such an interesting story because exactly like you said in hindsight obviously it's racist but we all wanted to believe it was true and

so we did yeah I when I saw this I was like damn we can't have anything we can't have nothing like this gave me a tiny bit of joy and now I'm like oh now I feel complicit in this woman this like far right this far right woman's active racism cool yeah

that's like the new the new thing for spotting disinformation right it used to be like if it makes you feel like a really strong a visceral emotional reaction just stop before you share it because maybe it's disinformation but

like now

it's just like if you feel anything

but waiting to feel something for years Mike no I know and and something that you said I think really is important to highlight is that everybody hates a thief I have been picked I have been near pickpocketed in Europe I was able to to stop the pickpocketing in progress and like if that's a whole other story but nobody likes a thief

and I think no no no we need to tell that story okay how did you stop the pickpocket who attempted to pickpocket you in Europe the real pickpocket so first of all I was like pretty drunk so I

was already made I was already making some like rookie Paris mistakes I was drunk I had my phone just in my back pocket as opposed to like someplace where someone can't easily take it and a group of very young people surrounded me and one of them just like I obviously just like felt I'm taken out of my pocket and what I did I don't recommend this like this just happened to work out for me I am not suggesting this is what somebody should do but like I'm not gonna let somebody take my fucking phone so I just grabbed the smallest one who was like a child right like he was like very small I just grabbed the smallest one and just started screaming at him I was like if I can just like make it clear that I am a huge nuisance I'm not going away I'm not going to like cry or like like I'm I'm going to like make this a big annoying pain and I'm not gonna let go of your tiniest member here I just grabbed him they started screaming and eventually they literally just like we're like here fine okay and like gave me the phone and could not get away from me fast enough like they were like sorry

that they were

like we we regret

this transaction let's leave they try to steal the phone from the wrong drunk girl honestly this is something I mean again I'm not saying that like I'm not endorsing this as a as a strategy but something that my mom always told me about saying say is like make yourself seem not worth the trouble like oh this person is really loud and behaving really crazy and you know what I would actually like to get away from her now that was in my drunk mind that was what I did and it actually worked out worked out effectively but that's the thing though it's like we've all probably had instances where we've been scammed or pickpocketed or stolen from and nobody likes that and so I think it's such a it really highlights what an effective strategy this is tapping into that collective disdain for being stolen from and using that totally understandable emotional like trigger to connect to demonizing and harassing a minoritized people in Europe right like that it's it's so it's so insidious but also so effective because I I'm somebody who works on this kind of stuff for a living I like make a habit of trying to train myself to you know watching out for these tensions and these triggers but this one got me right it's it's just such a relatable sentiment of like yeah I don't like thieves but what she's actually what it actually sounds like she's saying is like I don't like Roma people I'm going to scream at them and harass them and also I'm going to be part of this far right party that makes the lives of marginalized people in europell

yeah

that's