF LOL

This is hilarious!

[-] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago

And yet the lack of trigger discipline scares me most. Saved to my meme folder. Thanks.

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 25 points 10 months ago

There’s only a handful of them anyway. They just get press because they get clicks.

[-] 5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.de 18 points 10 months ago

And that's the fucking problem. They're just a few assholes, dangerous assholes, but only a few. It's much more dangerous to make the seem important.

[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago
[-] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

All packed into 2-30 vehicles? That sounds... cozy. At gas stops do they all pile out of the vehicles like clowns?

[-] Tristaniopsis@aussie.zone 3 points 10 months ago
[-] Guntrigger@feddit.ch 2 points 10 months ago

TIL Hong Kong only had a population of 7,500 when it was first occupied by Britain.

[-] Tristaniopsis@aussie.zone 1 points 10 months ago

Punch was first published.

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 36 points 10 months ago

Key points that should not be overlooked:

  • They had their tires slashed
  • They were told by the original gathering spot that they were not welcome
  • They had to scrub their chats to not piss off the media

The "turning a blind eye" toward this behavior is starting to fade.

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago

The dude who slashed the tires deserves some good cider.

[-] slurpeesoforion@startrek.website 2 points 10 months ago

It was anteefa!

[-] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

I wish I was brave enough to slash the tires of trump supporters.

[-] Nobody@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago

Though they claimed that up to 40,000 trucks would be joining, only 20 vehicles made up the convoy

Online enthusiasm vs. real world participation. I just hope this trend holds to election day.

[-] nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago

like when they stormed area 51

[-] ExfilBravo@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

That Channel 5 interview was funny AF.

[-] YeetPics@mander.xyz 10 points 10 months ago

12 obese 70 year olds who are running low on insulin and self reflection is not a convoy.

[-] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago
[-] pwalker@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

you could just prepend 12ft.io to the URL and see if it works. In this case it does. https://12ft.io/https://www.wired.com/story/day-one-take-our-border-back-convoy-texas If you are on mobile, the most convenient way to get rid of the paywall is to use Firefox's reader mode with just one click on the little symbol right side of the URLFireFoxReaderMode

[-] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Now that's a trick I like! Thanks!

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Reader mode works on desktop as well.

[-] pwalker@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago

ok nice, never tried it on desktop yet as I have a lot more options to circumvent the walls there

[-] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 6 points 10 months ago

OMFG I've organised bigger birthday parties, while at university, before the advent of smart phones. What a bunch of weak useless morons.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

When it comes to keeping promises, those right-wingers were never any good. Losers stay losers. Anyone wondering why they support a loser president?

[-] badbytes@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago

Just like the truck blockade, these morons engaged in. Let them come and waste resources and end up in jail. Win Win.

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