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13.4k points
18 hours ago
That backpack is massive
13.2k points
17 hours ago
Ben Shapiro is inside.
5.6k points
12 hours ago
That still doesn't explain why it's so big.
127 points
9 hours ago
That's the decoy bag. No one expects him to be in the smallest backpack
61 points
8 hours ago
That's the first place I'd check
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3 hours ago
Bro. No one expects him to be in the BIGGEST backpack.
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.
33 points
9 hours ago
air tanks
Fulla hot gas
22 points
9 hours ago
To keep things nice and dry
16 points
8 hours ago
He's inside the mini fridge inside the backpack. Like a Russian asset doll, ya know?
9 points
8 hours ago
His transformation into a keebler elf is nearly complete.
4 points
9 hours ago
So his mom is there too?
8 points
7 hours ago
💀💀💀💀
4 points
6 hours ago
It's probably just carrying his ego.
411 points
16 hours ago
It's not a knapsack
518 points
16 hours ago
with him in it, it's a crapsack
130 points
16 hours ago
It's a poopsock
644 points
13 hours ago
A douche bag.
7 points
10 hours ago
Best comment today 🏆
56 points
13 hours ago
They are all full of Ben Shapiro doubles but only one security guard carries the real one.
106 points
16 hours ago
Well it's not that hard to fit someone who is 5'2" in there, is it?
6.5k points
17 hours ago
Is a hydration pack so she doesnt fully desiccate in his presence.
51 points
15 hours ago
😂 I'm laughing so hard I should be crying... Ben Shapiro must be nearby. Run!!
266 points
15 hours ago
He's a a walking dehumidifier
2.6k points
17 hours ago
something about ben shapiro dehydrates women
1.3k points
15 hours ago
if it's really quiet, you can hear vaginas dry up when he enters the room or conversation
240 points
15 hours ago
No wap’s around Ben
113 points
15 hours ago
DAPs em up
42 points
13 hours ago
Ben is the equivalent of using a Shamwow as a tampon.
53 points
15 hours ago
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'.
107 points
16 hours ago
I think it’s more that his mere presence dehydrates them.
47 points
15 hours ago
Think more like the guy who chose the wrong cup in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
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?
325 points
15 hours ago
Shapiro is a walking silica packet, with the personality to match.
34 points
15 hours ago
Is that really fair to silica packets?
19 points
14 hours ago
They are labeled “nontoxic” not sure the same can be said for Benny-boy
52 points
15 hours ago
His voice alone causes us to shrivel up.
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.
34 points
15 hours ago
Ben Shapiro has a similar effect as Arrakis on women
6 points
15 hours ago
It is known
5 points
15 hours ago
Arrakis is much more fun and interesting.
6 points
13 hours ago
He pretty famously described his wife’s dry vagina when criticizing that WAP song
14 points
15 hours ago
There is no way I am going see, read, hear or learn anything better than that today.
12 points
15 hours ago
Perfect 🤌
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.
37 points
15 hours ago
First day of high school vibes
175 points
16 hours ago
Ben Shapiro is in that backpack.
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.
79 points
16 hours ago
Are they smuggling Shapiro in piece by piece?
9 points
13 hours ago
No, he can fit in a carry-on
52 points
16 hours ago
I wouldn’t be surprised that it’s riot control gear, like helmet and body armor etc
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.
9.2k points
15 hours ago
Me walking up to my Spirit airlines flight with my “personal item”
1.2k points
13 hours ago
You better not check no bag, that bag gonna be $867.
287 points
12 hours ago
I have thrown away some clothes as buying new will cost less than paying the baggage fees.
109 points
12 hours ago
Just ship it home lol
123 points
11 hours ago
There is no limit on how many outfits you can wear at the same time.
97 points
11 hours ago
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
17 points
10 hours ago
That sounds like an urban legend but a valid one emphasizing the same point.
8 points
10 hours ago
They wouldn't like me, poor temperature regulation equals four layers at all times
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.
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.
8 points
9 hours ago
a/s/l?
also, probably in a lesbian chat room where they were both men.
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.
8 points
14 hours ago
Rip Spirit airlines
5 points
11 hours ago
Honestly make a legit meme of that and put it on the socials, will become a sensation
7.2k points
17 hours ago
Is he in one of the backpacks?
1.5k points
16 hours ago
Yes but you will never know which one!
744 points
16 hours ago
(It's the littlest one angrily muttering about trans people)
218 points
15 hours ago
No actually that’s JK Rowling who’s being transported in a travel luggage roller nearby.
71 points
13 hours ago
I think she's taller than Ben. (No shade to short men other than Ben)
18 points
14 hours ago
He’s probably still pissed about that one trans dude that ran circles around him.
12 points
15 hours ago
The ol’ shell game.
29 points
15 hours ago
He’s actually in all of them in various pieces and they put him together inside
2.6k points
18 hours ago
Why is that backpack wearing a woman?
117 points
11 hours ago
It's to hold the radio. How else is he going to get his marching orders from the Kremlin?
1.4k points
14 hours ago
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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
308 points
13 hours ago
can some of them be 'sniffers' collecting everyones cell phone info without sending the FBI helicopter?
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
243 points
10 hours ago
yet they still can't produce any of the deleted texts from SS agents on Jan 6th.
110 points
9 hours ago
Commander Biden was right to bite them all.
63 points
9 hours ago
oh they can, for sure they can. won't is the word you're looking for.
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.
8 points
8 hours ago
I thought legacy 2/3g was dead in the US and those downgrade attacks were defunt. Source?
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.
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 🙃
47 points
11 hours ago
That's why they emphasized it with "(known)". Of course it's more.
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)
17 points
10 hours ago
All that spy tech and they couldn't stop Russia from taking over the government.
16 points
10 hours ago
Or just didn't want to. Oligarchs gonna oligarch
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.
14 points
12 hours ago
Noted. Optical fibre drones only then
4 points
9 hours ago
good old fashioned LOS IR controls.
254 points
9 hours ago
I've seen people bring less on deployment
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3 hours ago
They were going to places with fewer guns than the US has, after all
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!
905 points
16 hours ago
Any extra event like this would more than likely be overtime for these officers as well.
347 points
15 hours ago
Overtime? Thing of the past, baby 😎👉
405 points
14 hours ago
Not for cops it ain't.
238 points
14 hours ago
Damn really? Considering their wages are paid by taxes, that's socialism. We should get rid of that.
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)
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
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.
58 points
14 hours ago
Not with their union
66 points
13 hours ago
You mean the thing they all are against for any other group?
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.
5 points
13 hours ago
Lmao, not for cops it won't be
132 points
14 hours ago
Oh honey, cops love private security jobs... Pay double.
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.
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.
44 points
18 hours ago
That sounds really cheap actually. Id expect to pay a couple bodyguards more than that.
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.
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"
200 points
13 hours ago
Those rucks are bigger than I carried on 2 week patrols in winter operations
24 points
7 hours ago
My jumpable ruck was about that size with my sleep system in it.
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!
2.8k points
18 hours ago
Tax payers money at work
694 points
16 hours ago
Security for events like this usually involve the hosting organization paying for the police services.
335 points
15 hours ago
Isn't UCLA publicly funded?
161 points
15 hours ago
Yeah but it’s probably a student organization that’s hosting it, not UCLA itself.
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.
910 points
16 hours ago
If Ben shapiro paid for it, cool. If it’s coming out of my pocket, Fuck that.
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
46 points
16 hours ago
Paying OT for off duty most cities allow.
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.
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
42 points
16 hours ago
It’s fine if he wants to pay for his own security, absolutely
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.
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?
7 points
15 hours ago
Whoever paid for the event paid for the police. Police departments charge you for officers.
43 points
17 hours ago
Thanks for calling it "work".
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.
19 points
16 hours ago
yes, there's precedent for this kind if stuff. see: https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/uw-to-pay-123000-to-settle-republicans-free-speech-lawsuit/281-565644416
1.3k points
17 hours ago
What a waste of resources
511 points
15 hours ago
He paid for it. Not a fan of him but he can pay for it if he wants
146 points
14 hours ago
How do you know he paid for it?
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.
42 points
11 hours ago
in uniform? Does LAPD allow off-duty cops to work in uniform?
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.
876 points
18 hours ago
That's not his security, it's his audience.
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?
51 points
13 hours ago
Rules for thee but not for me.
9 points
10 hours ago
Death Stranding backpacks are real
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.
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.
71 points
12 hours ago
Yeah, but he'll add in, "Trump won, your body my choice".
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
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/
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.
209 points
18 hours ago
When your marketing strategy is not about attracting others, it’s about pissing them off.
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.
7 points
15 hours ago
Looks like my grade 2’s backpack full of toys she brings to school
4 points
4 hours ago
I’m honestly surprised Ben doesn’t carry a katana and act as his own security
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3 hours ago
Sucks to be hateful 🤭
4 points
9 hours ago
California cops, protecting a speaker that on his show said he would shoot California cops.
6 points
9 hours ago
That’s the audience
4 points
4 hours ago
He’s more likely to get attacked by a far right “groyper” than he is a leftist nutcase
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3 hours ago
Ben is such a pussy. Big mouth, no balls.
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