I’m all for it, but what kicked it off?
Sooo... This is happening on Imgur
Submitted 2 weeks ago by TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Swemg@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
tetris11@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
“wait wait, this isn’t as bad as it looks, there’s a subtle context here that…”
-POW-kurcatovium@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
He tried a jedi force trick to stop the punch. And failed.
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Have you ever lived if you never have punched a Nazi?
DylanMc6@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
should’ve been ran out of town on a rail like homer stokes in the 2000 film “o brother where art thou”. seriously!
DylanMc6@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
if you have a time machine, please prevent that red scare and also encourage any socialists/communists to express themselves. seriously!
DylanMc6@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
if this were a socialist country, whoever got punched would’ve been in jail, and the person doing the punching would probably serve in the red army, working to protect the proletariat. seriously!
DylanMc6@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
richard b spencer is an a-hole. seriously!
cecilkorik@piefed.ca 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
AshMan85@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The rise in nazis thinking they are acceptable
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Nazis and other supremists are the reason intolerance needs to exist.
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 2 weeks 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.
Credibly_Human@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They are becoming so by way of people not doing anything about it, and literally voting them into power.
madjo@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
Earlier this week a user posted “kill Nazis” and got a warning from Imgur saying that imgur is an inclusive platform, welcome to everyone. (which apparently includes Nazis?)
That’s what kicked this off (again).There was already some upset feelings in the community because at the beginning of the week one of the “Elbow Deep In A” accounts got suspended over a “Gone Mild” drawing of a goblin girl. So it didn’t take much for the community to be really upset with “business daddy”
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Earlier this week a user posted “kill Nazis” and got a warning from Imgur saying that imgur is an inclusive platform, welcome to everyone. (which apparently includes Nazis?)
Where nazis are welcome, no one else is.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
That second paragraph might as well be written in Cyrillic for all the sense it made. Do I want to know what gone mild goblin girls look like, I feel like I don’t, but I’m also morbidly curious.
madjo@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
Basically a drawing of a goblin girl in a bikini, and there’s a few accounts whose names start with “ElbowDeepInA…” (it started with “ElbowDeepInAHorse”)
MightyThistle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
At first I was annoyed that Imgur got blocked for people in the UK. Now I’m relieved. Something something Nazi bar…
madjo@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
I’m just thankful that the community isn’t one to make it a nazi bar, even if business daddy wants it to be.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
got banned from that shithole before business daddy owned them.
told a piece of shit promoting eugenics to “cleanse the gene pool and drink bleach” if they were so concerned about bad genetics.
never went back. I’m happy the community there became the toxic cesspool it deserved to become.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There was once someone making the claim that drinking bleach and bleach enemas cures autism.
I told them to test that theory and go drink bleach.
I got banned… i forget the flowery language they used, but basically got banned for being “hateful”
magnolia_mayhem@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I recently got something similar on reddit. I don’t remeber the exact quote, but “I can’t believe these people haven’t been murdered yet” is apparently a credible death threat now.
ragepaw@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I got a 24 hour ban for saying Danielle Smith should stand on her head so the blood will rush to get brain and she could have a coherent thought. “Promoting Violence”
I got a 72 hour ban for responding to someone who said Vance will never be US President. I said he would when Trump had the inevitable coronary from eating too many cheeseburgers. “Promoting violence”
Perma-ban for responding to a story about Kristi Noem telling Canada how to run border security with saying she should keep her cunt ass on her side of the border. “Inciting violence”.
Reddit WANTS to be a right wing echo chamber and looks for excuses to ban people who don’t agree with that world view.
bizzle@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
I can’t imagine using the word “normie” unironically in 2025.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks 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.
DylanMc6@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
if this were a socialist country, the internet would be a lot less corporate. seriously1
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
“Society could improve somewhat” meme…
DylanMc6@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
we need a more leftist alternative to facebook. seriously!
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Imgur has oissed me off long enough that I decided to roll my own this summer. When all I need is a place to store stuff for easy linking, building a web frontend is pretty trivial.
Plus I’m not limited to whatever file type and size imgur decides.
And guess what, my site condones punching Nazis.
LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
The amount of people making excuses for Nazis in this thread, is disgusting. Get fucked Nazi sympathizers. 🖕
Bosht@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
A damn sight better than fucking corn.
merc@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks 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?
BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks 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!
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“what kicked it off?” gestures broadly at everything
daannii@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
When faced with a difficult decision, Elon always does what’s reich.
drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
kind of wish we would stop letting them have Nordic runes.
Arctic_monkey@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
Wait, how is “not equal to” a Nazi symbol?
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I don’t know, but I’m gonna take a wild guess and say some Nazis pissed some people off… As they do.
_stranger_@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You know what? I don’t care what kicked it off. I don’t care if it’s a billionaire paying for bots. I’m just glad that the kind of people that get programmed by social media to vote for horrible shit might finally get programmed to do some good for a change.
brownsugga@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Also aren’t the tattoos on the Secretary of War ^TM^ neo-nazi?
sparkles@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
Imgur did this same thing before not too long ago. People posted the gif for several days. I think some accounts were lost.
adry@piefed.social 2 weeks 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.
USSEthernet@startrek.website 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
People still using imgur?
retype@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
Visstix@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Good on them
starlinguk@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
They might be using the wrong swastika but I get the sentiment
Mwa@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
based
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 2 weeks ago
We need to take back the Thorn. Too many things are written as Ye in fake middle English (or fake early modern) which should be written with the thorn!
EntropyPure@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
tanisnikana@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Damn, that’s where it happened?? I fucking bike right past that!!
Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Imgurians are an odd bunch but I’m glad they’re anti Nazis.
naught101@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, best politics of any centralised social media by a long shot.
sbeak@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks 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…
DylanMc6@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
gill o’ teens
notreallyhere@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t know the one
Successful_Try543@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
@tanisnikana@lemmy.world was so kind to link the video for us who don’t know.
lemmy.world/comment/20957500
ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks 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.
DylanMc6@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
we need socialism. we need to organize a lot more than ever. we need to be revolutionary optimists, and NOT give in to counterrevolutionary doom and gloom and defeatism. seriously!
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks 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.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Go find out then
IWW4@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Halloween fancy dress?
Dude… give me a break.
Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
The sources for this video indicate the person wearing the armband:
Source 1
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?
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 2 weeks 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.
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 weeks 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.
porcoesphino@mander.xyz 2 weeks 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
Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Bait used to be believable SMH my head…
quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
You mean Charlie Kirk getting shot in the neck?
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
That was funny too, but no they’re talking about this.
DylanMc6@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
a lot of people, regardless of what they think of charlie kirk, got traumatized because it is very graphic. i think some people encouraged playing tetris as a way to get your mind off that video. is it insensitive to tell people to play tetris after watching that graphic video?
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7828932/
DylanMc6@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
imgbox is the way to go
dumbass@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
The one that gets its tooth knocked out?
Man I love that clip, you can live vicariously through it for a second.
zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks 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.
uncouple9831@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Hush nazi