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[–] [email protected] 173 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

It was worse than what the picture shows.

There's a bunch of videos on Twitter/X showing how they pushed her into that position, turned her around, and hauled her off before cuffing her and detaining her. She was thankfully released later, but this is just far too much. All of it is.

[–] [email protected] 114 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Welcome to freest country in the world. We will support genocide and still somehow convince own delusional selves that we are good guys.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago (6 children)

What is it that we're free to do again? I have honestly forgotten what all these implied freedoms are actually supposed to entail.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You're free to love white Jesus

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

Rich, privileged white people are free to do anything. The rest of us are oppressed, beaten, and thrown in prison unless we obey.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

You're free to choose from 48 different flavours of corn syrup filled packaged food.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not even. One police officer decides your sus while you're armed and that's it. They're allowed to execute you on the spot. That's not a right, that's a privilege with a death sentence for anyone who mistakes themselves as part of the privileged class.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They are allowed to execute you on the spot regardless of what you may or may not have on you. All they have to do is to say they were scared.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes but 80% of the time they cite their belief someone had a gun. To the point that once a gun is found at the scene everyone tunes out. (Other made up offenses include having a knife and having nothing but walking toward them)

Which brings us back to the point of a gun being an excuse to execute you on the spot. Which also means you don't actually have a 2nd amendment right. Rights that you only technically have, aren't actually extant.

It's okay though, we don't actually have any of the rights from Amendments 1-8. So it's not unusual for the second amendment to only technically exist either.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Other made up offenses include having a knife and having nothing but walking toward them

Or having a seizure on your kitchen floor.

Or having dementia and ending up at the wrong house because you think you live there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

If you have forgotten Feedom, you must be a Russian shill. /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Will you're free to get fat, put on a blue uniform, and beat the fuck out of journalists and black people.

If that's not freedom, I don't know what is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

If "freedom" and "American exceptionalism" wasn't dead on arrival it certainly was tossed off a high bridge when Trump was elected.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Wow

Huge guts to snap the cop after getting pushed. Taunting a bear (if bears carried mace and had some of the world’s worst PR).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I know. I absolutely adore that their finger is still firing off that shutter. A huge fuck you with each press.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

It seems videos don't federate to all platforms - I added a direct link to the post now. :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

For some strange reason clicking the link says address not found