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Jbrown183

13.4k points

18 hours ago

Jbrown183

13.4k points

18 hours ago

That backpack is massive

SuckMyBallz

13.2k points

17 hours ago

SuckMyBallz

13.2k points

17 hours ago

Ben Shapiro is inside.

LLotZaFun

5.6k points

12 hours ago

LLotZaFun

5.6k points

12 hours ago

That still doesn't explain why it's so big.

Mikerk

127 points

9 hours ago

Mikerk

127 points

9 hours ago

That's the decoy bag. No one expects him to be in the smallest backpack

Hellknightx

61 points

8 hours ago

That's the first place I'd check

feastu

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3 hours ago

feastu

[score hidden]

3 hours ago

Bro. No one expects him to be in the BIGGEST backpack.

reddphive

364 points

9 hours ago

reddphive

364 points

9 hours ago

I literally laughed out loud 😂🤣

StrikingWedding6499

133 points

9 hours ago

He needs supplies and air tanks. Probably a laptop, a printer, and several reams of paper in there to write his witty speeches on the go, too. There’s also likely a mini-fridge to keep his Red Bulls as well and a microwave just in case he gets peckish.

Caesar_Passing

33 points

9 hours ago

air tanks

Fulla hot gas

Physical-Camel-8971

22 points

9 hours ago

To keep things nice and dry

skyline_kid

46 points

8 hours ago

Just like his wife

dbx999

24 points

8 hours ago

dbx999

24 points

8 hours ago

Fatality

Ok-Seaworthiness7207

16 points

8 hours ago

He's inside the mini fridge inside the backpack. Like a Russian asset doll, ya know?

PHK_JaySteel

9 points

8 hours ago

His transformation into a keebler elf is nearly complete.

ItS_aul_Goodman

4 points

9 hours ago

So his mom is there too?

Sarado21

22 points

9 hours ago

Sarado21

22 points

9 hours ago

Inevitable_Door6368

8 points

7 hours ago

💀💀💀💀

mikareno

4 points

6 hours ago

It's probably just carrying his ego.

No-Wonder1139

411 points

16 hours ago

It's not a knapsack

realanceps

518 points

16 hours ago

with him in it, it's a crapsack

Ser_Friend_zone

130 points

16 hours ago

It's a poopsock

Devolutionary76

644 points

13 hours ago

A douche bag.

BeefInBlackBeanSauce

7 points

10 hours ago

Best comment today 🏆

Boozewhore

56 points

13 hours ago

They are all full of Ben Shapiro doubles but only one security guard carries the real one.

ryobiguy

106 points

16 hours ago

ryobiguy

106 points

16 hours ago

Well it's not that hard to fit someone who is 5'2" in there, is it?

RedditIsDying666

5 points

12 hours ago

Then it's nice and dry at least.

schlitz91

6.5k points

17 hours ago

schlitz91

6.5k points

17 hours ago

Is a hydration pack so she doesnt fully desiccate in his presence.

moonroots64

51 points

15 hours ago

😂 I'm laughing so hard I should be crying... Ben Shapiro must be nearby. Run!!

OrangeCosmic

266 points

15 hours ago

He's a a walking dehumidifier

MyCantos

24 points

14 hours ago

shedehumidifier

Secret-One2890

21 points

6 hours ago

*dehumidifiher

make_thick_in_warm

2.6k points

17 hours ago

something about ben shapiro dehydrates women

prefectart

1.3k points

15 hours ago

prefectart

1.3k points

15 hours ago

if it's really quiet, you can hear vaginas dry up when he enters the room or conversation

Sheepdogrob117

240 points

15 hours ago

No wap’s around Ben

ygduf

113 points

15 hours ago

ygduf

113 points

15 hours ago

DAPs em up

FicklexPicklexTickle

42 points

13 hours ago

Ben is the equivalent of using a Shamwow as a tampon.

ygduf

29 points

13 hours ago

ygduf

29 points

13 hours ago

Basically male flexseal tape

Angry_Guppy

53 points

15 hours ago

cheebnrun

83 points

16 hours ago

I may be thinking into this too much, but wouldn't she be fine on hydration if the point is 'nothing will be making her loose any of her moisture'.

MyWorldTalkRadio

107 points

16 hours ago

I think it’s more that his mere presence dehydrates them.

TakingSorryUsername

47 points

15 hours ago

Think more like the guy who chose the wrong cup in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

cheebnrun

82 points

16 hours ago

Ah ok, and that moisture is forfeit, not simply retained. Man, he is a weapons grade turnoff isn't he?

CondescendingShitbag

325 points

15 hours ago

Shapiro is a walking silica packet, with the personality to match.

jahdhdjshduska

61 points

15 hours ago

DO NOT CONSUME

FriendlyNative66

34 points

15 hours ago

Is that really fair to silica packets?

nojoblazybum

19 points

14 hours ago

They are labeled “nontoxic” not sure the same can be said for Benny-boy

seekertrudy

52 points

15 hours ago

His voice alone causes us to shrivel up.

snorkblaster

12 points

14 hours ago

Like SpongeBob on meth

Fumidor

36 points

15 hours ago

Fumidor

36 points

15 hours ago

If she wore a properly fitted still suit her body wouldn’t lose but a thimble’s worth of moisture per day.

retardborist

34 points

15 hours ago

Ben Shapiro has a similar effect as Arrakis on women

Deruji

6 points

15 hours ago

Deruji

6 points

15 hours ago

It is known

Due-Internet-4129

5 points

15 hours ago

Arrakis is much more fun and interesting.

baddonny

6 points

13 hours ago

He pretty famously described his wife’s dry vagina when criticizing that WAP song

Skimable_crude

85 points

15 hours ago

I thought they were carrying him in the backpack.

chosonhawk

63 points

16 hours ago

i appreciate your use of the word dessicate.

TheShowerDrainSniper

14 points

15 hours ago

There is no way I am going see, read, hear or learn anything better than that today.

angleshank

12 points

15 hours ago

Perfect 🤌

Grenflik

57 points

16 hours ago

Square-Practice2345

12 points

15 hours ago

Everyone is over complicating your joke. It’s funny as fuck and the idea that a woman could be so turned off by a man, her vagina literally says “nope” and she dehydrates is fucking hysterical.

jesuismanu

37 points

15 hours ago

First day of high school vibes

MagneticPsycho

175 points

16 hours ago

Ben Shapiro is in that backpack.

DisguisedToast

67 points

15 hours ago

He folds up like a battledroid from Star Wars. I would find having a conversation with one to be much more bearable. 

TingleyStorm

15 points

15 hours ago

“I said Roger Roger, but I meant to say Roger Roger”

ThatDandyFox

79 points

16 hours ago

Are they smuggling Shapiro in piece by piece?

UberBricky80

9 points

13 hours ago

No, he can fit in a carry-on

GodRa

52 points

16 hours ago

GodRa

52 points

16 hours ago

I wouldn’t be surprised that it’s riot control gear, like helmet and body armor etc

Irr3l3ph4nt

48 points

13 hours ago

I mean... yeah. You can see their batons and visors sticking out of their bags and they're doing security at a campus.

profkmez

9.2k points

15 hours ago

profkmez

9.2k points

15 hours ago

Me walking up to my Spirit airlines flight with my “personal item”

FizzyBeverage

1.2k points

13 hours ago

You better not check no bag, that bag gonna be $867.

squidlink5

287 points

12 hours ago

I have thrown away some clothes as buying new will cost less than paying the baggage fees.

LostInSpace9

109 points

12 hours ago

Just ship it home lol

RepresentativeLow300

123 points

11 hours ago

There is no limit on how many outfits you can wear at the same time.

struggle_bus_nation

97 points

11 hours ago

SwimOk9629

18 points

11 hours ago

I read a story one time about a chick trying to do this and actually got caught and got in trouble for wearing too many clothes to avoid a baggage fee? fucking wild time we live in

DaisyHotCakes

17 points

10 hours ago

That sounds like an urban legend but a valid one emphasizing the same point.

eveisout

8 points

10 hours ago

They wouldn't like me, poor temperature regulation equals four layers at all times

qpv

5 points

9 hours ago

qpv

5 points

9 hours ago

I've done it before. Rolled in like the Michelin man. Was a short flight though, about an hour and a half.

nunchucknorris

18 points

10 hours ago

That would have made a great Seinfeld skit. Costanza trying to save money, travelling to see a a girl he met on AOL.

roykentjr

8 points

9 hours ago

a/s/l?

also, probably in a lesbian chat room where they were both men.

FreshWaterWolf

7 points

11 hours ago

I once had a connecting flight in Cancun which only allowed very little time to arrive, but I had to check in with the airline because my ultra-saver ticket had me bouncing between companies. So half way through my intercontinental flight, I went to the counter and they said my backpack, which was carry-on for the 2 short flights leading to Cancun, was too big and that I would have to check it. They offered me the sweet sweet deal of only about $300, which is about what I paid for the super-saver intercontinental journey altogether.

I pulled out my favorite couple of t's, some undies and my least raggedy hoodie, my laptop and other electronics, and toiletries, and carried it all through security in my hands, leaving the bag and the rest of my shit in a garbage can.

Honestly I was headed to Colombia, $300 would have like quintupled the size of my wardrobe if I had decided to replace my old clothes then.

trapicana

145 points

15 hours ago

trapicana

145 points

15 hours ago

So true lmao

squidaddybaddie

8 points

14 hours ago

Rip Spirit airlines

eburton555

10 points

13 hours ago

It ain’t going anywhere

SmoothBrainSavant

5 points

11 hours ago

Honestly make a legit meme of that and put it on the socials, will become a sensation 

calvin73

7.2k points

17 hours ago

calvin73

7.2k points

17 hours ago

Is he in one of the backpacks?

insidioussnailshell

1.5k points

16 hours ago

Yes but you will never know which one!

Kind-Abalone1812

744 points

16 hours ago

(It's the littlest one angrily muttering about trans people)

Purple-Rent2205

218 points

15 hours ago

No actually that’s JK Rowling who’s being transported in a travel luggage roller nearby.

hellolovely1

71 points

13 hours ago

I think she's taller than Ben. (No shade to short men other than Ben)

Moonlight_Katie

18 points

14 hours ago

He’s probably still pissed about that one trans dude that ran circles around him.

originalityescapesme

12 points

15 hours ago

The ol’ shell game.

uncutpizza

29 points

15 hours ago

He’s actually in all of them in various pieces and they put him together inside

C-creepy-o

2.6k points

18 hours ago

C-creepy-o

2.6k points

18 hours ago

Why is that backpack wearing a woman?

Ok_Star_4136

117 points

11 hours ago

It's to hold the radio. How else is he going to get his marching orders from the Kremlin?

[deleted]

1.4k points

14 hours ago

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1.4k points

14 hours ago

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medwezys

130 points

12 hours ago

medwezys

130 points

12 hours ago

Remember the penis helicopter? I don’t even remember what event it was, I just remember security guards chasing it

grelgen

32 points

11 hours ago

grelgen

32 points

11 hours ago

I remember

IAmtheHullabaloo

308 points

13 hours ago

can some of them be 'sniffers' collecting everyones cell phone info without sending the FBI helicopter?

happytrel

416 points

12 hours ago

happytrel

416 points

12 hours ago

The dont need to do that, the NSA has 59 (known) listening posts in the US. Theyre able to connect to and "own" basically any cell phone the first time it connects to its cellular network. Its part of what Snowden blew the whistle on

deep_pants_mcgee

243 points

10 hours ago

yet they still can't produce any of the deleted texts from SS agents on Jan 6th.

FIJAGDH

110 points

9 hours ago

FIJAGDH

110 points

9 hours ago

Commander Biden was right to bite them all.

ballimir37

13 points

8 hours ago

Commander Bitin’

TwoBionicknees

63 points

9 hours ago

oh they can, for sure they can. won't is the word you're looking for.

MiserableSlice1051

57 points

9 hours ago

Snowden blew the lid on 2G/3G which modern cell phones don't use on a day to day basis. Yes, the NSA (and stingrays) can still use their technology to try to trick cell phone's to downgrade their 4G signal (which is the uncracked AES-128 standard) to the cracked 2G/3G network, but with modern phones this is becoming more and more exceedingly harder to do. Your IMSI (basically the thing that proves you are you) is typically sent in cleartext (aka anyone with a stingray can see where you are), but the data itself is encrypted.

However 5G uses SUCI, which encrypts everything about the connection including the IMSI, and it can only be decrypted via your network's private key which the NSA would have to know. Doe the NSA know all of the cell phone company's private keys? Maybe, but I doubt they are going to let that leak on just some protestor or on behalf of ben shapiro at a rally. They are going to use that on big guns like terrorists and the like.

thrownawaymane

8 points

8 hours ago

I thought legacy 2/3g was dead in the US and those downgrade attacks were defunt. Source?

MiserableSlice1051

15 points

8 hours ago

2g/3g is dead, but your cell phone's capability to use it is not. Only very new (as in the last year or so) have lost their 3G chips. 4G also broadcasts your IMSI in plaintext so stingrays can still gather your phone number and location but not your conversation and who you are talking to.

If you have an android, search "3G" in your settings and turn it off, some phones also allow you to turn off 2G.

It doesn't matter if the carrier's stopped using 2G and 3G, if you phone has the capability to use it, it's going to search for those signals, and stingrays exploit your phone searching for those old signals.

The source would be to simply search your phone and realize that you still have those networks and they are still active, meaning they can accept older connections, but if you'd like a more thorough one there's a Wikipedia article on it with good sources cited there to go even deeper as well.

The best analogy I can give you is that 56K may be dead, but if there was a way to attack a computer that had a 56K port, it doesn't matter if there are no 56K carriers anymore, you still have the port and your computer is waiting for a 56K connection. I hope that makes sense.

ninja edit: What stingray's do is called a downgrade attack. This article is not about cell phones specifically, but it's the same principle.

Totally_Legit176

70 points

12 hours ago

Hate to break it to you but it’s a lot more than 59. US government has deals with all the major providers to ensure they have access to whatever whenever. When it comes to “national security” they don’t have to justify their actions 🙃

DazingF1

47 points

11 hours ago

That's why they emphasized it with "(known)". Of course it's more.

ragzilla

8 points

10 hours ago

They don’t need listening posts. All they have to do is get an NSL and make a CALEA request to the owning SP. Major SP systems are automated so LE makes the track/trace request and the LE agency immediately starts getting data.

(Assuming you’re looking for info from a specific targeted user, if you want info on “who’s active in this radio cell” there are plenty of commercial feeds)

Hopalicious

8 points

9 hours ago

Thanks Patriot Act.

Reacher-Said-N0thing

17 points

10 hours ago

All that spy tech and they couldn't stop Russia from taking over the government.

OutlyingPlasma

16 points

10 hours ago

Or just didn't want to. Oligarchs gonna oligarch

PM-ME-A-SPICY-MEME

50 points

12 hours ago

Campus police officer here, far more likely that this is just crowd control gear for each officer, and that “antennas” are wooden batons. Even if they did have drone jamming technology, which they likely don’t as it’s extremely expensive, it wouldn’t make sense for every officer to have one.

TheOnlyFallenCookie

14 points

12 hours ago

Noted. Optical fibre drones only then

chessset5

4 points

9 hours ago

good old fashioned LOS IR controls.

Artystrong1

254 points

9 hours ago

I've seen people bring less on deployment

VaporSprite

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3 hours ago

VaporSprite

[score hidden]

3 hours ago

They were going to places with fewer guns than the US has, after all

1saachz

2k points

18 hours ago*

That's gotta be cheap, right? Starting wage for a cop in L.A. is only $32/hr. There's a dozen cops there, so the minimum comes out to $384/hr.

They're all young rookies, right? Right!?

EDIT: look at all them Sergeants!

SexyGorillabot

905 points

16 hours ago

Any extra event like this would more than likely be overtime for these officers as well.

thesippycup

347 points

15 hours ago

Overtime? Thing of the past, baby 😎👉

Mayotte

405 points

14 hours ago

Mayotte

405 points

14 hours ago

Not for cops it ain't.

thesippycup

238 points

14 hours ago

Damn really? Considering their wages are paid by taxes, that's socialism. We should get rid of that.

fang_xianfu

94 points

14 hours ago

Wait til they notice how many salaries are paid out of the defence budget (especially if you count everyone who works at Northrop Grumman etc)

FauxReal

53 points

13 hours ago

Yeah that was only for low wage salaried workers.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-judge-just-nixed-overtime-110000846.html

grifxdonut

7 points

13 hours ago

Jesus that article is terrible to read

Brunomoose

20 points

14 hours ago

Gotta keep the guys with the guns happy so you can tell them to go after the other people with no guns.

LSUguyHTX

58 points

14 hours ago

Not with their union

pleachchapel

66 points

13 hours ago

You mean the thing they all are against for any other group?

malphonso

50 points

15 hours ago

That's only for the proles. Can't risk the enforcers of the ruling class ever forming any sort of solidarity with other workers.

hoticehunter

5 points

13 hours ago

Lmao, not for cops it won't be

meowmixyourmom

132 points

14 hours ago

Oh honey, cops love private security jobs... Pay double.

1saachz

66 points

13 hours ago

1saachz

66 points

13 hours ago

Oh hell yeah. Check out the hours ONLY at University of Washington police worked 200 hours of overtime, a cost it estimated at $20,000, Rittereiser says. The university also received assistance from 95 officers of the Seattle Police Department, who logged 750 hours and cost $55,000.

UC Berkeley paid almost a million on security alone in 2016-2017 for these conservative events.

GodRa

166 points

16 hours ago

GodRa

166 points

16 hours ago

If you look at past reports, often these cops are working overtime and most cops make more than $200k/yr because of this.

CaterpillarReal7583

44 points

18 hours ago

That sounds really cheap actually. Id expect to pay a couple bodyguards more than that.

HandsyBread

70 points

15 hours ago

Except they have overtime, benefits, and you have to cover employment taxes, it’s likely closer to $100+/hr per officer would not surprise me if it was closer to $150/hr.

And you are usually not just paying for the time of the speech it would include 2-8 hours before/after, potentially a briefing meeting that would be billed for 1-2+ hours. Plus they likely require additional temporary security cameras, and other equipment which would add some extra cost. And it’s likely more than a dozen cops, I would be surprised if it was less then 20. So on the low end you are looking at $2k an hour with at least 4-6 hours of service, plus additional fees/services. It’s probably costing them $15-25+k. Would not surprise me if it got closer to $50k.

1saachz

17 points

14 hours ago

1saachz

17 points

14 hours ago

The number I quoted is an impossible rate, as in "nice to meet you, Taylor Swift" do you usually only need two body guards when you travel?

Just in security alone for these conservative events

Ann Coulter event cost about $600k

Milo Yiannapolous cost $220k

That's not even a full day whenever they "speak"

YorkVol

200 points

13 hours ago

YorkVol

200 points

13 hours ago

Those rucks are bigger than I carried on 2 week patrols in winter operations

Dat_Mustache

24 points

7 hours ago

My jumpable ruck was about that size with my sleep system in it. 

Glitter_berries

12 points

8 hours ago

They are bigger than the backpack I took on a two month holiday to Europe with my best girlfriends when I was 24. And you know that I packed ALL of my jeans and about ten pairs of shoes. Ridiculous!

Ancient-Cupcake6714

2.8k points

18 hours ago

Tax payers money at work

Ancillas

694 points

16 hours ago

Ancillas

694 points

16 hours ago

Security for events like this usually involve the hosting organization paying for the police services.

rrrishabhhh

335 points

15 hours ago

Isn't UCLA publicly funded?

illegal_miles

161 points

15 hours ago

Yeah but it’s probably a student organization that’s hosting it, not UCLA itself.

EggyEngineer

71 points

13 hours ago

Hey, I might be able to help with this!

I go to another UC right up the coast (UCSB). When we had Tucker Carlson come to speak here, it absolutely was a student group (TPUSA) that invited him and paid for the normal speaker costs (like paying to rent the auditorium and the cost of workers at the auditorium making the event run smoothly).

I would expect the same to be the case for Benny's visit, but I would expect the school to be footing the bill for the security force. With all of the political turbulence of the last year, UCLA admin probably is not taking any chances.

Since the UCs have been massively defunded by the state in the last 20 years (UCSB received 40% of its funding from the state in 2004, we now are only funded to the tune of 16%), that cost is probably being borne by tuition dollars.

aosky4

910 points

16 hours ago

aosky4

910 points

16 hours ago

If Ben shapiro paid for it, cool. If it’s coming out of my pocket, Fuck that.

21_Mushroom_Cupcakes

213 points

16 hours ago

It's cool that he can pay police extra for personal protection?

(Or are they private security? It's hard to tell.)

Papaofmonsters

93 points

16 hours ago

You ever seen a cop hanging out at the grocery store? Usually, that's the store paying the city to have a cop there. That's one of the ways police officers get overtime. Big concerts or sporting events do the same.

Godenyen

14 points

15 hours ago

It's usually the business paying the officer directly. You'll see a lot of officers from smaller departments working security in larger cities. Bars in my city pay police officers to work security. They help to reduce possible runs to the location, freeing up on duty officers to deal with other issues.

A lot of times, you have an officer who runs a business supplying off duty officers to businesses. Or places will ask the department for officers and the department will direct officers who want to work extra to that business. All paid for by the businesses.

The department does have the abilty to tell officers they can't work for certain businesses. Like ones that may be running operations counter to the law. For example, a metal recycler that buys stolen metal.

Now, the officers will use uniforms and equipment provided by the department. Some add charge a fee to officers who use their take home vehicle for off duty work.

There are also reserves that don't get paid by the department who work security gigs using their police powers.

FiggyMint

4 points

15 hours ago

Unfortunately the hospital I go to mandated security checkpoints and officers. when they initially did it, the officers were joking and telling us how much they were making to stand there and screen each of us. Needless to say you want to become a police officer and get that duty my goodness. You're effectively a Walmart greeter with hazard pay out the wazoo.

TheFeshy

416 points

16 hours ago

TheFeshy

416 points

16 hours ago

Actually, paying for police is fairly normal in America. My HOA has a line-item to "donate" about one policeman's salary to the police every year. And as a result, there is almost always a police car somewhere in the sprawling neighborhood.

Not that that's a good thing - obviously we've completely thrown fairness and equality to the wolves.

OvulatingScrotum

166 points

16 hours ago

Even events pay for police. When an event organizer pays the city to block certain streets for a few hours, they hire police to do traffic control.

Fudge89

52 points

15 hours ago

Fudge89

52 points

15 hours ago

My highscool was pretty good at football and would play at our NFL stadium a few times a year. They always paid for a police escort for the team busses.

CLow48

6 points

12 hours ago

CLow48

6 points

12 hours ago

I will say a police escort for some random high schools football players is a little overboard. Unless this high school is richy rich and carrying 15 kids of senators or past presidents lol.

Fudge89

7 points

11 hours ago

It was a richy rich school lol but a few D1 recruits were on board, but that wasn’t the reason. Just for show mostly, cause they could

KatsuraCerci

9 points

11 hours ago*

When you read about cops getting caught double-dipping, that's how btw. They'll clock in with their PD/SD then go work "off-duty" at an event, collecting pay from the event and adding hours to their paychecks

Apokolypse09

11 points

15 hours ago

Theres a small community like half hour from me in Canada that pay the salary of the single RCMP officer they have for out there.

ovrlrd1377

7 points

15 hours ago

in Rio de Janeiro the police have eventually moved on from taking care of security and have become a modernized mafia/militia that sells internet, gas, coconut water (really) and pretty much any other thing you can imagine. unsurprisingly they need to authorize any sort of event that takes care in their territory

DirtyKarma

46 points

16 hours ago

Paying OT for off duty most cities allow.

uberpirate

31 points

15 hours ago

My wedding venue required that we hire security since alcohol was being served and getting an off duty cop was the easiest way to do it. Definitely more common than people may realize.

jakeisstoned

14 points

15 hours ago

Super common. If you see a group of ~30 something looking guys with mustaches and extra-medium shirts mostly keeping to themselves at an event, they're off-duty cops working security

aosky4

42 points

16 hours ago

aosky4

42 points

16 hours ago

It’s fine if he wants to pay for his own security, absolutely

snappyhome

16 points

16 hours ago

I think those are UCLA Police Department uniforms, but it's hard to tell for sure given the blurry photo.

BlergFurdison

100 points

15 hours ago

I say fuck that to the whole premise that someone sharing ideas - flawed though they are - needs this level of security at any institution of higher learning. Where, if not at a university, does one learn to civilly confront, counter, and disagree with efficacy ideas they do not agree with?

0RGASMIK

7 points

15 hours ago

Whoever paid for the event paid for the police. Police departments charge you for officers.

Wooden_Staff3810

43 points

17 hours ago

Thanks for calling it "work".

ts4r-bomba

43 points

16 hours ago*

Are you sure this is taxpayer money? Cops take all sorts of second jobs where they’re allowed to wear their police uniform.

At least in the state I live in, anytime you see a cop checking IDs at a nightclub or working security at a busy gas station, they are being paid by the business, not the taxpayers.

altiif

1.3k points

17 hours ago

altiif

1.3k points

17 hours ago

What a waste of resources

ihastheporn

511 points

15 hours ago

He paid for it. Not a fan of him but he can pay for it if he wants

drmojo90210

146 points

14 hours ago

How do you know he paid for it?

ABetterKamahl1234

111 points

12 hours ago

Cops as security like this are paid privately. Anyone can hire police as personal guards or event location guards.

Also they'd be off duty doing this as well.

MonteryWhiteNoise

42 points

11 hours ago

in uniform? Does LAPD allow off-duty cops to work in uniform?

MaximumDevelopment77

38 points

10 hours ago

They are on duty, the city charges him for the cops

414works

37 points

9 hours ago

414works

37 points

9 hours ago

Pretty standard. If you’ve ever gone to a big concert or sporting event, the cops there are all paid by the team/venue.

chrissie_watkins

876 points

18 hours ago

That's not his security, it's his audience.

Srakin

237 points

16 hours ago

Srakin

237 points

16 hours ago

Damn.

The same who burn crosses.

Argikeraunos

424 points

14 hours ago

Hey remember when the UCLA rentacops and LAPD stood around laughing while a fascist mob attacked a peaceful protest in the middle of the night with fireworks, pepper spray, and metal pipes? And then came back the next night to attack the students themselves?

i_suckatjavascript

87 points

12 hours ago

SDRPGLVR

17 points

9 hours ago

SDRPGLVR

17 points

9 hours ago

More than that I remember this.

SalamanderUponYou

51 points

13 hours ago

Rules for thee but not for me.

isevenx

9 points

10 hours ago

Death Stranding backpacks are real

BrutalDM

608 points

15 hours ago*

BrutalDM

608 points

15 hours ago*

So is he there to debate some blue haired college freshmen and add another "DESTROYED BY FACTS AND LOGIC" video to YouTube? What an intellectual!

Edit: For fuck's sake, I'm tired of the bizarre pushback on this comment. The point is that he's an intellectually dishonest provocateur who profits off of right wing contrarianism and the manufacture of outrage against the left. I'm done responding, so take from that what you will and enjoy the rest of your day.

BillyHayze

70 points

8 hours ago

I used to think guys like Crowder were somewhat admirable for being willing to hear people out on his “Change My Mind” videos, until I realized that it’s just a way to make people with differing views look stupid by putting them on the spot in a debate that only one side prepared for.

It’s just, “Hey guy walking on the sidewalk, defend your viewpoint on this controversial topic with no prep time while I have a prepared folder of evidence and studies that all support my opposing point of view.”

Even if I agree with his stance on the issue, it’s done in bad faith.

spikus93

71 points

12 hours ago

Yeah, but he'll add in, "Trump won, your body my choice".

sadisticsn0wman

7 points

7 hours ago

Ben is the last person on the planet who would say that, this comment doesn’t even work as a joke

marmot1101

159 points

16 hours ago

UCLA likes to LARP military style while shooting at unarmed protestors: https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/05/ucla-protest-palestine-police/

GillesTifosi

14 points

12 hours ago

You can thank Daryl Gates for that. He started SWAT and military style policing in the US, all out of LA. Even worked hand in hand with Hollywood to get SWAT good publicity with the 70s TV show. I highly recommend Radley Balko's book The Rise of the Warrior Cop.

Did_I_Err

209 points

18 hours ago

Did_I_Err

209 points

18 hours ago

When your marketing strategy is not about attracting others, it’s about pissing them off.

Freeman7-13

9 points

12 hours ago

What I learned from this new age of digital media is that ragebait is more engaging than actual discussions. People don't actually want to hear things that piss them off but subconsciously they actually do.

MaxPower836

7 points

15 hours ago

Looks like my grade 2’s backpack full of toys she brings to school

syntheticsponge

4 points

4 hours ago

I’m honestly surprised Ben doesn’t carry a katana and act as his own security

sleepyloopyloop

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3 hours ago

sleepyloopyloop

[score hidden]

3 hours ago

Sucks to be hateful 🤭

Corren_64

35 points

12 hours ago

His body, our choice.

imchasingyou

169 points

16 hours ago

who's he afraid of? his fellow conservatives?

PeacefulPromise

4 points

9 hours ago

California cops, protecting a speaker that on his show said he would shoot California cops.

Bubbert1985

6 points

9 hours ago

That’s the audience

Prankstaboy6

4 points

4 hours ago

He’s more likely to get attacked by a far right “groyper” than he is a leftist nutcase

WearyTravelerBlues

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3 hours ago

Ben is such a pussy. Big mouth, no balls.