cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/36179586
A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the “Ghostbusters” theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility, which has recently become a site of daily clashes between federal agents and demonstrators.
If you don’t side with the Constitution, no one knows where the hell you are.
Nazis hate Ghostbusters.
Everyone here is joking about this, but it’s not funny at all.
My understanding is that humor is a very common coping mechanism — in the face of an abuse of power this absurd, I imagine it’s sometimes all someone has the strength for.
Nah, I don’t think that’s quite right, it’s not like anybody’s ignoring how thoroughly evil these fuckers are, we can just also appreciate that they’re little bitch idiots to a comical degree who get intimidated by fuckin band kids
Like, to put it another way, US troops in world war 2 constantly made fun of Nazis while also shooting at them and such. They’re not mutually exclusive trains of thought, if anything they reinforce each other.
I’m not against dark humor. I just find this specific news to be extremely disconcerting and pressing.
Seems like there are people who don’t grasp how bad this is.
That does sound pretty likely.
Arrested for, and while doing, nothing illegal.
Just remember, if one person has no rights, we all have no rights.
Clarinets have reeds and they can be sharp enough to cut someone up in a heated frenzy. Be careful out there ICE! /s
They probably felt threatened. Those poor little souls. Attacked with a tactical assault instrument.
This is lawlessness. No procedure, no rules, no guidelines, no restraint, no empathy, no accountability. Their violence will only escalate. America, you need to start standing up to this administration. No more sitting on the sidelines of politics. The footsteps are heading your way now.
Kind of his own fault for not being rich and or a pedophile
Her, IIRC?
Since the 80’s USA has been a society mostly driven by sociopathy, with Republican policies being decidedly and uncompromising sociopathic. So it’s not surprising that there are a lot of sociopaths in USA, who are willing to disregard all decency and all norms to trample on those they consider to be below them or against them.
I just read an article stating that Americans are lining up for a job with ICE, and they consider it an “adventure”!!!
Absolutely zero empathy.That’s what largely unregulated capitalism and a culture that exalts greed about all else will do to a people. We have literally brainwashed our entire populace into being sociopaths because it made a profit. And we are surprised that there were consequences.
“It’s just business.”
A small statement used to wipe away any atrocity they can imagine. And people think this is somehow right and good.
Capitalism creates sociopaths by creating incentives to be that type of person, you’re so right.
No clarinet, either
I play a mean Recorder I’m about to give my local ICE facility a spirited solo attempt at the star spangled banner.
I have not played a instrument since 5th grade.
I bet “Ice Ice Baby” would be sufficiently annoying on a recorder to prove a point.
Don’t put them Under Pressure to do that.
🎵 do do do doodoo do do 🎵
Word to your mother!
🎼 🎶 sad trombone 🎶
Too late.
They won’t.
And if you suggest they should, they’ll get defensive and belligerent. They’re clowns.
But if they act, it might justify the fascists doing what they’re already doing. Best move is to do nothing while the fascists are in charge.
That sounds right.
“but the drive is tooooooo long” the drive where? it’s the common excuse that it takes too long to travel…where ever. such a piss poor excuse.
I’d have more respect for Americans if they were just honest and straight up said “I don’t care” instead of “we’re waiting for a leader” or “we waiting to get organized” or “the drive to insert city name is too long” or “I have a job”. Just say you don’t care and then the rest of the world can finish applying the Nazi sticker to your country.
To drive to the nearest ICE facility it’s a 6 hour drive.
I can show up 6 hours after I get notice of shit going down. Or I could spontaneously show up, make a scene, get arrested, get a news article written about me. Who knows how long I’m in custody. I lose my job, my health insurance, my rental. Great, more time to protest?
But I also have a kid to take care of.
We got protests her this weekend. Obviously id rather participate in civil disobedience but that’s kind of hard to justify when I’m keeping my kid alive 6 hours away from the nearest place it would be effective.
America doesn’t work like Europe quite literally by design. Unions were violently oppressed, but a few prevailed. Which was awesome, then they tied all living requirements to being employed. WW1 hit. The Great Depression hit. WW2 hit. We transitioned into a military industrial complex. In 1972 Nixon axed the gold standard. The loud sucking noise was turned on. For the next 53 years we had less and less and less.
The homeless, the immigrants, the protestors that stand out. The weak, the disabled. Easy targets are being arrested. We can’t be there to prevent the easy targets quicker than they can.
When ICE shows up here, we have a much larger number of people than they will to respond immediately.
Know what happens when ICE goes after targets that they are wrong about being easy? They’re surrounded. Ridiculed. Heckled. Frightened by numbers into fleeing.
If you have better ideas, shut up, remember OPSEC and implement it locally first.
I could understand if it was a bagpipe player but the licorice stick?
First they came for the woodwinds, and I said nothing because I play in the strings.
Edit: It’s a just quick joke, but I do think parts in a symphony is a good metaphor for the importance of social diversity.
Lmao I commented something similar before I saw this, way better than what I wrote
The USA got some very special freedom, but at least their guns will protect them from overreaching state actors.
While it is of course frightening as fuck i really laugh that the U.S. shows what everybody knows. All these weapons are for show and a false sense of security. And of course daily shootings. Fighting oppression? Never.
There’s a cost-benefit calculation to be done. If you’re the only armed dissident, it’s basically suicide by cop. There’s a critical mass necessary to mount an offensive.
Also, a good chunk of the 2A zealots are cool with what’s happening. They don’t feel oppressed.
The ones being oppressed are the ones who generally didn’t like the weapons. I know, I was one of them.
I kind of understand that it feels bad to own weapons when you oppose them. I doubt fascism will lay down peacefully but i wish you guys luck.
Thanks. To be fair, aside from the pacifism if you look at my other interests and hobbies I should be a gun guy, so it’s been a begrudgingly pleasant transition.
I believe many leftists will use the time it is still possible to get a gun. I know i would even though i hate that shit. As german i don’t really have that option, so i really don’t look forward to our own Gestapo being errected in 4 years from now (neo-nazis are about to take power).
Fight the AfD my internet person! I’m fighting the PVV here. We can still win.
I might sound like a pessimist sometimes but i do believe that fascism will lose again💪
Sport shooting looks like it could be a valid workaround, plus actually sport shooting is great training. Things are bad here but I can’t say I envy Germany right now.
See, the problem here is you’re lumping all of the US in one group, while conveniently ignoring that half of this group is against the use of firearms and is for gun control, and the people who have wet dreams about mowing down “the gays” are the biggest owners of said guns.
No no. There are the two groups or even many more arguably. But whether you like or own arms or not there are armed goons kidnapping people from the streets in broad daylight no one is shooting these goons while the maian argument for weapons is being able to resist goverment…
If there was planned violent opposition and you knew about it, would you let the world know before you were ready?
No. Because fucking OPSEC is a thing. Plus we haven’t even started real civil disobedience yet, and that’s required before people can get angry enough to start shooting.
You’re being an instigator whether you realize it or not.
I would love to instigate people to resist fascism.
Planned violent opposition? I look forward to it, because right now i only see fascism out of the U.S. and a few and rare noble people resisting non violently (which i celebrate, love these people). Inspiring and amazing. Maybe if enough people would join no violence would be needed. I guess we won’t find out tho.
She was probably playing it menacingly /s
Something strange in the neighborhood…
Who ya gonna call?!
MY LAWYER!
Arresting musicians is very Taliban
Taliban: At least we have some ideology so you actually know what to expect.
what’s cooler than being cool?
ghost busters on clarinet.
what’s ice cold?
Arresting the clarinetist.
First they take the clarinetist. Then when they run out of those, it’s the brass instrumentalists.
