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[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.de 116 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

She got honoured with a monument in Alingsås for exactly this. There is also an Wikipedia article about this incidence.

[-] odium@programming.dev 67 points 1 year ago

The man hit by Danielsson was identified as Seppo Seluska, a militant from the Nordic Realm Party later convicted for the torture and murder of a gay Jew.

Of course he did.

[-] zigmus64@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago

The statue is awesome, but it fails to capture the hatred and aggression in the photo.

[-] LetMeEatCake@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

Yeah I was going to say, the statue didn't capture her facial expression.

[-] watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 year ago

“The Old Woman with the Handbag”

38-year-old woman

[-] ashok36@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

The statue is titled, "The Old Woman with the Handbag".

The woman in the picture was 38 when it was taken. The artist made her look older for some reason.

[-] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I think it's just time doing its thing. The artist probably saw her as old because she dressed like an old person dressed in 2015.

[-] odradek@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

I don't think she was particularly youthful-looking in 1985 either tbh.

[-] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Probably not, no, but I can't see what else lead to the name. The artist must just have assumed due to clothing and style.

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[-] soulless@lemmy.ml 65 points 1 year ago

Violence against nazis ought to be legal. These are monsters who have committed genocide and routinely kill their target demographics. Punching a nazi is self-defence, this lady is a fucking hero.

[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 45 points 1 year ago

This woman is a hero. Punching a Nazi is always right, but it's not always legal (nor should it be). I feel comfortable holding both of those stances at once.

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[-] SomeoneElse@lemmy.ca 50 points 1 year ago

When I was 15 I dated an older boy who cheated on me with his adopted sister’s sister (who was 13 to his 18 years) because I wouldn’t have sex with him. Yes - all round awful. He and his sister-child girlfriend hounded me and my immediate family for months and months for some reason. We had to go to the police in the end. Many years later my nana confessed that she bumped into him in a shopping centre around that time and he pretended he didn’t know her. She chased him down and hit him upside the head with her heavily overloaded handbag while shouting “that’s for being such a little shit to my granddaughter!” Best part - the mates who were with him nearly pissed themselves laughing at him. I’ve often tried to envision the scene and it’s not unlike this photo. Love you nana.

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I read all of that and really wondered where that story was going. Well done.

[-] SomeoneElse@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

I hadn’t thought about it in such a long time but it sprang to mind the second I saw that photo. And it was really late and my partner was asleep so I decided to share my weird, barely relevant, but kinda wholesome story with some strangers!

[-] Noodle07@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I was expecting a drop through the announcer table

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[-] teft@startrek.website 44 points 1 year ago

I believe the Dead Kennedys said it best:

Nazi punks fuck off.

[-] roguetrick@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
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[-] Nelots@lemm.ee 33 points 1 year ago
[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 27 points 1 year ago

I hope whatever was in the handbag was heavy and hard.

[-] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago
[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 12 points 1 year ago
[-] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Meh, that guy looks midsized.

[-] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hopefully bricks. The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi, but a brain dead one incapable of doing anything is almost as good.

[-] Silverseren@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago

That picture is beautiful. Taken at just the right perfect moment.

[-] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

That stance is awesome. You can make a whole King of Fighters character solely from it. More in context, I hope that guy didn't react very nazi-like against her.

[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe 10 points 1 year ago

Why is that picture in black and white if it was taken in the 80's?

[-] Letto@reddthat.com 32 points 1 year ago

Color film was, and still is, considerably more expensive than black and white. Probably just what they had in their camera!

Also most news papers didn't swap to color photography until the late 90s, so if it's a reporter it's likely they had black and white film

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Color film also requires more light. By making all elements of the film sensitive to all visible light, your essentially triple it's sensitivity to light vs color.

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[-] rustyriffs@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yo, what do you guys think she was packin in that bag?! 🤣

[-] cheesymoonshadow 3 points 1 year ago

The audio in my head that goes with this photo is that old woman from the original Total Recall that Arnold grabbed the case from and she yelled at him, "Fuck you, you asshole!"

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