• thallamabond@lemmy.world
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    This is a wild story, dude flag down an officer at the gas station, told him he thought somebody drugged his grandkids ice cream. Didn’t realize there was surveillance.

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      20 hours ago

      100% he was gonna claim it was a (((Democrat))) or a (((liberal))). Those that know know.

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          Delusion is the solution to pollution, by using them outside of the context you removed the power from them so I’m all for it, unless I’m wrong lol

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            I definitely agree that educating people about these symbols is important and positive, but just… using them… is not a good method?

            “Those that know know” ??? directly contradicts your stated intention

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              The intention was to instigate discussion. Which it did. Otherwise it would have been just another link that someone might have skimmed over.

              Using it would have been treating it as a secret code that it is and not highlighting it. By highlighting it Etc the only way it was being used was as an example for people to inform themselves and learn from. Used to see that sort of bullshit all the time over on Reddit. Thankfully Lemmy is a better space.

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              18 hours ago

              At least one person has. And one more aware of always a good thing.

              The world and what is going on makes so much more sense when you have a basic understanding of Republican code speak and dog whistles. Like how Republicans are currently dispatching National Guard from states with high crime, to states with lower crime. Claiming that it’s about crime. On the face of it it doesn’t make any sense. Unless you understand that they’ve turned the word crime into a dog whistle / code word for black/brown/Jewish/liberal etc. When it comes to Republicans everything is about racism and white supremacy. Granted echoing is a bit more esoteric and slightly less common code / dog whistle from them.

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                I had no idea, thank you. I know I’ve seen it before and just assumed it was artistic writing. I’m way too fucking naive for this world

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              I don’t think its the best way to go about it, yeah. You can educate people about it without just using the symbols

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      20 hours ago

      I just have to wonder “why”? What’s the end goal. Risk your grandchild’s safety to sue a Dairy Queen? It doesn’t make sense.

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        There’s no telling what his intentions were here.

        It could have been politically motivated.

        He could have dementia.

        Maybe he was high on cocaine and ecstasy, and wanted to share.

        Not enough details are available right now.

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          The fact that he flagged down a cop to tell them about it makes it pretty clear that he wasn’t really looking to drug them per se, but rather to cause a legal incident. It may be that he wanted to sue Dairy Queen for profit, or perhaps get someone at the DQ store in trouble, or to blame it on a political group he deems undesirable (immigrant workers, trans people, liberals, etc.). In any event, it’s psychopathic.

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          There’s no telling what his intentions were here.

          Heres an idea, he was gonna drug them for some trump style picture taking but the kids found the drugs, then he was trapped and had to report it (trying to blame it on someone else) and didnt realize he was caught on surveillance putting the drugs there himself.

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          Yes, I am your bearded granddaughter, and I’ll take a vanilla and medicine flavored ice cream, please.

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    Oh, nice! They found a new contender for the least corrupt and criminal Republican in government in the USA.

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      Yeah, crazy he was able to get access to cocaine and mdma though. How could a Election Official with close ties to a political party ever access something so illicit? “They”™️ must have used Jewish brainwashing lasers to make him do it.

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    19 hours ago

    Everyone in the comments seems confused today. The guy was going to rape his granddaughters. He hadn’t planned on them discovering the drugs while they ate the ice cream. Had to play concerned grandparent at that point.

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      Sounds like he just put whole pills into the ice cream. Can’t imagine thinking someone would eat a pill like that without noticing. Then again, dude is clearly out of his mind so idk.

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      Doesn’t seem that way to me.

      Why would he really go to the cops instead of lying and saying he did if he wanted to drug them?

      Sounds like he had some beef with the DQ and wanted to make trouble for them.

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      The guy was going to rape his granddaughters

      My guess is he needed new photographic material to give to his dear pedo leader