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thehillshaveI t1_jbb8wbk wrote

why does anyone believe this lmfao

yeah, my octogenarian dad totally went out and accidentally bought himself the racist flag and climbed his ass up on a wall to put it up. trust me bro.

EDIT: HE SEEMED PRETTY SHARP WHEN HE TALKED TO CHANNEL 10 FOUR MONTHS AGO

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massahoochie t1_jbbad3n wrote

And then BURNED it that same night. Like what? People are so gullible lol.

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thehillshaveI t1_jbbauxr wrote

op went too far with that claim lmao

"yeah, pops totally burnt it in anger, but we didn't take any pics"

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GoodJibblyWibbly t1_jbbmp8f wrote

Yeah wtf? This reads like a satirical post that should end with “just kidding, he’s racist and I’ve been yanking your chain”

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thehillshaveI t1_jbbmzoz wrote

there are people taking this entirely implausible narrative at face value and praising him for burning the flag, like idk what it would take for people to realize how dumb this sounds. do we actually need "and everybody clapped" at the end?

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Previous_Floor t1_jbbq5vw wrote

I suppose you'd prefer if someone went and beat the old man to a pulp?

How about growing the fuck up, giving him the benefit of the doubt, and letting it go.

What's wrong with you people...

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canibringmydog t1_jbc9gzx wrote

I love how you post literally every crime in Providence but also defend this old fuck? What’s wrong with us? What the heck is wrong with you?

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thehillshaveI t1_jbcr1rp wrote

what's even funnier is he's already been banned before. this is at least his second account. can you imagine what kind of life the guy so determined to post dumb crimes stories leads? this is the most divorced man on this sub

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Previous_Floor t1_jbcc23k wrote

>I love how you post literally every crime in Providence but also defend this old fuck? What’s wrong with us? What the heck is wrong with you?

I'm not defending him. I also have serious doubts about his story, but I have a real problem with the mentality I'm seeing here. It's pretty clear to me that several people want this old guy to be physically harmed. That is not ok. And that is something I absolutely won't support.

And what on earth does this have to do with posting crime articles?

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thehillshaveI t1_jbbtuve wrote

>What's wrong with you people...

i don't like liars.

>I suppose you'd prefer if someone went and beat the old man to a pulp?

nice strawman. quality engagement.

>How about growing the fuck up, giving him the benefit of the doubt, and letting it go.

how about not getting your panties in a bunch because of reddit comments. you're putting words in my mouth and getting embarrassingly aggressive.

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Previous_Floor t1_jbbxh3f wrote

Whether you realize it or not, you're inciting violence.

And that is unacceptable.

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thehillshaveI t1_jbbxuzi wrote

call the cops then nerd

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Proof-Variation7005 t1_jbbvd21 wrote

Pretty sharp? There's a reason none of his soundbytes are more than 5 words long and they spend more airtime on his daughter than him.

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thehillshaveI t1_jbbw1kj wrote

>He’ll take some pieces out and put new pieces in," said Pereira. "He will go out there no matter what. He does not realize he’s 80 he’s got that Peter Pan Syndrome. We tell him he’s 80 and he’s like 'Nah, nah, I’m good."'

>Milano said the display takes a lot of work, but it's always worth it.

>“This my hobby and this my tradition left by my father. Nobody can stop what is my dream," said Geno. “Mentally it’s hard to do, because you have to know exactly how you have to build everything, painting, because you have to prepare all these things on time for Christmas."

>The display, which consists of over 400 pieces, is very detailed.

well he and his family seem to think he is, when they're not claiming he's just too old and italian to understand racism

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Proof-Variation7005 t1_jbbyu0w wrote

Going just from listening to him talking and multiple people's firsthand accounts that are not just some anonymous person on Reddit, I'm not sure the dude is playing with all his marbles.

And the narrative that an 80 year old immigrant just randomly is going all "THE SOUTH WILL RISE AGAIN" while living in Rhode Island doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, especially since he's living in an area with a shit-ton of black and brown people living nearby and passing by his house everyday.

Hell, are we even 100% positive that he is the one who put the flag up? Or have we learned nothing in the past 2 weeks since this

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thehillshaveI t1_jbbzzwq wrote

>Hell, are we even 100% positive that he is the one who put the flag up?

there's the video of him doing it

i mean you see this guy hanging a confederate flag and you're willing to believe this complicated story about how he just didn't know better instead of the much simpler explanation that he wanted to hang it.

we could go back and forth all night but the fact is you see him fly a symbol of owning black people and you're willing to give every benefit of the doubt.

>And the narrative that an 80 year old immigrant

he's lived in the states longer than either of us have been alive. you think it's more likely he avoided learning what this flag was for more than half a century but randomly raised one yesterday without knowing. i find the idea that he just likes it much more plausible

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Proof-Variation7005 t1_jbc2ohg wrote

>there's the video of him doing it

There's a video of a flag that's already up and him climbing and reaching for the rope. That could just as easily be him taking it down. I really don't know.

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>i mean you see this guy hanging a confederate flag and you're willing to believe this complicated story about how he just didn't know better instead of the much simpler explanation that he wanted to hang it.

we could go back and forth all night but the fact is you see him fly a symbol of owning black people and you're willing to give every benefit of the doubt.

I believe in Occam's Razor and a random octogenarian decided to knowingly antagonize everyone who passes by his house and paint a target on him and his home, but only for like....a couple of hours before changing his mind? That isn't the simplest solution. Frankly, it makes no sense at all.

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thehillshaveI t1_jbc3f8c wrote

>There's a video of a flag that's already up and him climbing and reaching for the rope. That could just as easily be him taking it down. I really don't know.

what i like about this reply is you're trying even harder to defend him than his family. in your version he's now the hero pulling the flag down! it's beautiful!

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Proof-Variation7005 t1_jbc54p6 wrote

I can not stress how little I care about this. I do care about common sense though and I feel like people are sidestepping past that because of the inflammatory nature of this.

People are acting like they're going to attack an 80 year old or his home over this and it's kind of fucked up. Even if the absolute worst case scenario is true, what's the endgame of this outrage train?

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thehillshaveI t1_jbc77ou wrote

>People are acting like they're going to attack an 80 year old or his home over this

reply to those people then. i'm not.

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Previous_Floor t1_jbcgg64 wrote

>i'm not.

Maybe not, but you're encouraging others to do it.

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thehillshaveI t1_jbcgvwu wrote

except i'm not. i get that you like lying, but you look like an idiot when anyone can view my history and see i haven't once encouraged anyone to hurt this guy.

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Previous_Floor t1_jbci3dv wrote

>i haven't once encouraged anyone to hurt this guy.

Not in so many words, but you're not fooling anyone.

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thehillshaveI t1_jbcit84 wrote

>Not in so many words,

so we agree i didn't encourage violence

>but you're not fooling anyone

but that you're gonna say i implied it because you're a bad faith troll.

glad we came to this understanding.

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Previous_Floor t1_jbckeww wrote

You're too much of a coward to admit it. Although you kind of already did when you said "call the cops then nerd" in response to me saying "Whether you realize it or not, you're inciting violence".

https://www.reddit.com/r/providence/comments/11l0xfh/re_racism_in_federal_hill/jbbxh3f/?context=3

Not to mention the cowardly way you went about firing an employee.

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thehillshaveI t1_jbclpl6 wrote

>Although you kind of already did when you said "call the cops then nerd"

try not to hurt yourself with that stretch guy

three comments ago i was encouraging violence. then i was implying it. now calling you a nerd is apparently a threat to this old man.

keep squirming, this is fucking hilarious

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Previous_Floor t1_jbcq3si wrote

Again, you're not fooling anyone.

The old man apologized. Whether or not it was sincere, he took corrective action. It's over.

And yet here you are...still trying to incite violence. Pathetic.

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