Without exaggeration, doing this now (depending on the person) would risk life imprisonment for bioweaponry terrorism, or just getting shot
Because we stopped doing shit like this and gave in to bullshit civility politics. That shit only benefits the fascists.
Because we stopped doing shit like this
Did we? Or was this always a rare and remarkable incident, both in that it happened at all and it was captured and preserved for us to talk about today.
Certainly, you can talk about the no less than three different Trump assassination attempts. Or the Luigi Mangione shooting. Or the fatal stabbing of Bob Lee, CPO of Cashapp. Or the assault of Bryan Kobel, CEO of TC BioPharm, after a dispute with his Uber driver. Or the vigilante attack on Paul Pelosi. Or the Doohickey assassination of Shinzo Abe. Or the Charlie Kirk assassination. Or just run the numbers annually for violence targeting C-level officials
This study analyzes 424 open source reported incidents targeting senior private-sector executives between 2003 and late 2025, highlighting a sustained and accelerating rise in both physical and cyber threats. Physical attacks dominate (85%), and one-third of all incidents resulted in injury or death. Incident frequency has surged since 2023, with 2025 already doubling 2024 totals by October, marking the highest level on record. Targeting increasingly occurs at workplaces and residences, with protest-driven activity driving growth at public events.
But I’m not seeing any evidence to suggest we “stopped” doing any of this. On the contrary, it looks like we’ve got a rising tide of stochastic violence, both from within the state itself and against state and private leadership.
Great research and insight thank you
Interesting points. Don’t know if I recall all those offhand. But the Cashapp guy for instance, that was a fight between two people of essentially the same class over some family / dating / cocaine issue. That doesn’t really fit the pattern we’re talking about here.
Bruh I’m just talking about throwing pies in assholes’ faces I don’t need all this jeez louise
Without exaggeration, doing it back then risked much the same.
These were brave acts then. They’d be brave acts now.
Easily get shot these days. Most of the big names are surrounded by exSF who are carrying far more firepower in their briefcases than any one of us can ever purchase.
Most of the time they are even carrying firearms that are illegal or never properly gone through NFA. A few rappers and their bodyguard occasionally get a weapons charge but you never see Musks or Fuckerberg get in trouble.
I seem to recall some video of Musk going through security at a courthouse, and hoping he would slip up with a gun or a bag of cocaine. I’m sure nothing would have happened to him.
What happened to the dude who shot syringes of his piss at Ilhan Omar?
Aka a literal biological attack?
Ooh did you say this is how to get… Into a tickle fight?
Is that because modern food is so unhealthy?
I hope that girl gets free drinks in whichever pub she sets foot in.
Was interested. It was a banana milkshake. That must have been sticky.
What a great person that woman is.
Glorious 🤌
The first act of political violence in Australia was when PM Billy Hughes was struck by an egg that was thrown at him during a speech in favor of conscription.
The second act of political violence in Australia was when PM Hughes jumped into the crowd to throw hands with the egg-thrower.
You Aussies sure are a contentious people
(with my full respect)
“YOU JUST MADE AN ENEMY FOR LIFE!”
But I brought beer? It’s cold as well.
Haha, fuck yeah, but also nah, it’s all a bit of biff mate, better to throw hands than lock up a bastard. Unfortunately the leaders do both.
Man, I bet he really had egg on his face after that incident.
You do something like that today they’ll try to put you away for 30 years on terrorism charges.
Someone chucked a milkshake at Nigel Farage a couple of years ago and got a 13-week suspended jail sentence for assault. Along with endless pearl-clutching from the right and Farage talking about how distressed he was.
Which is funny when you compared it to back in the 90s when someone threw an egg at John Prescott and he immediately punched them in the face lol.
A suspended sentence is just the ultimate slap on the wrist tho.
It’s basically saying “Yeah you did a bad thing, just stay out of trouble for a few months and we’ll call it even, k?”
They’ll claim it was laced with some kind of bio-weapon, and yet, it was just creame.
I would but I do not enjoy being shot
Honestly it’s only bad once the shock were off and you don’t have more pain meds because insurance denied you getting more. Being stabbed is worse, unless it hits something major enough to cause shock in the first place. Then insurance will only approve mild localized anesthesia to fix it and ibuprofen but as long as you don’t have to move, breath, or otherwise exist as a person, you’re good!
Guess which country I’m from…
Funny story, here in Sweden, our speaker of the parliament was visiting a school to speak. Someone threw a “banana or part of a banana”. Bodyguards “aprehended” the boy until police arrived and the boy was interrogated at the police station.
The speaker then started a criminal suit against the boy (who was 16) with the charge of disorderly conduct. The damage was noted as, “a stained shirt”.
According to the speaker, incidents like this could cause politicians to not want to speak at schools (oh no… how will the children cope?)
Anyway, people are calling him out as the clown he is. And i’d be very surprised if he gets to keep his post after our election (regardless of who wins)
Wait, whoa stop. Politicians are held to account in your country?! What sort of magical utopia is this?
Eh, only if they want to, I am still pissed off that Maud Olofsson got away with the Noun affair and even got to decline attending a government review board about the affair.
At least now they have reintroduced “tjänstemannaansvar” (public servant accountability). And when I say now I actually mean, pretty much now. It went into effect 1 august of this year.
That kinda sounds like Björn Söder…
It was not. It’s actually pretty recent.
Sadly, the most prolific pie thrower recently died. He was an amazing iconoclast.
One of his favorite targets was the French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy, who was pied by Godin or one of his accomplices on at least seven occasions.
After checking out this Bernard guy, all I can say is: “good”
Man, why are all the GOOD 80 year olds dying while the worst 80 year old gets to keep ruining the world?
Sorry, Luigi raised the bar.
We’d probably have a better chance of getting away with it in groups of 1,000+ gathered around/transporting guillotines.
What? I’m just tossing out hypothetical ideas here. *wink
bringing even fake guilliotines brings you to court here
But would you if you were in a group of like minded people outnumbering the entire city’s police force?
Depends on the situation. As a father who needs to make ends meet i’d keep my head low. As somebody without family or future prospects, different talk.
Problem is Jan 6ers do the same thing. Then you become “one of them” to the majority centrists.
Now i’ll have to rewatch that '88 jewel of a movie.
There’s a game now also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_Klowns_from_Outer_Space:_The_Game
I have a recipe for brick pie that is to die for.
There’s an on-the-go version that’s super compact! Instead of stone, which is porous / relatively high concentration of air, these ones are made out of lead to get all that pie in as small a container as possible. It even comes wrapped in a tiny little pot for you to cook it in - you just tap the back while pointing it at a deserving world leader and *boom!* it delivers a tiny, hot pie right to their face!
Sounds familiar but I just can’t put my trigger finger on it.
Pies are nice and all; but have you considered a dildo to the face?
It has a certain style after all.
I love the Wikipedia pedantry in correcting that it wasn’t technically a dildo.
Indeed, just a rubber flesh toned phallus. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Only in New Zealand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waitangi_dildo_incident
I forgot TPPA happened. Feels like a lifetime agi
Fitting, because pies in the face is the territory of clowns. 🤡
To everyone in this thread saying “I’d never do that, I don’t want to get shot”
I hate throwing valuable food to the walking undergrowth.
Use spoiled food!
Just fill a pie crust with turds.
Rotten tomatoes are a classic. Perfect size for throwing.
