Chiming in with another juggalo friend who was an incredibly good hearted person. Ended up going to jail for “assaulting an officer” by trying to pull a cop off of someone during the George Floyd protests. I lost touch after that.
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cumskin_genocide@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I met a juggalo once and he was a racist Trump supporter who steal scrap metal from construction sites for meth money.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 6 months ago
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
sigh meanwhile the cop has still got a cushy job and probably goes home every night to get drunk and hit their spouse because that is statistically as far as we can tell what 25-45% of cops do based on difficult to predict statistics that rely on cops snitching on their own illegal behavior (so logically it is probably much higher as hard as that is to wrap your head around).
ZeroCool@vger.social 6 months ago
That sucks. I worked with a few when I was younger and knew a couple others in high school too, and my experience was the opposite. They weren’t exactly Rhodes scholars lol, but they were open-minded, kind, and dependable colleagues. Juggalos have a reputation for being trashy, and it’s something they proudly embrace, but I’ve found them to be generally harmless. I think just about every fan base these days has to deal with its share of racist Trump supporters who steal scrap metal from construction sites for meth money…
StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 6 months ago
My buddy and I were just talking about this. Juggalos get a lot of shit, but my experience is that they are one of the most accepting groups around. It doesn’t matter if you’re a PhD or are stealing copper out of abandoned houses, if you show up with some clown makeup and fire poi, juggalos are down to clown.
nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee 6 months ago
all I know about juggalos is that magnet meme and this episode of tv
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
If you live in the US (or UK) you live in a collapsing society being suffocated and held in place by neoliberal austerity politics that purposefully shuts down the possibility of any genuine systematic reform that isn’t in the direction of fascism.
In that environment people are going to resort to taking meth and stealing scrap to survive, as society is literally trying to kill them and there is no rational hope to be found for things to change. Are these people druggies, are they sketchy? Are some of them maga heads? Yes, but I think it is important to always recognize the conditions that lead desperate people to act in desperate ways when we discuss the repulsiveness of said desperate acts of non-violent crime.