• silence7@slrpnk.netOP
      39·
      11 months ago

      ICE sprayed a chemical weapon directly into the frog costume air intake. Frog came back the next day

      • Final Remix
        10·
        11 months ago

        A little attempted murder isn’t gonna stop that frog.

      • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.orgEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        It would be really funny when a few etzy people banded together to make the same frog coatume over and over and the next day two identical frogs stand there.

    • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      25·
      11 months ago

      humor is part of practical anarchist resistance. also I’m pretty sure they’re blocking ice vehicles from leaving so this was already working anyway but now with a side of media coverage virality

    • Ava@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      24·
      11 months ago

      And do what, exactly? Provide the exact excuse the federal government is posturing for, allowing them to justify the actions that our various local/state governments are fighting to show aren’t real? Should we start an insurrection, so that Trump can start gunning down citizens with impunity and incite even more dramatic acts of violence from his base?

      Truly, what do you think Portlanders, as individuals or small groups, could be doing that would meaningfully prevent the administration from enacting their agenda? Portland isn’t on fire. Trump says it is. Should they burn it down to prove him wrong?

        • Ava@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          11·
          11 months ago

          “Here’s an Onion article” isn’t a response to what I said. Most Americans also don’t like the situation we’re in. We agree with you on that point. But “I don’t like this version of events and you people are disgusting for letting it happen” is a pointless observation when nobody has laid out an actual plan that could change things more than what’s being done.

          I ask again. What do you propose we should be doing instead?

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
      21·
      11 months ago

      Sabotage comes in many forms. Looks like one person with a frog costume has tied up the local gestapo for an evening

    • obsoleteacct@lemmy.zip
      11·
      11 months ago

      Mockery, satire, and other forms of humor are, and always have been, powerful tools against authoritarian forces. It’s why they always co-opt, or censor comedy.

      Humor tells them you’re not afraid. It demonstrates that they aren’t as powerful as they’d like the public to think. Because it’s entertaining, it causes people to pay attention and emboldens them to see the limits of their would be oppressors. Its also uplifting in a very scary and sad time.

      Not everyone can be, or needs to be, gearing up for a fight. Everyone does need to do what they can. Even if that’s making the gestapo OC gas an unarmed frog.