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[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 90 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] OfCourseNot@fedia.io 45 points 2 months ago (1 children)

*Johnathan Tifa

Edit: came back from the article, his second name is actually Jonathan lol. He must be the son of our former legendary leader Mary Ann Tifa.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 11 points 2 months ago

Is he related to Tifa Lockhart?

[–] SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 72 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It's good to see more trumpian competence in action...

Twenty-nine year old Chandler Patey has been regularly protesting outside his local ICE facility in South Portland for months, offering up his apartment to fellow protesters to use the bathroom or wash off pepper spray, according to local news.

To the Department of Homeland Security, “he is the leader of Antifa in Portland, OR.”

Elementary my dear epstein.

BTW, sounds like a fucking legend. I hope I am so good when the bullshit arrives where I am.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 42 points 2 months ago

offering up his apartment to fellow protesters to use the bathroom or wash off pepper spray

Wow what a terrorist! When other citizens walk in with pepper spray on them he lets them wash it off?

I bet he and his co-conspirators were involved with the undcheduled shut down of the Orphan Crushing Machine too!

[–] robomuffin79@lemmy.world 60 points 2 months ago (1 children)

When the leader of a group of anti-fascists becomes the bad guy. American world war 2 soldiers who died on the battlefield must be turning in their graves

[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 15 points 2 months ago

Read it as burning in their graves. Still made sense.

[–] furzegulo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I guess it's over then 😟

[–] 6nk06@sh.itjust.works 36 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not yet, he's friend with l33t hax0r and the Anonymous man.

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[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 months ago

They've got em. Our most closely hidden secret leader. What will the cabal do without him?

[–] DrYes@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

better send Kyle Reetenhouse back in time

[–] verdi@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I see they follow the gestapo playbook. Why use the legal system when you can just say "belongs to terrorist org" and snag whoever you want off the street. 

[–] ServantOfRa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 months ago

I mean, that's one step too many.

[–] manniesalado@piefed.social 26 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I feel so sorry for the Yanks having to live through this Trumpian nightmare.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago

Thank you. Truly. So much schadenfreude going around.

[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I heard he was teaming up with the hacker known as "4chan"

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[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

next they will "identify" the "leader of lgbtq+"

[–] WhiteRice@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Who assumed the crown after Freddy?

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I didn't know anyone had been crowded since Prince died.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Umm, prince was pretty famously hetero.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

But was he cis though? Anyway I once heard him referred to as a purple love gnome, so that's where he sits in my brain.

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[–] witty_username@feddit.nl 21 points 2 months ago

As yes, the infamous antifa obersturmführer

[–] Zier@fedia.io 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wrong, it's not a man. It's my Aunt Tifa. FFS

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 points 2 months ago

Oh good old aunty T with the beat rush!

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Just like they identified Tylenol is the cause of autism…

[–] Tujio@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I mean, they gotta figure out some way to blame the mom before Baron gets diagnosed.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I hear he hangs out with anonymous, from the Internet!

[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

But who is 4chan, leader of Anonymous?

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Axiochus@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] Focal@pawb.social 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I really read this as inspirational and cool once upon a time. Part of me still does. There's a lot of good we've done on social media that make my trans friends and family more safe in who they are, broadly speaking...

But there's also a whole lotta bad as well, and it's been increasingly less OUR internet as the tech companies just monopolize and censor and steal data.

I'm not so sure I can manage to find this time mag cover as inspirational anymore.

[–] _Nico198X_@europe.pub 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

it was a different time. aspirational and naive.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 3 points 2 months ago

I can assure we some of us were not optimistic.

[–] Focal@pawb.social 3 points 2 months ago

Naive is probably the exact word for the feeling I have. Good pick

[–] Nastybutler@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I still put on my resume that I'm the 2006 Time Person of the Year

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

I can tell you for certain that dude won’t be experiencing “the male loneliness epidemic”

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 11 points 2 months ago

That guy owes me money! According to MAGA, the only reason any of us is resisting is because we're being paid. I've been fighting the Right for decades, and I've never seen a penny, he owes me a bunch.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

no offense dude, but him?

[–] RadioEthiopiate@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 months ago

"Everyone who disagrees with me is a ~~Nazi~~ domestic terrorist."

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, they got it wrong. It was me! I am the leader! Don't believe the feds, those lying pigs.

[–] how_we_burned@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

I'm Brian and so is my wife

[–] MyOpinion@lemmy.myserv.one 5 points 2 months ago

Too bad they miss the current leader of Pedos our commander and cheeto.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 months ago

I want to subscribe to his newsletter.

[–] HaveAnotherTacoPDX@lemmy.today 3 points 2 months ago

Funny, he never gave me any orders. I used to take my orders from a chicken named Jack, but these days they come from the frogs. Because they are too strong when they're together, y'know.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Jackie Joyner Antifa....Join Antifa for short.

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

This is the way.

[–] Aljernon@lemmy.today 1 points 2 months ago

Wow, what (not) a surprise. All those terrorism and surveillance laws passed after 9/11 were exactly as much a bad idea as people who didn't hate muslims were warning them to be.

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