Sounds like you were singled out by someone who supports Russia and sounds more like a hate crime to me more than anything. Sorry about that
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha
As someone who attends music events in New York frequently, the primary concern the security guards care about is that you're not bringing a gun into the venue. Secondary concern being hard drugs, depending on the venue and act. Msg definitely does not want drugs. Thinking that the underpaid and overworked security staff has a political agenda is absurd when they already have to deal with your bridge and tunnel antics.
Although MSG is owned by that guy who used facial recognition cameras to ban one of the lawyers suing him from attending an event there. Very funny little dystopian anecdote.
Security staff are a subtype of cop. A lesser cop. But they have the brain worms
Of course they do. But I promise you that unarmed security at a mass gathering event like this will not give a shit about 90% of the things going on otherwise they’ll bring K9s to sniff out your drugs. There’s simply too much going on to single people like this. At worst they’ll sexually assault you under the guise of full body check.
Unless you’re at the Super Bowl in which case the cops will have a sniper trained at your forehead at all times.
Undoubtedly. Still profiling and protecting capital using force. I was only trying to add some context to the situation and point out the absurdity that these people would have a political agenda in the form of being a Russian troll or that constitutes a hate crime. These redditors need to touch grass and speak to someone offline.
Oh yeah you're absolutely right that the average cop (Of any variety) isn't going to give a shit about your Ukraine flag. And of the many hate crimes that security guys and cops do on a daily basis, this wouldn't rank even if they had been targeted for their flag.
Many of them do have serious brainworms, but so do plenty of other workers. Security is not cops lol, that's a serious insult we should not just throw around at anybody. Cops have real power over people and every single one of them has agreed to use that power, violently, to oppress workers. 90% of security does literally nothing and most of the other 10% still say "if the boss tells me to do violence against someone i will say no because I don't get paid enough for that"
That's a very white comment. Security of various stripes exist on a spectrum of course, but denying their propensity to play pseudo cop and to engage in enforcement of racist and class based oppression is ignorant.
Anyone can play pseudo cop, nothing about the job of security requires that. Unlike, you know, being a cop.
But yeah fuck it whatever, starbucks baristas are landlords too. Just say whatever. Words don't mean anything.
Yeah man, the people who follow poc around in shops or keep them out of places of business aren't part of a racist culture and pointing that out is the same as calling a barista a landlord. You sure are making a point.
A starbucks barista is expected to gatekeep who's allowed in their place of business too. Basically everyone in retail is working security as part of their job. They're all cops, right?
I'm not being a fucking debate bro, I'm making a serious point that you should be more mindful of who you're calling cops. The definition of cop you're using is completely pointless and paints TONS of our comrades as cops. It's fucking shitty behavior to just go around calling people cops for having a normal goddamn job in this capitalist hellscape. When I worked the front desk at a gym, my primary job was keeping out people who weren't supposed to be there. Does that make me a cop? Does it make you feel good to call your comrades cops for trying to make fucking money so we can fucking eat food?
When I worked the front desk at a gym, my primary job was keeping out people who weren't supposed to be there. Does that make me a cop?
Unless your company didn’t care about liability and had you physically barring people, your job was to call the cops lol.
Security guards are the ones responding to your call if they’re on site, and many are required to be physical if anything happens, although a lot of places will also have them just call cops if they’re unarmed. So being a security guard proper is closer to being a cop than you threatening to call the cops if some disruptive guy trespasses.
But to call anyone remotely involved with security or reporting a cop is pretty funny. The teenage cashier at Walmart is a cop because his manager tells him to check people’s receipts and report any theft lol.
your job was to call the cops lol
That is also the job of the vast majority of security guards who encounter something dangerous or illegal.
Yes I know
although a lot of places will also have them just call cops if they’re unarmed.
I'm not going to debate the role "security" play in upholding racist and classist systems of oppression, no matter how much you want to excuse it. Find somewhere else
His point of security guards not being closely aligned with cops is pretty funny, but so is your point of anything involving security is oppression. But I’ll just assume your comment about it existing in a spectrum to mean some kid checking receipts is on the lower end of oppressing people
Of course it means that there is less and more egregious forms of policing people than others,what else could it possibly mean. The guy who follows me around the store because of my skin color is not as bad as what armed private security can get up to, and the guy denying black and brown men entry into venues based on racism is closer to the first than the second, but in all cases security is doing policing of poc with either the explicit threat of violence or the implicit threat of summoning the police to do violence.
Edit: And equating this with calling cashiers cops is incredibly lame of you. Nowhere did I say any such yhing, and I explicitly rejected the idea when the other guy brought it up with baristas for being a stupid comparison.
And equating this with calling cashiers cops is incredibly lame of you. Nowhere did I say any such yhing, and I explicitly rejected the idea when the other guy brought it up with baristas for being a stupid comparison.
never said you equated them. I’m equating cashiers to cops. I work in cyber security and i consider myself a cyber cop lol. Cashiers and I essentially do the same job - check logs and report to the boss when someone prohibited gains access to something.
And I’m saying “cashier” broadly because in grocery stores they tend to rotate between several front end jobs that may or may not be cashier, but it’s easier to just say that than whatever custom position they have.
A security guard gets a special uniform, sometimes a badge, the authority to use force, and is the first point of contact in any emergency.
A barista is expected to tell a homeless guy he can’t use the bathroom without buying something then calling the cops when he pisses on the floor. Most jobs involving “reporting” and “gatekeeping” is this.
the authority to use force
This is the important part, and no they fucking don't. Cops have the monopoly on violence. Security guards are not cops and do not have any special authority to use force that anyone else doesn't. The idea of a security guard arresting someone is made up movie bullshit
The guards at my supermarket have a Glock and 2 magazines lol. They stand in the front of the store so I don’t think they’re following people around or care about lost prevention. They appeared after some gang shootings and robberies happened nearby. Most private guards in my downtown are also armed with pistols unless they’re new in which case they have tasers or pepper spray.
But I’m not saying they’re arresting you or detaining you - you can only volunteer to be detained. But they do have the authority to use force because they always do. I haven’t seen a single guard who wasn’t hostile and checking people or trying some Paul Blart shit unless they’re completely unarmed or very old, in which case they’re just following people and whispering to some clerk about a guy potentially stealing a sausage.
They've got guns, but it would be mega illegal to use those guns in any situation that it wouldn't legal for you, the random shopper, to also whip out a gun and use it. Unlike a cop, who has the legal authority to use his guns in far more situations than you do.
Ok so what? Your argument is that they just have a cop-like uniform, cop-like mentality, and cop-like demand from reactionaries, but just because they’re only allowed to shoot a gun when “their life is threatened,” it makes them exactly the same as you?
They don’t get qualified immunity, but buddy you’re not wearing a badge and walking around with a utility belt with your gun hanging out. No one perceives you with authority and fear. You gate keeping the gym is not the same as you being paid to train to fight and kill someone for a client lol.
is not the same as you being paid to train to fight and kill someone for a client lol.
You have some very strange ideas about what security guards do
Enlighten me then. What do security guards armed with pistols or batons or tasers train on then? If I hired them to protect my store then why would I want someone who is incapable of killing a threat? I mean of course the description will say “disable” or “neutralize” the threat.
I have no idea, but the wannabe cops you're talking about are absolutely nothing like the average security guard. The average security guard is a pudgy, retired old person with bad knees who wanted a job where they basically don't have to work and would literally flee the scene if anything violent took place anywhere near them.
Yes and I’m assuming most people do not care about some old guy chasing you down for a candy bar.
The OP said security exists on a spectrum. The job is part power projection and part power execution. No different than a sailor whose job is to sail a destroyer around the world without firing an missile and a marine deployed in Afghanistan. We all serve and protect capital at the end of the day. Some of us more than others.
They literally asked if it would be the same for an American flag and the person said yes.
Apparently they're committing a hate crime against literally everybody.
"It wouldn't be the same if it were an American flag!"
"Yes it would"Putler hates America so it makes sense why his agent would prohibit the flag
Putin's KGB runs security at MSG. Putin personally called MSG security himself and demanded the couple not be let in after seeing them on the live security footage with a Ukrainian flag.
Putler is so petty.
Holy shit this person sounds unbearable. Would hate to be security dealing with her.
scarf/comfort blanket
This the Alt-J Show at MSG we clown in this mothafucker
Take your comfort blanket ass back to Peanuts
Lmao spoken like a person who has never be been forced to do anything. Reeks of privilege
At least there was one person in the comments pointing out shit about Bandera, and wasn't down voted to fuck. Honestly surprising
This story was 2 years ago? Is that what the top part means? I guess if reddit rounds up that makes some sense for people to say the "slava" thing. No non-Ukrainian would be saying that in Jan 2022. Otherwise, if it's more exact, that's a month before the conflict began (Feb 2022).
In any case, this feels like it could be real, but little touches like people saying slava ukrani sounds like made up shit even if post-Feb 2022.
Smells like those Zionist cry-fests where they say they "fear for their lives" because of all the "antisemitism" and then we always find out this just meant someone said Israel is a genocidal shithole.
went and looked it up, the post is timestamped Tue Apr 12 2022
EDIT: checked the web and AltJ did at least play there on Apr 11 2022
Just want to say that those meatbags ‘just following orders’ and not thinking for themselves is exactly how this invasion started, and I feel ashamed to be called a “free” American when I hear stories like this. I hope they didn’t ruin your evening, and I hope you know that there are far more Americans who would proudly wear a Ukrainian flag with you.
God I fucking love reddit lmao
ashamed to be called a “free” American
they're soooooo close yet so far
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Most places don't allow flags. Partially because they block other people's view when you wave them, and when that view costs hundreds of dollars it tends to lead to confrontation
Ok, driving to MSG "all the way from NJ" is stupid as hell because 1. It's not far at all, "I walked all the way across the street" cool, bro. And 2. NJ is littered with trains, they are very easy to connect to nyc, where you'll be dropped off at Penn Station aka RIGHT BENEATH MSG, WHY DID YOU DRIVE DUMBFUCK, IT'S MORE EXPENSIVE, PAIN TO PARK, AND TIME CONSUMING
As a resident of NJ, I LOATHE anyone from this state who chooses to drive into Manhattan. They're the reason NYC has to institute the much needed congestion pricing and they still have the gall to complain that it's a violation of their rights.
Hypocrisy??? Where is the hypocrisy? Like let's just take a step into the alternate universe where Ukraine really is the poor smol bean oppressed country being bullied by big mean russia for no reason. They still said any flag would get people treated the same way including the flag of the country they're currently standing in. I mean I guess you can say that's a lie and that if it had been an american flag they'd have been ignored, but until somebody tests that there's no hypocrisy in this story lmao
I couldn’t bring a backpack into a Nebraska Cornhuskers Football game in 2014 because they told me terrorist could be targeting football games.
I couldn't bring my purse in. They charged me money to store it. They just do it to keep people from smuggling food in
Alt J fuckin sucks that was a waste of money before anything in the story even happened
yeah i liked it a ton a ton (their songs are sorta formulaic?)
i'm not down with this revisionist interpretation of alt-j
and everything after that was just disappointment
"oh a new alt-j album??" excitement turned to ash every time
When I saw alt-j in concert shortly after the invasion began, they put up a big Ukraine flag and paused in the middle of their lead single to shout "Fuck Putin"
Virgin alt-j vs. Chad Wolf Parade (wolf parade’s singer has been on Chapo and is Ukrainian diaspora in Canada who fucking hates banderites and spends all his time exposing Banderite-Canadian government collusion)
What the fuck now I've gotta put on Sons And Daughters Of Hungry Ghosts that's fucking cool of him to be doing
Dan Boeckner, I think he goes on Chapo’s stream too. My favorite is Fancy Claps. Short but sweet
