• tidderuuf@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    “Ohio National Guard member Sgt. Devon Beck was not amused by this satire,” the complaint states, and after “less than two minutes” of O’Hara’s musical protest, Beck “turned around and threatened to call the police officers to ‘handle’ Mr. O’Hara if he did not stop.”

    O’Hara kept playing the song, and Beck called the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, who arrived on the scene. The MPD officers accused O’Hara of “harassing” and “assaulting” the Guard members; he denied these accusations and insisted he was peacefully protesting by standing on the sidewalk and playing music on his phone. The MPD officers “tightly handcuffed and detained Mr. O’Hara for between 15 and 20 minutes,” the complaint states.

    Sounds like that Sgt and the N. Guard being there are more of a nuisance.

    If MPD had enough free time to go after something as petty as this then there must be no other real crimes going on so then we have to ask, wtf are the military still doing there?

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    16 days ago

    There is logic in that music option. We should solidify that idea, make the Darth Vader music the main musical theme for posted video of ICE.

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    15 days ago

    Fuck that bull shit, thats free speech baby.

    Also I’ve seen the video and the.tik toker was annoying.

    Why am I such a contrarian online?

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          Can I split hairs on what I consider cultural differences between nerds and geeks? I consider nerds to be bookworms, studious type of people. Where as someone can be aloof and just really into one thing like say Spider-Man and be a geek.

          I guess I just consider one to be academic focused while the other hobby(?) focused. Like getting high every day and playing Super Smash Brothers could get you classified as a geek, but not a nerd.

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    Why don’t y’all just do this everywhere? I mean, it’s not that hard. Just make it a fun tiktok meme and there’s bound to be enough trigger-happy Guardsmen to make a point.

    “Why don’t you rise up against them?” Well… because that’s scary

    “Why don’t you do more nonviolent protests?” Well… because that requires us to do something and we’d rather sit on our couch

    Ah. makes sense now