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Mark Fitzpatrick, proprietor of the Old Station Saloon in Eagle, Idaho, says ‘liberals’ have threatened to kill him and burn down his business over promotion to encourage support for migrant crackdown

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Man who encourages harm in his community shocked to discover his community wishes him harm

[–] EtAl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

So let me get this straight:

  • He says whoever helps ICE gets free beer for a month.
  • He says liberals threatened to burn down his bar and kill him.
  • He says he's willing to talk with liberals.

Dude is fucking liar.

[–] forrgott@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, without any verifiable proof this guy's a bitch. Somebody probably chewed him out, maybe even successfully cause a moment of introspection. But when he looked inside himself, all he saw was a streaming pile of manure.

[–] hateisreality@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Isn't being a bitch that sides whole thing.

[–] forrgott@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Well....yeah. You do have a point

[–] Ascrod@midwest.social 44 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 29 points 1 day ago

Nazis? I hate them of course

But Idaho Nazis? I hate them too

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 7 points 1 day ago

Hope he finds himself glassed and torched.

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 1 day ago

🤷 ask ICE to help you, bitch.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 day ago

Nazis supporting Nazis in Idaho? Who'd have thought it?

[–] tover153@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I grew up in an extreme conservative Christian home. Preacher’s kid. The kind of childhood where dancing was suspicious and playing cards was basically a gateway drug. So believe me when I say this: offering free beer in exchange for turning in your neighbors is not a conservative Christian value. It is not even close. It is a saloon owner LARPing as a moral authority.

If any of the church elders I grew up with had seen this promotion, the first question would not have been about ICE. It would have been, “Why does this man own a bar, and why is he handing out alcohol like it is communion for tattletales.”

Heterosexual Awesomeness Month. Ladies’ I’m Telling Tuesdays. MAGA cocktail menus. None of this is righteousness. This is dinner theater with cheaper costumes.

And the idea that people criticizing him are “showing their wickedness” is rich. If anything is showing its true colors, it is a business model that treats turning in immigrants as a loyalty rewards program.

You do not get to wrap yourself in “Christian values” while running Whistleblower Wednesdays. Jesus did not say, “Blessed are the snitches, for they shall inherit a free domestic draft.”

If this guy wants to talk about Christian morality, then he can start with the basics. You know, the parts about loving your neighbor instead of calling ICE on them for a drink discount.

Until then, it is not faith. It is a theme bar with a persecution complex.

But everything is simulacra. Cosplay of cosplay of cosplay.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 18 points 1 day ago

sounds like after giving out a few beers he is looking for reasons to stop the promo. I mean free beer for a month for the type of folks he is targeting the promo for. Yeah that is a free ticket to bankruptcy. figure each person is ten to twenty beers every day for 30 days.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 0 points 15 hours ago

Do or do not make legally actionable threats that merely give them a warning

[–] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 9 points 1 day ago

Good. The only good Nazi is a dead one.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"That's an ICE bar you've got there..."

[–] shittydwarf@piefed.social 12 points 1 day ago

Kind of seems like he's asking for it

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago
[–] seahorse@midwest.social 13 points 1 day ago

You love to see it

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Wow, he openly admits to being a weak victim. I didn't think Nazis liked to do that.

[–] Protoknuckles@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

It's their second favorite hobby.

[–] verdare@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

The enemy is both strong and weak, etc.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You let one nazi into your bar and suddenly it's a nazi bar.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In this case it sounds like the Nazi was the one running the bar.

That's why they let him in, yeah. You think that guy could handle the two drink minimum?

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I recall a short I saw that explained there's a bar offering free beer to people reporting folks to ICE which may be this bar; the short claimed this guy is intentionally farming outrage so he can get on the news and get some fame

[–] buttwater@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

He's been farming right wing culture war rage bait for free publicity for years

[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

“Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it?”

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago
[–] WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago

Only death threats?

[–] KawaiiBitch@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago
[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I hope he never feels safe ever again ❤️

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Oh Mark, you sweet summer child.

Did no one teach you that snitches get stitches?

What a snowflake. A real man would own up to the consequences of his own actions and take care of business.