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Not advocating violence, but shit like this is going to lead to violence.
Meanwhile, we have two members of Mark Zuckerberg’s legal team sitting in court wearing facial recognition capable glasses.
Talk too long in a public forum? Believe it or not, straight to jail.
A worse crime than anything in the Epstein files apparently
Oklahoma
Yeah, authoritarian red state shithole. I don’t even travel to/through such places when I can avoid it.
Used his free speech a little bit too long
He exceeded his quota of free tokens
This data center they’re hysterically agitating to build is going to take part of someone’s yard, someone’s entire house and property, and it will be right by a neighborhood making it’s stupid noise. And a lot of people outside of the town will have to deal with $400 per month electric bills, and they just can’t afford it.
Maybe this is the (unfortunate) push that drives renewables.
These are the same material limitations that has driven renewables for decades, the US has an ideological dedication to absorbing the consequences of sustaining fossil fuel use anyway. The US is a for-profit imperial power with an owning class who sees anyone and everyone beneath them as exploitable and disposable. People in the US have tolerated the fossil fuel industry making their lives worse consistently for decades. Those same people will always adjust to worse conditions if they have to, and that owning class knows it.
There is no breaking point, people have to choose to accept the consequences of resisting with the knowledge that these people will never stop unless forced to.
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.
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.
The arrest was done to warn the other peasants
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 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.
I’m stealing the phrase ‘Epstein class’, that’s a great way of explaining how horrific the rich and powerful are
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.
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.
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
This is exactly why there are non-profit bail funds to donate to in many communities. These funds frequently help cover these people that are the vanguard of democracy.
ACAB
while I don’t disagree with your statement, I’m certain that it was not the cops who made this call.
Who gives a shit? You don’t give a Nazi a pass because they were “just following orders”, do you?
Who gave a pass?
You did, by dismissing their agency in the matter. Again, who gives a fuck if they weren’t the ones who made the call? They enforced the draconian measures, they are just as to blame.
I specifically agreed to them being bastards, obviously in this context. they are just as to blame. sure thing… I even confirmed that.
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.
I never indicated that that cops did anything right here, did i?
You dismissed their agency in the matter, thus giving them a pass.
I agreed with the acab, but also asked for credit for those who ordered it
You didn’t ask for anything though, you made a statement. If your intent was to ask for something, then you should restate it as a question.
I see, you need everything spelled out.
So they were just… following orders?
yes, and they are to blame. but so are those who gave the orders.
So ACAB+
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.
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.
Land of the free.
Whoever told you that is your enemy
