Even the big dick subreddit is angry at ICE

“Fuck ICE first, second, third, fourth. Then worry about fucking me,” the Reddit post read. “Migrants of any status are my friends, neighbors and colleagues.”

online – And in the streets -These feelings are inevitable, especially after a federal immigration agent He shot and killed Alex Prettya 37-year-old nurse, in Minneapolis on Saturday. The killing came a few weeks after an immigration agent shot and killed another person, Rene Goode Federal officials were smeared As a “domestic terrorist” without any evidence. The message of this Reddit post would be a perfect fit for online spaces Countless hobbies, interests and creative people: Anti-ICE debates are happening everywhere From r/military to cat subreddits. Except this time, it was posted in an adult forum.

r/MassiveCock is a Reddit subreddit that mainly contains pictures of users’ penises. Before this weekend, the forum was largely apolitical: a place for users to text or promote their OnlyFans accounts. Over the weekend, amid the usual penis photos, some posts began taking an explicit anti-ICE stance.

“How hard it is when I think about abolishing ICE,” one post read, accompanied by a photo to illustrate. Another post with a photo says: “Sorry, I was just thinking about ICE agents rotting behind bars for the rest of their lives.”

A user using tomatoes 1987 posted a “Fuck ICE” message to the subreddit that became one of the top posts over the weekend. The user, who asked to remain anonymous because he is a private person, says he is active on adult subreddits which he mainly uses to meet people and show off. He said Edge He is somewhat politically active — he always votes, and has attended a few rallies — but he does not consider himself an activist of any kind. His Reddit account is his main platform, and he says he doesn’t have any social media in his personal life outside of it.

He said in a letter to: “I admit that I find what I did a little (very) ridiculous.” Edge. “Certainly a large part of what I did was just vent frustration in the only public way I could. The events of ICE have had a devastating impact on my community, my friends, and my colleagues.”

There were dozens of “Fuck ICE” or similar posts in the subreddit as of Monday, some with hundreds of comments.

Many of the comments under the 1987 tomato post were supportive of his anti-ICE statement, but there were of course complaints along the lines of “Why bring politics into sex?”

“Another person told me that nothing in life should seem ‘normal’ when such things happen in our country. Even porn and sex,” he said. “All of this should make undisciplined supporters of political violence and fascism uncomfortable.” He also said it’s a way to reject the assumption that because he posts on “dominant, physically imposing subreddits” he has certain political leanings or lacks empathy.

“I hope at least a few people who care about me will see that you can be ‘manly’ and still have compassion for your fellow human beings,” said Tomato 1987.

Politics and sex have always been deeply intertwined, of course, and adult content online is as well Increasingly under attackincluding via Age verification laws Which critics say is ineffective at keeping adult content away from minors, but has a chilling effect on freedom of expression and raises privacy concerns. In the UK, Reddit Requires users to verify their age By uploading a selfie or photo of their ID before accessing some adult content, although users have discovered that Bypass methods Verification process.

ICE has become a topic of conversation on other adult subreddits. Moderator of r/RandomActsofBlowJob (exactly what it sounds like) to publish on Sunday that “Fuck ICE” was “the subreddit’s stance on what’s going on with regards to immigration enforcement.” (A Related subreddit He also had the same attitude.) And he was there too debate On the ethics of continuing to run a fascist sub-network in an era of violent state repression.

Tomato1987 says he has no idea if anti-ICE content will still be on r/MassiveCock. For now, he says, it’s just “a little bit of daily hope.” “Just letting people know that there are a lot of people out there who are concerned about their safety and well-being.”