Even if he's a performative lib with bad opinions at least he's out there trying to resist ICE as best his lib brain will let him. It is more than most. Maybe he'll be a distraction, maybe he'll just annoy them. If he makes an ICE guy's day just a little bit worse, he's doing more than most people here.
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he's doing more than most people here.
I can only speak for me. I'm not a gun owner but if I lived in Minneapolis - I might have already become one. So imagine I live Minneapolis and I'm possibly a gun owner - there are already two big hypotheticals in this fictional story. But it's safe to say if I was there - I'd avoid ICE like the plague. One, I'm not a badass but then again - I don't pretend to be. Two, what would I do if they put their hands on me? Well...
I can't finish #2 for obvious reasons. And I sincerely don't know what I would do if I was suddenly in a situation where I couldn't avoid it.
Also - you might want to read my top level comment about him. It's possible (likely?) all of his "I'm chasing ICE!" and "I'm interfering with ICE!" stuff never happened. - https://hexbear.net/comment/6829610
Libs there seem to actually not understand that he isn't actually important to leftists. Why would he be? It's not as if he has any political power, influence, or muscle. He's just some lib on social media who posts 500 times a day. People like me make fun of him over there because he's a highly amusing proxy for libs in general. His Bluesky fans are impassioned to the point it's as if he's a beloved sportsball hero.
Libs seem to actually get mad in a honest-to-god "HOW DARE YOU!" way if you make fun of him. It's kind of bizarre. And he's very clearly often full of shit some of the time!
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As far as I know - he's never posted a single video or even just a photo or two. How is that even possible? He must live with his phone in his hand. All of this "I'm chasing ICE" and "I'm interfering with ICE" stuff seems to only be happening in his head.
Yeah how has there been no videos? That would do numbers wouldn't it?
so who is this guy? Without looking, I'm going to assume podcast host
Actually no.
William Stancil (born July 16, 1985) is an American lawyer and researcher on housing policy who was a candidate for the Minnesota House of Representatives in 2024 in District 61A. He is notable for his presence on X and Bluesky, and has been called the "most harassed guy on X" by Slate and the Minneapolis–Saint Paul region's "most prolific public intellectual on social media."
He has ~83K followers. I think he's popular at Bluesky because even if libs don't like him or think that he's silly - they think he's fighting some kind of good fight against the right and the left. He says he gets death threats. And from the left too. I think it's clear that he's an active fantasist. He's annoying and he punches left. That's not unusual at all but he's somehow made that a strong brand for himself. Don't ask me how.
so...future podcast host?
I'm actually surprised he hasn't started a podcast. I wonder why he hasn't.
Maybe he has a really high squeaky voice
The final boss of internet lib brain
I'm inching ever closer to actually getting a bluesky account lmao
This did the opposite to me.
My self hatred is legendary
This link lists the top 1,000 accounts.
If anybody is thinking of making an account - a great place to start is by blocking many of the top accounts. They can be super-tedious and they get reposted, quote-posted, etc. Blocks are nuclear. For example - if you block BrooklynDad_Defiant! - you'll see never see any of his posts. It's like he doesn't exist there. It's great.
i can't really format a complaint for a clout-chasing lib doing something objectively good, even if it's annoying
What if his name was Will Stencil and he just traced drawings all day long?
The world would be a better place.
What if his name was Will Mencil and he was just for the fellas?