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And that’s basically it!
Fuck these guys.
It's also a really nice feeling to help someone jump a car, or help push a disabled car off the road. It's this short(ish) and well defined opportunity to do good, without much gray area of "is this the best course of action" or "am I making an impact" you get with longer and more complex activism.
This is honestly pretty smart on the part of the fascists. A big portion of what is so effective about the resistance is that it's founded on strong community action. Neighbors helping neighbors, because it's the right thing to do.
Posing as a neighbor in need makes that act feel riskier. It changes the calculus, just a little, in favor of not helping your neighbor. They achieve their near term goal of getting their victim, but there's an even more valuable (to them) effect of weakening community ties overall.
Time to double down on looking out for your neighbors.
EDIT: Looking out for them so you can help. In case that wasn't clear.
Hey, isn't this what gangs and other criminals do the rob or kidnap and murder people? Oh, it's the same picture?
Where the fuck is the suspicion, nevermind "reasonable suspicion" behind the use of this tactic? Is helping someone with a broken car a crime, an antifa gang symbol or something to that effect?
There isn't even the pretense of crime fighting in this clip, just a bait trap to kidnap normal, caring people.
Isn’t Oklahoma passing a law that makes it illegal to help an illegal Immigrant in any way? If these laws pass, then the agent can say they were posing as an illegal immigrant, making the helper immediately guilty of a crime.
Helping someone is communist /s
Cartel tactics
What the fuck are you doing America?
Teaching individualism /s
Punishing people for any form of kindness so that they are wary of helping anyone else in the future....
That's how you wear down the population, to dissuade people from engaging in resistance. This is also the point of the violent ICE raids: breaking the social fabric to better control people.
As we all know, the worst of the worst tends to stop to help stranded motorists. It's a well-documented criminal trait.
A common use of spare battery is torture. There's a clear correlation /s
I may be from a hive of scum and villainy (southsiiiiide!), but also I have jumper cables, so back up while I take care of this.
So here's the new way to help stranded motorists in the US: hold them at gun point, handcuff them to a tree, then fix their car.
Don't even need handcuffs, just need a thin tree or a pole.
Have them wrap one leg around the tree/pole and sit down on it, I remember reading that it would be nigh impossible for them to get up from that position without help
I don't understand how this works. Like crosslegged and the tree is only between one of your legs, not the other? Like behind the knee?
Edit: I've looked this up and found this weird video showing it
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c95iKhNmeSY
I'm guessing you can just lift yourself if you have the upper body strength, but it's interesting and a bit counterintuitive
I mean… you could pull yourself up with upper body strength surely
It only works for out-of-shape people.
Tried it at as a child, got out easily