• MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    i remember living in redhatistan in 2003. it was halloween. i thought of the thing that would be scariest to my neighbors so i dressed up as an iraq war protestor. most of my neighbors immediately got it and thought it was hilarious. about 15% of them were insanely offended and two or three grown men squared up to fight me until they realized the puny disabled kid had this long board with nails in it holding a small sign. i was not unprepared in any way.

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      5 days ago

      I was much more outspoken then, and I learned to keep my weirdo opinions to myself. A mob madness overtakes them

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      I went to a Halloween party in 2004 dressed as an Abu Ghreb detaineee. I was basically naked with flesh-colored compression shorts that had a stuffed dog biting the crotch, a black hood, chains and a leash attached to my wrists, and “property of Abu Ghreb” written on my chest. Absolutely nobody got it (this was also in the South, in a Louisiana town with a big air force base, so it’s probably best that it wasn’t understood).