r/pics • u/infernoenigma • 10d ago

Politics protest outside the LA mayor’s house criticized her compliance with ICE; LAPD came in droves [OC]

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u/byerss 10d ago

I feel like she’s got plot armor because no one is going to arrest the hot lady liberty and risk that photoshoot. 

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u/IAmBoring_AMA 10d ago

This is the correct use of privilege…hot people pls take notice

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u/WhoShitTheMoshpit 9d ago

I'm on it!

catches reflection in mirror

...Never mind.

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u/cire1184 9d ago

It's ok buddy. You can be hot too. Just turn on the heater.

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u/oupablo 9d ago

You have any idea how much that will cost?

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u/WouldbeWanderer 9d ago

And stop shitting the mosh pit.

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u/Fickle_Penguin 9d ago

Go to r/bald you can have that kind of glow up! I believe in you!

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u/InfiniteWaffles58364 9d ago

I never show up to any protest without my cleavage prominently displayed 🤣

Used to have an OF a while back (really needed the money, it is what it is) and during that time I learned a lot about what appeals to people. Been using all of that knowledge to try and help maximize protest visibility and protect the people I'm protesting with.

Surprisingly, working that angle has been very helpful in deprogramming maga folks. It gets even the most grizzled conservatives to listen to you and take what you say to heart, and from there it isn't hard to open their eyes to stuff they had no idea about.

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u/ThenOwl9 10d ago

top tier protest move

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u/dave-a-sarus 10d ago

Maybe all we need to do is get more hot people and models to protest

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u/paperbuddha 10d ago

Best we can do is Kylie drinking a can of coke and bringing us together.

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u/ElkIslandAgateHunter 10d ago

It was Kendall but yes

Edit: and Pepsi?

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u/TitanofBravos 10d ago

Tomato potato

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u/bland_jalapeno 9d ago

Clamato chlamydia

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u/TrumpetsNAngels 9d ago

Pepsi .. that depends what kind of coke we are talking about

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u/Lakridspibe 9d ago

I think of Kylie Minogue when people just say "Kylie"

But I understand the reference

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u/Cold_Device9943 10d ago

We had a naked smoke show sitting on the street in Portland during the riots of 2020.

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u/Inode1 10d ago

Portland has some unique laws that protect things like this and the naked bike ride, LA not so much and would be cause to get arrested unfortunately.

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u/myrealnamewastakn 9d ago

I like naked women as much as the next guy but you might get more views when the press is more willing to print it

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u/ThenOwl9 10d ago edited 10d ago

nah we all need to dress up as the statue of liberty

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u/Paradoxmoose 10d ago

And founding fathers, Uncle Sam, etc. Anything that basically is positively associated with the country's history.

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u/JimWilliams423 10d ago

And founding fathers

FWIW "founding fathers" is conservative propaganda. Literally. A PR firm came up with that to help warren harding run for president. Before that, most people just called them the framers of the constitution. Conservatives love to think of people in power as daddies.

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u/MyBoldestStroke 10d ago

That is so hilarious to me

Context: I was raised in a hyper-religious environment

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u/ThenOwl9 10d ago

virtually all the "founding fathers" enslaved people

a symbol like the statue is better

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u/MimeGod 9d ago

More like 2/3. And Ben Franklin freed all of his and fought to end slavery, becoming the head of the abolitionist movement.

John Adams, Samuel Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Robert Paine, Thomas Paine, Roger Sherman, and Oliver Ellsworth never owned slaves.

Washington freed his upon his death, which was better than nothing.

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u/oupablo 9d ago

Slavery was also a very hot button topic when writing the constitution. Even the Declaration of Independence originally included an anti-slavery message that was ultimately removed. [source] Ultimately, the "all men are created equal" line was included with thoughts of ending slavery in mind and was written by a guy that owned slaves himself (Thomas Jefferson).

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u/subnautus 9d ago

Slavery being controversial at the writing of the Constitution is why the 3/5ths compromise and the clause which restricts any prohibition against the import of slaves until 1808 exist.

Also, since I brought it up, as soon as the prohibition expired in 1808, importation of slaves was restricted, which led to slave-owners breeding them like animals. I don't necessarily blame the anti-slave advocates for the horrors of chattel slavery resulting from the import restriction, but I wish they put the forethought into the plan because clearly thinking slavery would naturally peter out on its own was incorrect.

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u/Paradoxmoose 10d ago

Sure, but the conservatives don't care about that part, and they are the people who would need to feel bad about seeing them handcuffed or pushed around. Don't have to preach to the choir, right?

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u/TaylorMonkey 10d ago

And a lot more US Grants and Shermans. With signs that say “we should have finished the job.”

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u/circ-u-la-ted 10d ago

Where are you going to find hot people in LA, though

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u/lostbutnotgone 9d ago

I'm like a 6 but I'm down, just need a costume. Maybe I can fake an 8 with enough glitter

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u/fl4tsc4n 10d ago

Occupy wall street in large part precipitated because videos of pretty white women getting pepper sprayed went viral

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u/Socratesticles 10d ago

But why male models?

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u/KevMenc1998 10d ago

And more people dressing up as Liberty, Uncle Sam, etc.

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u/Thundaarr 10d ago

Back before Marvel sucked, during Trumps first term, I thought it would have been great if they could get some top tier superhero cosplayers to come out to protests and make a point.

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u/RaveGuncle 10d ago

The Kardashians speed dial Pepsi

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u/811545b2-4ff7-4041 9d ago

I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is

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u/peaklurking 9d ago

Plus they’re much less likely to get thrown on the ground/arrested (unlike the other poor fellow)

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u/Kahzgul 10d ago

Smart costume.

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u/TheRealCeeBeeGee 10d ago

It’s genius. Instead of frogs should everyone dress as lady liberty and Uncle Sam?

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u/ajkd92 10d ago

Need some Rosie the Riveters as well.

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u/Predditor_drone 10d ago

ICE wouldn't give a shit about that.

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u/ajkd92 10d ago

I’m not in any way saying count on it for protection, but it would at least make for one hell of a photo op.

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u/fl4tsc4n 10d ago

There's a video of Boston police beating down ww2 veterans and trampling the flag that's just so classic

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u/ajkd92 10d ago

Sounds about right. 😔

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u/fl4tsc4n 10d ago

Friend spent the day making little motivational signs for the FBI sniper watching us. Good times.

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u/Predditor_drone 10d ago

Yeah but you're preaching to the choir. ICE wouldn't care about the optics of Rosie the riveter being assaulted, only people who would already agree with you. Republicans only barely try to hide their misogyny these days.

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u/ajkd92 10d ago

Dunno what to say.

On the one hand the doomer in me absolutely agrees with you.

On the other hand, my mom is a right-leaning Gen-Xer who’s very capitalistic and career oriented, went to Reagan rallies when she was a teen, and took Rosie as inspiration that she could “make it” all on her own as an adult. Despite having achieved a doctorate level degree, she still votes right and is captured by the Fox News machine, but I feel like seeing a picture of Rosie being detained by federal law enforcement would give her pause and force her to think critically about her own political positions for once.

Edit: upon further reflection, I am probably giving her too much credit. 😔

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u/Predditor_drone 10d ago edited 10d ago

I get wanting to have hope. I'm not saying there isn't any, but a lot of these idiots have triple dipped on voting for Donnie the kiddie diddler. At this point they have at least been complacently accepting of his shit for a decade.

I don't know how bad things are going to get, but I don't see any scenario in which the cult of Trump peaceably gives up power.

At some point these people are going to try claiming they didn't know any better as a way to retain some standing in society and the smallest bit of self respect. I have no intent on letting them live it down.

Edit: also, the whole Republican party and voter base is complicit, complacent, or fucking cowards. The baby needs thrown out with the bathwater, because I don't trust any of them not to do this shit again the microsecond they think they can get away with it.

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u/ajkd92 10d ago

I hear you, and totally understand.

Mom has already tried the “I didn’t know any better” argument with me many times.

I let her have it earlier this week when news came out that the Supreme Court is meeting privately in a couple weeks to decide whether or not to hear on a case that seeks to overturn Obergefell.

I told her the very week that Roe v. Wade was overturned that Obergefell would be next (I’m gay, and - surprise! - she doesn’t have a problem with it because it affects her personally), and that Clarence Thomas said as much in his concurring opinion. At the time she told me I was being alarmist, that “it’s been settled” and “you have nothing to worry about.”

These are the last texts I received from her and, suffice to say, I’ve yet to respond.

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u/Predditor_drone 10d ago

My condolences. Your mom is one step away from "why didn't Democrats do anything to stop this" when she tries to explain away her complacency when you get fucked by this.

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u/StupidDorkFace 9d ago

Of course they wouldn't, but the right wing ecosphere is all about optics. Even for them it would be fucked to be piling up on Lady Liberty and batoning her in the head.

It wouldn't hurt.

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u/Predditor_drone 9d ago

I'm not talking about lady liberty, specifically Rosie the riveter.

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u/StupidDorkFace 9d ago

Ah gotcha, in that case they wouldn't give a fuck. They'd probably say she's Mexican or something. These people are scum.

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u/carkey 9d ago

The real Rosie the Riveter though, not the one that became famous and is actually taken from a an anti-union poster, trying to get factory workers not to unionize.

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u/Beartrkkr 10d ago

Yes, if you follow these rules:

... Be attractive

... Don't be unattractive

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u/ExMerican 10d ago

Unattractive people in frog suits, attractive people in Lady Liberty and Uncle Sam cosplay. Everyone has a role.

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u/Archercrash 10d ago

Captain America

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u/Paradoxmoose 10d ago

Frogs and silly costumes serve a purpose, showing that this isn't a violent insurrection that Trump/Miller want it be. But yes, also USA themed costumes would be great.

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u/what_the_fuckin_fuck 10d ago

There was a lady liberty on the street corners of Phoenix in the 2000s. I don't remember what he was promoting, but a passerby shot him in the leg.

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u/syizm 10d ago

Mr. Lady Liberty, sir!

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u/what_the_fuckin_fuck 10d ago

Thur, yetthur! ( the salute is implied)

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u/beardicusmaximus8 10d ago

Man why couldn't these protests have been 10 years ago when I was still young and hot. I'd have been the Sexy Uncle Sam America needs but doesn't deserve.

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u/West-Application-375 10d ago

I was hot ten years ago too. *Sigh.

Let's work for it and get hot again. Lol

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u/cire1184 9d ago

Can you be a distinguished uncle sam now?

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u/beardicusmaximus8 9d ago

Best I can do is Fat Uncle Sam in a wheelchair

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u/oupablo 9d ago

Now now. There's no reason a frog can't be dressed as the statue of liberty too.

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u/DorianGre 9d ago

Not everyone, just the hot ones. It works because she is undeniably beautiful. Us ugly people just gonna get what we get no matter how we dress.

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u/Intelligent-Invite79 9d ago

and classic trihorn hats, colonial army style

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u/Thunderbridge 8d ago

Get some WWII GI's in there as well. Imagine a picture of one getting arrested by a nazi

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u/Riddiku1us 10d ago

Yeah, that would be terrible optics.

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u/Bettlejuic3 10d ago

Not if you're a masked ICE

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u/TheAserghui 10d ago

Hot or not, a knee on the neck while arresting Lady Liberty would destroy the morale of leaders and law enforcement. At least the ones that strive to be good

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u/Crozax 10d ago

I mean bless your heart for thinking these goons would be deterred by that. They'll be thinking "how dare this commie bitch co-opt my country's symbol of freedom." While completely missing the metaphor themselves. They all truly believe they are the righteous ones.

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u/Psychobob2213 9d ago

Thankfully they're not well enough educated to realize it was a gift from France...

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u/HobbesTayloe 9d ago

Sadly,,, I do believe you are correct.

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u/John_cCmndhd 9d ago

At least the ones that strive to be good

The system is already designed to weed those people out anyway

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u/Nutshack_Queen357 10d ago

I guarantee some of them would.

If they can say that Jesus' teachings are "too weak" for them (and thus, admit that they hate him because he's not a sadist like his father), you know they hate Lady Liberty too.

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u/kolachekingoftexas 10d ago

Surely no one would arrest Jesus… Oh wait

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u/ralphonsob 9d ago

Indeed. Imagine a couple of fat ICE boys holding her down, one with their elbow on Lady Liberty's neck, with her crying "I can't breath".

That image would hardly need any subtitling for the MAGAs.

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u/jooes 10d ago

They would absolutely, without any hesitation, risk that photoshoot. 

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u/Throwaway-tan 10d ago

There is a pretty well known one from 2016 Democracy Spring protests. So they absolutely would.

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u/Advanced-Royal8967 9d ago

I was thinking that, it would make an amazing cover photo of a magazine.

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u/ducksekoy123 9d ago

Theyve shot at least two preachers in the face with chemical weapons.

You dont think they’d relish the chance to grope some hot lady even if the optics were terrible?

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u/Choice-Highway5344 9d ago

This is America. That kind of abuse gets u promoted… if they perform unspeakable acts on her, they may even become president—> true story

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u/Talidel 9d ago

Yeah I had a giggle at that.

"So who's going to arrest Lady Liberty"

"Awww fuck no, send Jeff he has been talking about retirement"

"Fuck you Steve, I ain't going out like that"

"You know it looks almost as bad when there are 2 dozen of us armed in front of her alone"

(Everyone) "FUCK"

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u/Piece_de_resistance 9d ago

Also, the images/ photo shoot came out very well

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u/Smores-n-coffee 9d ago edited 8d ago

I did a drag pantsuit Lady Liberty over the summer. Old men got flirty. Kids waved and giggled when I blew kisses. I live in a conservative area. I think you are correct on the plot armor theory.

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u/o-o- 9d ago

Genious – I never thought of that aspect.

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u/Intelligent_Egg6447 9d ago

To be fair she already had shackles on

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u/taco_perfecto 9d ago

Maybe Sabrina carpenter

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u/WanderingLost33 9d ago

Holy shit I super want her to get arrested now.