The party of “small government” . I’m sure he’s on the maga cancel culture concentration camp list now…brought to you by palantir because f you
How long until someone shoots up a construction site for a data center?
Don’t even have to go that far. There are cheap and easily available perfectly safe substances that can be dumped on freshly poured concrete, or in empty forms, that keeps concrete from setting up correctly.
Claremore PD, great for hassling teenagers coming home from work or “AcTiViSts” who talk a bit too long, not so much help for actual crime.
These times are going to make The Onion irrelevant.
One of our local public transit advocates did nothing more than present at city council meetings. They ordered the security team to follow him everywhere in the building, to the bathroom, and his car.
Even basic challenges to the people in your government is all too often met with straight up oppression tactics. He got them to stop by going to the press with it. Nothing else worked except more public pressure.
You’re only allowed to protest low-income housing in your local town you fucking idiot! God know how democracy works dumby~
“Shut up, Poors.”
Yah bruh don’t be rousing the rabble! You rabble rouser you!
Years ago there was a sketch in France making parody of local news to denounce racism: Anchor: “A man shot at a group of Arabs arguing they were too loud. After investigations, the police concluded that indeed, the Arabs were too loud”.
This news brought that immediately in my mind.
They arrest the opposition for nothing to keep others from speaking out.
Hail Capitalism, hail the Job Creators. /s
That YouTube video is wild. Approximately 20 seconds from being first notified that his time was up, officers had already come up to him. 20 seconds. He handed them his documents. He was done. There was no logical reason for the arrest.
Sure there was, they wanted to show their power.
The arrest was done to warn the other peasants
That must be that “freedom” that Vance and Rubio say Europe lacks.
ACAB
while I don’t disagree with your statement, I’m certain that it was not the cops who made this call.
It doesn’t matter, they did the will of whoever made the call. That’s why we say ACAB, because cops either enforce the will of the ruling class (thus making them bastards) or they lose their jobs and stop being cops.
ACAB has always been a message of class struggle and how all of us have to stand tall and refuse to betray our class interests. Cops betray working class interests for a paycheck and a feeling of superiority.
If you read my comment, I did agree with the blame being put on the cops. I just wanted to also highlight the politicians who made the call.
No, it is, they decide whether to make the arrest or not. They decided to violate the first amendment, and embraced a bad faith request by a cynical and corrupt local lawmaker bought out by the tech industry.
That is no cop out that they were “ordered” from a city council member, they take an oath to protect and defend the constitution, and other laws, and don’t get to cop out to following orders in violating the freedom of speech, and other laws and decency in such a transparent abuse of power in service of tech.
So they were just… following orders?
yes, and they are to blame. but so are those who gave the orders.
So ACAB+
They are not exempt from guilt, but the that is not the point. The point is that this is not just yet another example of random police brutality and abuse of their powers. This is oligarch dictated suppression of dissidents.
It is different and much more serious than just “cops being abusive assholes”.
You mean like someone hacked their brain stems and was controlling them remotely? Yeah, that is a problem…
while the cops are blame (I agreed with the ACAB statement) I also deserve the higher ups are to be blamed.
Police officers always seem to align with the interests of the capitalist (Epstein) class. What is it about that job that attracts so many people with contempt for the working class?
The answer is quite mundane. I’ve a few friends in a (non-US) police force. The answer is that the rich/powerful are annoying as hell to go against.
They either know the law, or pay someone to know it for them. They can make obviously illegal things legal on paper. They can also nitpick everything. E.g. spending £5K on lawyers to get out of a £100 fine, since they don’t want to get the points. Any procedural mistakes, or paperwork errors can kill a case, or at least drag it out for years.
They also have contacts that can apply pressure. When their wife knows your boss’s, boss’s boss’s wife, they can make your life and career VERY uncomfortable.
End result, most officers learn to pick their battles with the rich and powerful. They will make your life hard, and will get away without everything being perfect.
In practice this can easily turn into taking the easy road. Even when the rich aren’t even technically in the right.
Predators protect predators.
Stupidity.
Cops are almost entirely made up of people who were too stupid to get a white collar job.
As a blue collar guy, I think they’re too stupid to be blue collar workers.
Good ol Socko.
I would say he was prophetic. But a lot of us realized what he did during COVID. Had a minute to think and pay attention.
I’m stealing the phrase ‘Epstein class’, that’s a great way of explaining how horrific the rich and powerful are
I’ve been using “predator class.”
“Parasite class” is also fitting
I didn’t coin the term.
Epstein class perfectly describes how they see themselves above laws and human decency. The world should never allow people to amass that much wealth.
What’s the alternative though? Let everyone be above the law? Because, that just sounds like a recipe for more trouble.
It’s ironic how your first thought is not to make them accountable in front of the law just like everyone else.
lol what’s the alternative? Tax the shit out of them. That amount of wealth is a danger to every democracy and the planet.
i’m not 100% sure, but i think they meant alternative to the cops, not the wealthy
@capital_sniff@lemmy.world which, i mean. police the police or something. not to mention the system needs so many reforms in general
That’s not remotely what they were saying. Wtf
It was a joke.
This dude just unironically accidentally solved capitalism.
I think the term is capitalist propaganda that’s trying to separate the bad rich from the “good” rich. “Yeah I made hundreds of millions insider trading and don’t pay any taxes but hey, I never hung out with those bad rich guys.”
I don’t know, I think any linguistic coinage that gets Americans in general to finally get that the rich hate and want to destroy them, the better.
All of the answers before this are wrong. It’s their vein attempt to show us that they’re better than us. And that’s it. They’re so uncomfortable with themselves they they have to take you out on you. They believe they are part of the club.
Is it Vein or is it an arterior motive?
That would explain the massive overlap in domestic violence.
The rich give the violent dullards and chest-thumpers the imprint of honorability.
The average cop imagines himself a Knight Protector of the Realm when he is, odds on, Barney Fife with a spouse who flinches.
Acab, obviously.
But do you seriously not understand why cops follow orders from politicians and not citizens?
We just ignored the part where we cared about who our politicians were.
a paycheck :/
The Epstein class is not just capitalist. Stop sewing bullshit.
It’s capitalists and people in power which generally serve the capitalist class.
It’s also sowing
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I’m gonna say “arrest is unwarranted. Just kick ‘em out or end their speaking time.”
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I didn’t see the video.
…but you’ll happily spend multiple posts arguing about it, even though a link to it was right there in the post.
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YouTube doesn’t work for you?
Nah, there are options between “nothing” and “arrest”. Even for Nazis.
I wouldn’t be sad about some Nazi-punching though.
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Kick them out?
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I’m waiting for videos of cops fighting against Nazis instead of protecting them.
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