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1. delichon · 1790180612 · focus · HN ↗

   > “Well, I said: ‘Jeff Schrag is a cuck.’ I said: ‘Fuck you Jeff.’ I said: ‘Worthless’ and then, also, the final thing I said was: ‘Jeff Schrag has a tiny, stinky, cock,’” Powell explained.

   I agree with the point she was trying to make. As a member of the public she should not have been arrested for being verbally abusive. But I'm OK with her being removed for subjecting the people who work there to that abuse. If she had made the same points with something approaching civility I'd be in her corner, as I still am with respect to surveillance.

   If she were a coworker directing that to me, one of us would be a former employee by the end of the day.

   1. talon8635 · 1790181114 · focus · HN ↗

      A reasonable take. It’s a hot button issue, and arrest is absurd, but these people are embarrassing and actually the most counterproductive way to approach this.

      You want to know how to turn the masses of normies that could otherwise be persuaded to join you? Send in people like this to behave like this.

      1. freejazz · 1790187125 · focus · HN ↗

         I think you have things a bit backwards. The mass of normies are already persuaded - this is what they did.

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