• stoy@lemmy.zip
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    8 days ago

    That seems like a huge inefficiency, DOGE should eliminate it.

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    The police are there to protect the business interests of the richest man in the world.

    They call regular people “terrorists” for daring to stand up to fascism in any small way.

    They start a manhunt for the murder of the CEO of a health insurance company while ignoring the murders of countless regular people every day.

    Private property is protected, while it’s been made illegal to be homeless.

    What a sick and decrepit society.

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      7 days ago

      Police aren’t here for for the common citizen, they’re for sale to the highest bidder like everything else in this shit hole of United States of Capitalism. Fuck the police. ACAB.

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    This really does illustrate the idea that police aren’t there to “serve and protect.” They are there to keep the common people in line so that the rich can stay safe.

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      Mask off moment. Their purpose is to protect capital. The only crimes that cops prevent are through deterrence because they are crime punishers, not crime preventers.

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        they are crime punishers, not crime preventers.

        This isn’t unique to the US. It is called law enforcement so even if it wasn’t a completely broken and horseshit system crime prevention would not be part of their purview.

        You prevent/reduce crime by addressing the underlying societal issues that are contributing to it.

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    Terrorism is scaring/harming people to manipulate government.

    Tesla is neither government nor their property damage is scaring people.

    More trumped-up charges.

    (It is hilariously fitting Trump the man and Trump the word fit so gand-in-hand)

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      8 days ago

      So are we suddenly pretending Musk isn’t a de facto government leader who might be manipulated by this? (Terrible wording, but y’all get my gist. I’m going hiking now.)

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      7 days ago

      this is meant to be read without the emotional loading to the words that we’ve been conditioned with: ie X is implicitly bad… these are just words, whose meaning has more depth than what they actually define

      terrorism is

      the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims

      violence is

      an act of physical force that causes or is intended to cause harm

      arson is violence

      and this particular act of violence is intended to achieve political or ideological aims (musk is a political figure albeit not an official government employee, and this is in response to his public political acts)

      now, i’d argue it’s not “against non-combatants”, but perhaps it is? is destruction of a persons property constitute violence against them? it’s at least psychological - trying to scare/influence for sure

      let’s not kid ourselves though: it is what it is… it’s just ridiculous that this is what they pursue while pardoning jan 6 offenders… the issue isn’t that they’re labelling this domestic terrorism. the issue is that it’s singled out because fElon asked daddy dictator

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      If you want to abstract it enough, hurting Tesla hurts musk, who unfortunately is the government.

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          OH NOOO AFTER M&MS CARS ARE NOW INFECTED BY THE WOKE VIRUS (soon on Fox News I’m sure 😂 )

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        You remember the video where someone filmed the rainbows a sprinkler made in the sun, and claimed it was proof that “they” are poisoning our water?

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      How thin does that metal paneling have to be to wilt due to brief exposure to fire?

      The Cybertruck makes vinyl home siding look more durable.

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    Republicans doing things to stop people from destroying cars but not children in schools. “Family values” party.

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    Good! We’re FINALLY Solving REAL PROBLEMS!

    -This is LITERALLY What Conservatives think while CHILDREN ARE GUNNED DOWN IN SCHOOL, SHELVES ARE EMPTY OF GOODS, 401KS TANK AND ICE IS ALLOWED TO ENTER HOMES AND DEPORT PEOPLE WITHOUT WARRANTS OR CAUSE!

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      What he gets really irritated about is the fact that you have to file a flight plan and that flight plan has to be public, because obviously otherwise it wouldn’t work.

      So anyone at any time can track his plane, and no matter how rich he is, there is fuck all he can do about it

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        He could just take another form of transportation. There is no public records of cars driven or train tickets purchased.

        He could even fly with normal airlines so there would be no public record of his flight.

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    I thought Elon was behind this since Tesla’s aren’t selling well. They should start from there.

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    Fascism is just ultra capitalism in a trenchcoat wielding a flamethrower!

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    Is it illegal to Nelson laugh while pointing at swasticar enjoyers and calling them dorks?

    No? Then this is all a waste of time. I shall continue doing so unabated.

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      These days you don’t need to be committing a crime to get arrested. You just need to be annoying the wrong people.

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        I’ve seen this meme format for years now, but never understood it. Why are they just floating in space? Why is one killing the other?

        I get this individual meme…I just don’t get the format.

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          The original is something like “it’s all Ohio” “always has been”. The globe shown is just a large landmass that looks like Ohio. They’re probably astronauts since you’d have to be in space to see it. The astronaut killing the other has the Ohio flag on them and is killing them for knowing too much.

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            Wow, I have so much more context now. And honestly, it’s actually a lot funnier than I thought it was, thanks.

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          When you finally see the big picture, you have to die because you know too much.

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          Never did understand it either and always just saw it and then saw it so often that it just became normal

          I had to look it up myself to see where the origin of it came from

          https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wait-its-all-ohio-always-has-been

          Know Your Meme is always a great resource for this kind of stuff … thanks for asking because it made me look it up and find out for myself because I never knew the origin of it all.