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toxicodendron radicans

TIL alligators are an antifascist symbol in Sweden and protestors have been have been throwing inflatable alligators at cops

Cartoon of an alligator with a group of frogs leaping out of its mouth, with the slogan "antifascism är självförsvar" which (I think) translates as "anti-fascism is self-defense"
A group of protestors holding inflatable alligators. Also a couple holding an inflatable turtle and an inflatable... is that a dolphin? IDK. But there's aquatic diversity, anyway.
Protestors using inflatable alligators as shields against the cops
A cop holding an inflatable alligator at arms length and looking somewhat perturbed by it.
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toxicodendron radicans

Another victim of police violence

Inflatable alligator. Now all sad and deflated, on a patch of grass behind a few police.
A Normal Chris-icle 🏳️‍🌈

@InvaderXan that’s extremely good, gators/crocs are extremely good tbh. have you seen the vid going around of a gator knocking a cop out cold? it’s very good and I’ve watched it on loop too many times to count now lol
twitter.com/gatorsdaily/status

toxicodendron radicans

@NormalPopsicle Yeah, that's been all over twitter lately 😂

Alexis :battery_glitch: :qvp:

@InvaderXan Furry twitter is, as always, ready:

Two tweets from two furries, in response to the news of gator-shaped pool toys being used as shields at protests. The first: In all-caps, "Furries, you know what to do!" alongside a picture of an inflatable vinyl fox peeking out from behind some curtains. The second, in reply: "I've been prepared for this for years." alongside a photo of a bedroom containing at least 15 different inflatable crocodiles. All have been inflated. Some have been stacked on the bed, the rest are scattered aimlessly.
Viktor Lindberg
As far as I know this happened once in 2017 at a counter-protest against nazis. It became a thing though and various jokes were made.
Viktor Lindberg
Though now with the international attention it has gotten a resurgence.
Revolutionary Pika Taz

@Pawdraig @InvaderXan Right? Hit us up if you want any UF (Home of the Florida Gators) fight songs lol.

toxicodendron radicans

@maloki I was wondering if this was an established thing or if it was new.

Or, this being the internet, if it was a thing some rando just made up. Though the pictures seem to be real.

maloki 🍵

@InvaderXan it may be newish this year, but i've not heard it before that.

I'm not on facebook any more, so I'm very disconnected from Sweden, actually

꧁Nyeajaea꧂

@maloki @InvaderXan I saw it last year, maybe the year before that? It's not that widespread of a thing, more something that happened at a few protests and caught on among some.

Your translation is correct btw, but if I am to be nitpicky, we call these crocodiles, not alligators(though I am not sure on the distinction, is it geographical?), and iirc they were, as antifascist symbols, called 'kamrat krokodil'(comrade crocodile).

clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
@Nyeajaea @maloki @InvaderXan The US and the Yangtze river have alligators, everyone else has crocodiles. They look the same to you and me, and they are both crocodilians, but they separated 55 million years ago, so they may be about as far apart historically and genetically as we are from tree shrews.

You're supposed to be able to see on the teeth whether it's a crocodile or an alligator. If you see teeth on the outside when the mouth is closed, it's a croc.

Not sure the toys are anatomically correct enough to be able to say they're clearly one or the other. 😀
Olivia

@Nyeajaea
the distinction between a crocodile and an alligator is, as far as i am aware, the way the jaws open; if there's muscle such that the base of the jaw forms a c, like in the art of the first image, it is a crocodile, and if the miscle is not that prominent so the base of the mouth is a < it is an alligator

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