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[โ€“] lemmyng@lemmy.world 201 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Wait, they mean the Gravy Seals? The Fattack Squad? The PlaqueToon? The Blood-clot-hounds? The Infantiletry? The Dive Bummers? The Shillitary? The Krispy Kreme Kops? The Out-of-Breathalyzers?

[โ€“] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 105 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[โ€“] knotRyder@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 weeks ago

Paul blarts

[โ€“] islandcoda42@lemmy.zip 17 points 2 weeks ago

The Turd Reich

[โ€“] notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip 62 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Donโ€™t forget Yโ€™all Quida, thatโ€™s my fave even tho I spelled it incorrectly.

[โ€“] lemmyng@lemmy.world 35 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[โ€“] notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 weeks ago

You rock, thank you for the correction on my lazy spelling attempt :)

[โ€“] valkyre09@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[โ€“] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 10 points 2 weeks ago

Gutstapo works

[โ€“] lemmyng@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Love the intent! Hate the image this conjured in my brain ๐Ÿคข๐Ÿคฎ

[โ€“] mech@feddit.org 86 points 2 weeks ago

OK, Brownsharts

[โ€“] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 62 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
[โ€“] sanbdra@lemmy.world 57 points 2 weeks ago

icebergs is wild ๐Ÿ’€ internet really never misses with nicknames

I'm going to do it even more

[โ€“] zeejoo@thelemmy.club 33 points 2 weeks ago
[โ€“] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Have they tried not being fat fascist fucks?

[โ€“] mechoman444@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They can be fat and they can be fucks. Just not the thing in the middle.

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[โ€“] SirMaple__@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 weeks ago
[โ€“] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Call them whatever you want, but this isn't an actual statement from the TSA.

[โ€“] 7101334@lemmy.world 32 points 2 weeks ago

oh phew this clear joke almost fooled me

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[โ€“] phr@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 2 weeks ago (19 children)

body shaming those you dislike still hits those you like.

[โ€“] Fawkes@lemmy.zip 51 points 2 weeks ago (14 children)

This may be an unpopular opinion, but I don't think we should be telling people it's "Okay" to be morbidly obese. It isn't okay. It's extremely dangerous, and a massive resource drain. I don't see a problem with openly mocking and insulting people who have tattooed swastikas on their foreheads, nor do I see a problem with openly mocking and insulting people who weight a full x3 - x4 what their healthy weight is.

Obviously swastikas and obesity are not the same thing. But the point is, I don't think it's a universal taboo to mock people's appearances.

Body positivity should be "It's okay if you're not a super model, there are many body shapes and sizes." Not "It's okay to eat nothing but fast food and twinkies. Your doctor is fat-phobic if they tell you to lose weight."

[โ€“] FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

You're not wrong. Id add tho that there's a mental health component to obesity that I think makes it more akin to substance abuse than forehead tattoos. But we dont tell people that its OK that they're raging alcoholics, generally, and conversely, maybe interventions would help the morbidly obese, but we don't do them.

So I don't disagree with you, but i dont think making fun of fat people is cool, which is what body shaming really is when youre name calling the Gravy Seals.

[โ€“] Fawkes@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I actually fully agree with you, and the point about the alcoholics is quite pertinent. We don't tell alcoholics they don't need to change, and we also mock them for being self destructive.

I also fully agree that mocking does not lead to change, encouragement and support does. However, LACK of mocking leads to normalization. I think support and condemnation are 2 sides of the same coin. We should be supporting those who need it, and condemning those who arrogantly refuse.

And I may be conflating the 2, but I am quite confident that most of these obese ICE racists have no desire to better themselves.

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[โ€“] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 9 points 2 weeks ago

Nobody said anything about it being okay, just don't use it as an insult/cudgel.

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[โ€“] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago

There are exceptions to every rule. In this case, this is a huge exception.

[โ€“] deacon@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Likely too much nuance to matter, but in this case, the shame is relative to a fitness expectation for a certain kind of work, not relative to the expectations of wider society.

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[โ€“] Saapas@piefed.zip 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I don't know anyone of that girth

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[โ€“] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

All the fat people I know donโ€™t consider themselves to be cop material, because they arenโ€™t unbelievably stupid like these icebergs.

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[โ€“] uenticx@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

This meme would be better just like:

[โ€“] Janx@piefed.social 12 points 2 weeks ago

It's the same picture?

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[โ€“] ftbd@feddit.org 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Angrydeuce@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

Gravy Seals

[โ€“] forestbeasts@pawb.social 21 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

A) Fuck ICE.

B) Let's mock them for being evil, not for being fat. There's actual reasons to hate them, going "oh haha look how fat they are" just hurts regular fat people.

-- Frost

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[โ€“] Danarchy@lemmy.nz 21 points 2 weeks ago

They prefer โ€œswimming with their shirt on Americansโ€

[โ€“] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

โ€œFatbergโ€ it is, then.

[โ€“] Siethron@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago

Pedo Gestapo.

[โ€“] TheLamb@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 2 weeks ago

Where are the ICE agents? I just see two gigantic icebergs

[โ€“] slothrop@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 weeks ago

The fittest finest.
Only the best.

[โ€“] LemmyBeYourself@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 weeks ago

POOPBERG it is then

[โ€“] danc4498@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

This made me lol.

[โ€“] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 weeks ago

I didn't know that was a thing until now. It will now enter my lexicon.

[โ€“] YaGirlAutumn@leminal.space 11 points 2 weeks ago

to be fair glaciers are probably a more accurate comparison

[โ€“] const_void@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Back of that guys head looks like a pack of hotdogs.

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[โ€“] mastod0n@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Gravy Seals?

[โ€“] robocall@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

"You better stop running away from me!"

[โ€“] coalie@piefed.zip 10 points 2 weeks ago

"You better... huff... stop... puff... running away... from... wheeze... me!"

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[โ€“] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

If I'm running from ICE, I hope it's one of these guys chasing me.

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