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jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 4 months ago

Far-Right Extremists Are LARPing as Emergency Workers in Los Angeles

www.wired.com

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Far-Right Extremists Are LARPing as Emergency Workers in Los Angeles

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jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 4 months ago
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White supremacists and MAGA livestreamers are using the wildfires to solicit donations, juice social media engagement, and recruit new followers.
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    Okay so the solution is easy. Give them a title of some kind - official sounding, but made up is okay - And then send them into the worst parts of the fire zone and tell them to get to work. It doesn’t matter if it’s safe or not.

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      And when they’re finished, hide the bodies on the wrong side of the fire break.

      It doesn’t take a lot of skill to dig a ditch or clear brush, so they can be put to work.

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    Not new. Rittenhouse had actually been told to go home, but was allowed to stay because he told police he was an EMT, and they believed this teenager without a uniform on, no medical supplies, and a gun, was a medical worker.

    Glad lying to a cop isn’t a crime in and of itself!

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      No no, failure to protrate before a raging cop is resisting arrest and the penalty is a 10-minute delayed “shots fired” call

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      I call bullshit on the “believed him” part. They played along with him.

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        That would sadly make more sense.

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    Far-Right Extremists Are LARPing as Emergency Workers in Los Angeles

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    “Disaster tourism.” It’s like when people would set up picnics on hills above Civil War battlefields and have a jolly good time watching men shoot each other.

    There is something fundamentally wrong with America at its core.

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      I don’t disagree, but in Spain similar stuff happened with Valencia’s floods. The common denominator is the far right.

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        Do you think caring, well-meaning people were the ones having those picnics? The far right is America.

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          I can’t imagine a person’s mental state that thinks The screams of horror and pain really sets a Great picnic mood.

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      In the early 20th century, postcards of hangings and lynchings were popular collectible items.

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    Sure sucks that republicans are terrorists. It’s extremely easy not to be one, and it’s better not to be one.

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      Removed by mod

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        As far as I know only one of you has had the stones to do that…Free Luigi

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    I sure hope it’s a crime to impersonate an emergency responder

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      Is their insatiable need to belong something we should be exploiting?

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    As someone whose family is LACoFD, this is repugnant, LARPing during an ongoing crisis.

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    Archive here

    https://archive.fo/RlYui

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    Run 'em up a box canyon with a fire at the top.

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