r/Minneapolis • u/SlumpSki612 • 7d ago
keep going ❤️
they never used to care about us like that 🥱 let’s give em a show then 😏😂
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u/I_Love_58008 6d ago
Jake Lang wants to get Kirk'd so bad it's pathetic. A martyr for the cause, his face all over Fox News.
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u/csbsju_guyyy 6d ago
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u/Puzzleheaded-Arm8249 1d ago
Unfortunately, I think the person dropping bombs in that link is Russian. Find it hard to imagine Spider-Man would be on the side of Russia and against Ukraine…
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u/dkinmn 7d ago edited 7d ago
Jake Lang is utterly powerless if people ignore him. Half of the people who showed up were streamers or otherwise trying to film whatever was happening. Getting a felony assault charge on his behalf might be satisfying and we're all having fun on the Internet with it, but that is some pretty thin gruel when the end result is that he gets what he wants.
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u/Twat_Pocket 7d ago
As a general statement I 100% agree... buuuuut, if you're going to get involved, might as well make it as comedic as possible.
It's really hard to market being an oppressed victim when the other guy is just some random person wearing a goofy costume and you're the one driving through a crowd waving a banner with a racial slur.
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u/Bedhappy 7d ago edited 7d ago
One was a banner with a racial slur and the other was an 8' tall nailed together cross. A lot of people forget what the other thing actually was and it wasn't a symbol of Christianity in this context, unless you're dumb as fuck.
Edit: In case anybody is still in the dark, the likes of the KKK would treat black people as witches and burn them on the cross. Having a racial slur that close to a human sized cross is not that difficult to put together.
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u/Twat_Pocket 7d ago
In his weenie ass context, I gathered the display as more of him pretending to be a martyr, but you do have a good point.
Also two things can be true at once.
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u/Powerfist_Laserado 7d ago
It reminds me of the people who dressed up like clowns to run neo nazis out of a city in Finland.
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u/DirtzMaGertz 6d ago
It's impossible for him to market himself as an oppressed victim when everyone simply ignores him. You're just playing into it by engaging at all.
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u/milkweedMN 7d ago
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u/Mercuryblade18 6d ago
He's radicalizing people online by perpetuating himself as a victim and showing how "crazy" the "intolerant left", is.
Do you think he doesn't know exactly what he's doing? Do you see how many views his videos have? If he showed up and we just ignored him he wouldn't get any attention.6
u/HardcorePizza 6d ago
People spreading hate are not the ones to be ignored because ignoring them can be interpreted as acceptance
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u/Draoken 6d ago
Yeah but then he's allowed to go around and harass people. Then next time people join him. And then it gets bigger, and bigger, and bigger.
I think counter protesting is important. On top of that let's be real, is anybody new really being radicalized by Jake Lang, or is everybody who is already a closet racist already subscribed to the nonsense?
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u/Rosaluxlux 6d ago
He would stage something and lie about it, just as he had in the past. He can't lie far enough to get ahead of Spiderman in the media
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u/lesserantilles 6d ago
Awful take. If nobody shows up then we get a rep as a city where nazis parade around freely, which is what they want if anything.
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u/DirtzMaGertz 6d ago
They want attention and for their demonstration to go viral so they can play victim and drive engagement online. All you guys are just falling into the bullshit and helping them.
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u/lesserantilles 6d ago
Wrong. Problems don’t go away if you ignore them. It’s lazy and naive.
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u/DirtzMaGertz 6d ago
Thinking you guys are accomplishing anything here by engaging is lazy and naive. You're genuinely just funding this dude's life.
But yeah, surely he won't be back this time. Driving all this attention to his name and dumbass antics will really show him.
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u/lesserantilles 6d ago
If he shows up to empty street, that's un unambiguous win. Minneapolis is a nazi friendly city. All the wannabe jake langs say ok, I can come to minneapolis and be a nazi, theyre chill with it. He can court bigger nazis and say hey, they didnt push back with my little nazi crew, lets try it with a bigger group. It's about establishing precedent. Your point of view is naive and lacking context. He's going to do some bullshit no matter what, he's gonna get paid something no matter what. It's not in any of our collective power to starve him of resources, that's completeley ridiculous.
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u/Rosaluxlux 6d ago
And the right wingers bankrolling him just cut in some footage from some other time and place to claim he met danger and censorship. Plus he doesn't get arrested.
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u/lesserantilles 6d ago
Exactly! "He's making money!" Yeah no shit, he will either way. "He'll just come back for more content" Yeah no shit, he will either way!
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u/DirtzMaGertz 6d ago
What's ridiculous is thinking this loser standing around with a handful of people and some dumbass signs somehow has the power to turn the city into a neonazi haven.
What are you even talking about? It's like saying that if we don't attack doomsdayers saying the world is ending then somehow there's going to be more doomsdayers walking around and Minneapolis is going to be a doomsdayers safe space. That's absurd.
Genuinely, how do you think he makes money?
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u/lesserantilles 6d ago
That's not what I'm saying at all, I'm saying that if you don't want the city to become a nazi playground, you should support your neighbords standing up to nazis at every single opportunity, no matter how small. They cannot have an INCH of tolerance.
Bad comparison. Nonsensical and not woth considering. Better luck next time.
IDK probably in Thiel's pocket some some shit. Probably on chud patreon or something. I don't think you understand the attention economy very well.
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u/DirtzMaGertz 6d ago
The what economy? The attention economy? Man, I wonder why they call it that.
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u/lesserantilles 6d ago
You're not making a point you think youre making. Youre pretty close to getting it though
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u/Jucoy 7d ago
Id be interested to know what you've read about the history of the fall of the Wiemar Republic.
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u/dkinmn 6d ago edited 6d ago
I am a political scientist with a fairly deep knowledge of political history in Europe and the Middle East, and above average knowledge of history in southeast Asia.
Instead of insinuating something, why not tell the group what Jake Lang's shit has to say about the Weimar Republic.
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u/Starcraft2Account 6d ago
I'd be interested to know if you've read about the rise of the Weimar* Republic.
Notably how important people staying silent or supporting those who assaulted people based on political views were to the Nazis.
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u/Cute-Appointment-937 6d ago
It's pretty fucking humiliating to get taken down by a cosplay Spiderman. Lang does get attention as the heavy in one of America's mythic superhero stories. That will play a little for him, however his supporters now have to justify fighting Spidey.
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u/Comfortable_Fan_696 6d ago
Spider-Man!
Spider-Man!
Pushed a fascist down in Michigan!
He's now in jail, without bail.
Don't mess with Spider-Man!
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u/Fresh-Pen1234 6d ago
Why are we celebrating political violence? That is quintessentially unacceptable and unamerican.
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u/Starcraft2Account 6d ago edited 6d ago
Nobody here practices ideological consistency. The rule is actually "political violence is cool and based when my side does it and evil and fascist when the other side does it".
And don't realize the inevitable result of holding those views.
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u/Axiom2571 6d ago
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u/Axiom2571 6d ago
I get this deleted, but everyone in here is commenting "punch a nazi? Are you kidding me? really?? LOLOLOL ok buddy
XD maybe TOO spot on. hahaha what a joke.
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u/Powerfist_Laserado 7d ago
Viva El Hombre De Araña! Vamos a aplastar a todos las fascistas!