You are not allowed to peacefully protest against fascism. Riot, or stay home.
this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2025
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Was it a stun gun or a Jewish space laser?
So this gutter slime can stand up at a State of the Union in a hooker skirt and disrupt the speech, but anyone disrupting her gets stun gunned?
Hey y'all, in case you haven't noticed, American fascism is here.
Buy a gun. Train. Help others purchase guns. Help them train.
A "hooker skirt?" Isn't that a little misogynistic?
identified by the police as REDACTED
REDACTED is such a sturdy name. I wonder if it's a new naming trend.
Identified by the police as THIS MAN NEVER EXISTED
Why use stun guns? I thought these GOP slavery fans would have preferred to whip the disobedience out of the protesters with a cowhide or a bullwhip to keep their southern traditional values.
She wants so desperately to be Eva Braun. But Trump won't even look at her.
Hopefully he does the same thing to her that Hitler did to Eva Braun. Then the same thing to himself.
You're thinking of Loomer. MTG wants to be in charge of the eventual "Department of Un-American Affairs"
I think they both do, honestly. Didn't they get into a fight right around the time Loomer was riding Trump's plane?
Gotta be a homo sapien to qualify first.
Honestly, that Neanderthal has a beautiful, happy face.
Just to clarify for people scrolling through, the actual Neanderthal face is on the right.
Those were the days. Return to tradition.
Hey now, that's disrespectful to Neanderthals. Some scientists actually believe the Neanderthals were actually stronger and smarter than homo sapiens. But they were less social, and formed smaller tribes that were easy for the larger homo sapien tribes to pick off and enslave.
Weird way of saying extinction by snu snu.
Fuck Magic The Gathering
She has been such bad press for the brand.
I still think that everytime I read MTG
I wish she’d go the fuck away already!
Someone needs to discharge a stun gun in that dumb cunt’s fucking mouth
you accidentally a word there
Yeah, stun gun, sure.
She hates when people are louder than she is
being putins mouthpiece in the house, she has to bark every few months.
Not surprising, hope this person sues and gets a judgement at least. Will they get paid? Probably not but at least a hope.
Premium lawsuit, incoming!
When I stun gun my customers, I go out of business.
Those protesters should have shot back.
I'm not well versed in property law, but the article says that the rally was at a community center. Does that necessarily imply that this is public, rather than private property? And if so, what possible justification could there be for the police to violently subdue people for exercising their freedom of speech on public property? Legal justification, that is. The MAGAts would obviously cite their hatred for all things pertaining to American freedoms (save those directly to do with bearing arms) as justification.
Rules for thee.
In Idaho, a woman spoke out and was dragged out by security.
Just because the property is public doesn't mean the public can do whatever they want in it. People who are interrupting whatever is going on can definitely be removed from the proceedings.
And cops use violence with impunity, so legalities are moot there.
This is not an endorsement of what happened, just the legal justification for removing a person from an event at a public building.
Just because the property is public doesn’t mean the public can do whatever they want in it
Yes, but what those people were doing was exercising their first amendment rights. It's not like they were going around punching people, or shouting "Fire!". And considering that they were there attending a town hall, it's really hard to make the case that they were loitering.
People who are interrupting whatever is going on can definitely be removed from the proceedings.
I don't know that that's true, legally speaking. I am, however, ignorant of a great many things, and this is definitely one area in which I feel a profound deficiency. But just because people routinely get abused in this way by the police doesn't necessarily imply that it is legal for them to do so. As you point out in your next sentence, cops use violence with impunity, and our justice system tends to look the other way when they do.
It's definitely true. For instance, you can't just walk onto the Senate floor and protest.
You might be exercising your first amendment right to protest, and the US Capitol is a public building, but that doesn't mean it's illegal to throw you out.
And honestly, if this was a maga person protesting at a Democrat town hall, would anyone here jump to their defense that they were exercising their right to protest?
If someone is interrupting an event, it's perfectly reasonable for them to be removed from that event. The removal and the police brutality are two separate conversations.
The removal and the police brutality are two separate conversations.
Yeah, that was more my point with my initial post. I understand escorting someone from the premises if they are causing a huge scene, but these cops violently wrestled these people out of there, even employing a potentially lethal weapon on two occasions. Many people have died over the years from being tased, and so to see it being used so wantonly is incredibly disturbing.
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