• HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml
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    7 days ago

    Why the fuck do the police still use horses?

    Are there still bandits in the wild west robbing steam trains?

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        8 days ago

        You wouldn’t be alive to defend yourself in court. But not only that, US cops are extremely protected legally. If you put a hand on them that’s assaulting an officer and you’ll get prison time.

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      8 days ago

      That was a lie. The ones who don’t like tyranny don’t like guns, and the ones who like guns don’t actually mind tyranny, so long as it hurts the right people.

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        8 days ago

        If those who oppose tyrany wont starting using guns, they can rest well assured repression and death awaits

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      8 days ago

      The arming was (and remains) mainly about keeping the US settler garrison empowered to carry out indigenous eviction, and keeping non-white populations under control. Not protecting from a tyrannical government.

      You can see that when those groups did try to arm themselves, such as the Black panthers or the American Indian Movement, laws were passed and repression carried out to disarm them.

      Highly recommend reading Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - Loaded, the disarming history of the second amendment for more on this. You can find the audiobook on torrents.

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        Thanks for the reading recomendation, will look into it. Yeah, times of crisis are really fast destroyers of lies, such as that the ruling classes would allow the ruled to arm against them. If the propaganda meltdown was in turbo mode after israel started the genocide, a civil conflict inside the us will give it a spaceship engine

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    8 days ago

    The police representative blandly spouting copaganda and saying how much the LAPD cares about safeguarding lives, while a protestor is currently getting hit with batons and run over by horses, is the most US thing I’ve ever seen.

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          8 days ago

          In the mind of the USAian liberal, this is also because of Russia. Things used to be great, but now they’re bad because the foreigners are controlling the president.

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            In the minds of anyone with a passing understanding of Russian foreign policy can absolutely see they have their hooks in Trump and you would have to have a significant deficit in logical thinking skills to believe otherwise. That being said that only accounts for some of the war, violence, and agitation the USA is involved in.

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      ??? No different than Russia? HAVE YOU READ THE HISTORY OF THE U.S.? THERE ISN’T EVEN A SIDE OF COMPARISON RUSSIA LOOKS LIKE THE LAND OF PEACE COMPARED TO THE U.S.

      I suggest you read “Endless Holocausts: Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire”

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            From 1917to 1922 between 7-12 million Russians, mostly civilians, were killed. This includes hundreds of thousands of Jews killed in pogroms (genocidal race riots). The Red Terror involved Bolsheviks conducting executions to wipeout political dissent and any threats to their power. The White Terror involved a collection of conservatives, monarchists, and proto-fascists executing communists and genociding Jews. This doesn’t count people who died in forced labor camps, which by some accounts saw a 10-20% fatality rate per month. There were mass rapes and looting wherever the several armies went. It’s been described to be as close to Hell on Earth as it gets. Between WWI and the Russian Civil War, the total population fell from around 170 million to 134 million.

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            [Video] LA cops force their horses to run over protester

            If anything, it’s US cops learning from the cossacks, whom tsar always send against people when police was not enough. Running over unarmed people with horses was their favourite tactics.

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            Well you see they shot some monarchists and that’s equivalent to murdering tens of millions of brown people somehow.

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      8 days ago

      yup, weve been saying this shit. and that isnt considering the fact they have been doing it to other countries as well for decades.

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        What have y’all been saying? World will never know because my comment had to be removed under ‘Rule 1’. What is rule 1? No fucking clue because this community does not have any listed rules. Nor did I get notified at all because Lemmy.ml seems to refuse any sort of basic common courtesy.

        I keep forgetting just how redditor the administration/moderation of lemmy.ml is. Had no idea I was on a lemmy.ml community. If I knew that I never would have posted shit here in the first place.

        Go ahead and ban me. Y’all already did a couple years ago and had to reverse course when users started openly questioning where all the content went. By all means. Go for it. Y’all can miss my content but I sure as shit won’t miss you admins.

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    Not surprising at all, there’s been so many cop brutality incidents over the years. Off the top of my head, a cop broke the arm of an elderly woman with dementia and the cops laughed and joked about it. There was another case where the cops make a man crawl on floor before executing him. People don’t just become monsters overnight. They’ve been trained over the years to behave this way.

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      shout out to Loveland Colorado, one of the most overfunded police districts in the country. If you haven’t seen that video definitely look it up. It’s not even an altercation it’s literally just two dudes sitting and yukking it up while they torture a screaming geriatric woman.

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      Bodycams are making a lot more of these available now too. Saw a brutal one where cops paralyze a handcuffed guy by breaking his neck, then they sit prop him up in a sitting position and complain that hes uncooperative because won’t move.

      That was a year ago, the dude is dead and the cops got off scott free.