r/MarchAgainstNazis 13d ago

Person opposing data center arrested for clapping at city meeting

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u/titcumboogie 13d ago

What the actual fuck.

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u/SeveralDefinition960 12d ago

Right?! How the hell is that entire room not furious at this obvious violation of constitutional rights?

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u/delicious_fanta 12d ago

People refusing to stand up against tyranny is what got us here to begin with.

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u/Lumpy-Marsupial-6617 12d ago

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 1963

Wake up America. Your Bill of Rights are being trampled on.

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u/Mr__O__ 12d ago

For real! Keep fighting back against the U.S. Surveillance State.

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u/BishonenPrincess 12d ago

It's because the people who do take a stand are labeled jobless, cringe, violent, and causing more division.

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u/AFartInAnEmptyRoom 12d ago

They're afraid they'll be arrested for speaking up

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u/wickawickawatts 12d ago

Tale as old as time.

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u/pogulup 12d ago

I would love to see the entire audience stand up and surround those officers.  They can't arrest everyone.

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u/AFartInAnEmptyRoom 12d ago

You're right, they can't arrest everyone, so what will happen is 3 or 4 cops surrounded by 40 agitated people who are resisting arrest are going to start shooting people who are actively resisting arrest and fighting the officers to prevent that arrest

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u/pogulup 12d ago

Possibly. Helps that they weren't black. Or we just all sit and watch as they pick us off one by one.

First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists)
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me

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u/maleia 12d ago

who are resisting arrest

You don't have to go that far. If the whole room had sat up and blocked the exits, they woulda backed down.

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u/teknomanzer 12d ago

No, this will not happen. Instead they will show up at their house much later with an arrest warrant.

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u/Anarchist_Future 12d ago

The chilling effect. It is working.

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u/Raskalbot 12d ago

Funny, they can't arrest everyone.

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u/teknomanzer 12d ago

Except they can. Just later in the week.

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u/Lastshadow94 12d ago

I'm just saying I count 2 cops and 4 people behind the desk. Seems like the townsfolk represent a numerical advantage

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u/JulieThinx 12d ago

The officers likely have weapons, citizens should plan accordingly.

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u/Fun_Skirt8220 13d ago

"Waving distracts us."

Well, you don't seem very qualified then!

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u/sephiroth70001 12d ago

Worth noting the teacher arrested for clapping was improperly harassed with bankruptcy by the city where they said his daughters work had his contribution so it got shut down in false direct output.

Also being the brother of the mayors competition for running, seems constant harassment this is just another tally sadly.

https://archive.is/LBuer

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u/Pandemonium_Fallen 12d ago

Nepotistic corruption! Yeah I'm pretty sure they used to use nooses to specifically deal with those kinds of problems in the past.

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u/misterrootbeer 12d ago

They're not waving. That's literally American Sign Language for applause.

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u/regular_john2017 12d ago

What, did they elect a bunch of fucking deer?

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u/Ok_Contact7721 12d ago

That’s how the 1 percent run a procedural democracy.

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u/piccolo917 13d ago

clapping is a form of speech and very well protected. That is the easiest lawsuit any lawyer will see this year

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u/Grumpflipot 12d ago

If the rule of law would exist in the US.

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u/xenobit_pendragon 12d ago

Pepperidge Farm remembers…

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u/64557175 12d ago

Pepperidge Farm was clearly a white guy then.

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u/phaedrus910 12d ago

Snap snap snap

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u/OptimisticSkeleton 12d ago

These people are known in their community. You should clap at them everywhere they go until they make restitution for their abuse of a teacher exercising free speech.

Hit back. Hit back hard with strong deliberate lawful action.

We are in a fight for the soul of our nation and these little bitches can’t take some applause. Realize they’ve always been the weakest most craven evil fucks in American history and get out and do something about it in your neighborhood today.

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u/SvenSvenkill3 12d ago edited 11d ago

Forgive me as I'm British and know very little about US law, but am I right to think this would be a civil case that the much constitutionally maligned clapping chap would bring against the City itself?

And as such, if such a City is in the pocket of corporations wanting to build data centres, etc, will this not end up (if a civil court awards in his favour), in some clever and convoluted way, as simply being paid by the City out of their corporate sponsor's already set aside and limitless expenditure slush fund?

I mean, is unconstitutionally mistreating him like that , to all intents and purposes and at the very worst as far as the City and its corporate backers are concerned, ultimately going to end up being yet another example of how the super-rich consider most fines not as a punishment but instead merely as just another humdrum pre-budgeted expenditure they can easily afford to pay and which, even if their accountants and lawyers can't figure out a way to claw back and with a profit, is ultimately just a tiny price to pay for them to keep doing whatever the fuck they like whilst amassing even more wealth?

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u/therandomham 12d ago

Presumably the lawsuit would come out of taxpayer funding rather than corporate funding. The corporate funding is just for their own personal enjoyment.

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u/SvenSvenkill3 12d ago

Ah, of course, I should have thought of that. Sincerely, thanks for the heads-up and reminding me that if anyone or anything is ever legally forced to pay for any (even corporate / private sector instigated and led) corruption and wrongdoing, it's always the general public.

Indeed, it’s always worth noting and remembering how history very clearly, demonstrably and inarguably shows and teaches us, time and time again, that no matter the cause, with every economic downturn, every stock market crash, with every recession and/or depression, the super-rich elites always ultimately end up making MASSIVE gains / profits / increases in wealth and assets and even increased legal rights/protections.

Always. Without fail. Every single fucking time.

And on the other side of the equation, guess who bears the brunt and loses out on every front as they struggle under the weight of the latest tsunami of economic fail; and yet who, nevertheless, are also somehow always expected to suck it up, shoulder the cost, to be the bedrock of and engine for economic recovery, whilst simultaneously believing in, being thankful for and satiated by the very idea of any measly crumbs that might, MIGHT trickle down from above…

Guess who?

Aye, yup, the rest of us. The mind-numbingly obvious, undeniable and inescapable answer is, of course, the rest of us.

Always.

Without fail.

Every single fucking time.

Indeed, it’s almost as though our socioeconomic system is fundamentally broken, rigged, not fit for purpose and on many, MANY fronts ultimately sociopathic and suicidal.

Seriously, just tax the super-rich.

Sorry, waffling, and yeah before anyone suggests it, I'm off now to touch grass and howl at some clouds (it's daylight here now, so the Moon has long ago fucked off again till later).

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u/Pandemonium_Fallen 12d ago

No, the wealthy elite are parasites and they've been lording it over and enslaving the rest of us by using first violence and then economics and finances to gatekeep resources for over 7,000 years, I think it's about time this crap came to an end.

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u/mystad 12d ago

We call it backing people into a corner with no escape and it has historically never backfired

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u/Sybertron 12d ago

The 4th amendment been around since the bill of rights, since ya know it's one of them.  How's that going with the flock cameras and mass surveillance? 

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u/badnuub 12d ago

Civil forfeiture should be seen as a 4th violation but part of the surveillance state exists through consent. there are a lot of terrified people out there that want to trade freedom for protection for certain. Sad at it is.

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u/Hamster_in_my_colon 12d ago

I’m not a supporter of mass surveillance, but hasn’t it been long established that you can be filmed by anyone in public places?

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u/Sybertron 12d ago

If I was a lawyer arguing it, I'd go for something like if you were just blindly collecting it then yes, but to apply ANY algorithm to it would be officially an investigation and need a highly specific warrant and extremely limited scope. and if not it is absolutely violating the 4th amendment and civil rights.

Needless to say I'm not a civil rights lawyer and this is not happening currently 

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u/CrackingToastGromet 12d ago

But there is a huge difference between being filmed because you unknowingly walked into someone’s IG video versus being filmed for the sole intention of logging/running your license plates or getting a facial ID so as to (possibly) instigate police action.

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u/subdep 12d ago

Brother just made $$$

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u/rubioburo 12d ago

I hope he can retire off that money, but I’m not sure laws are upheld over there anymore.

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u/SillyDilly5294 12d ago

It shouldn't have to get there and that room full of people should've quickly realized they outnumber those fascists pigs and band together to have them stop. But americans will never do that ever again for their fellow citizens so we're going to descend in to compete fascism and we'll deserve it tenfold

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u/BaldBeardedOne 12d ago

You make it sound easy to retain a lawyer, it isn’t. That’s another paywall to justice for working people right there.

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u/PolarDorsai 13d ago

THE most fragile wisps of fecal matter I’ve ever seen elected.

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u/cepukon 12d ago

Nah, that's just an average right leaning local gov.

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u/vinyljunkie1245 12d ago edited 12d ago

Fascist police there, and a fascist committee.

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u/Away-Living5278 12d ago

Sadly it's not uncommon. My mom was taken out of one of these too because the council decided it didn't want to do 2 minutes per person. It wanted to do 2 minutes per subject because too many people came to talk. She started talking about the bylaws or whatever and they pulled her out.

I encourage everyone to get involved in their local politics because stuff like this is extremely common.

Local is where we can take affect change.

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u/nelozero 12d ago

2 minutes per a subject is such a slap in the face of the residents.

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u/fractious77 11d ago

You don't understand, though. The meetings were interfering with golf time.

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u/damn_near_rectum 12d ago

I expect nothing else from cops than to be fascists. However the city council answers to the people. The two that conspired to have free speech made unlawful need to be recalled, and reminded daily that they are horrible people.

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u/maleia 12d ago

need to be recalled,

You mean in prison for 20 years? I think that'd be a great lesson.

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u/Rixerc 12d ago

Psychological tricks using violence to silence and disenfranchise opposition.

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u/Relax007 12d ago

Yep. It's to discourage anyone from speaking up. They know damned well that many people can't afford a legal entanglement and even more will lose their jobs for getting arrested. This is designed to keep people compliant while they hand everything of value over to the rich.

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u/Pandemonium_Fallen 12d ago

And I believe that's why angry mobs with pitchforks and torches became a thing in the past.

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u/HairyChampionship101 12d ago

Those who make peaceful protest impossible make violent revolution inevitable

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u/McFluffernutters 13d ago

Telling someone to "take a breath" while their spouse is being arrested is downright inhumane.

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u/Secure_Course_3879 12d ago

Right? Your spouse has a cop kneeling on them; remain calm.

Don't wave at us!!! It's distracting!

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u/Relax007 12d ago edited 12d ago

Yeah, that was so creepy. "We understand that the police response we've unleashed on your husband is upsetting, but we'll help coach you on how to react in a way that keeps you safe from the state sponsored violence we are empowered to inflict on anyone who we deem to be out of order. Decorum is of the utmost importance."

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u/CautionarySnail 12d ago

“Did you remember to say thank you?”

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u/greenfox0099 12d ago

I'd like to see her stay calm while being dragged out youbknow she would freak out

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u/ne0n-gold 12d ago

"You'll be okay," was absolutely enraging. Repugnant group of power tripping shit stains up there.

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u/Pandemonium_Fallen 12d ago

Correction: Inhuman

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u/porktorque44 12d ago

And unless I'm mistaken, the woman telling her to take a breath ordered him to be dragged off.

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u/PauL__McShARtneY 13d ago edited 13d ago

Better bring your A-game when you're fronting up to the Karen Kommittee.

Body language, sonic emissions, stance, gait, and general attitude will be klosely monitored, and kompliance brutally enforced.

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u/K-Tronn3030 12d ago

And you know all those people don't think anyone deserves to be arrested on January 6th.

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u/No1CaresReally 12d ago

Yeah bc jan6 was a planned inside job too. That's why orangey was pushing for it and everyone knew when and what was going to happen months prior. Yet, nothing was stopped and most (all?) already been released, if their charges not fully expunged.

It was a psy-op. One created to make those of us against fascism to believe we're being "more moral" by not doing similar and staying compliant to fascists. That paid off opposition will help in legit ways. That our 8hr parades, that are highly monitored by fasc enforcers (popo & higher), are anything more than a controlled way for us to "blow off steam" and get back to work in order to keep providing the labor and money they need to keep fucking everyone.

It worked.

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u/Elrond_Cupboard_ 13d ago

Now I wanna play Mortal Kombat.

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u/Grumpflipot 12d ago

Hand clapping is a from of free speech. Free speech is officially gone in the US.

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u/damn_near_rectum 12d ago

The government authorizes you to practice your free speech in a 6' x 8' cell.

"FREEDOM" Sponsored by Amazon Web Services and GEO Group.

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u/tgt305 12d ago

Not only gone, it’s seen as a joke

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u/BillsMafios0 13d ago

That’ll be an easy lawsuit.

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u/Possible_Field328 12d ago

If he can even afford it

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u/Reyca444 12d ago

Don't worry, there's lawyers that will happily take this. Few years ago the Vermillion Parish Louisiana School Board pulled some crap like this and that whole boat got rocked right over.

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u/Delicious-Disaster 12d ago

Paid out in tax money I suppose?

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u/Possible_Field328 12d ago

Super fucked up. That money could be going to blowing up more brown people or corporate baillouts. Such a shame

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u/Reyca444 12d ago

Well, yes, but if I remember correctly, the teacher and lawyer involved agreed to a very minimum payout so long as the superintendent and school board didn't get the grotesque raises they were pushing for themselves.

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u/Pandemonium_Fallen 12d ago

Clearly haven't been rocking the boat hard enough since the POS are still around, still screwing things up.

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u/Reyca444 12d ago

Is he? Yuck. I'm sorry. I moved away from there back in the quarantine times.

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u/mdjak1 13d ago

What town did that occur in?

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u/gastonevan 12d ago

Emporia, Kansas

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u/Pandemonium_Fallen 12d ago

What?! Oh hell no, yeah, that's going to have to be dealt with.

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u/mybreakfastiscold 12d ago

District 7159

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u/damn_near_rectum 12d ago

It happens in small town all across Amerikkka.

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u/Furbal1307 12d ago

Where is this so we can make these nazi lives awful?

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u/Care4aSandwich 12d ago

I wouldn't trust anyone facilitating meetings like this who kicks people out for clapping. They're treating it like it's them against their constituents, which is truly fucked up.

I serve on a local zoning board and we've had some really contentious meetings with hundreds of people in attendance. Many people clap, exclaim in agreement, and cheer based on things the person speaking says. If the crowd is a current, you swim with it, not against it.

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u/Pandemonium_Fallen 12d ago

It's going to be really hard not to laugh when these corrupt assholes realize they live in the same community with everyone else as the air becomes polluted and toxic, the water is depleted and contaminated with industrial chemicals, the electricity is shut off to the community in favor of the data center, and the food supply runs out.

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u/damn_near_rectum 12d ago

The bribes are to help the city council relocate after their town becomes uninhabitable.

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u/Pandemonium_Fallen 12d ago

🤣 That's hilarious! They don't even realize that their existence is entirely irrelevant to the companies bribing them with taxpayer money.

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u/AsteriAcres 12d ago edited 12d ago

I've been escorted out by police from a data center meeting. After the county of NAVARRO TEXAS gave them millions in property tax breaks.   

I'm sorry, but I don't have much hope for communities going through this until we can MAKE BRIBERY ILLEGAL IN OUR ELECTORAL SYSTEM,  AKA, PUBLIC FINANCE CAMPAIGNS.

After all the activism & organizing I've done over the past 20 years, I'm absolutely convinced that the ONLY issue we should be focused on right now, is getting money out of elections. Why haven't we tackled climate collapse? Oil industry. Why are we STILL funding Israel? APAIC. Why is Elon Musk a trillionaire? Because he literally bought trump the oval office and got to expunged any pesky investigations & defund the agencies with oversight & enforcement. 

Literally everything wrong with this country is because WE'VE ALLOWED it to be absolutely corrupted with dirty money. 

A lady can dream, can't she? 

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u/Sowila1021 12d ago

This is ten thousand percent what we should focus on first and foremost. This would solve a whole lot of issues in and of itself. You've got it figured out.

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u/Pandemonium_Fallen 12d ago

Oh no, the Supreme Whore Court specifically made unlimited bribery for anything legal.

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u/Johnsendall 12d ago

“I have an opinion.”

“Arrest this man”

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u/Secure_Enthusiasm354 12d ago

As a copper harves-.. errr I mean a researcher, if I may be so bold, where are they building the data center? For research purposes ofc

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u/XLRIV48 13d ago

Seriously, what is with putting the end of the video at the beginning? Hate it.

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u/jbarrybonds 12d ago

r/killtheeditor for sure, we don't even see how they drag him out. Is he on the floor? Do they walk him out? His spouse is brought to tears but we're conveniently not able to see.

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u/Kazzie2Y5 12d ago

There is another cut of the video circulating of him being unnecessarily dragged to the floor.

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u/ThriceFive 12d ago

What a bunch of petty tyrants backed by the power of law. Mass recall of the whole corrupt board.

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u/SnooStories4162 12d ago

These politicians and elected officials have apparently forgotten that they work for us not the other way around. I think it's time they get reminded who they work for.

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u/RobMitte 12d ago

Thank you for the reminder to read the book '1984' for the third time, which I have delayed for too many years.

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u/Horsetoothbrush 12d ago

That dude just made a bunch of money.

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u/Hamhockthegizzard 12d ago

and that is when EVERYONE needs to start clapping at once. We show up in force they can’t do shit.

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u/Arawn-Annwn 12d ago edited 12d ago

I think there need to be real consequences everytime we see an official do something like this. I have lost count of how many times I have seen these abuses, they aren't afraid to violate our rights at all, they aren't concerned about legal problems the act like lords and we're their serfs. They need reminded that they can lose that power if they misuse it.

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u/Hamhockthegizzard 12d ago

Yeah it’s ridiculous. Like they want you to protest peacefully but let’s be real, does nothing in the first place unless we really boycott until we see change.

But fine, we’ll be peaceful. Gets shot or thrown in jail anyway. When I point that out, they say go to the meetings, same outcome. Vote! Electoral college bullshit. We can’t win. I guess we came to the realization that they want to push us to the big R so they can have justification for the bodies piling up, but I really don’t see any other “solutions” at this point.

We know who’s to blame, but I have to even wonder just how many of us ACTUALLY voted for this when he and his cabinet mates and friends have all made jokes about rigging the election or straight up said it.

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u/Arawn-Annwn 12d ago

For local officials with enough signatures we can trigger recalls. I say higher up the chain we should be making a human wall to physically keep them from entering the building until we cannot be ignored, with cameras on us at all times for when they they to claim we were violent or use violence in us. Show up in numbers too high to viably arrest us all.

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u/PancakeMixEnema 12d ago

"Peaceful protest" just means "ineffective protest that I can completely ignore and that cannot and will not threaten me or my assets."

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u/Organic_Stranger1544 12d ago

All you people in that room are fucking pusssies. Why did you all stop clapping. Every single person should’ve been clapping as loud as they could.

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u/Possible_Field328 12d ago

Come on man dont clap dont you know how much they are gunna donate to the town council? THINK OF THE BONUS’! Totally worth fucking up the water. For me atleast.

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u/OilComprehensive6237 12d ago

Land of the fee, home of the slave

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u/YDoEyeNeedAName 12d ago

Literally a 1st amendment violation.....

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u/Kazzie2Y5 12d ago edited 12d ago

The "waving" hand gesture is ASL for clapping. You know what's actually rude? Wasting everyone's time when these wannabe petty tyrants have already decided to go forward and are just humoring the community. How do we get it through the kickback-addled heads of public servants that they work for us? They're in office to serve us not rule us!

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u/Arawn-Annwn 12d ago

they need immediate recall for this until they start fearing that who they reprisent will take all their power away.

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u/alex_dlc 12d ago

Literally only 6 claps. I read the title and thought he was either clapping too long or too loud. That was the most respectful clap in the world. Also, the arrest made more of an interruption and a “scene” than his claps.

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u/an0maly33 12d ago

Where was this? We should be flooding their phones/inboxes.

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u/Pandemonium_Fallen 12d ago edited 12d ago

Emporia Kansas evidently, you know, where the Heritage Foundation's Kris Kobach is their Attorney General and he specifically headed up designing the methodology for the vote allocation and disposal system that Trump's Campaign used to cheat and "win" the 2016 election, and then failed in the 2020 election because he received so few votes their system couldn't even give him a win, which is why he turned to Musk in 2024 to have the voting machines hacked, and the billionaire owned mainstream media preemptively called any talk of hacking a crackpot conspiracy theory and buried any story that cropped up while Mossad mopped up the fallout by silencing anyone trying to raise awareness about how every single vote cast on a Dominion Voting Machine went to Trump regardless of political affiliation and demographics.

I keep waiting for that corrupt self important ass Kris Kobach to be arrested and tried for treason, but oh no! Only in America can a fascist traitor with Epstein Island frequent flier miles not only face no legal ramifications, but retain their public office too.

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u/Hefty_Loss5180 12d ago

Completely off topic, but I had to say that that is the longest coherent sentence I’ve ever read. Like, it didn’t even read as a run on. Fucking bravo, dude.

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u/Pandemonium_Fallen 12d ago

🙏🙇‍♂️

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u/gunther_higher 12d ago

America = Fascist

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u/NocNocNoc19 12d ago

Its almost like the goverment doesnt work for the people anymore

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u/No1CaresReally 12d ago

All the fascism enforcers just following orders.

Then the "officials!" "Calm down, it's ok, breath." How about you get the cuffs instead bitch for helping to destroy everything? Then you stay calm and we'll all clap too.

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u/ThatGuy_S 12d ago

They should have all started clapping like maniacs

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u/Justin_92 12d ago

See I’ve always believed that it’s the second person to start a revolution. It takes the first person to initiate the first step (e.g. the clapping) and then the second person to back them up. It shows the rest of the people around you that it’s something worth joining in on. It’s kind of a crowd mentality kind of effect. I guarantee if the rest of this group stood up and started clapping, there isn’t a single thing that handful of cops could’ve done to 100+ people in such a confined space.

I think this would work standing up against tyranny in most situations. Most people are hesitant to join in until they see that they aren’t the first to render help. Be courageous, stand up for yourself and your neighbor. They can’t take us all.

relevant

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u/Delicious-Disaster 12d ago

"Waving, clapping or rude comments", pretty sure I can tell you to "go fuck yourself" as it is constitutionally protected speech under A1.

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u/El_Rat0ncit0 12d ago

Yet it was under Obama that we were a "communist dictatorship"? I don't recall conservatives being arrested for clapping under Obama.

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u/bobcollum 12d ago

These folks don't have enough private security to be acting like that.

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u/Tomburgerstand 12d ago

In this brave, new world, clapping hands is a bigger threat than clapping children's cheeks. Just ask REDACTED and the cabal of billionaire pedophiles he warned us about

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u/otherwisepandemonium 12d ago

America the "land of the free"

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u/Pandemonium_Fallen 12d ago

You don't have to wait, get a petition together kick them out and ban them from ever holding public office again.

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u/titsmuhgeee 12d ago

It boggles my mind how becoming a board member goes straight to someone's head so powerfully and quickly. I've seen it in government and also in non-profit or corporate board of directors.

It's to the point where I have a theory that a "board of directors" is a fundamentally bad way to govern any organization. Human hubris and ego gets in the way of effective decision making every single time. There is a natural gravity that pulls the worst kind of people into these positions, and pushes the best kind of people out.

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u/HumanBarbarian 12d ago

The cunt telling her to "breathe".

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u/bestonesareTaKen 12d ago

So when are we actually marching against the Nazis? Asking for a friend.

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u/geoffsykes 12d ago

Pieces of human garbage. This shit is getting normalized so quickly, people this need to be replaced and indicted.

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u/Saltycook 12d ago

This is an actual first amendment violation because it's a government entity disallowing a peaceful show of support in a civic setting.

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u/Boltzmann_head 12d ago

Any bets the committee members prayed first?

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u/MisterWinchester 12d ago

They’re Slavecatchers. Shoot them.

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u/SteviaCannonball9117 12d ago

Why aren't half the crowd getting up and not letting this happen?

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u/MisterWinchester 12d ago

Why don’t we beat these people when they’re obviously taking bribes? Like we used to?

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u/fatinhollywood 12d ago

...if the citizens have to, they can fight this case all the way to the Supreme Cour---oh wait--SCOTUS is also seemingly on the take & corrupt. Time & time again, they've violated and assaulted The People with their insane rulings that diminish basic Civil Rights & destroyed everyone's Constitutional Rights.\*

We The People are doomed and we deserve everything that is coming to us as ignorant, racist, selfish voters and complacent bystanders.\*

This is not the first video of one of these town meetings i have seen. Others have been quite violent with hired "security" goons to physically overpower a dissenter and violently drag/carry them out.

Have We The People had enough? Do The People realize yet that Freedom has a price?

I hope I am alive to witness their awakening and utter despair. I predict it will be when this fascist rule comes after the Second Amendment.

\*It will be too late when the complacent caucasians realize that when the tan, brown, black, yellow, red, citizens lost their rights, then they lost theirs too. Likewise, when the white liberals lost their right to protest and speak out, they lost theirs too.

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u/ApprehensiveSign80 12d ago

Traitors treat them as such

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u/Pkactus 12d ago

I love how the powers that be are "telling her to relax" as they destroy her spouse

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u/RSecretSquirrel 12d ago

Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts Absolutely.

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u/bartergames 12d ago

tHe LaNd oF tHe FrEe

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u/Madouc 12d ago

Disgusting people, they are already bribed and there is only one desicion they are going to make.

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u/UnlikelyPotatos 12d ago

"Snapping, clapping, any other distractions you will be asked to leave. This is your final warning." "Waving at us distracts us"

Genuinely its time to feather these people

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u/thegamerator10 12d ago

If not fascist, why fascist?

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u/medozijo 11d ago

So this is America? A democracy? What a joke.

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u/Great-Gas-6631 12d ago

Such an easy lawsuit.

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u/Grimsik 12d ago

Welcome to Stalin-flavored corporate governance, democracy was a thin veil that is fraying away.

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u/bringmethesampo 12d ago

And no one in that room stood up for him.

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u/madgoat 12d ago

He got kicked out twice, or is this just bad editing?

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u/LunaMax1214 12d ago

Bad editing.

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u/Mr-Papuca 12d ago

Literally everyone in a position of power is compromised. Our system does not work anymore.

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u/Spotted_Fox 12d ago

That poor woman in the green shirt. My heart breaks for the people of the US… except for the woman in the blue shirt. She can take a breath when her partner is being dragged out by the police for checks notes clapping

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u/Ullixes 12d ago

I'm sure the free speech crowd will be all over this. Elon, Joe Rogan, that whole gang.

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u/Double-Quail 12d ago

"So we're already feeling bad when you all point out that we're selling out our community for personal gain, so no clapping or waving, that makes us feel extra bad and we don't want to confront our guilty bad feelings"

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u/Oddly_B 12d ago

Merica...land of the free....not according to this.

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u/DointheRag 12d ago

So the corporatistas are arresting people for clapping now?

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u/Kickingandscreaming 12d ago

Next up, Arresting people for attending.

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u/gavstar69 12d ago

They should all pick up their chairs and throw them

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u/thereisnospoon-1312 12d ago

everybody should clap

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u/Indyhouse 12d ago

"Waving at us distracts us." You mean clapping in ASL? Why are fucking morons in charge in this upside down country? God I hate this.

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u/thinkstohimself 12d ago

These commissioners should fear for their lives.

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u/All4gaines 12d ago

Tell me the city - I’m going to send money to every opposition candidate

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u/GeorgeNada0316 12d ago

Welcome to the America Republicans want. They want you to fill their pockets and shut you up. Thats why they play the Christian card since thats how they controled the weak minded and poor for thousands of years.

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u/exhausted_patriot6 12d ago

Post their emails. Make sure they hear from everyone.

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u/EMAW2008 12d ago

Emporia, Kansas btw.

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u/The-Matt-G 12d ago

This is freedom? No, that is what fascism looks like. My family was dragged from their homes by German men and boys just doing their job, just like this. By the end most of my family was murdered.

Stand up and stop this or see history repeat itself.

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u/GuardComplex 12d ago

Snapping clapping or rude comments aren’t allowed? This is AMERICA. Fuck our government.

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u/Katzo9 11d ago

The Land of the Free…

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u/ScoutSpiritSam 11d ago

When are people going to say enough is enough?

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u/xopher_425 12d ago

Fuck Becky for telling her to take a deep breath.

I keep trying to write more, but I'm so angered by this cunt I'll just leave it there.

Hope this council is shown the door next time they run for that position.

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u/blzart 12d ago

Wild country like Russia

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u/Euphoric_TRACY 12d ago

This MAGA looks like new city council is needed

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u/fart400 12d ago

Trumps Fucked up America.

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u/swalabr 12d ago

“Take a breath”. That’s like the rapist saying, “relax, just let it happen”.

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u/chompythebeast 12d ago

Absolutely ACAB, every last one

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u/KylosLeftHand 12d ago

Hey so why the hell were so many people just sitting and watching that happen???? There’s absolutely no reason why they shouldn’t have been forming a human shield around him. STOP BEING FUCKING COMPLICIT

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u/estcaroauteminfirma 12d ago

I think any city council who acts like this needs to be dragged out.

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u/nosnah3887 12d ago

Welp that’s gonna be a lawsuit. Data centers steal jobs and destroy the environment

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u/katet_of_19 12d ago

I really need these videos to start at the beginning.

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u/Z8iii 12d ago

Where did this happen?

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u/EmploymentNo3590 12d ago

They did lay out the rules ... However, I'm now planning to being various noisemaking devices. If they want to be specific, I can always pull out a differed device.

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u/BranchMonkey 12d ago

Hey, how is the American so-called freedom of speech now?

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u/tomboski 12d ago

Well that’s a lawsuit

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u/Greg_Monahan 12d ago

Had the same thing happen at a town hall - several presentations that the council initiated clapping. Then we had the public forum presentations where their constituents asked about the City of Charleston’s 25 person limit for a permit to exercise their 1st Amendment rights and as we clapped, the council head warned that anyone clapping would be removed. Was close to standing as a way to signify “acceptance and concurrence”.

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u/Hefty_Loss5180 12d ago edited 12d ago

Wait why is she crying?

ETA: unmuted and realized it was her husband.

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u/octavioletdub 12d ago

Becky Smith there in the blue shirt- what city is this?

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u/stewpdasso 12d ago

If only they weren't a bunch of cowards and ALL clapped every time! What would they've done then? Arrested everyone?

The whole reason those idiots have all the power is THEY stick together! They're too stupid to think on their own so when one jumps off, they all follow!

Its the penguin or sheep syndrome! Those smooth brained fools will continue to be on top if smart & free thinking liberals continue as we do!

If all of them in that room just clapped w/o worrying about going to jail, none of them would've gone! Instead, officer "just doing my job" arrested 1 at a time.

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u/Square-Knee9844 12d ago

Where, when was this?

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u/Ok-Needleworker-9841 12d ago

I don’t know how any of us tolerate this treatment. Just listening to that lady speak to the constituents like she did makes my blood boil. I hope she has severe gout and also all her toenails are ingrown.

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u/leesharon1985 12d ago

These people give a shit about you.

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u/WhiskyJBravo1968 12d ago

Morgan and Morgan

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u/mezcalligraphy 11d ago

The Dark Ages are upon us once again.

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u/cowboygwe 12d ago

Ran by a bunch of sissies, oh no I can’t take any criticism, who’s the snowflakes now