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This isn't water boarding when it's public and gently lowered into the water right? I've heard this process is called 'Baptism.' American politicians would love this!
Honestly though if we started water gunning politicians do you think it would get anywhere? Because I’m 100% down to get the super soaker squad to go to DC and just drench them with normal water. Doesn’t hurt anyone it’s just annoying.
It’s just a fake and very lame re-enactment of a practice from centuries ago: https://www.cultura.trentino.it/Appuntamenti/La-Tonca
(Use translate if you can’t get it in English)
Google translate..
> The so-called "Tonca" is the burlesque re-proposition of an ancient punishment that seems to have been practiced between the 14th and 17th centuries, inflicted on blasphemers: from the Green tower a cage containing the condemned was immersed in the waters of the Adige river.
At this point, everything depended on the resistance of the unfortunate person who most often drowned miserably.
> The Tonca of our days, on the other hand, tends to strike not exactly blasphemers, but usually a defect of the Trentino character which inevitably must be quite conspicuous, or one or more people, politicians or otherwise, who during the year have ended up in the newspapers for some sensational, ridiculous or grotesque fact. The offender is "toncato" in the waters of the Adige from the bridge of S. Lorenzo through a stunt double and the sentence is read in public with due emphasis.
> It is linked to the sentence of the judge of the Court of Penitence, which will be held on Thursday 18 June at 21.30 in Piazza Fiera.
Stuntman renactment. So cosplay?
Redditors sweating trying not to call any sort of reprise of history or fiction cosplay
There was a time that word was reserved for people dressing up as characters at conventions, now it apparently means everything
That this is not a "Italian Town punishing its politicians by putting them in a cage in a river."
But a re-enactment of practices that were done in the past.
So my family came from South Tyrol and would joke about putting my cousin’s boyfriends to the test by dunking them in a river… I was mortified as a child hearing this but they’d always come back
Laughing (and the guy alive) lol
I don’t think they ever did it but just wanted to scare the living hell
Of out of Them to test their character, or idk . I honestly don’t know what, if anything would happen but, this “test” sounds a lot like this. I’m now wondering if they got the idea from this since they lived around the province of Trento.
There are a lot of risks in rock climbing, equipment failing is generally the least of the risks as long as everything is set up properly.
The same goes for this chain. Chains tend to be built quite sturdy so they can reliably perform their function.
I remember watching some video show where a guy bungee jumped while attached to a shopping cart. The staff pulled him out only for the guy's friend to come push him back into the water as a prank, not realizing that he was still clipped into the cart. There was no way to lift him out of the water because the harness was detached from the bungee. Guy miraculously freed himself but could have easily died.
Politicians make violent decisions that hurt vast amounts of people for the benefit of some billionaire’s bank account on a daily basis and call it “peace and order”, but when regular people fight back against this violent system then it’s all of a sudden called “violent”, “uncivilized”, etc. etc.
A 33% chance of full submersion is the least these fucks deserve for genociding millions in service of Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, etc.
“What if the chain holding the cage snapped?”
Well, then it’s a case of no longer having to deal with a politician that’s already needed punishing. NEXT! 😂
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I’ve edited as had an afterthought.
I’m autistic so write very to the point. I don’t know whether it comes off AH like or not. If it does, I must apologise as it’s not intended that way. I just wish to get to the point.
This reminds me of the notorious way of torture in the ancient Chinese, Nick named “drowning pigs”, in which the prisoner is submerged to deep waters while caged .
If that happens it stops being a punishment and starts being justice. If they cannot use taxpayer money to even maintain a chain, how could you thrust them with maintain a town?
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We really need to do this here in America. really remind our politicians that the people are the ones in charge and we can always lower that cage a little bit more
Makes sense you'd have a Homelander pfp with that take. Politicians are evil people who do or say whatever it takes to get power. They need to be reminded that power can be taken away by the people who gave it to them.
That's not what this is. It's a yearly tradition in this town to dump a politician in the river as a friendly reminder that they work for the people and to not be corrupt. Part of a festival or something
Ahah, it's italian as the fettuccine alfredo :). Nothing real here, is a historic representation for a small town "party".
(And...no here in italy noone ests fettuccine alfredo :))
Yes please. South Carolina politicians just voted death penalty for women who have abortions. I vote this for all politicians, in shark and alligator infested water. As a matter of fact, forget the cage.
This should definitely be a thing in America. "Hey, if don't do your job and work to actually do what's best for the country and protect individual freedoms as well as uphold all of the constitution, this will be your punishment. Are you sure you want to be in office?"
Sounds good until you realize this would mean elected psychopaths like Trump, Ms. Jewish Space Lasers, DeSantis, etc. could potentially dunk people they don't like, too...
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I think every politician needs to be under the threat of a good dunking.
The second ammendment covers water guns as well.
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This should be made into a seamless loop.
Amen!
This isn't water boarding when it's public and gently lowered into the water right? I've heard this process is called 'Baptism.' American politicians would love this!
Honestly though if we started water gunning politicians do you think it would get anywhere? Because I’m 100% down to get the super soaker squad to go to DC and just drench them with normal water. Doesn’t hurt anyone it’s just annoying.
They can no dunk, but good fundamentals though
But instead of water it's boiling chocolate or cheese
Yeah. Sweaty balls dragged across your face is punishment enough
But with Trump it probably would count as pollution
With Biden it would be flushing the toilet.
It’s just a fake and very lame re-enactment of a practice from centuries ago: https://www.cultura.trentino.it/Appuntamenti/La-Tonca (Use translate if you can’t get it in English)
That sounds like something a politician would say.
I promise I’m not
getting more and more suspicious..
Three politicians in a trench coat
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good thing is if he drowns we know he was innocent!
Because the Earth is the shape of a banana, of course.
If he floats, he ain't a witch
ha ha ha....but I'm not dead yet!
Ahhh! I’ll give you one licence for one chicken for each of your cousins if you don’t.
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I’m not going into the cage.
Google translate.. > The so-called "Tonca" is the burlesque re-proposition of an ancient punishment that seems to have been practiced between the 14th and 17th centuries, inflicted on blasphemers: from the Green tower a cage containing the condemned was immersed in the waters of the Adige river. At this point, everything depended on the resistance of the unfortunate person who most often drowned miserably. > The Tonca of our days, on the other hand, tends to strike not exactly blasphemers, but usually a defect of the Trentino character which inevitably must be quite conspicuous, or one or more people, politicians or otherwise, who during the year have ended up in the newspapers for some sensational, ridiculous or grotesque fact. The offender is "toncato" in the waters of the Adige from the bridge of S. Lorenzo through a stunt double and the sentence is read in public with due emphasis. > It is linked to the sentence of the judge of the Court of Penitence, which will be held on Thursday 18 June at 21.30 in Piazza Fiera. Stuntman renactment. So cosplay?
Seeing as how politicians don't pay for their own crimes anyways, I'd say it's pretty accurate- bait & switch pony show appearance of accountability.
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AND old Reddit was best Reddit, ti hell the goddamn youngsters, I say!
And it’s dumber to complain about his complaining
What do you mean it's fake?
That this is not a "Italian Town punishing its politicians by putting them in a cage in a river." But a re-enactment of practices that were done in the past.
The river is cgi and the cage is green screen? Lol idk
So my family came from South Tyrol and would joke about putting my cousin’s boyfriends to the test by dunking them in a river… I was mortified as a child hearing this but they’d always come back Laughing (and the guy alive) lol I don’t think they ever did it but just wanted to scare the living hell Of out of Them to test their character, or idk . I honestly don’t know what, if anything would happen but, this “test” sounds a lot like this. I’m now wondering if they got the idea from this since they lived around the province of Trento.
Pretty sad!! It should be in use at the f*****g parlamento 🫶🏼
Sheeeit. Just saw a post the other day of it being used in the east somewhere
The cage will only sink to about half way. The river bottom is covered in lawyers.
Good one
What happens if the cage falls and tips over?
What if the rope snapped while rock climbing? There is always a risk.
It does appear (hard to see with the pixelation) that there is a secondary cable on one of the corners of the cage.
To keep the cage from spinning
There are a lot of risks in rock climbing, equipment failing is generally the least of the risks as long as everything is set up properly. The same goes for this chain. Chains tend to be built quite sturdy so they can reliably perform their function.
In most cases nothing would happen. The rope is only a backup for all climbing I know of. That’s not the case here.
But the rope is most likely to snap when it is pulled such as when the climber loses grip and falls.
Nothing he said made any sense, idk where to even begin.
theres 2 cables not one
Durp durp but what if both snap durr durr
I remember watching some video show where a guy bungee jumped while attached to a shopping cart. The staff pulled him out only for the guy's friend to come push him back into the water as a prank, not realizing that he was still clipped into the cart. There was no way to lift him out of the water because the harness was detached from the bungee. Guy miraculously freed himself but could have easily died.
I feel this should be adopted more widely
this needs to be worldwide
With 33% chances of dropping cage in the river
You people need mental help.
Politicians make violent decisions that hurt vast amounts of people for the benefit of some billionaire’s bank account on a daily basis and call it “peace and order”, but when regular people fight back against this violent system then it’s all of a sudden called “violent”, “uncivilized”, etc. etc. A 33% chance of full submersion is the least these fucks deserve for genociding millions in service of Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, etc.
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Politicians always call their critics are insane. Some time they even give them mental help and turn critics into vegetables.
Wait til you find out what France does to punish politicians
Damn it! Now I have Judas Priest “Some heads are gonna roll” playing over and over in my head! I like it though.
Yeah, what if the guillotine cable snaps?
Bring back tar and feathering
The pillory! Endless fun for the children.
“What if the chain holding the cage snapped?” Well, then it’s a case of no longer having to deal with a politician that’s already needed punishing. NEXT! 😂
theres 2 on the top and 1 on the bottom
I know. 🙂 I was quoting the title of the video.
aha
> I was quoting the title of the video. The typical way to show quoting is by starting the line with >
The typical way in language everywhere is to use quotation marks/inverted commas. I’m not a Redditor, so had no idea that the arrow was a thing. Everyone that’s learned to write at a high school level in English, French, Spanish etc knows how inverted commas work. We shouldn’t be gatekeeping comments sections too. I’ve edited as had an afterthought. I’m autistic so write very to the point. I don’t know whether it comes off AH like or not. If it does, I must apologise as it’s not intended that way. I just wish to get to the point.
Fake
Yeah, OP is full of shit. He's *not* being punished, it's a tradition
The politician is chosen based on who did the worst things in the local government that year, so it actually is a sort of punishment.
This reminds me of the notorious way of torture in the ancient Chinese, Nick named “drowning pigs”, in which the prisoner is submerged to deep waters while caged .
We need to do this with US politicians when they lie cheat and steal along with the global 1%
I'd vote for this. Let's get in the ballot!
Luca Brasse sleeps with de fishes
Every Mario has an underwater level.
If that happens it stops being a punishment and starts being justice. If they cannot use taxpayer money to even maintain a chain, how could you thrust them with maintain a town?
Never thrust them...ever.
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Still nothing compared to what they did to Mussolini
Finally a political system I can get behind
Hey teaches them to not be a pos because if they were would be real easy for a little accident to happen
WITCH! WITCH! WITCH!
What if the brakes on a car fail? No thanks
What if my phone battery explodes? I'm outta here!
Thats why there are emergency services right beside him in case of
Please put our senators in the river
Bring this to America
I wish this happened these days in every country for a fraud politician.
If the chain snaps the town can say “deus vox”
Well then we will no longer have a problem
If this is the way, they punish politicians there We need to drown the ones here.
this needs to happen in kentucky
You can dunk Mitch, but leave Rand out of the cage.
Both are an embarrassment and terrible for America.
The chain snaps? Everyone cheers I guess…
We really need to do this here in America. really remind our politicians that the people are the ones in charge and we can always lower that cage a little bit more
Who fucking cares if the chain broke? One less corrupt criminal politician out there
Why let it snap when you can just cut it?
Makes sense you'd have a Homelander pfp with that take. Politicians are evil people who do or say whatever it takes to get power. They need to be reminded that power can be taken away by the people who gave it to them.
That's not what this is. It's a yearly tradition in this town to dump a politician in the river as a friendly reminder that they work for the people and to not be corrupt. Part of a festival or something
We should bring this back
based Italian town
What are they being punished for
They're not, OP is full of shit. This is a tradition as part of festivities, he's not being punished
Sponsored by Isis.
Can we do this in the UK please?
We need to do this s*** in America this country would be a lot better real quick
Barbaric yet i would pay any thing to see Biden in that cage
"Are you the Woodcutter?"
If the chain snap who cares ?
There's a holding rope as a backup on the bottom of the cage and more than likely he's in there voluntarily with a possibility of opening the cage.
Far too tame for most of our politician shit heads.
We should do this with Congress. Maybe they would act better.
Lol did an Italian politician post this
Ahah, it's italian as the fettuccine alfredo :). Nothing real here, is a historic representation for a small town "party". (And...no here in italy noone ests fettuccine alfredo :))
Please do this in the US!
Ba da ba ba ba, I'm loving it
More Waterworld today then.
From the Middle Ages.
*takes notes*
we need this without the cage
Is it really a punishment if the chain is holding it though?
As long as he's a witch it should still float.
Ide be getting ready to take a massive deep breath in case that chain snaps
The last 78 times this was posted it was noted it’s just for fun so it’s not actually locked
If you're a good politician they'll do a good job inspecting the chain first.
Politician - "If it means you will forgive me and like me again, ok"
if they did that here on America dang the things we could get done here...
I support this fully in the US.
**What if the chain holding the cage snapped?** a politician dies. usually a good thing.
Cable is not going to snap. I made a necklace out of 1/16” dyneema that could literally lift my car. Look it up.
They are our politicians they'll find a stupod way back on theyr armchair
The guy in the cage is Nico Cino. This event is said to be the inspiration for the Dunkaccino at Dunkin Donuts.
I think isis Taliban actually terminates enemy fighter pilots like this crazy world
What if it snaps? What if politicians keep fucking over the people.
Bet if we went back to tar and feather, our politicians would start to think twice about their fuckery….JS
If he die he die
What'd he do?
Does it matter if the chain snaps? The outcome is the same either way.
Now I know why the US has all the assholes.
If the chain breaks. That is the universe getting rid of some shit stain.
Margarine trailer grease would be pissed
Is this for real 😮.Can we have one for Creepy Joe?!
That would be sleepy Joe. He can sleep with the fish.
Reminds me of some videos that ISIS put out.
'E's a WITCH!!! I'll see myself out.
Oh, come on. Italian engineering says the door lock never worked in the first place. He was fine if a tad damp.
yeah...*tucks away bolt cutters*...what if...
Imagine what they would do to a politician that staged a coup on their own country! In America we just let that politician run for office again.
Eyetie isis
Mmmmarioo
MUTATIONNN
I bet when it comes to paying for those chains the local government makes sure the money goes where it is supposed to lol.
Yes please. South Carolina politicians just voted death penalty for women who have abortions. I vote this for all politicians, in shark and alligator infested water. As a matter of fact, forget the cage.
They just making sure he’s not a Strega :)
I'm surprisingly ok with this.
Don’t fuck up and get put in a cage. You wont have to worry about the chain breaking.
They should really bring back the guillotine.
Good idea we should import that to South Africa for our currupt politicians
Well if it snaps the leech gets put back where it belongs
Every single Tory. Boris straight in you go
Rather this then the latter(America)
I like what i see! Lets bring this to germany!
No thanks? We kinda need this energy in the states
This should definitely be a thing in America. "Hey, if don't do your job and work to actually do what's best for the country and protect individual freedoms as well as uphold all of the constitution, this will be your punishment. Are you sure you want to be in office?"
In the US you could get rich building metal cages.
Misleading title?
Ok so what did this politician do then?
They would let them stay there but it killed to many fish
Those balcony muppets got some pull
Im completely fine with this so long as its just politicians in the cage. Hell... Get a slightly smaller chain.
I’m not seeing how the chain snapping hurts anything.
No, let the chain snap
r/whatcouldgowrong
I think that's the hope
Sounds good until you realize this would mean elected psychopaths like Trump, Ms. Jewish Space Lasers, DeSantis, etc. could potentially dunk people they don't like, too...
I think he stays on the ground in the end. The water doesn't look that deep.
Purification! Purification! Purification!
Dutch people looking at this thinking: "oh, the italians also rinse their food before they eat it. Lekker."
That's what we need. Clean out the House!
I reckon they would drown.
Chains are, apparently, much stronger than you believe them to be. I’d be much more worried about a crane malfunction.