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Is it a warning that you give people? Like “there’s an iceberg, right ahead”

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 133 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Wait, they mean the Gravy Seals? The Fattack Squad? The PlaqueToon? The Blood-clot-hounds? The Infantiletry? The Dive Bummers? The Shillitary? The Krispy Kreme Kops? The Out-of-Breathalyzers?

[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 64 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] islandcoda42@lemmy.zip 12 points 4 days ago

The Turd Reich

[–] knotRyder@lemmy.ca 13 points 4 days ago

Paul blarts

[–] notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip 42 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Don’t forget Y’all Quida, that’s my fave even tho I spelled it incorrectly.

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] valkyre09@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 9 points 4 days ago

Gutstapo works

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[–] sanbdra@lemmy.world 35 points 4 days ago

icebergs is wild đź’€ internet really never misses with nicknames

[–] mech@feddit.org 59 points 4 days ago

OK, Brownsharts

[–] forestbeasts@pawb.social 13 points 3 days ago (6 children)

A) Fuck ICE.

B) Let's mock them for being evil, not for being fat. There's actual reasons to hate them, going "oh haha look how fat they are" just hurts regular fat people.

-- Frost

[–] Tenderizer@aussie.zone 5 points 2 days ago

Given the identity ICE agents have of themselves, as a muscular brute standing between civilized Americans and barbaric outsiders, fat-shaming them is reasonable. Also, they don't deserve to be treated as human beings. Even murderers deserve better than ICE agents.

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[–] phr@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 4 days ago (23 children)

body shaming those you dislike still hits those you like.

[–] Fawkes@lemmy.zip 34 points 4 days ago (14 children)

This may be an unpopular opinion, but I don't think we should be telling people it's "Okay" to be morbidly obese. It isn't okay. It's extremely dangerous, and a massive resource drain. I don't see a problem with openly mocking and insulting people who have tattooed swastikas on their foreheads, nor do I see a problem with openly mocking and insulting people who weight a full x3 - x4 what their healthy weight is.

Obviously swastikas and obesity are not the same thing. But the point is, I don't think it's a universal taboo to mock people's appearances.

Body positivity should be "It's okay if you're not a super model, there are many body shapes and sizes." Not "It's okay to eat nothing but fast food and twinkies. Your doctor is fat-phobic if they tell you to lose weight."

[–] FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago (2 children)

You're not wrong. Id add tho that there's a mental health component to obesity that I think makes it more akin to substance abuse than forehead tattoos. But we dont tell people that its OK that they're raging alcoholics, generally, and conversely, maybe interventions would help the morbidly obese, but we don't do them.

So I don't disagree with you, but i dont think making fun of fat people is cool, which is what body shaming really is when youre name calling the Gravy Seals.

[–] Fawkes@lemmy.zip 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I actually fully agree with you, and the point about the alcoholics is quite pertinent. We don't tell alcoholics they don't need to change, and we also mock them for being self destructive.

I also fully agree that mocking does not lead to change, encouragement and support does. However, LACK of mocking leads to normalization. I think support and condemnation are 2 sides of the same coin. We should be supporting those who need it, and condemning those who arrogantly refuse.

And I may be conflating the 2, but I am quite confident that most of these obese ICE racists have no desire to better themselves.

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[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago

There are exceptions to every rule. In this case, this is a huge exception.

[–] deacon@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Likely too much nuance to matter, but in this case, the shame is relative to a fitness expectation for a certain kind of work, not relative to the expectations of wider society.

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[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Have they tried not being fat fascist fucks?

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I'm going to do it even more

[–] zeejoo@thelemmy.club 20 points 4 days ago
[–] uenticx@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago (3 children)

This meme would be better just like:

[–] Janx@piefed.social 8 points 4 days ago

It's the same picture?

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[–] Danarchy@lemmy.nz 18 points 4 days ago

They prefer “swimming with their shirt on Americans”

[–] TheLamb@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 4 days ago

Where are the ICE agents? I just see two gigantic icebergs

[–] Siethron@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

Pedo Gestapo.

to be fair glaciers are probably a more accurate comparison

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

This made me lol.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Call them whatever you want, but this isn't an actual statement from the TSA.

[–] 7101334@lemmy.world 28 points 4 days ago

oh phew this clear joke almost fooled me

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[–] ftbd@feddit.org 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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“Fatberg” it is, then.

Do you guys use it as a warning? Like “Iceberg, right ahead!”

[–] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (3 children)

This body shape just does not really exist over here in Europe. No idea what you would have to eat to get there.

[–] cooligula@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hahaha this is false. I am from the EU, live in the EU, and have travelled all over the EU, and I can categorically and confidently say that there are people this obese in Europe. I have no idea how common this is in the USA, and it probably is way more common than in Europe, but it does happen here too.

[–] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

The first one is so fat that they can shoot around his bullet proof west. The west is like a little bullseye on an elephant

[–] 5too@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Decades of cheaply made food that doesn't trigger your body's "full" response

[–] nickiwest@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

It's not diet alone. There are environmental and lifestyle factors as well.

Chemicals that have been outlawed in the EU because they mess with our endocrine systems are still heavily used in the US. Businesses have better representation in Congress than citizens do, so commercial production has far fewer environmental and health regulations in the US.

Walkable cities/towns are rare in the US. Zoning laws in many places put residential properties far away from things like grocery stores and workplaces. The norm for most people is driving (or maybe public transportation if you live in a city that's big enough to support it).

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If I'm running from ICE, I hope it's one of these guys chasing me.

[–] chippydingo@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I think you may be forgetting the fact that they tend to just shoot people. I can't imagine shooting someone in the back is out of bounds for this fine bunch.

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[–] mastod0n@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

Gravy Seals?

[–] LemmyBeYourself@lemmy.zip 11 points 4 days ago

POOPBERG it is then

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