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.
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.