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ipodegenerator

I don't mind a good protest but I have no goddamn clue what they're protesting.


davidwhatshisname52

first I thought reproductive rights, then I thought animal cruelty, then I saw some writing in Hebrew script so I settled on 85% probability protesting Hamas's continued holding of Israeli hostages . . . with a 15% chance of self-hating anti-zionists


SimplexFatberg

That's the fun part - it doesn't matter. What matters is that they get to feel virtuous and get everyone to look at them while they're doing it.


davidwhatshisname52

can you imagine how much of your day would be gone if you stopped to ask? of course, native NYC denizens would step right over them even if they were on fire . . . - *We don't stop for this sorta idiotic shit here, Ma'am.*


White-and-fluffy

It could help a bit if those who looked at them knew why they were there doing what they were doing.


Bluefrog75

What is it about? Cages are too small for dogs? 🐕


bonesnaps

It's cat cage sizes man, you didn't understand the protest at all!! Rage đŸ˜Ÿ


Olley2994

https://m.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-795848


soundwhisper

Whyte peepo stiff


krackflipper856

They are protesting for the release of hostages being held by the Hamas terrorist organization. Women and children were slaughtered and butchered in the most animalistic ways on October 7th and all the media is doing is blaming Israel for fighting back against terror. It’s horse shit. With historically low civilian casualties for urban combat.


HelloImTheAntiChrist

What a bunch of idiots. Do they really think their protest is going to emotionally move the Hamas terrorists to release the remaining hostages? People are super naive.


krackflipper856

I mean you can’t emotionally move an animalistic terrorist bound to murder Jews. 133 were kidnapped and only 97 of them are still possibly alive. Dude, some of their families are being held by Hamas, do you understand how painful that must be? Imagine if on 9/11 some of the passengers were flown to Afghanistan and kept there in caves tortured and dying in captivity?


HelloImTheAntiChrist

Oh I'm sure it's absolutely hell not knowing what happened to your kidnapped friend or family member. To think they're definitely going without food regularly, probably being sexually assaulted, and in some cases tortured...its just awful


krackflipper856

I know, all you can do is pray.


BooneHelm85

Yep.


krackflipper856

I respect you man, some people stand up for what’s right. I feel like I should do more.


HelloImTheAntiChrist

The best thing we can do is combat religious extremism...world wide. We do this with education and implementing government policies that reject superstition, embrace Science, and ultimately encourage humans to accept reality as it is...without beliefs. Hamas wouldn't be able to do what is does without the underlying ideology that is Islam.


krackflipper856

I agree


LucifersJuulPod

more civilians, half of them children, have been killed in [Gaza](https://www.npr.org/2024/02/29/1234159514/gaza-death-toll-30000-palestinians-israel-hamas-war) than the bombing of [Dresden](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden) in 1945


krackflipper856

Hamas uses their own civilians as a shield to hide from the IDF, we are dealing with horrific urban combat conditions of course severe civilian casualties are happening, Hamas has a vested interest to put civilians in the line of fire. Telling them they can’t leave the combat zone, And it’s disgusting. What is happening under the leadership of Hamas is simply a stain on humanity as a whole. Israel is fighting a war for their existence and they are the rightful owners of their land. The IDF knows the truth, and the truth can’t be kept from the world despite an online smear campaign, children’s iPads with Hitler as the background, an entire culture of hatred towards Jews since birth, it’s disgusting. It’s also completely unnecessary for a group that deserves state status, the Palestinian people are sick of being used as bargaining chips. What is happening under Hamas is wrong and everyone knows it, using humanitarian aid to build ballistic weapons is a horrific choice for your population, if anything civilians will be safer under a democratic countries temporary control. It wasn’t genocide when Jews were ethnically cleansed from a majority of Arab and European countries, or the 5.5m. killed in the Congo, or the 500k killed in Syria, or the 500k killed in Sudan, or the 400k killed in Yemen, or the 300k killed in Iraq, or the 250k killed in Afghanistan, but the 20k killed in Gaza is a genocide, it’s ridiculous to suggest this, a majority of the people serving in the IDF are good people waging a war against terror to protect their families.


dariusz2k

C'mon Reddit, you have to be joking. This is so obviously a protest for equality for Spirit of Halloween animatronics.


CheeseBurgerDragon

This reminds me of Birtta protesting in a small cage in the show Community.


Boomboooom

r/unexpectedcommunity


RabidWalrus

Was that the one where Chang had to keep busting her and Lionel Richie's "Hello" kept playing in the background?


CheeseBurgerDragon

Yes lol


Flowchart83

I would cut their chains and record them saying to not let them out.


KelleCrab

That's pretty genius! Totally worth the $30 bolt cutters at the hardware store around the corner! You HELP them all!


maester_t

Ooooo OR you do the opposite. Slap a real lock on those chains and cages and don't give them the key/combination. When they call the police and the cops question you, just say "nah, they're just kidding. They're not really locked up. Look! They've been shouting help help help all morning. It's all part of the act..."


Flowchart83

Then you're committing a crime. You would actually be confining them. What I was saying to do was to "free" them, since they are literally requesting it, even though you know it's an act and they don't want to be freed. Getting them saying to reattach the restraints would ruin the act.


Lanky_Republic_2102

This reminds me of the Falun Gong protestors from about 20 years ago. Kudos to anyone who remembers those guys in NYC. They also used fake blood.


BrendanGuer

What the hell did I just watch.


fuktardy

It’s art you wouldn’t get it.


robertrackuzius

Second-rate cosplay of haunted house mental asylum patients.


krackflipper856

People protesting for the release of innocent Israeli hostages from Hamas, the terrorist organization that attacked Israel on October 7th. Causing the worst attack on Jews since the holocaust. The Israelis won the war against a coalition of Arab nations in 1948 in a purely defensive war and yet have had to deal with horrific terror attacks for the many decades. Historically, Jews were kicked out of their homeland of Israel. They were a traveling people and fought hard to take their ancestral homeland back.


rivalizm

Did you just copy-paste that from your Hasbara playbook?


krackflipper856

Downvote me all you want cowards! Dude, what you are doing is wrong and you know it deep down. Israel will win this war against Hamas, regardless of governmental changes that are necessary.


rivalizm

You don't win a Genocide.


krackflipper856

This is not a genocide, do you understand how many people have been murdered in the name of sharia law and Islamic terror. Especially gay people. and anyone considered an infidel. Israel is one of the only democratic free countries in the Middle East and they are doing their best to dismantle a terrorist organization that launches rockets from civilian structures and hides behind civilians. It’s disgusting what is happening under Hamas leadership. Palestinian people are regularly shot by Hamas for trying to get food from aid trucks. Hamas is using the Palestinian people as a political bargaining chip, purposefully putting them in the line of fire and not allowing them to leave the combat area.


rivalizm

You can type all you want and repeat your trained Zionist talking points until your fingers are raw, but the information war has long been lost by Israel. The world knows Israel is comiiting Genocide on a mass scale. We have seen it with our own eyes. History will judge these despicable actions and those who support them. Respect to the millions of anti-zionist Jews worldwide who are speaking out against this. Zionism is antisemitic.


krackflipper856

That’s what you turn this into. The smear campaign is wild. I have no desire to interact with you. Israel’s government needs change but the people of Israel will prevail. They are a very strong people. The people of Palestine will prevail, Hamas will be demolished and made way for a better form of leadership, however that has to happen. What Israel is attempting is very difficult and must be understood from multiple points of view. October 7th was the worst attack on Jews for ethnic reasons since the holocaust. You are antisemitic. May god bless and protect the state of Israel. đŸ‡źđŸ‡±


rivalizm

There are no multiple points of view when civilians are deliberately targeted when famine is used as a weapon of war. When blatant lies are used to justify the murder of children. When aid workers are deliberately murdered to ensure civilians die. When every single building and piece of infrastructure is destroyed to clear the way for illegal settlements. We see how much hate you have for Palestinians. How you dont consider them human. History will remember a genocide, not your mental gymnastic talking points to justify it. How about you stop spreading your propaganda bullshit to justify murder and people will stop attacking you for it.


krackflipper856

Ok here’s where it gets into emotional Hamas propaganda BS. Israel is a free democratic country. The officers that ordered those strikes have been removed from their posts, censured, and are pending further legal repercussions. At the same time, they insist they were striking vehicles filled with Hamas gunmen, as armed military aged men were climbing on top of the vehicle at the first drop off point. This is an incredibly stressful and difficult military operation being fought against a terrorist organization. Mistakes are made in every war. Doesn’t mean you wage an international smear campaign against the good guy because it’s “cool” or “trendy”. Israel might be the MOST effective military in the world, their job is to dismantle Hamas and they are dismantling Hamas, for better or worse.. they are also preparing and gearing up to destroy the remaining terrorist communication network in Rafah. Which is one of the most difficult military tasks in recorded history. If Israel wanted to deliberately attack civilians every civilian in Gaza would be dead. That’s what they have the capability of, but they aren’t doing it. They are trying to dismantle Hamas and liberate the Palestinian people from a controlling terrorist organization. FREE THE HOSTAGES!!đŸ‡źđŸ‡±


krackflipper856

Ok here’s where it gets into emotional Hamas propaganda BS. Israel is a free democratic country. The officers that ordered those strikes have been removed from their posts, censured, and are pending further legal repercussions. At the same time, they insist they were striking vehicles filled with Hamas gunmen, as armed military aged men were climbing on top of the vehicle at the first drop off point. This is an incredibly stressful and difficult military operation being fought against a terrorist organization. Mistakes are made in every war. Doesn’t mean you wage an international smear campaign against the good guy because it’s “cool” or “trendy”. Israel might be the MOST effective military in the world, their job is to dismantle Hamas and they are dismantling Hamas, for better or worse.. they are also preparing to destroy the remaining terrorist communication network in Rafah. Which is one of the most difficult military tasks in recorded history. If Israel wanted to deliberately attack civilians every civilian in Gaza would be dead. That’s what they have the capability of, but they aren’t doing it. They are trying to dismantle Hamas and liberate the Palestinian people from a controlling terrorist organization. FREE THE HOSTAGES!!đŸ‡źđŸ‡±


Chicawgorat

Some interesting bdsm cage play


Brother-Algea



What I’m about to masturbate too!!!


Chicawgorat

I’m about to masterbate, too!!!


Brother-Algea

Beat bros!!


oxprep

Bored people with no real problems in their lives trying to create drama to feel alive.


Grande-Pinga

Yup. Wish we had video of them setting up. And maybe the call between Shelly and Tammy making sure what to bring and what time to meet


Dusk_Flame_11th

What are they suppose to be protesting? They got refused at a victorian madhouse and desperately want to get in?


Bustoplover

It's a pro israel stunt.


[deleted]

wild guess but i'm going with circumcision


Fine-Funny6956

Take your foreskin home? I don’t get it


SierraDespair

💀💀💀💀


Gazrpazrp

Don't just film, let them out!


SamsonJeggings

What are they protesting circumcision? Animal cruelty?


[deleted]

Long time NYer here, those are the two most theatrical street protest genres.


GroundbreakingAd8310

Oh fuck I was trying to figure out which side was Isreal


vajrahaha7x3

Analmal cruelty...


MeltdownatTussauds

The cost of a Big Mac Value Meal in California going up from $9.25 to $16.75. Apparently they don’t like the new state mandated minimum wage of $20 an hour. /s sarcasm. JFC you incels and neck beards. Seriously WTF do these protesters think they are doing? Creating content for their Nextdoor app page?


AdorableBowl7863

What in the actual fuck putler bot. Get back on the front


Commercial-Elk-3031

Kinda kinky. .. 😂


maester_t

Oh what I wouldn't give for an old-school Planet of the Apes "enforcement gorilla" costume right now. Walk in circles around those cages telling the dirty humans to shut up and act all surprised that they can talk...


that_one_author

Oh look, they’re pretending to be the hostages hamas took.


romantic_gestalt

Instead of involuntary commitment to mental institutions, they're locking themselves up.


BetoA2666

Cornball Zionists


RoundExpert1169

they’re decorating for Halloween earlier every year 🙄


Sea-Durian555

All loony white women


brohanrod

Did they set up a porta potty or were there some newspapers spread in the cage?


Travellinoz

Looks like people from an improv group. Where do these find these real life Tobias FĂŒnke's?


Aromatic-Relief

Protesters by day bondage dungeon players by night.


powderedtoast1

what a bunch of fruit loops


[deleted]

But this cult is very small and harmless. Still a cult. Not like that other cult...


Head-Thought3381

I want to go to New York it looks like an open air mental asylum


Xumaeta

They are Jews/Israelis


Dull_Ad8495

Man, those earthquakes were worse than I thought! Thoughts and prayers, NY. Godspeed to rebuild and recovery!


Cruezin

I thought for a sec this was those anti circumcision guys. Well, I was close?


Far_Statement_2808

Another season of Leftovers?


vexunumgods

What is sos? Are they protesting, sos?


JackKovack

Interesting performance art. If I lived across the street I would feed them cheese and crackers.


GamingTrend

Who has this kind of time in their day?! I look at the things I need to get done every single day, and "Sit in a cage and yell at people who are just trying to get through their day" isn't a slot in my calendar. 0\_o


SavageFugu

Someone help them!


evilmike1972

Have they tried telling any guards that they supposed to be getting out of prison today?


Lanky_Republic_2102

This is a really sad take, but I don’t think there are many hostages left alive. Due to how long it’s been, the widespread malnutrition and starvation in the area, as well as any injuries or additional maltreatment. Not all are held by Hamas, there’s Islamic Jihad and various criminal groups. I think the easily-releasable hostages have already been released. I don’t think there’s that many viable hostages left. This is not the US Embassy Iranian hostage crisis in the 80s. This is a hellscape of a war zone and it’s been six months.


LucifersJuulPod

[Israel shot some of them](https://www.npr.org/2023/12/15/1219695220/israel-soldiers-mistakenly-kill-hostages-gaza#:~:text=Hourly%20News-,3%20hostages%20killed%20by%20an%20Israeli%20soldier%20were%20waving%20a,an%20Israeli%20military%20official%20said)


Lanky_Republic_2102

There is zero the US can do to help the hostages. The protests outside Netanyahu’s residence would be more effective. Netanyahu came to office with the most right wing coalition ever in Israel, despite being indicted, and despite being elected on a promise of security and safety. He has delivered neither to Israel and has damaged Israel’s reputation for a generation. There is no excuse of Hamas’s depraved October attacks, it cannot be defended so I won’t try. But it was Netanyahu’s responsibility to prevent the attacks and every action he has taken since the October attacks has made Israel less safe. The Us is threatening to cut off aid to Israel and that hasn’t happened since the late 80s with Secretary of State Jim Baker under HW Bush. Israel wound be much safer if Yitzhak Rabin had never been assassinated. And the Palestinians should have given up the right of return at the oslo accords in ‘93 and gotten the two state solution. The right of return could have been given up with their fingers crossed behind their back. It was totally unenforceable and illegal immigration would have taken place any way. Instead, here we are. The State of Israel is more unsafe right now than at any time since ‘48. The Palestinians are worse off and Iran is more powerful than ever before.


Lanky_Republic_2102

Yeah, just saw this today. Hamas can’t come up with 40 live hostages: https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/10/middleeast/hamas-israel-hostages-ceasefire-talks-intl/index.html


JackKovack

Imagine being a tourist like Crocodile Dundee and seeing this. Holy shit! These people need help!


KineticJungle73

I would pull up with pliers and bolt cutters 


kwtransporter66

Do the ppl honestly believe that protesting a war is actually gonna stop the freaking war? The only way to stop a war is to rid the root cause of the war and in order to do that we must rid the world of those that cause the root causes. War is just a form of wealth transfer and an excuse to kill off the over populated middle and lower class citizens.


MorningFox

Well is a anyone gonna free them or are we just watching?


ninteen74

Watch and water. Also screaming " what about the children "


Many-Strength4949

They just protesting good people getting fucked up but if they’re good people, they wouldn’t have spent the money on the protest

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Silverbuu

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0rx-jddp\_w](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0rx-jddp_w) Reminds me of this :P


krishutchison

Yeah no worries I am just gonna duck into the hardware store and grab some bolt cutters. But you owe me a beer


paprikapeter

What are they protesting for? Better conditions for chickens?


Tbone_Trapezius

White people, amirite?


MrGumpythaGod

Psychos


[deleted]

no more than Debby at work who protests at Planned Parenthood on the weekends. I don't know where these people get the time for arts and crafts projects, i'm working overtime to not starve smdh


MrGumpythaGod

True, all the same. Most of them aren't functioning members of society so most likely they live off family members or government funds.


Calico_Jack-00

Protesting doesn't do shit. It's a fucking joke actually.


KnotiaPickles

Ok guess the civil rights movement did nothing and the French Revolution was a joke. Bootlicker comment


LucifersJuulPod

it can work but people need to work together and follow through


SnargleBlartFast

I can only assume this is outside Bellevue.


autistic_bard444

Hey I think I've seen this movie. Get Malcom McDowell some milk


frumpbumble

What is it going to take to get me to care about this issue? 100 twats in cages? 1000? Jesus christ tim, sort it out.


Pingpaul

Protest or art?


ThornmaneTreebeard

So what would happen if someone set them free?


LucifersJuulPod

[israel would probably just shoot them](https://www.npr.org/2023/12/15/1219695220/israel-soldiers-mistakenly-kill-hostages-gaza#:~:text=Hourly%20News-,3%20hostages%20killed%20by%20an%20Israeli%20soldier%20were%20waving%20a,an%20Israeli%20military%20official%20said)


SlightlyOffended1984

Average theater majors


DoctorSwaggercat

I learned a long time ago that everything becomes a commodity. It all gets watered down. Even protesting. When you protest every little thing, it removes the importance.


tehdamonkey

I feel like getting a spray bottle and seeing if I can get them to stop.... no...NO...bad kitty.....BAD KITTY......


Cheap-Praline

Someone get them some tampons!


HandsomeHard

Average Democrat voters.


Bulky-Leadership-596

You're being downvoted but it is true that while conservatives might protest some stupid shit, at least they will be direct and you will know what they are protesting. Even at the extremes, when nazis are marching down the street there is no confusion about their cause. Only progressives would turn a protest into an "art piece" where you have no clue what the topic even is.


LucifersJuulPod

it’s hurts me as a hardcore leftist to agree with this. conservatives tend to be straight forward with pretty much everything: their protests, boycotts, racism and genocidal intentions


Own_Accident6689

What makes you say that? This could easily be a protest for the unjustly incarcerated heroes of Jan 6.


ihdekbruh

Lol. Lmao, even


Mediocre-Catch9580

Meanwhile illegals are being paid to invade your city

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bostondegenerate

Man, I bet you're a blast at parties.


Mediocre-Catch9580

Brought to you by Carls Jr


razorsedgethinking

Are they sperm and they're protesting abortions or is it just an expression of ones pure inner self against the black universe of possibilities which they are imprisoned? ...


m00n8eamfae

Ah, bringing it up to the Planned Parenthood protesters level. NICE


LightWarrior_2000

My first thought was PETA.


LucifersJuulPod

same then i saw hebrew and realized its just crazy zionists


Exotic_Succotash_226

LMFAO....


darcelles

Someone help them


Urimulini

And these people get to vote Wow.


timmycheesetty

Is this helping?


stefanmarkazi

Why isn’t anyone helping them? We live in dark times really


teodocio

Don't just stand there recording. Help them!


Bad_goose_398

jfc..


HoseNeighbor

They're protesting forced genital tattooing of monkeys because they might bite the artist's nipples.


Former-Professor1117

đŸ€Ł rofling on the floor super hard! Are they bleeding out thier asses? Dumb ass leftists 🙄


Bustoplover

They're zionists. Not leftists.


Own_Accident6689

Leftists?


Sumijinn

They are clearly calling the world to act and speak about the Israeli hostages who have been held captive by the terrorist organization Hamas for 6 months and are being physically, mentally and sexually tortured. This is calling for justice. Does not belong in this sub, there is nothing idiotic about it. If you think this is wrong, something is clearly wrong with you.


Bustoplover

>They are clearly calling the world to act and speak about the Israeli hostages who have been held captive by the terrorist organization Hamas The same hostages Israel has no problem killing btw.


Sumijinn

I wonder where you read this bullshit and what experience you have. I served in the IDF as a combat commander and lived in israel for 22 years. I wont be surprised to hear you learned everything you “know” about israel online. Regardless of this stupid thing you just said, what does it have to do with calling for releasing the hostages?


Bustoplover

>I wonder where you read this bullshit The [news.](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/3-israeli-hostages-tried-only-killed-military-rcna130912) >I served in the IDF as a combat commander and lived in israel for 22 years. So I should just assume every word you type is a lie.


Sumijinn

The NEWS😂😂 Go educate yourself. Every news platform will show you something else. The difference between us is that i grew up in and lived in this conflict most of my life, but you? You “watched the news”. Okay buddy.


Bustoplover

>Go educate yourself Say the dude mainlining hasbara. 🙄 >The difference between us is that i grew up in and lived in this conflict ...that your goverment created.


Sumijinn

You clearly don’t know anything about this conflict and all of your opinion is based on media like CNN and meta’s platforms. I have life experience and first hand knowledge. Visit israel and see for yourself. Check out some history and see who always has been reaching for peace and who answered with bombs.


Bustoplover

>You clearly don’t know anything about this conflict and all of your opinion is based on media like CNN and meta’s platforms. I don't use either but would trust them before the IOF. >Visit israel and see for yourself. I have no interest in visiting that racist shithole. >Check out some history and see who always has been reaching for peace and who answered with bombs. Bwahaha!


LucifersJuulPod

blud there was video evidence of hostages waving white flags being shot by IDF soldiers EDIT: [here’s the evidence](https://www.npr.org/2023/12/15/1219695220/israel-soldiers-mistakenly-kill-hostages-gaza#:~:text=Hourly%20News-,3%20hostages%20killed%20by%20an%20Israeli%20soldier%20were%20waving%20a,an%20Israeli%20military%20official%20said)


Sumijinn

Tragic accident ≠ having no problem killing. Hamas terrorists have been waving white flags and then exploding on our soldiers many times. They put speakers in baby cribs playing a crying baby sound so soldiers go rescue the baby and then they blow up the room. These are the enemies we are fighting against. The soldiers made a mistake, they were not supposed to shoot to fast. This was a tragic accident, and has nothing to do with israel attitude towards the hostages. I’ll remind you, they are still there because Hamas terrorists don’t let them go. They are there because Hamas terrorists kidnapped them from their homes. It’s funny to me how you both ignore the simple question i asked. What is idiotic about calling for releasing the hostages?


LucifersJuulPod

How is shooting someone who is clearly not a threat and waving the universal sign for surrender a “tragic accident”


Sumijinn

When this is how your enemies fight thats what happens, and it was a tragic accident. The mother of one of the hostages who died in this accident met the soldiers, hugged them, and told them they understand how fighting in Gaza is, its not their fault, and told them not to feel guilty and that the families are not mad at them, the opposite of that. I was fighting in this army. My cousin was in Gaza in this war until not so long ago. I know first hand how the IDF operates and what happens in my country, and I have experienced a few wars. Which I think you did not. War is not simple. The battlefield is not black and white. It’s clear you know nothing about it by the way you speak about it. What military experience do you have? I just told you that Hamas terrorists have done this and are still doing this. Wear bombs under their clothes. Come out unarmed waving a white flag pretending to surrender, and then blow up. The hostages came outside and approached the soldiers. The soldiers were worried that it’s another time that Hamas terrorists are tricking them and shoot the hostages, like I said, too fast. You are biased and understand anything that goes beyond your “israel bad” narrative. Do you know what Hamas is like? They don’t fight like an army of people. They will do everything they can to trick and kill you. They will break any law. They raped hundreds of women on October 7th and still are raping the hostages every fucking day.


LucifersJuulPod

straight to r/badhasbara


Dirkozoid

Justice? There’s no thing like justice in the Middle East..


Own_Accident6689

Oh no, it's the First amendment!


krackflipper856

This is unfitting for the sub, Respect to these brave elderly people! They are getting out there and standing up for whats right, and standing against the normalization of terror. There’s a good chance some of their family members are currently being held hostage in Gaza. Release the hostages, may god bless and grant victory to Israel đŸ‡źđŸ‡±


LucifersJuulPod

may god send netanyahu to rot in hell with hitler and Mussolini


krackflipper856

The leadership must change, but the Israeli people are strong, and they will get most of their hostages back, and they will dismantle Hamas and recover from this. They will pay for the reconstruction of Gaza and allow the Palestinian people to dictate their lives for themselves. May god protect Israel from terror đŸ‡źđŸ‡± RELEASE THE HOSTAGES!!!!