• A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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      Yep.

      We cant give medicine/healthcare that those that need it, cause its to expensive.

      We cant give food to those that need it, cause its too expensive.

      We can’t provide shelter to those that need it, cause its too expensive.

      but somehow, magically, when it comes to the police state and fascism… Theres always an endless waterfall of money.

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        I guess when one is in a gold-plated conference room with oligarch friends and you collectively have a couple trillion dollars in assets to “protect,” peeling away a few billion to pay some of the poors to shoot the other poors before they take your shit (or your head) seems like a pretty reasonable business expense.

        When you look at them as the protectors of capital rather than the protectors of the people, it makes a lot more sense.

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          i mean, you dont even have to look at it that way.

          cause it literally is that.

          Police, since the begining, have existed to protect the property of the rich. Not the rights of the poor.

          They’ve literally gone to the supreme court to fight against being held accountable to their own “protect and serve” bullshit.

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    You never know when one of those cheeky crossings will turn gay on you.

    I looked at the sky the other day after a bit of rain. Boom. Gay. Just like that. It could happen to any of us.

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          Maybe. I think Putin’s main concern with Ukraine was preventing them from selling natural gas from the Donbas region to Western Europe and undercutting his main source of revenue, and he’s achieved that even if he didn’t successfully overrun the whole country.

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            That’s almost certainly part of why, but he most definitely wasn’t expecting to sink this much money, time, and personnel into the conquest. Continuing to do so is definitely not something a capable leader would do.

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        The US also has a very capable leader. As you can see with President Putin’s implementation of his controversial policies in the US.

        Oh you mentioned some orange old man hanging out in DC? Oh that’s just the court jester.

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    Just wait em out? You’re in a seige now, and hopefully the seiging army goes home. Then, you go out and make it a rainbow again.

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      Instead of defund the police, it’s now “run out the police budget”

      Is it a crime to buy a vinyl decal for a car that says “rainbow painting” and drive around a city, occasionally stopping near crosswalks to check your phone? I don’t think so.

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        you’ll never run out the police budget.

        If you managed to even get close to it, government would step in and take more money from starving children and the ill, to keep their fascist oppressors on the streets.

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          We all literally just saw this happen.

          ICE budget is multiplied by 10 because they “ran out of budget”

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      Go and stand there with buckets of paint and a roller and wait them out. Even better if it’s one can labeled “rainbow” paint.

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    Cause you know, that will stop all the horrible crime the GOP is talking about… You know how dangerous crosswalks are!

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    I didn’t like Florida that much when I lived there in the 80s and 90s. It sounds like it’s gotten worse.

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    Seems like a good use of their time. Police jobs are basically welfare for the mediocre low iq dipshits from high school.

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      Police jobs are basically welfare for the mediocre low iq dipshits from high school.

      Soon to be replaced with lower-paying ICE jobs for the schmos who don’t even qualify to be cops. I personally wouldn’t even be surprised if it turns out ICE is hiring undocumented immigrants, for the same reason everybody else does.

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    Id ask what’s stopping people from standing in the vicinity with a big box of chalk but thats probably a great way to get chalk made illegal.

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      I mean… They outlawed unmarried women from parachuting on Sundays, and fishing while driving across bridges…

      Why not chalk too?