Don’t waste good food for no reason.
A rope, on the other hand, is still good after being used once. Say, if you hang something. Or someone. Not that I’ implying anything.
Noël Godin, the man who did that, just passed away some days ago
Respect to him.this but the bomb pies from spongebob
A pie to the face is a good reminder to the target that if some schlub can sneak a creamy pan past their security and shove it in their face, it would have been that much easier to sneak in a Saturday night special.
This method is best saved for those that may still be spooked away from the dark side.
For the others, Saturday Night is always on the menu.
Remind me please, the cake at Bill’s face, did it change anything? How about “the cake” from Luigi Mangione, did this one change anything?
Talk to a doctor or nurse - the ease with which insurance requests went through for at least a month afterward was comical.
I’m not sure about how things are now though, maybe more pie is needed
Despite it mostly functioning as a self serving tax write off, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation did some good stuff before the pie to the face wore off. I’m sure that’s Some with an asterisk. It felt like they threw money at everything for a couple years in the 90s.
It started conversations, but then they all stopped when arrests were made. Now if more people threw pies all the time, and did so anonymously, and at more targets, we might have a chance to change things. We can’t just let one person take a stand and then take the fall while asking if it meant anything. It means something when the example is followed.
s/pie/brick/…lol youre gonna have to do MUUUCH more than that. If you know what I mean…👀
To everyone in this thread saying “I’d never do that, I don’t want to get shot”
Remember when we used to hang or behead powerful people we didn’t like? Yeah, that wasn’t just one time in France either.
Cinderblocks would be more effective (for legal reasons this is a joke)
You ever try to hide a cinder block in a cream pie!?
Sadly, the most prolific pie thrower recently died. He was an amazing iconoclast.
Man, why are all the GOOD 80 year olds dying while the worst 80 year old gets to keep ruining the world?
One of his favorite targets was the French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy, who was pied by Godin or one of his accomplices on at least seven occasions.
After checking out this Bernard guy, all I can say is: “good”
I wonder if at least once he approached Lévy saying “Behold! A Pie!”
We should bring that back, but with bricks instead of the pies.
My wife advised me not to make the comment I was going to make.
What was the comment you were going to make?
“My wife took so many pies to the face, when she stepped on the bathroom scale it screamed!”
Dad. I told you not to comment on Lemmy.
Without exaggeration, doing this now (depending on the person) would risk life imprisonment for bioweaponry terrorism, or just getting shot
Yeah, pretty much. A large part of what made the face-pie so effective was simply the “we can still touch you” reminder. It’s a powerful message, because it reminds them that their bodyguards only need to fail once. It’s the old “you need to protect yourself every time, we only need to touch you once” thing. Which is why they’ve captured the courts and police, to deter attacks even when they aren’t under constant protection.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
I remember a few years ago, there was a big to-do about people throwing paint on their yachts lol. Even that was enough to scare them.
If they want to charge people with bioterrorism over pies, then the pie throwers might start throwing brick pies given they will face similar charges.
I think the natural conclusion is if you’re going to charge someone with bioterrorism for throwing a pie on you then they might just throw acid on you instead, as both lead to the same outcome.
Because we stopped doing shit like this and gave in to bullshit civility politics. That shit only benefits the fascists.
Because we stopped doing shit like this
Did we? Or was this always a rare and remarkable incident, both in that it happened at all and it was captured and preserved for us to talk about today.
Certainly, you can talk about the no less than three different Trump assassination attempts. Or the Luigi Mangione shooting. Or the fatal stabbing of Bob Lee, CPO of Cashapp. Or the assault of Bryan Kobel, CEO of TC BioPharm, after a dispute with his Uber driver. Or the vigilante attack on Paul Pelosi. Or the Doohickey assassination of Shinzo Abe. Or the Charlie Kirk assassination. Or just run the numbers annually for violence targeting C-level officials
This study analyzes 424 open source reported incidents targeting senior private-sector executives between 2003 and late 2025, highlighting a sustained and accelerating rise in both physical and cyber threats. Physical attacks dominate (85%), and one-third of all incidents resulted in injury or death. Incident frequency has surged since 2023, with 2025 already doubling 2024 totals by October, marking the highest level on record. Targeting increasingly occurs at workplaces and residences, with protest-driven activity driving growth at public events.
But I’m not seeing any evidence to suggest we “stopped” doing any of this. On the contrary, it looks like we’ve got a rising tide of stochastic violence, both from within the state itself and against state and private leadership.
Great research and insight thank you
Interesting points. Don’t know if I recall all those offhand. But the Cashapp guy for instance, that was a fight between two people of essentially the same class over some family / dating / cocaine issue. That doesn’t really fit the pattern we’re talking about here.
Bruh I’m just talking about throwing pies in assholes’ faces I don’t need all this jeez louise
Easily get shot these days. Most of the big names are surrounded by exSF who are carrying far more firepower in their briefcases than any one of us can ever purchase.
Most of the time they are even carrying firearms that are illegal or never properly gone through NFA. A few rappers and their bodyguard occasionally get a weapons charge but you never see Musks or Fuckerberg get in trouble.
I seem to recall some video of Musk going through security at a courthouse, and hoping he would slip up with a gun or a bag of cocaine. I’m sure nothing would have happened to him.
Without exaggeration, doing it back then risked much the same.
These were brave acts then. They’d be brave acts now.
Yup.
What changed is not the risk, just how we perceive it. Not long ago living under fascism was literally considered a fate worse than death
I mean, there are face tracking cameras everywhere and everyone has a camera in their pocket. Being anonymous is very difficult
Granted, but people were also just less afraid of putting their face to their actions and being “hunted” by the enemy
What happened to the dude who shot syringes of his piss at Ilhan Omar?
Aka a literal biological attack?
Ooh did you say this is how to get… Into a tickle fight?
Is that because modern food is so unhealthy?
Cow pies
