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I haven’t watched it yet but there is video of the whole thing somewhere online as well if you want to see what happened.
Crab rave
I know a few people IRL that were first person witnesses to what happened. From what they say, Leif was escorting families at the event when a guy in full crusader armor hit him with a megaphone, and Leif defended himself and those families with mace. Now, I’m a bit fuzzy on the other people involved, but there was supposedly some parent with his 12 year old kid who had a pepper ball gun pointed at Leif and a knife of some kind who also were involved. And yes, the KID had a pepper ball gun.
Edit: the guy in crusader armor is known around the Cleveland, Ohio area as the Alt Knight who pretty much protests anything even remotely progressive. Pic below.
Here is a (not that great pic) I snagged of him at a drag story hour event I was at yesterday. Looks like his mom bought him a new helmet lmao.
Costco is a wholesale store commonly found in US cities. They sell really cheap food and are famous for their cheap as dirt hot dogs that cost $1.50.
I follow a rule that I saw written in sharpie at a hipster bar bathroom in Calgary, Alberta: piss in the sink or sink in the piss.
Does he have an Etsy store?
I have an embroidered, velcro-backed patch of this for my range hat.
The exact scene I thought of when I wrote the title.
That’s different than arguing with people on the internet. Daryl Davis shows these people their shared humanity face-to-face. All I’ve ever seen from letting fash “debate” people on the internet is them slowly spreading their ideology to vulnerable people who are viewing the same conversations. Saying stuff that sounds reasonable on the surface like, “not everyone you disagree with is a nazi” even though they want to kill minorities as if that motive vs not wanting that to happen/doing everything in your power to make sure it doesn’t happen is a simple disagreement.
Nazis/extremists don’t respond to rational arguments against their ideology.
You have to install it manually, but it auto updates
Fellas, is it gay to drink lemonade?
I half agree with his gun regulation stance. While ideally there would be more caution given to who owns guns that is unfortunately not the world americans have been living in the last 80 years or so. The fascists have guns, lots of them, and I’m not giving mine up while they have them.
Everything else he said is 100% based.
Unfortunately, there’s also a record number of far right nutters running for Congress as well as other positions.
What’s also funny is he showed up to court to testify against Leif in his chainmail armor. I don’t think it helped his case.