lumpenproletariat2 men
over_cloxThis doesn’t mean 2 men.
This has #2 and #3 in a list, but where is #1? 🤔
The implication should be obvious, the dictators and oligarchs are working towards erasing critical history…
FoxyFerengiThe & symbol they wrote looks like a three I guess. It’s saying that “two Black men have been lynched &…”
Yep. That’s how my father wrote his “and” symbols.
Umm, okay. I’ve never seen it written or typed that way before, guess I’ll just have to take your word on it. 🤷
mozingoThe thing is, they wrote it backwards.
huh. that’s the way i have always done it. backwards, apparently.
I think of it like a non-cursive &…
You don’t have to take my word when Wikipedia exists :)
Okay, then why do they have to describe the character on Wikipedia?
There’s no actual Unicode font with that character?
There’s no reference image scans of that character?
Hell, the one and only one close example is a mirror image.
To me, what I saw on my screen is a number 3 with a couple dots.
Look, I’ve dealt with lead printing press plates, over 3000 fonts on computers, and have proven handwriting forgeries in court.
Yet I’ve never seen the ampersand symbol written, printed or typed in that manner, and Wikipedia doesn’t even seem to have much of any visual evidence of it, just a description…
KairuByteCool story.
Yes, because people like you must have Dyslexia and didn’t see the reverse image I did.
Fair, was focused on messing around with the marks above and below and forgot to double-check. ̗̀𑙓
[Dead-horse beating edit so you’re not getting useless notification spam: I see what you mean, it’s not very consistent between my devices either. Haven’t found a combination that matches, looks good, and shows up correctly across the different systems.]
The final character in your last posted comment doesn’t even show up here, it’s just a box with an X in it.
I’ll take people’s word on it…
MrVilliamLmao.
“I was wrong on the internet, so YOU must have a disability to have understood what several other people understood.”
If you had just humbled yourself and said “oh shit, I didn’t know that. I learned something today. Thanks, guys!” then everybody would cheer you on. Have a better attitude, seek self improvement, and you’ll be a much happier person surrounded by pleasant people.
Okay, then why do they have to describe the character on Wikipedia?
Tf you want them to do? Link to an interpretive dance on the subject? It’s Wikipedia. They explain shit.
Point is it’s apparently not recognized as a standard Unicode character. I don’t read E and 3 the same way, I’m not dyslexic.
So I saw an unusual character I have never seen before, and wondered what the character’s origins were. What I discovered is that it’s apparently a dyslexic mirror handwritten ampersand of a long lost character typeface or handwriting style.
So sue me for never seeing dyslexic graffiti out in the wild.
Unicode standards don’t say anything about the font.
Point is it’s apparently not recognized as a standard Unicode character
The standard ampersand is U+0026, and there is also a small ampersand, a full-width ampersand, a turned 180-degree ampersand, and 6 stylized versions that were carryovers from wingdings. It is also significantly older than Unicode, and is a standard key on query keyboards (shift-7)
Holy shit, shut the fuck up.
Holy fuck that shit was unnecessary, that was 2 days ago.
Clearly I already shut the fuck up, you should try doing the same, asshole.
No, seriously, just shut the fuck up you insufferable twat.
I apologize if I have somehow upset you or others with my lack of knowledge on what this meme graffiti refers to.
I happen to live in Mississippi and still haven’t seen a single news report of a second hanging, nor has anyone even shared an actual news article link covering the second hanging.
Keep in mind, Mississippi is actively blocking and censoring our internet and news, and the only one hanging they have covered, they’ve declared it as a suicide. So I had no clue why what appeared to me to be a list missing #1, my fucking bad.
Literally no news here in this state regarding a second hanging, so sorry I was in the dark on this. Sorry I misinterpreted the ‘meme’, I’m living in the very state trying to keep us in the dark on this.
You do NOT have to be a douchebag, literally two days after the comment you so rudely told me to shut up on. After two days (can you count days?), I had already shut up.
But you just had to rudely resurrect the mostly dead thread to start shit. Try to be better than that, like maybe provide me a link to an actual news article regarding the second hanging or something, cuz only Tate Reeves and the other politicians of Mississippi know why they’re literally keeping that out of our own news…
Or, ya know, if all you can do is curse at me, two days after the comment you responded to no less, there’s a simpler solution, you could just move on your merry way…
I’d like to think you might understand a little better now and might possibly try to be a better person than just cursing.
You could either ignore me, block me, or if I may ask, do you have a proper news article link to update me on what Mississippi is apparently censoring?
I was referring to you arguing about the validity of the “&” symbol.
Yes, I gathered as much. Again, I left that conversation two days ago, because it really doesn’t matter. I found myself confused, never saw such a mirror image alternate ampersand symbol before, and made a dummy assumption that it was a number 3 with a couple odd emphasis dots above and below, which led me to believe there was a missing #1 that had eroded on some old grafitti.
Clearly I was mistaken, clearly I was out of the loop, and if it made you and others feel any better, I apologized, for being censored from proper Mississippi news. They’re still declaring that there was only one hanging near Delta State University, and they’re still declaring that was a suicide.
I’m sorry I didn’t know what’s up when I initially commented, and yes I feel a bit embarrassed. But who should feel more embarrassed? Mississippi politicians that seem to be deliberately keeping their citizens in the dark and ignorant to this.
This level of censorship on such tragic events is fucking disgusting!
I’m glad we can have a bit of a civilized conversation now. Would you happen to have a link to a proper news article regarding these recent tragic events?
wlbt.com/…/what-we-know-about-hanging-deaths-two-…
One of them was black, but there are other similar events that have happened outside of Mississippi. Use google. America doesn’t like to identify lynchings, but there is a long and stable history of beaten dead bodies found in trees and tied to fence posts, a bit of an odd and difficult way to commit suicide if you ask me.
Thank you for the link, but I’ll pass on using Google.
May I remind you again, Mississippi is censoring our internet and news, duh.
I’ll check your link through Tor though.
Damn yo, thank you for sharing a proper link at least.
Sorry about my misunderstanding and our fuss and whatnot, but that’s altogether messed up ☹️
I found the article via Tor (fuck Tater Reeves and his kind), but seriously they seem to be censoring the full facts here in Mississippi…
There can’t be a coincidence, I don’t think anyways…
Well, that one is backwards. It’s usually an E. Because an ampersand is originally the latin word “et” (meaning “and”). If you use an epsilon (ε) instead of an E and then cross it, it’s a stylized “et”.
And now you’re burdened with more useless knowledge!
Indeed I learned a thing today.
Did you know that only 27% of social media users know how to sharpen a pencil?
According to recent research, 89℅ of modern AI users know how to sharpen their finger in a pencil sharpener…
Today’s lesson brought to you by the letter &
Why is this relevant at all?
2 Black men were found hung. That’s the fucking thing that matters.
There is no context of time, there have been many thousands of people hung over time.
Is there a specific context I’m supposed to take this as?
Stop playing as a bot without telling us you’re a bot. Have you considered using your bot brain to go look further, or do you require further instructions?
Bruh, I left this thread yesterday after I was informed there was a second hanging at/near Delta State University.
Kinda fucking awkward to learn that news from Lemmy, considering I live in Mississippi, but you gotta consider that Mississippi is actively trying to censor our internet and news a lot more than most other states.
Sadly, this is still the only source of information I’ve seen regarding a second hanging, they’re damn sure not putting that on our news channels here…
Well shit, you coulda at least been decent enough to tell me they found a second hanging body. ☹️
I’m actually from Mississippi, though not from that region. Sorry I wasn’t aware of the second deceased, my bad. First I’m hearing about that…
That isn’t a 3.
This is America, we’re just finally going full “mask off.”
We’re a disgusting disgrace of a country, chock full of Nazis, Nazi apologists, fascist propagandists, and fascist billionaires. I’d argue we never really were anything different, we just had a decent streak of cowards running the show that just wanted to satisfy endless greed without rocking the boat too much. The current bunch relish the chaos, hatred, neck stomping and 40% of the population are absolutely here for it and want more.
It’s only downhill from here. :(
It’s true the only reason the US didn’t go full Nazi in the 30s and 40s was we didn’t like how Germany was invading France and Britain.
Otherwise there was a lot of support for a domestic Nazi party leading to and ethnostate. Perhaps even over all of North America.
Yup… :(
Madison square garden NYC 1939
I zoomed in a little and guess what I found
Haha well played!
samus12345“Wir Sind Alle Inländische Terroristen”
We’re sinned all inland-ish terrorist-N
Really interesting messaging in the banners. “Fight the boycott” … Hmm wonder what was being boycotted in 1939 America, let’s check the internet: Oh just the 1933 anti Nazi boycott.
I think the parallel between that boycott and the Russian sanctions is pretty interesting. Also the parallel between what happened with the annexation of The Sudetenland in the 1930s by Nazi Germany and what is happening with the Crimea region on the Ukraine/Russian border.
Let’s not jump the gun on any rumors yet. Police, for what that’s worth, said there was no evidence of assault on Trey Reed’s body, though his family is rightfully seeking an independent autopsy report. And apparently the second hanging body was a 36-year-old white man.
snopes.com/…/trey-reed-death-delta-university/
Is the timing suspicious? Absolutely. Are the cops being cagey about it? Even if it’s still an ongoing investigation, yes. Although it is Mississippi. We’re not exactly expecting excellence from them.
My point being that we’re getting information at a slow trickle and we’ll have to fucking hound the media to keep these stories in the news cycle, so it’s going to be a good while before we have any idea what happened. Especially with all hands on deck dedicated to making sure everyone has a government-approved reaction to the somehow more important murder.
Police, for what that’s worth, said
Which would be about “nothing” without independent confirmation.
If you still have any trust in the press releases of American cops, let alone those of the worst of ALL states in 2025, you’re fucking delusional.
You’re right about not jumping to CONCLUSIONS, but you’re dead wrong about having even a modicum of trust in the statements of Mississippi cops before we reach any.
A black man found hanging from a tree: no foul play suspected
Statements of the utterly deranged
Can’t it also be a suicide?
How come?
Basic situational understanding.
Your situational awareness is saying that there’s no way this could’ve been a suicide, even though suicide is unfortunately not rare
Use your fucking brain.
It sounds like you don’t really have anything to say it couldn’t have been a suicide. You just don’t think it was. Which is different, my friend
That’s why I mentioned that the family is rightfully seeking an independent autopsy report. And my whole last paragraph about how fucked up the whole situation is.
I’m just saying we can’t and shouldn’t be calling it a lynching yet, even if the signs are pointing in that direction. We should absolutely be raising questions and bullying the cops to an acceptable answer.
The standard of evidence for calling it a lynching outside of a court of law has been met IMO.
Let’s call a spade a spade.
Even if it’s still an ongoing investigation, yes. Although it is Mississippi
Education is optional in Mississippi.
theneverfoxIt’s not rumors, this is an extremely unusual method of suicide, especially for a black man.
It also happened twice in possibly the most racist state, on the same day
And the cops say there’s no foul play. Come on now, there’s jumping to conclusions, and then there’s situations so unlikely they require one hell of an explanation
CorkyskogThis guy is the coroner, so it’s not a ole white boy club thing:
Not saying this isn’t all suspicious, just probably doesn’t play out how people had in mind.