I’m all for it, but what kicked it off?
astroturfing
I don’t get it. They clearly have a left leaning base. Why throw that away?
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Found one
Somebody was banned for posting the GIF of the Nazi Guy getting knocked out (you know the one).
The community is not having it.
Every time I walk past that stretch near Pike and 3rd in Seattle, right over that bit of concrete where the nazi got laid the fuck out, I punch the air. Every time.
Damn, that’s where it happened?? I fucking bike right past that!!
https://www.bet.com/article/x7v52n/seattle-man-records-video-of-a-neo-nazi-getting-knocked-out
Yeah, check the tiles, this is just right outside of one of the entrances to Westlake TC.
Hell yeah, awesome 😂
“I had eaten over 800mg of THC and was way too high for confrontation so I just held back with two other passersby to watch what would unfold.”
This story just gets better.
Lol, I would wake up some time in February with an apetite sufficient to cause a global famine.
That site needs to pick a font and stick with it.
I don’t know the one
@tanisnikana@lemmy.world was so kind to link the video for us who don’t know.
wow never seen that.
I know its an unpopular opinion, but I don’t agree with punching Nazis. It makes them look like a victim, and violence never works.
I am proud though of the movement against a Nazi resurgence though. The youth deserve more credit than they get for standing up to fascism.
All Nazis deserve to get punched. It makes it look like there’s consequences to their moronic beliefs.
It just amazes me how to doing the Nazi salute, uniforms and speech’s are entirely okay now. However, being against it gets you banned.
The world has gone a full circle and we are back to the days were fascism, hatred and all that is okay. Unfortunately.
we need socialism. we need to organize a lot more than ever. we need to be revolutionary optimists, and NOT give in to counterrevolutionary doom and gloom and defeatism. seriously!
You mean Charlie Kirk getting shot in the neck?
That was funny too, but no they’re talking about this.
a lot of people, regardless of what they think of charlie kirk, got traumatized because it is very graphic. i think some people encouraged playing tetris as a way to get your mind off that video. is it insensitive to tell people to play tetris after watching that graphic video?
Sure, but zoom out. I think the vast majority of people watched it over-and-over in sheer glee.
And later slept much better, knowing that a horrible person spreading hate was no longer
“zoom out”?
That video always makes me uncomfortable because I dont know the actual context. Maybe he was in Halloween fancy dress?
Yes fuck nazis, but I dont know in my bones the person deserved it.
- Go find out then
- Wearing Nazi apparel is never acceptable
Also, in the one scenario where I would find dressing up as a nazi acceptable, which is if they’re an actor for a movie/show/play that requires nazi characters, they are not going to just put an armband on their everyday modern clothing.
They’ll wear a proper reconstruction of an actual nazi uniform, and they’re not going to just walk around in that costume, they’re going to be on or around a set, which also gives any possible passerbys the context clues needed to understand that they’re just an actor, thus saving themselves from being punched.
Correction in regards to 2: When you’re in the “are we the baddies”-sketch it’s OK. In fact, I’d say David Mitchell has a free pass, as he always manages to portray the insecurity required to become a nazi.
Unless you’re cosplaying a dead Nazi
I think it more reminds me how easily influenced we can be. “Go find out” is great, but its not possible to research everything you see. Even if I did I’d only find other people talking about the video and would have no real way of discerning who actually knows what theyre talking about and who’s just making credible sounding shit up.
Do you guys not feel that worry somewhere in your mind when you see things like this?
I mean, it’s not like me enjoying the video is going to affect the guy who got punched. I think it’s good that as a society we support videos that appear to show Nazi cosplayers being punched and don’t give them the benefit of the doubt. If I were actually there IRL and able to affect the outcome, I would also be able to ask for the necessary information to determine what to do.
Fun fact I have a swedish tankers trench coat from 1940 and a Swiss helmet from 1942 when I wear them together it basically looks like legally distinct werhmacht. I can pull the samething with an American armor school long coat and a Yugoslav helmet for the Soviet equivalent.
It’s technically not Nazi apparel. It annoys my friends though.
Kinda weird dude…
Well aware but kitbashed great value brand versions of historical uniforms is just kinda a weird side effect of me collecting military surplus and military antiques.
So we’re not allowed to make movies that show the horrific history of Nazi Germany?
The number of people willing to provide cover, and give the benefit of the doubt to people dressing as, and behaving like literal Nazis is too damn high. I’m seeing it everywhere on here lately.
“I don’t know anything about the thing you guys are talking about, but what if he was dressed like that because he’s an actor in a movie?”
Really?
Oh, I’m not defending a specific instance. I’m merely pointing out that there does exist a time and place where people should be allowed to dress as despicable characters from history
You’re allowed, but surely you’d be aware enough not to walk in your costume outside the set. The same goes for theatre or anything. An actor who thinks it’s a good idea to walk outside in a nazi costume has it coming, and that’s a good thing.
Don’t even engage with such a bullshit attempt at deflecting. Look, they’ve already got you talking about a bullshit hypothetical that they literally just made up whole cloth
Fancy dress? That’s a stretch. Usually in fancy dress you’re imitating someone. Who is he meant to be? Just a generic Nazi.
Yeah, his hand coming up in a way that could be “this isn’t what you think” doesn’t help. The description makes the situation sound very different though and there’s not much of an excuse for the armband right now. But yeah, not a fan of the gif now I’ve seen it
Bait used to be believable SMH my head…
The one that gets its tooth knocked out?
Man I love that clip, you can live vicariously through it for a second.
imgbox is the way to go
Yeah and the community does not understand what it means to protect your audience from certain content. Violence is violence. At this point it does not matter who is who. But the community just had too much lead in the water and is unable to form their own thoughts, thus just follow the other sheep.
“wait wait, this isn’t as bad as it looks, there’s a subtle context here that…”
-POW-He did not visualize that coming.
Ha. Nice subversion.
Whenever I have a knee-jerk response and it seems too played out, I think of a way to subvert it instead.
He tried a jedi force trick to stop the punch. And failed.
if this were a socialist country, whoever got punched would’ve been in jail, and the person doing the punching would probably serve in the red army, working to protect the proletariat. seriously!
Have you ever lived if you never have punched a Nazi?
richard b spencer is an a-hole. seriously!
should’ve been ran out of town on a rail like homer stokes in the 2000 film “o brother where art thou”. seriously!
if you have a time machine, please prevent that red scare and also encourage any socialists/communists to express themselves. seriously!
The rise in nazis thinking they are acceptable
They are becoming so by way of people not doing anything about it, and literally voting them into power.
Nazis and other supremists are the reason intolerance needs to exist.
Earlier this week a user posted “kill Nazis” and got a warning from Imgur saying that imgur is an inclusive platform, welcome to everyone. (which apparently includes Nazis?)
That’s what kicked this off (again).There was already some upset feelings in the community because at the beginning of the week one of the “Elbow Deep In A” accounts got suspended over a “Gone Mild” drawing of a goblin girl. So it didn’t take much for the community to be really upset with “business daddy”
At first I was annoyed that Imgur got blocked for people in the UK. Now I’m relieved. Something something Nazi bar…
I’m just thankful that the community isn’t one to make it a nazi bar, even if business daddy wants it to be.
I recently got something similar on reddit. I don’t remeber the exact quote, but “I can’t believe these people haven’t been murdered yet” is apparently a credible death threat now.
I got a 24 hour ban for saying Danielle Smith should stand on her head so the blood will rush to get brain and she could have a coherent thought. “Promoting Violence”
I got a 72 hour ban for responding to someone who said Vance will never be US President. I said he would when Trump had the inevitable coronary from eating too many cheeseburgers. “Promoting violence”
Perma-ban for responding to a story about Kristi Noem telling Canada how to run border security with saying she should keep her cunt ass on her side of the border. “Inciting violence”.
Reddit WANTS to be a right wing echo chamber and looks for excuses to ban people who don’t agree with that world view.
Earlier this week a user posted “kill Nazis” and got a warning from Imgur saying that imgur is an inclusive platform, welcome to everyone. (which apparently includes Nazis?)
Where nazis are welcome, no one else is.
That second paragraph might as well be written in Cyrillic for all the sense it made. Do I want to know what gone mild goblin girls look like, I feel like I don’t, but I’m also morbidly curious.
Basically a drawing of a goblin girl in a bikini, and there’s a few accounts whose names start with “ElbowDeepInA…” (it started with “ElbowDeepInAHorse”)
got banned from that shithole before business daddy owned them.
told a piece of shit promoting eugenics to “cleanse the gene pool and drink bleach” if they were so concerned about bad genetics.
never went back. I’m happy the community there became the toxic cesspool it deserved to become.
There was once someone making the claim that drinking bleach and bleach enemas cures autism.
I told them to test that theory and go drink bleach.
I got banned… i forget the flowery language they used, but basically got banned for being “hateful”, and my post deleted. the bleach boy account remained untouched.
That’s how I got permabanned on Twitter, before the musk set in.
Frontex was trying to use pride month to boost their image, just weeks after footage came out of them pushing leaky migrant boats back into sea. They said something like “bullying is never the answer”, to which I responded “No, but pushing people back to drown at sea is, right?”
That was apparently “hate speech”, and I got permabanned.probably a mod or friend of a mod. that’s at least what happened in my case.
oh absolutely.
The mods on imgur have always punished based on their personal beliefs and fetishes, not on the rules.
Imgur has pissed me off long enough that I decided to roll my own this summer. When all I need is a place to store stuff for easy linking, building a web frontend is pretty trivial.
Plus I’m not limited to whatever file type and size imgur decides.
And guess what, my site condones punching Nazis:
This video with sound is like my emotional support video 🥰 my ASMR is the sound of Nazis being punched
And it all comes full circle
(For those who don’t know, Imgur was invented by a user on reddit sick of the other image hosting sites until it eventually became what it was meant to replace)
Dang I actually remember the announcement post of Imgur on Reddit.
Out of curiosity, why build your own when CopyParty exists? Spin it up in Docker and call it a day.
Because I’m too old and crusty to use docker. Also, yet another hobby project because, apparently, I have too few unfinished ones.
EDIT: Plus I want the ability to selectively publish via bittorrent as well. Forgot that part.
To be honest you don’t need to either of them. You can just upload images to your own instance unless some instances have disabled image uploading?
That tasty gif never gets old.
Boom! Knocked the fuck out.
Punching nazi’s is always the correct, right, and moral choice and action.
I was not prepared for that dopamine. Thank you good cryptid
The only reason any of these people have power is because we, as a society, continue to use their shit… Get the fuck off Twitter, get the fuck off Reddit, get the fuck off Facebook. Make those companies worthless by not using them it’s literally so easy. I’m sure I’m preaching to the choir here but God damn it’s literally so easy, just read a book. Touch some grass. We weren’t ready for the internet and it’s time to turn it off.
I’m really waiting for this idea to catch on. I got online in the late 80s to get away from normies and their boring, repetitive normie mind-viruses. Back then it was just nerds talking to other nerds. Nowadays you can’t even talk to your friends here. This whole thing is for people to get angry about politics and buy products. The sooner all these people leave, the sooner we can get back to what originally brought us here.
Hopefully soon, going on social media will be seen as a bad antisocial habit like smoking.
I can’t imagine using the word “normie” unironically in 2025.
Imagibe trying to police other people’s language in 2025
I’m not policing shit, but it paints an impression that you might not be aware of if you care about people’s impressions.
Well the impression I’m getting from you is that you’re an asshole 🤷🏼♂️
They are a mean cow, according to themselves.
I can’t imagine having trouble understanding that word but let me know if you actually need clarification.
Get the fuck off Twitter, get the fuck off Reddit, get the fuck off Facebook.
I mean, way ahead of you. But we’re just jerking each other off if we think saying this downthread of a Lemmy post is changing anyone’s mind. This is the most Preaching To The Choir ass post you can make outside of an actual church.
We weren’t ready for the internet and it’s time to turn it off.
eye-roll
Listen, if you want to walk around downtown with a big sandwich board that says “Log The Fuck Off And Touch Grass”, I’ll cheer for you when I see you. But there’s a reason people flock to an easily accessible portal for social engagement. And its naive to keep shouting “Log the fuck off!” from within the medium you can’t seem to quit yourself.
Idiots weren’t ready for the internet.
If people would get out of walled garden bot ridden bullshit, the internet could be great.
What non nerds use today is not internet. I like to call it Corpo-Net. Because these people never venture outside their billionaire facist websites.
if this were a socialist country, the internet would be a lot less corporate. seriously1
Im not sure having laws policing the internet is a good idea. Educating the populous and defunding propaganda advertising would be a better move.
Also I do agree with bizzle, people need to just turn it off more often (Go see Running Man if you haven’t. Exact parallels to our current state. )
We weren’t ready for the internet and it’s time to turn it off.
Did you write all that on the internet? Or did you scrawl it in ballpoint pen in the back of a book you’re reading?
“Society could improve somewhat” meme…
we need a more leftist alternative to facebook. seriously!
I mean they got to power using those things so I’m not sure just handing over that sphere of influence is the best strategy.
So I infrequently use Imgur and basically a user got banned for saying ‘kill all nazis’ and another user’s post got taken down that had anti-nazi rhetoric. This is the most recent of a few scenarios where the mods have been seen as incompetent or overall shitty and so the community revolts. Honestly kinda dig it, at least they can coordinate and show a unified front…granted it’s slacktivism to a point but it gets people’s attention? Idk how I feel about it honestly.
People talk of Imgur being a leftist echo chamber. I have had more than enough neoliberal types on there argue about the benefits of capitalism to me or that we shouldn’t have worker solidarity. I feel when these events happen, it’s part legitimately pissed of users but a lot of people just riding the up vote wagon.
A damn sight better than fucking corn.
Whaa??
Where’s the jorn when you need it?
🌽🍿🌽🍿🌽🍿
It still surprises me that people use Imgur as a social media site. Imgur to me is a place that hosts image to be used on other social media sites. Using imgur as a social media site is like using a url shortener as a social media site. What’s next, Captcha becomes a social media hangout?
My neighbor uses Imgur as his main social media. I take that with a grain of salt though since he’s a millenial who only used flip phones til 2022, there are dozens like him, dozens!
Hosting is half of it, but the user-submitted section is a thriving social ecosystem. It’s a lot like reddit or Lemmy, but all submissions are image-based only with sizable comment sections attached like anywhere else. I was very involved there 12 years back and enjoyed it quite a lot. I tried really hard to earn my green (highest karma) badge, but I believe I got second or third highest before running out of steam. You had a profile full of badges and stuff, and users actually valued karma there, unlike on reddit or Lemmy.
But the mood changed other time and it became a hub for bullshit, sob stories and very tired, very played-out jokes. Then the eventual UI changes drove the nail in the coffin and I found it unusable.
Imgur has been pretty shit at hosting images for other sites for about a decade because it’s trying very hard to keep people captive on its site. They added ways to prevent hotlinking and if I paste an imgur link in a chat, starting with i., supposedly a direct link to the image, the preview will not work and the page the link sends to will always open their whole site around that image. They really really want people to stay on there, and interact, or watch ads. AFAIK they have made that change about a decade ago as they wanted to monetize.
At least there won’t be bots with Captcha
I used it that way for years. It’s better for memes than fediverse or Reddit, except for two things: 1 occasionally the user base freaks the fuck out and starts spamming the same thing, like this. I don’t like Nazis, but that also means I don’t want literally everything on my funny picture site to be about keeping them out. 2 increasingly all the popular stuff isn’t memes at all, but shitting on trump and musk. See point 1.
Then they blocked the UK because they didn’t want to put an age field on their registration form (note this is not to do with age verification)
1 occasionally the user base freaks the fuck out and starts spamming the same thing, like this. I don’t like Nazis, but that also means I don’t want literally everything on my funny picture site to be about keeping them out. 2 increasingly all the popular stuff isn’t memes at all, but shitting on trump and musk.
Doesnt sound all that different from here especially on #1, case in point beans, jeans and more recently corn for some reason
Except the corn posts were hilarious and varied
1 occasionally the user base freaks the fuck out and starts spamming the same thing, like this. I don’t like Nazis, but that also means I don’t want literally everything on my funny picture site to be about keeping them out
Browse under certain tags. It wont be 100% gone but its better. I recommend starting with viewing the “Caturday” Tag.
When faced with a difficult decision, Elon always does what’s reich.
are you proud of that comment, cos I am
“what kicked it off?” gestures broadly at everything
I’d say it all started in the late 1960s with Nixon’s implementation of the southern strategy. What we’re seeing today is the resultant avalanche of American fascism, appropriately composed of fragile white snowflakes.
if only hubert humphrey was elected in 1968
oh and this is my 300th comment here on this lemmy instance. seriously!
For LGBT+ and PoC it’s been a violent, fascist state against them for a long time. Just now it’s affecting the white people to a point they’re uncomfortable with but make no mistake, they’ll just let it happen again in a few more years.
Well it started with a genocidal colonial project. Then it started with the repression of class revolts like Bacon’s Rebellion. Then it started with the framing of a union of states that gave extra representation to rural slave-owners because their economic production was important. But it all started when those rural slave-owners wanted to make sure that new territorial expansions (remember, genocidal colonial project) also allowed slavery. Later it started when Lincoln was assassinated and his successor, Andrew Johnson, gave up on Reconstruction so the seditious slave-owning traitors weren’t held accountable for the sedition or slavery and were allowed back into seats of political power.
A lot of reddit users, especially those who have recently been permabanned due to the great censorship purge, are just hanging out there now. Not much censorship.
It’s super antifa. I scroll there a lot when I’m in a meme mood.
I’d say it started going hard political around the same time as everything else. February 2025.
Yep I split my time between Lemmy and Imgur to fill the void after leaving reddit, cause Lemmy alone unfortunately isn’t enough to show you everything there was to see on reddit.
That said, be warned that it’s corporate owners have no problems with collecting as much data as they can off your phone and selling it to anyone who’s buying. Just look at this shit:
So if you do decide to go there, do yourself a favor and wear a condom. Install DuckDuckGo and enable “app tracking protection”, and get a DNS-level adblocker on your phone as well. AdGuard or NextDNS are both fine choices.
There is a reason imgur enshitified the mobile web version of their website.
I just gave up imgur myself for voicing an opinion of civil disobedience and then told why don’t I go there myself with a gun and start shooting. Nuance seems to be dead everywhere.
+1 for AdGuard DNS. Using apps without it is a damn nightmare. Almost thought my phone had some kind of virus the other day when I temporarily turned it off and then opened mapquest
Thanks that’s good info to have.
I’m hearing they are starting to censor but that must be kinda new.
Too bad.
It was, as you say, a decent reddit alternative for images/memes.
Wait how do you use imgur besides posting images
It’s got a frontpage with public posts and comments
Nah man, you gotta join the basement dwellers in usersub
