228
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] Frank@hexbear.net 95 points 1 year ago

Lol molotov

I am getting old and I just want to go apeshit

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago

A couple of bricks would probably do the trick too

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago

Get in there and hack the LED to have it say "I wear baby diapers and kiss my daddy on the lips" charlie-kirk

load more comments (14 replies)
[-] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 90 points 1 year ago

Wasn't there some viral image going around a month or so ago where China had the same thing but for wanted criminals and everyone was screaming about how this is literally 1984

yeonmi-park In the United States, they rank their criminals by how much the authorities would like to capture them. If you score highly, they put pictures of your face all over the grocery stores to make it impossible for you to hide if you want food.

[-] beautiful_boater@hexbear.net 76 points 1 year ago

When will we stand up against the cancel culture on university campuses?

[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 66 points 1 year ago

In communist North Vuvuzela, the

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 52 points 1 year ago

In evil satanic communist North Korea, the yeonmi-park

[-] ChairmanSpongebob@hexbear.net 65 points 1 year ago

we live in a highly normal and just society

[-] FoolishFool@hexbear.net 64 points 1 year ago

Think they could sue for libel? This feels wide open for litigation. lol

[-] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 60 points 1 year ago

Not a lawyer but I have a good feeling that whoever is doing this has a big stack of cash set aside for settling/paying out libel suits

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago

"Accuracy in Media" is a tell in that direction

[-] TheMadBeagle@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

Some other form of known harm this can bring maybe worth pursuing, but I kind of doubt libel would be a viable option unfortunately. Firstly, I imagine most of these people are in fact making pro Palistine statements, so if that is what the group paying for this truck to drive around is publishing, in that regard, this truck is not really libel. I do notice that the truck specifically references a website called "harvardhatesjews.com", which, if they are stating that these individuals are antisemitic without any other proof than being pro Palestine, then maybe that could be construed as libel. The another major problem is that libel is just plain tricky to get to stick in a lot of instances from my understanding, so even if this was a candidate for a libel case, it may be difficult and expensive to prove. And to that last point, it is difficult for people with little money to sue as going to court in the US (pf which would be the case in this instance) is incredibly expensive. Since most of these kids are college kids, it may be difficult for them to even find the means to pay for a suit. Before anyone says it, yes I know this is Harvard, of which many attendees are from wealthy backgrounds, but by no means is that true for every student. Even for the ones that is true for that also happen to being willing to make a pro Palestine statement, it might not be that their wealthy family is will to back them in a suit such as this.

load more comments (4 replies)
[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 62 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_in_Media

AIM, which opposes the scientific consensus on climate change, has criticized media reporting on climate change. The organization gives out the Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media Award. Past recipients include Marc Morano (who runs the climate change denial website ClimateDepot), Tucker Carlson, and Jim Hoft (who runs the far-right conspiracy website Gateway Pundit).

Accuracy in Media (AIM) was founded in 1969 by Reed Irvine, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank who is now bathroom

In 2022, AIM sponsored an ad campaign against antisemitism that used a truck with a digital image of Hitler giving the Nazi salute. The image included the text: "All in favor of banning Jews, raise your right hand." Several rocks were thrown at the truck. The use of the imagery was criticized by the Anti-Defamation League and the UC Berkeley chapter of Hillel International

what-the-hell

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

The only good AIM is the American Indian Movement

load more comments (8 replies)
[-] GarfieldYaoi@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago

An Economist

opinion discarded

[-] wahwahwah@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Several rocks were thrown at the truck.

Bricks! You're supposed to throw bricks not tiny pebbles tf.

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

You know how bad you have to be to get the ADL and Hillel to say “hey now that’s a bit much”

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 61 points 1 year ago

If I was in the area, I would 100% decommission this thing.

[-] Kuori@hexbear.net 61 points 1 year ago

yeah this person should be car bombed

[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago

AIM helped “create the image of the mainstream media as very liberal,” according to Alex S. Jones, the director of the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. The New York Times described AIM as “dedicated to exposing, challenging, and at times bullying” news organizations.

AIM’s founder Reed Irvine was previously an economist with the Federal Reserve. 10 While at the Fed, Irvine led luncheon discussions for the International Economists Club and the Arthur G. McDowell Luncheon Group. The discussion topic for one of the 1969 luncheons was perceived bias against the Vietnam War by the television nightly newscasts. 11 At this 1969 discussion, Irvine, then 50, hatched the idea for Accuracy in Media.

https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/accuracy-in-media/

Accuracy in Media (AIM) has grown from a one-person crusade to a million-dollar-a-year operation by attacking the mainstream media for abandoning the principles of "fairness, balance and accuracy" in its reporting. New Right philanthropies, think tanks and media support its work, and many members of its advisory board are former diplomats, intelligence agents and corporate directors.

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Accuracy_in_Media

[-] NewAcctWhoDis@hexbear.net 49 points 1 year ago

If my name were Alex Jones I would also insist people include my middle initial.

[-] M68040@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

See also: all the other guys named Andrew Tate and Bill Gates

[-] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago
[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

The S. stands for "some chili"

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] GarfieldYaoi@hexbear.net 49 points 1 year ago

So much for the free speech right.

[-] JuryNullification@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

Would be wild if someone followed it to where it parked and filled the gas tank with water.

[-] radiofreeval@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

Incredibly goofy

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] a_blanqui_slate@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago
[-] BigBoyKarlLiebknecht@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago
[-] wombat@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

all palestinian violence against israel is self-defense.

[-] betelgeuse@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

I can show everyone how right I am and make Harvard students upset at the same time? Neat.

[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It takes one person and some sort of cutting/snipping device to disable this truck by cutting at least one of the tire valve stems.

[-] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago
[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago
load more comments (1 replies)
[-] SexMachineStalin@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] FortifiedAttack@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

I'm wondering whether:

  1. This is real.
  2. Who's driving the truck there, if it is real.
[-] Judge_Jury@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's run by a right-wing media pressure campaign called Accuracy In Media, which AcidSmiley gives more info on in her comment

If you have doubts though, just go to aim.org - they are very proud of their electronic billboard trucks

[-] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

They have a history of doing this

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments
view more: next ›
this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2023
228 points (100.0% liked)

chapotraphouse

13546 readers
1007 users here now

Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.

No anti-nautilism posts. See: Eco-fascism Primer

Gossip posts go in c/gossip. Don't post low-hanging fruit here after it gets removed from c/gossip

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS