To everyone in this thread saying “I’d never do that, I don’t want to get shot”
Pie in the face.
Submitted 1 day ago by WanderWisley@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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jpreston2005@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Tattorack@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Remember when we used to hang or behead powerful people we didn’t like? Yeah, that wasn’t just one time in France either.
gh0stcassette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 hours ago
Cinderblocks would be more effective (for legal reasons this is a joke)
Rusty@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
We should bring that back, but with bricks instead of the pies.
mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Without exaggeration, doing this now (depending on the person) would risk life imprisonment for bioweaponry terrorism, or just getting shot
Carl@anarchist.nexus 1 day ago
Yeah, pretty much. A large part of what made the face-pie so effective was simply the “we can still touch you” reminder. It’s a powerful message, because it reminds them that their bodyguards only need to fail once. Which is why they’ve captured the courts and police, to deter attacks even when they aren’t under constant protection.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 23 hours ago
I remember a few years ago, there was a big to-do about people throwing paint on their yachts lol. Even that was enough to scare them.
If they want to charge people with bioterrorism over pies, then the pie throwers might start throwing brick pies given they will face similar charges.
Blibly@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Because we stopped doing shit like this and gave in to bullshit civility politics. That shit only benefits the fascists.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Because we stopped doing shit like this
Did we? Or was this always a rare and remarkable incident, both in that it happened at all and it was captured and preserved for us to talk about today.
Certainly, you can talk about the no less than three different Trump assassination attempts. Or the Luigi Mangione shooting. Or the fatal stabbing of Bob Lee, CPO of Cashapp. Or the assault of Bryan Kobel, CEO of TC BioPharm, after a dispute with his Uber driver. Or the vigilante attack on Paul Pelosi. Or the Doohickey assassination of Shinzo Abe. Or just run the numbers annually for violence targeting C-level officials
This study analyzes 424 open source reported incidents targeting senior private-sector executives between 2003 and late 2025, highlighting a sustained and accelerating rise in both physical and cyber threats. Physical attacks dominate (85%), and one-third of all incidents resulted in injury or death. Incident frequency has surged since 2023, with 2025 already doubling 2024 totals by October, marking the highest level on record. Targeting increasingly occurs at workplaces and residences, with protest-driven activity driving growth at public events.
tidderuuf@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Easily get shot these days. Most of the big names are surrounded by exSF who are carrying far more firepower in their briefcases than any one of us can ever purchase.
Most of the time they are even carrying firearms that are illegal or never properly gone through NFA. A few rappers and their bodyguard occasionally get a weapons charge but you never see Musks or Fuckerberg get in trouble.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 23 hours ago
I seem to recall some video of Musk going through security at a courthouse, and hoping he would slip up with a gun or a bag of cocaine. I’m sure nothing would have happened to him.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Without exaggeration, doing it back then risked much the same.
These were brave acts then. They’d be brave acts now.
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 hours ago
Yup.
What changed is not the risk, just how we perceive it. Not long ago living under fascism was literally considered a worse fate than death
godsammitdam@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
What happened to the dude who shot syringes of his piss at Ilhan Omar?
Aka a literal biological attack?
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Ooh did you say this is how to get… Into a tickle fight?
oeuf@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Is that because modern food is so unhealthy?
MichaelHawkinSnider@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
My wife advised me not to make the comment I was going to make.
MBech@feddit.dk 4 hours ago
What was the comment you were going to make?
Initech_vs_Initrode@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
“My wife took so many pies to the face, when she stepped on the bathroom scale it screamed!”
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Sadly, the most prolific pie thrower recently died. He was an amazing iconoclast.
Squirrelknight@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Man, why are all the GOOD 80 year olds dying while the worst 80 year old gets to keep ruining the world?
tetris11@feddit.uk 11 hours ago
One of his favorite targets was the French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy, who was pied by Godin or one of his accomplices on at least seven occasions.
After checking out this Bernard guy, all I can say is: “good”
Lumisal@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I wonder if at least once he approached Lévy saying “Behold! A Pie!”
J92@lemmy.world 1 day ago
mastertigurius@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I hope that girl gets free drinks in whichever pub she sets foot in.
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 23 hours ago
Was interested. It was a banana milkshake. That must have been sticky.
What a great person that woman is.
oeuf@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Glorious 🤌
PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 5 hours ago
We use milkshakes in the UK
electric_nan@lemmy.ml 20 hours ago
You’d get charged with terrorism now. Might as well go full Luigi.
cloudshouter@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
The Epstein class brings all the milkshakes to the yard, And they’re like “boo, hoo, my pride”
mtpender@piefed.world 1 day ago
The first act of political violence in Australia was when PM Billy Hughes was struck by an egg that was thrown at him during a speech in favor of conscription.
The second act of political violence in Australia was when PM Hughes jumped into the crowd to throw hands with the egg-thrower.
decolo@piefed.social 1 day ago
You Aussies sure are a contentious people
(with my full respect)
teslekova@lemmy.ml 17 hours ago
Haha, fuck yeah, but also nah, it’s all a bit of biff mate, better to throw hands than lock up a bastard. Unfortunately the leaders do both.
rumba@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
For those that need info, sadly, it left out the part where he jumped into the crowd, I wanted to know if he was a badass or got his ass stomped.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
This is a good reason for Trump to want ICE. Turns out the local cops all suck his dick too though, so he doesn’t need them. Yet, anyway.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 day ago
Man, I bet he really had egg on his face after that incident.
Atomic@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
Funny story, here in Sweden, our speaker of the parliament was visiting a school to speak. Someone threw a “banana or part of a banana”. Bodyguards “aprehended” the boy until police arrived and the boy was interrogated at the police station.
The speaker then started a criminal suit against the boy (who was 16) with the charge of disorderly conduct. The damage was noted as, a stained shirt.
According to the speaker, incidents like this could cause politicians to not want to speak at schools (oh no… how will the children cope?)
Anyway, people are calling him out as the clown he is. And i’d be very surprised if gets to keep his post after our election (regardless of who wins)
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
Wait, whoa stop. Politicians are held to account in your country?! What sort of magical utopia is this?
stoy@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
Eh, only if they want to, I am still pissed off that Maud Olofsson got away with the Noun affair and even got to decline attending a government review board about the affair.
stoy@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
That kinda sounds like Björn Söder…
Atomic@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
It was not. It’s actually a pretty recent.
nullspace@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You do something like that today they’ll try to put you away for 30 years on terrorism charges.
CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 23 hours ago
Someone chucked a milkshake at Nigel Farage a coupe of years ago and got a 13-week suspended jail sentence for assault. Along with endless pearl-clutching from the right and Farage talking about how distressed he was.
Which is funny when you compared it to back in the 90s when someone threw an egg at John Prescott and he immediately punched them in the face lol.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
A suspended sentence is just the ultimate slap on the wrist tho.
It’s basically saying “Yeah you did a bad thing, just stay out of trouble for a few months and we’ll call it even, k?”
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
Fucking Andy Ngo and his milkshake whining. “It had concrete in it!” No it didn’t, what would that even do? It was liquid. You’re just a baby.
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 23 hours ago
They’ll claim it was laced with some kind of bio-weapon, and yet, it was just creame.
Polisheocket@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Was coming to say this, they’ll sue you into oblivion
kylie_kraft@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I would but I do not enjoy being shot
EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Honestly it’s only bad once the shock were off and you don’t have more pain meds because insurance denied you getting more. Being stabbed is worse, unless it hits something major enough to cause shock in the first place. Then insurance will only approve mild localized anesthesia to fix it and ibuprofen but as long as you don’t have to move, breath, or otherwise exist as a person, you’re good!
Guess which country I’m from…
Carl@anarchist.nexus 1 day ago
Nah, I’ve been stabbed and shot. Getting shot was way worse.
I was stabbed while fighting some white supes who were trying to take over a bar. My buddy was working as a bouncer so we were there to hang out. It was winter so we all had big puffy coats on while we hung out at the front of the bar. He had some skinheads show up and try to get in. He started to bounce them, they pushed back, and suddenly they realized that everyone outside of the bar were his friends. We got into a tussle, and the six of us kicked the shit out of the five of them.
But afterwards, when the ambulances were parked outside, my buddy was like “hey uhh… You should go talk to the EMTs *now*.” I had a pocket knife sticking out of my shoulder, punched through my coat. I casually strolled over and was like “hey, is this… A problem?” Two of the EMTs immediately broke away from two of the skinheads to work on me instead. It sucked *after*, for sure. But at the time, I didn’t really feel it. Having my arm in a sling was honestly the worst part about it, because it was on my good side. So I had to learn to do a lot of stuff with my bad hand, because my good arm was strapped to my torso.
Then I got shot (in the ass cheek, of all places) while being mugged outside of a music festival. I don’t even think he meant to shoot me; I think he was just an idiot. I remember the gun going off as my back was half-turned to him, (which is how he hit my ass cheek) then him cursing and taking off in the opposite direction. That one felt like a white-hot muscle cramp. Like the worst muscle cramp you’ve ever had, combined with a super over-exerted muscle burn like you just did a massive workout. Ever had a kidney stone? Sort of like that. Docs said I was lucky he didn’t hit my hip bone, because that would have been crippling at least, potentially even fatal. I still have a massive scar on my ass from where it tracked all the way across my ass.
Given, the adrenaline probably played a large part in why I didn’t feel the knife. But I had plenty of adrenaline while being mugged too, and I sure as shit felt that bullet.
ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Cops and secret service don’t just shoot you once in the leg dude, they unload the clip center mass until you’re dead
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
I prefer bringing a guillotine to the meeting, like what happened in Salem during a council meeting with a data center CEO. Or Luigi style pie throwing, with bullets.
OakTree@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
All this AI stuff basically is witchcraft. We should tie these tech bros to a rock and see if they float.
ICastFist@programming.dev 9 hours ago
Terminal velocity pie
Nurgus@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
It’s milkshake in the UK. Search for images of Farage milkshake.
modus@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
That sounds like a risky click.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 11 hours ago
A few years ago we would egg and milkshake fascists.
guyoverthere123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Shoes.
George W. Bush knew how to dodge a shoe.
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
beejboytyson@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
" 👉 hehe almost got me"
TrippingBalls@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Thank you for the reminder and the laugh. I had totally forgotten about that
spacegoat@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Hapless gimp creampied
newton@piefed.social 17 hours ago
The cake thrower of Microsoft boss recently passed away. He had a great career, RIP
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 20 hours ago
Pies are nice and all; but have you considered a dildo to the face?
It has a certain style after all.
magnolia_mayhem@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I love the Wikipedia pedantry in correcting that it wasn’t technically a dildo.
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 18 hours ago
Indeed, just a rubber flesh toned phallus. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Shrubbery@piefed.social 14 hours ago
Only in New Zealand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waitangi_dildo_incident
tetris11@feddit.uk 11 hours ago
I forgot TPPA happened. Feels like a lifetime agi
Kolanaki@pawb.social 22 hours ago
Fitting, because pies in the face is the territory of clowns. 🤡
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Sorry, Luigi raised the bar.
Agent641@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Cops will execute you for throwing pies at the wealthy elites these days, may as well skip straight to throwing Lucy Parsons special pie.
Reygle@lemmy.world 1 day ago
We’d probably have a better chance of getting away with it in groups of 1,000+ gathered around/transporting guillotines.
What? I’m just hypothetical ideas here. *winkmanuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 22 hours ago
A local politicial got egged recently and when i saw someone about it he claimed it was a violent assault lol
NABDad@lemmy.world 34 minutes ago
Cow pies