I’m all for it, but what kicked it off?
Wait, how is “not equal to” a Nazi symbol?
Sooo... This is happening on Imgur
Submitted 15 hours ago by TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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daannii@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
A lot of reddit users, especially those who have recently been permabanned due to the great censorship purge, are just hanging out there now. Not much censorship.
It’s super antifa. I scroll there a lot when I’m in a meme mood.
Psythik@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Yep I split my time between Lemmy and Imgur to fill the void after leaving reddit, cause Lemmy alone unfortunately isn’t enough to show you everything there was to see on reddit.
That said, be warned that it’s corporate owners have no problems with collecting as much data as they can off your phone and selling it to anyone who’s buying. Just look at this shit:
So if you do decide to go there, do yourself a favor and wear a condom. Install DuckDuckGo and enable “app tracking protection”, and get a DNS-level adblocker on your phone as well. AdGuard or NextDNS are both fine choices.
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 minutes ago
I just gave up imgur myself for voicing an opinion of civil disobedience and then told why don’t I go there myself with a gun and start shooting. Nuance seems to be dead everywhere.
Bosht@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
So I infrequently use Imgur and basically a user got banned for saying ‘kill all nazis’ and another user’s post got taken down that had anti-nazi rhetoric. This is the most recent of a few scenarios where the mods have been seen as incompetent or overall shitty and so the community revolts. Honestly kinda dig it, at least they can coordinate and show a unified front…granted it’s slacktivism to a point but it gets people’s attention? Idk how I feel about it honestly.
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 minutes ago
People talk of Imgur being a leftist echo chamber. I have had more than enough neoliberal types on there argue about the benefits of capitalism to me or that we shouldn’t have worker solidarity. I feel when these events happen, it’s part legitimately pissed of users but a lot of people just riding the up vote wagon.
EntropyPure@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Somebody was banned for posting the GIF of the Nazi Guy getting knocked out (you know the one).
The community is not having it.
dumbass@piefed.social 30 seconds ago
The one that gets its tooth knocked out?
Man I love that clip, you can live vicariously through it for a second.
tanisnikana@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Every time I walk past that stretch near Pike and 3rd in Seattle, right over that bit of concrete where the nazi got laid the fuck out, I punch the air. Every time.
RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Damn, that’s where it happened?? I fucking bike right past that!!
Cethin@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
Someone needs to make a monument, like that woman hitting the nazi with her purse. Maybe, until then, some graffiti to make the location to people passing by? Or maybe some other cheap temporary display.
swearengen@sopuli.xyz 12 hours ago
Imgurians are an odd bunch but I’m glad they’re anti Nazis.
naught101@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Yeah, best politics of any centralised social media by a long shot.
sbeak@sopuli.xyz 12 hours ago
No wonder. Some rich guy must have got very upset. Strange though, plenty of people get punched all the time, and there are plenty more GIFs people getting punched. Banning specifically the Nazi guy getting punched isn’t good PR I think…
ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
It just amazes me how to doing the Nazi salute, uniforms and speech’s are entirely okay now. However, being against it gets you banned.
The world has gone a full circle and we are back to the days were fascism, hatred and all that is okay. Unfortunately.
notreallyhere@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I don’t know the one
Successful_Try543@feddit.org 14 hours ago
@tanisnikana@lemmy.world was so kind to link the video for us who don’t know.
quick_snail@feddit.nl 9 hours ago
You mean Charlie Kirk getting shot in the neck?
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
That video always makes me uncomfortable because I dont know the actual context. Maybe he was in Halloween fancy dress?
Yes fuck nazis, but I dont know in my bones the person deserved it.
IWW4@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
Halloween fancy dress?
Dude… give me a break.
Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 7 hours ago
The sources for this video indicate the person wearing the armband:
- Harassed a black man on a bus.
- Walked around downtown Seattle for an hour dressed that way.
- Had several verbal confrontations with passerby who commented on his clothing.
Source 1
- Several 911 calls were placed about this man attempting to instigate fights.
- The man declined to file a police report after the police did appear.
Source 2
For at least an hour at any point leading up to this, the person wearing the armband could have taken it off and stopped interacting with others. To my knowledge, the person who was punched has never spoken to media to explain why they were dressed as such, despite the massive internet fame of the video.
Do you still feel uncomfortable? Do you know in your bones if the person deserved it?
rumba@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Consider:
Someone is getting knocked the F out on camera.
There is a crowd of people
No one is stopping or diffusing the situation
No one is stopping over the check on the fallen
Then calculate it appears to be a guy wearing a nazi arm band
then consider that it would be the shittiest idea for a halloween costume south of blackface and even wearing nazi garb would likely get you a rightful ass-kicking.
There’s no math there that makes that even slightly questionable.
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 13 hours ago
Fancy dress? That’s a stretch. Usually in fancy dress you’re imitating someone. Who is he meant to be? Just a generic Nazi.
Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Bait used to be believable SMH my head…
porcoesphino@mander.xyz 13 hours ago
Yeah, his hand coming up in a way that could be “this isn’t what you think” doesn’t help. The description makes the situation sound very different though and there’s not much of an excuse for the armband right now. But yeah, not a fan of the gif now I’ve seen it
zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
Yeah and the community does not understand what it means to protect your audience from certain content. Violence is violence. At this point it does not matter who is who. But the community just had too much lead in the water and is unable to form their own thoughts, thus just follow the other sheep.
merc@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
It still surprises me that people use Imgur as a social media site. Imgur to me is a place that hosts image to be used on other social media sites. Using imgur as a social media site is like using a url shortener as a social media site. What’s next, Captcha becomes a social media hangout?
enphurgen@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
At least there won’t be bots with Captcha
pedz@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
Imgur has been pretty shit at hosting images for other sites for about a decade because it’s trying very hard to keep people captive on its site. They added ways to prevent hotlinking and if I paste an imgur link in a chat, starting with i., supposedly a direct link to the image, the preview will not work and the page the link sends to will always open their whole site around that image. They really really want people to stay on there, and interact, or watch ads. AFAIK they have made that change about a decade ago as they wanted to monetize.
umbrellacloud@leminal.space 4 hours ago
As social media? I’m getting old. It used to just be an image hosting site.
AshMan85@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
The rise in nazis thinking they are acceptable
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Nazis and other supremists are the reason intolerance needs to exist.
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
The social contract of tolerance doesn’t extend to those who are intolerant. They are outside the protection of Tolerant Society’s protection, and the Tolerant are free (and, in fact, strongly encouraged) not to tolerate them, because they aren’t covered.
Swemg@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
tetris11@feddit.uk 9 hours ago
“wait wait, this isn’t as bad as it looks, there’s a subtle context here that…”
-POW-kurcatovium@piefed.social 6 hours ago
He tried a jedi force trick to stop the punch. And failed.
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 hours ago
Have you ever lived if you never have punched a Nazi?
LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 8 hours ago
The amount of people making excuses for Nazis in this thread, is disgusting. Get fucked Nazi sympathizers. 🖕
Electricd@lemmybefree.net 7 hours ago
Who?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Idk, man, but its a statement that gets you upvotes.
aesthelete@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Great thread for adding to your blocklist.
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 hours ago
This but unironically. Screw Nazis.
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
To be fair, they do make a good drinks (jagermeister)
Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Yes, this one right here, Democracy Officer.
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
“what kicked it off?” gestures broadly at everything
StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I’d say it all started in the late 1960s with Nixon’s implementation of the southern strategy. What we’re seeing today is the resultant avalanche of American fascism, appropriately composed of fragile white snowflakes.
DylanMc6@lemmy.ml 1 minute ago
if only hubert humphrey was elected in 1968
oh and this is my 300th comment here on this lemmy instance. seriously!
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 minutes ago
For LGBT+ and PoC it’s been a violent, fascist state against them for a long time. Just now it’s affecting the white people to a point they’re uncomfortable with but make no mistake, they’ll just let it happen again in a few more years.
BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
Just because I have a Nazi tattoo and go to Nazi rallies and think ALL Jews and Minorities should die DOESNT make Me a NAZI! In FACT it makes YOU a Nazi!
-Republicans!
bizzle@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
The only reason any of these people have power is because we, as a society, continue to use their shit… Get the fuck off Twitter, get the fuck off Reddit, get the fuck off Facebook. Make those companies worthless by not using them it’s literally so easy. I’m sure I’m preaching to the choir here but God damn it’s literally so easy, just read a book. Touch some grass. We weren’t ready for the internet and it’s time to turn it off.
FridaySteve@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I’m really waiting for this idea to catch on. I got online in the late 80s to get away from normies and their boring, repetitive normie mind-viruses. Back then it was just nerds talking to other nerds. Nowadays you can’t even talk to your friends here. This whole thing is for people to get angry about politics and buy products. The sooner all these people leave, the sooner we can get back to what originally brought us here.
Hopefully soon, going on social media will be seen as a bad antisocial habit like smoking.
ameancow@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I can’t imagine using the word “normie” unironically in 2025.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Idiots weren’t ready for the internet.
If people would get out of walled garden bot ridden bullshit, the internet could be great.
What non nerds use today is not internet. I like to call it Corpo-Net. Because these people never venture outside their billionaire facist websites.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Get the fuck off Twitter, get the fuck off Reddit, get the fuck off Facebook.
I mean, way ahead of you. But we’re just jerking each other off if we think saying this downthread of a Lemmy post is changing anyone’s mind. This is the most Preaching To The Choir ass post you can make outside of an actual church.
We weren’t ready for the internet and it’s time to turn it off.
eye-roll
Listen, if you want to walk around downtown with a big sandwich board that says “Log The Fuck Off And Touch Grass”, I’ll cheer for you when I see you. But there’s a reason people flock to an easily accessible portal for social engagement. And its naive to keep shouting “Log the fuck off!” from within the medium you can’t seem to quit yourself.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
We weren’t ready for the internet and it’s time to turn it off.
Did you write all that on the internet? Or did you scrawl it in ballpoint pen in the back of a book you’re reading?
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
“Society could improve somewhat” meme…
agent_nycto@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I mean they got to power using those things so I’m not sure just handing over that sphere of influence is the best strategy.
cecilkorik@piefed.ca 15 hours ago
It is always okay to punch Nazis. You don’t need a reason. (serious answer though: I have no idea what kicked it off, my comment still stands though, it’s always okay to punch Nazis.)
Valmond@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
brownsugga@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Also aren’t the tattoos on the Secretary of War ^TM^ neo-nazi?
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Yes
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
A damn sight better than fucking corn.
USSEthernet@startrek.website 3 hours ago
Stop using the fucking service! I’m so sick of people complaining about all of these tech companies, but they continue to use it. People need to realize they have an addiction issue and treat that shit.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
People still using imgur?
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
When faced with a difficult decision, Elon always does what’s reich.
Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 3 hours ago
Meet the people who decide if you are a nazi: youtu.be/LXcHL2K-RSg
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
They might be using the wrong swastika but I get the sentiment
retype@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Any idea whether imgur is still allowing advertising from AfD? I ended up migrating away from them because of that and haven’t been back.
sparkles@piefed.zip 11 hours ago
Imgur did this same thing before not too long ago. People posted the gif for several days. I think some accounts were lost.
Visstix@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Good on them
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 hours ago
I don’t know, but I’m gonna take a wild guess and say some Nazis pissed some people off… As they do.
adry@piefed.social 12 hours ago
they could be spamming that webcomic that explains “the paradox of tolerance” by k. popper ;) it would be very fitting to the ongoing situation.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
finally yes this will show them for sure
starlinguk@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
The top right picture needs “HH” added to it. It’s what people use on license plates. Used to be banned in Germany, but I saw one yesterday so I think My Little Nazi has unbanned it.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Turns out people on the “left” can be just as easily manipulated as those on the right. Surely its our own communities stoking violence between americans. Noone from outside the country could possibly want that for us, could they?
Why’s it so easy to spot right wing propaganda but not left wing propaganda?
umbrellacloud@leminal.space 4 hours ago
Everyone is posting the same image.
DylanMc6@lemmy.ml 3 minutes ago
use imgbox, everyone