Yes, we know you are not boycotting.

Some other people are boycotting.

Framing it as a “boycott” is just wrong, at least where I live

I avoid most US chains and import foods simply because they’re junk, so I know what you mean, but that doesn’t negate the boycott movement of people who were regularly buying US products.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025-2026_Canadian_boycott_of_the_United_States

More right than you think: antifascists have consistently infiltrated US neo-fascist groups and released their dox, getting members kicked from high-paying/influential jobs, run out of town and other social fallout. So PF took up this technique as a result of antifas… before unwittingly hiring one to be an official photographer and getting revealed.

Reposing from earlier. I’ll also add that while some activists use masks to protect against a dangerous government, these sad sacks are using them to hide from normal people and their communities.

In light of the popularity of these images in response to their stunt, I’d like so share this. It discusses the Australian neo-Nazi equivalent org (the totally-for-real disbanded National Socialist Network), but the message is universal.

https://thewhiterosesociety.writeas.com/9-principles-for-journalists-reporting-on-neo-nazis

So let’s talk about Patriot Front:

• Leader is a trust fund kid
• Their messaging server and other comms were repeatedly hacked
• They unwittingly hired an antifascist to be their official photographer, which needless to say, allowed activists to gather evidence and resulted in multiple PF members losing their jobs, and attempting to sue as a result (Plaintiffs Paul Gancarz, Daniel Turetchi, Colton Brown, James Johnson, and Amelia Johnson vs. David Alan Capito II)
• Antifascists have repeatedly ambushed them, including locating their secret car park where they hopped into a U-Haul to go to a rally
• There are videos of them getting beaten into retreat in Philly when they tried to march
• There are videos of the Proud Boy fascists attacking up PF-splinter members (‘Rose City Nationalists’) and ripping off their balaclavas
• There was an incident where a regional leader “spent the money on drugs” [source: a neo-Nazi drama podcast called The Absolute State of White Nationalism]
• They so poorly planned an action against an antifascist neighborhood, that when retreating, a member almost got hit by a train [same source]
• They stopped allowing women when two of three woman members snitched (one of them cheating on a member first) [same source]
• They stopped allowing teenagers to join (still grooming them, they just can’t officially join) due to a ‘homosexual femboy’ incident, whatever that means [same source]
• Their training videos show such incompetence that they literally can’t turn the correct direction when marching [you can find their training videos on the Patriot Fail leak]
• At least former one member, when identified as Dillon Oakes, tried to snitch on their org and pretend they were undercover the whole time - “While we do work with former white nationalists who sincerely want to leave the movement, Nazis who pretend to have never been Nazis to escape consequences do not qualify.”

Plenty more, might add some more in replies.

Why not try a more unpopular opinion: Professional sports are profoundly toxic, including to the well-paid successful athletes.

I was expecting this lesser-known classic instead: [YTP] The Matrix Runs On Windows Vista

Reposing from the earlier post in this community:

In light of the popularity of these images in response to their stunt, I’d like so share this. It discusses the Australian neo-Nazi equivalent org (the totally-for-real disbanded National Socialist Network), but the message is universal.

https://thewhiterosesociety.writeas.com/9-principles-for-journalists-reporting-on-neo-nazis

So let’s talk about Patriot Front:

• Leader is a trust fund kid
• Their messaging server and other comms were repeatedly hacked
• They unwittingly hired an antifascist to be their official photographer, which needless to say, allowed activists to gather evidence and resulted in multiple PF members losing their jobs, and attempting to sue as a result (Plaintiffs Paul Gancarz, Daniel Turetchi, Colton Brown, James Johnson, and Amelia Johnson vs. David Alan Capito II)
• Antifascists have repeatedly ambushed them, including locating their secret car park where they hopped into a U-Haul to go to a rally
• There are videos of them getting beaten into retreat in Philly when they tried to march
• There are videos of the Proud Boy fascists attacking up PF-splinter members (‘Rose City Nationalists’) and ripping off their balaclavas
• There was an incident where a regional leader “spent the money on drugs” [source: a neo-Nazi drama podcast called The Absolute State of White Nationalism]
• They so poorly planned an action against an antifascist neighborhood, that when retreating, a member almost got hit by a train [same source]
• They stopped allowing women when two of three woman members snitched (one of them cheating on a member first) [same source]
• They stopped allowing teenagers to join (still grooming them, they just can’t officially join) due to a ‘homosexual femboy’ incident, whatever that means [same source]
• Their training videos show such incompetence that they literally can’t turn the correct direction when marching [you can find their training videos on the Patriot Fail leak]
• At least former one member, when identified as Dillon Oakes, tried to snitch on their org and pretend they were undercover the whole time - “While we do work with former white nationalists who sincerely want to leave the movement, Nazis who pretend to have never been Nazis to escape consequences do not qualify.”

Plenty more, might add some more in replies. They’re a serious issue, make no mistake, but there are far better jabs to make than “they wear masks and conservatives don’t - gotcha!”

They wanted to murder people for wearing masks to keep from spreading a deadly plague

No, this group wanted to intentionally catch the plague and spread it to non-white communities as a form of biological warfare. [more details]

I’ll have to give that a read, thanks for the recc!

I’ve started watching an interview video with the author and Kris Goldsmith and already Kris has mentioned they witnessed PF members in 2020 “talk their way through a cost-benefit analysis about deliberately contracting [COVID] and traveling to black and brown neighborhoods to try and spread it” in the belief that members were biologically superior and had better access to healthcare, making potential death “worth the risk”.

Antifascists, in the rare occasions where they need to mask up, hide their faces from the state (incl police) and from neo-Nazi terrorists who have murdered antifascists in the past.

Fascists hide their faces from their communities. They’re such scumbags that everyday citizens know they deserve to be identified and ostracised for their personality and actions.

In light of the popularity of these images in response to their stunt, I’d like so share this. It discusses the Australian neo-Nazi equivalent org (the totally-for-real disbanded National Socialist Network), but the message is universal.

https://thewhiterosesociety.writeas.com/9-principles-for-journalists-reporting-on-neo-nazis

So let’s talk about Patriot Front:

• Leader is a trust fund kid
• Their messaging server and other comms were repeatedly hacked
• They unwittingly hired an antifascist to be their official photographer, which needless to say, allowed activists to gather evidence and resulted in multiple PF members losing their jobs, and attempting to sue as a result (Plaintiffs Paul Gancarz, Daniel Turetchi, Colton Brown, James Johnson, and Amelia Johnson vs. David Alan Capito II)
• Antifascists have repeatedly ambushed them, including locating their secret car park where they hopped into a U-Haul to go to a rally
• There are videos of them getting beaten into retreat in Philly when they tried to march
• There are videos of the Proud Boy fascists attacking up PF-splinter members (‘Rose City Nationalists’) and ripping off their balaclavas
• There was an incident where a regional leader “spent the money on drugs” [source: a neo-Nazi drama podcast called The Absolute State of White Nationalism]
• They so poorly planned an action against an antifascist neighborhood, that when retreating, a member almost got hit by a train [same source]
• They stopped allowing women when two of three woman members snitched (one of them cheating on a member first) [same source]
• They stopped allowing teenagers to join (still grooming them, they just can’t officially join) due to a ‘homosexual femboy’ incident, whatever that means [same source]
• Their training videos show such incompetence that they literally can’t turn the correct direction when marching [you can find their training videos on the Patriot Fail leak]
• At least former one member, when identified as Dillon Oakes, tried to snitch on their org and pretend they were undercover the whole time - “While we do work with former white nationalists who sincerely want to leave the movement, Nazis who pretend to have never been Nazis to escape consequences do not qualify.”

Plenty more, might add some more in replies. They’re a serious issue, make no mistake, but there are far better jabs to make than “they wear masks and conservatives don’t - gotcha!”

Tragic to hear. I didn’t even think of RSS as vulnerable to advertising, but of course it is.

Valid, of course. Although,

I’m doing that and I’m not even short of money.

Among all the other reasons, I’m not short of money, but I can still use that money for other things. And honestly, even just throwing the savings down a drain at least means it doesn’t go to these companies.

I know people who have some app, I forget its name, on their smart television which is very accessible. It looks like a regular streaming service dashboard. Torrenting doesn’t have to be difficult and technical - but I wouldn’t have seen this if I didn’t go to that friend’s place.

Great to see our successful submission once again. This year’s nomination voting was especially close! The top 3 were almost completely tied.

Luckily I haven’t been exposed to much of that behaviour on my local instance. Which instances/communities are you finding all these jerks at? (I’ve blocked a couple for unrelated reasons so maybe I’m not seeing them.)

There’s also some element that “alternative sites” tend to accumulate the people banned from the primary site. Luckily the strong left-leaning initial crowd kept most of the bigotry at bay during the formative years, but I really dislike that in general-purpose instances, many have failed to create much original culture distinct from reddit. Lemmy isn’t reddit, and that can be a good thing.

Real-space example: a women’s-only art installation/lounge. It was only a matter of time before it went to court. I think at one point they (perhaps jokingly) proposed converting it to a bathroom to allow legal discrimination. (and that still wouldn’t be the smelliest exhibition in Mona)

https://mona.net.au/stuff-to-do/art/the-ladies-lounge

Pasta Puttanesca

[crossposting my reply]

Mates and I are headed to one of their offices to cheer them on at the 11am walk-out tomorrow (I can take an early lunch break for it). I also heard there might be some action on Thursday, I’ll try my best to get to that.

(If anyone else is able to support them in person, let me know and I’ll get the details and forward them)

I just found the MEAA strike fund page, share it around and throw something in if you can: https://www.meaa.org/news/support-abc-staff-standing-up-for-quality-public-broadcasting/