Ramsey Khalid Ismael — better known as Johnny Somali, the infamous American streamer arrested in Japan, Israel, and South Korea for his provocative behavior — has been imprisoned in South Korea.
  • fonix232@fedia.io
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    2 days ago

    yeah, the kind that sets you on fire, shoots your wife and sells your children to Epstein, then goes “it’s just a prank bro”.

    There’s tons of light-hearted, harmless pranks out there. A good laugh where everyone goes away a little bit happier.

    This guy and his ilk on the other hand intentionally antagonise people to the point where they feel the need to defend themselves. Just because someone is out and about in public doesn’t mean they’re a free target for you to be shitty with them. Everyone has - or at least should have - the right to be unbothered in public by leeches like him.

    • FederatedFreedom1981@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 days ago

      People should also have the right to fight back with extreme prejudice if these morons lay hands on them first.

      • fonix232@fedia.io
        13·
        2 days ago

        100% - but I meant the self defense part when they haven’t actually touched you, just gotten to the point where their actions can constitute harassment.

            • FederatedFreedom1981@lemmy.caEnglish
              2·
              2 days ago

              The point I’m trying to make is that people should be free of prosecution if they are being aggressively harassed, both physical and verbal. It used to be, you ran your mouth, you would get a punch in the face to knock some sense back into you. Immediate consequences for stupidity.

              • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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                2 days ago

                People who say “violence is never the answer” probably never got bullied or harassed themselves.

                They’ll moralize about “just tell on them!” But that doesn’t do anything, and the harassment only gets worse after that.

                Throughout my life, I’ve consistently gotten in more trouble for sticking up for myself than I’ve ever seen my bullies or harassers get in. It’s like the system wants us all to be pushovers and peons, not deserving even the ground beneath our feet. Or maybe I’ve just been tagged from birth as a “peasant” and therefore never been allowed to have a spine.

                But honestly, you can see how much damage this is doing to society. “Violence is never the answer” means we have to tolerate intolerance. It gives free license to bigotry, and forces us to appease.

                Violence was certainly the answer back in WWII. Nobody was gonna stop the Nazis simply by asking nicely.

                But for decades now, people haven’t even been allowed to fight their bullies. And it shows…

                  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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                    1 day ago

                    The worst is once you’re an adult and then they start acting like standing up for yourself is something only kids do.

                    Then they call you childish and immature for having the audacity to defend yourself when you’re bullied, threatened, or harassed…

              • fonix232@fedia.io
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                2 days ago

                Oh I agree. I’m just pointing out that currently, courts require physicality to happen for an overwhelming majority of physical self defense responses.