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It's the dunk tank.

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[–] flan@hexbear.net 88 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

i take all my PTO during hurricane season so I can go city to city looting. They'll never catch me too because I'm from out of state. Hopping on a plane (roads are usually too fucked up after hurricanes) and making my way to a disaster zone to take Pop Pop's miniature train set really gets my blood going.

[–] MultigrainCerealista@hexbear.net 85 points 2 years ago (4 children)
[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 49 points 2 years ago

And Reddit refugees on Lemmy say that AP is neutral and unbiased lmao.

[–] lib1@hexbear.net 49 points 2 years ago

The fearmongering and racist propaganda for Katrina was so bad that when volunteers showed up to help, they’d been prepping to help dispose of mass graves’ worth of bodies and were baffled about the lack of dead people and the lack of gang violence. The “looters” were often people going out scouting to bring supplies back the improvised disaster relief centers that the citizens had set up in lieu of any government assistance being sent.

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago

Rare French W

[–] Snackuleata@hexbear.net 79 points 2 years ago

anakin-padme-1 We will not tolerate people taking advantage of those in the path of Hurricane Idalia

anakin-padme-2 So you're taking on the disaster capitalists, right?

anakin-padme-3

anakin-padme-4 You're not just talking about brown people, right?

[–] SaniFlush@hexbear.net 66 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have an elderly co-worker who talks like this and I try to get stationed as far away from her as possible.

[–] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 30 points 2 years ago

No more half measures, Walter.

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 65 points 2 years ago

“Black people will be shot on sight” would save a whole lotta ink.

[–] ikiru@lemmy.ml 49 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If I see any deaf people I'm just gonna start blasting.

[–] HotSoda@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Desantis is going to hit you with so many rights you'll be begging for a left!

[–] ComradeLove@hexbear.net 40 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Surely they can tolerate a little looting. Say you really just need a little something to survive, and you only take what you need and you clean up the glass and leave an IOU?

[–] lib1@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

Fuck the IOU. Small business tyrants will take out their rage over every stolen item on the one person who left an IOU and get them kidnapped and imprisoned by pigs after everything’s over.

It might work for small family businesses (actual small ones, not part of a local fiefdom) if there were a system in place with the understanding that the community would help rebuild businesses and make people whole after everything was done, but everyone would have to stick with it and trust it, including the business owners. That’s a hard sell and there aren’t many cities or towns in the US where it’s even worth trying anymore.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 40 points 2 years ago (1 children)

gonna do a purge florida style

[–] lib1@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So rich white people and trump supporters executing random homeless and black people for sport, as well as anyone who dares harbor them? That pretty much summarizes the first couple movies iirc

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah pretty much. The First Purge, which is several movies in, probably has the clearest depiction of the politics of the series. The fascists take over and announce a test Purge in one area. Most people just do a little looting and have a street party so the fascists ship in a bunch of Nazi mercenaries to bring the desired kill the poor energy.

[–] lib1@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So The Purge started as an astroturfed pogrom? That’s fucking brutal.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The politics of the Purge franchise are surprisingly good for the Amerikkkan horror schlock it is. The Purge: Election Year follows an Elizabeth Warren type running on a Purging Is Bad Actually platform against the fascist leader, a Christian minister. Over the course of the movie she realizes voting isn't enough and after being saved by a black street gang, the heroes bust into the Christian church which is the fascist headquarters and shoot most of the fascist leaders. She wins the election but that just makes the Purger hogs start insurrectioning all over the place.

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago
[–] Nightcastle@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

Americans are the most scared chickenshit people in the whole world

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

Floridians can take care of their own? Oh, good, so he won’t be asking Washington for any of that big government disaster relief funds.

[–] Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 years ago (13 children)

Hey a new stupid community to block :)

[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 54 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How much time do you spend jerking off while fantasizing about shooting "looters"

[–] marx_mentat@hexbear.net 47 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You were posting about this comm 8 days ago why are you pretending like you just discovered it

[–] Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

This turd floated up in my "All" feed...

[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 37 points 2 years ago

No way, I was just about to say the same thing about you!

[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

They really do set up their own traps these days

[–] Venus@hexbear.net 46 points 2 years ago

Hey a new stupid chud to PIGPOOPBALLS

[–] AnarchoCynicalist@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago

Lmao, this nerd thinks we are an airport hahaha

[–] Lochat@hexbear.net 39 points 2 years ago

Hey, a new stupid person to mock :)

[–] city_watch@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Stop right there. Pay your fine or I haul you away.

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

i think this one wants to pay with their blood sicko-pig

[–] Zodiark@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago

What do you find objectionable about disdain over the prioritization of property over survival in an emergency situation like a hurricane?

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

You know you can just block comms, right? You don't have to go around announcing it like a fucking dork.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

Are you defensive of the meatball?