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Flashback to people getting arrested in the red square for holding a white piece of paper
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Thanks for saying that. Yahoo tries to set millions of data harvesting cookies, it's insane. Declining it means no video in this case.
This is the beauty of private tabs, they can set as many data harvesting cookies as they like, and the cookies are deleted when I close the window
Press X to doubt.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/private-browsing-use-firefox-without-history
Private Browsing does not save your browsing information, such as history and cookies
There's a lot of things private browsing does not do (partly because there's a lot more parts of the stack involved in privacy than just your web browser) but deleting cookies on exit is literally one of the things private browsing specifically does and is directly controlled by the browser
I remember watching a video like this but it was on Reddit and it was top post. It was also happening in Moscow, not the USA.
"The country of freedom" accuses the other country of their censorship in media, but then it starts doing the same things.
Freedom my ass I say
To paraphrase Brennan Lee Mulligan, paraphrasing Michel Foucault, "Laws are threats made by the dominant socio-economic ethnic group in a given nation. It's just a promise of violence that's enacted and police are basically an occupying army."
You guys wanna make some bacon?
How paraphrased are we talking, here? Because I'm pretty sure laws like "Don't murder" and "Don't rape" and the ability to punish people who break those laws aren't just an expression of one socio-economic ethnic group maintaining violent occupation over another.
Except even "don't murder" and "don't rape" isn't equally applied to all citizen. In the US, you got the orange man as the prime example. Here in Canada, you just gotta look at how first nations victims are more often than not left to fend for themselves, while Mounties will ignore them if the case involves any type of effort.
USA is cooked, man. It's no longer a free country. Party of no censorship and free speech, yeah right.
If you aren't a rich white man it was never free. Most of us are just more adjacent to poverty(increase cost of food and housing) and injustice(ice raids in the suburbs) because we're in an economic valley. IMO If/ win the employment number recover the median voter will forget all about this
Meh. This was the local police. They wanted the group off the road, and the group wouldn't move. I don't really have a problem with this. These protests that block traffic and stuff hurt the wrong people. The guy or girl driving wherever shouldn't be the target. Try disrupting actual commerce or production if you want to get the attention of the people in power.
Yeah, nah. Protests are only effective if they're disruptive
Yes, but disruptive to who. I am saying this was disruptive to people who have no power to change anything. Go block the access point to a major commercial point of entry or something. That will at least hurt the trucking company because they have to pay the drivers either way.
Try disrupting actual commerce or production if you want to get the attention of the people in power.
Economies utilize roads. Average Joe driving to work is engaging in commerce and/or production.
It appeared to me that she was on the sidewalk?? How you gonna say she was blocking the road when she’s on the sidewalk? Isn’t that where people are supposed to be?
What it said was that she was leading the protest, and both her and others had refused to leave the road when ordered. Likely this was by one or two cops. When they had to call more out, they arrested the people who had refused the order. At that point she was on the sidewalk, but they knew who she was.
A protest with no inconvenience is a parade, not a protest.
Land of the Free
Bill Hicks had a joke that ended with, "You are free to do as we tell you."
And now he's dead.
To quote Tool's liner notes from the Ænima album in reference to Hicks, "Another dead hero"
Thankfully it seems like no one said this yet, so just inb4:
She was not stupid, nor useless or played into their hand. Be inspired and take example. Being arrested for a little bit is not that big of a price to pay for resisting tyranny.
More importantly, without blindly believing it will automatically come true, at least put the scenario where you win into your heads. Going to prison for what's right can actually be liberating, if you think about it. And people can be taken out of prison too, together with all those that were imprisoned for getting or giving an abortion, those that immigrated "illegally" but spent decades contributing to the US's society and economy, those that only had a bunch of weed on them, etc. Maybe even the whole "for-profit prison" concept may finally come to an end. Imagine that!
Land of the free^1^, home of the brave
- Terms and conditions apply
*Land of the Thief, home of the Slave
--Brother Ali
Land of the free
Whoever told you that is your enemy
I think "brave" also needs a footnote.
If this had happened in Venezuela in last couple of days the media would be loosing it's shit. The image of that arrest would be immortalized and treated like the Saigon pistol execution.
Immediately following the attack, bombing and kidnapping of Maduro, journalists were rounded up around the country.
Our media isn't making a stink about it because they are complicit in the manufacturing of a narrative here and you can't have people in Venezuela contradicting that narrative.
“You can beat the wrap, but you can’t beat the ride”
Or possibly losing your job, healthcare insurance, going bankrupt, etc.
Presuming it was autocorrect, but it should be RAP, record of arrests & prosecutions.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rap%20sheet#dictionary-entry-1
I don’t see anywhere on there that gives the etymology as an abbreviation? Etymonline gives the following:
rap(n.)
early 14c., rappe, "a quick, light blow; a resounding stroke," […] native or borrowed from a Scandinavian source
Slang meaning "a rebuke, the blame, responsibility" is from 1777; specific meaning "criminal indictment" (as in rap sheet, 1960) is from 1903
Thanks for the link.
Based on usage and spelling in my hometown of NYC, it's always been RAP, as shown in the second example (presuming journalists of yesteryear knew how to spell).
Yeah, that's the real threat. An arrest record will absolutely jack up future background checks on future employment. Which you're going to encounter since your current employer will drop you for being a no-show. That will leave you without health insurance, threatening your savings until you can get employed again. Which will be very hard to overcome due to high unemployment (in some markets) and that arrest record.
The fact that there's a through-line from "no social safety net" all the way to "compliant populace" is worrying to say the least.
Exactly the video I thought of. But "soon"?! It literally already happened in OPs video!
For the lazy ones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNxc8YKHlpw
Fight back soon?
What do you think this lady was doing? What exactly do you suggest people do?
You're telling me that you would personally get into a shootout with law enforcement if they tried to arrest a fellow protester?
It's easy to talk big from behind a keyboard.
The trolls around here never prop themselves up as an example, especially when suggesting escalation or even violence. They're baiting the gullible and distracting everyone else from working on a better answer.
By “the Bundy standoff,” I assume you mean the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge by Ammon Bundy and his followers? The event that law enforcement took an extremely hands-off approach to because everyone involved was white, and still ended up with one of the participants dead?
If the people who took part in that occupation had been anything other than rich, white, and strongly religious, they would have had tanks rolling in to clear them out.
If you’re talking about the other Bundy standoff, where Ammon’s father Cliven decided he didn’t want to pay to graze his cattle on public lands, lost every court case, and prevented the government from seizing his cattle by showing up with an armed militia… I don’t think a rich white sovereign citizen faces the same level of consequences from their actions as everyone else does.
clip on INVIDIOUS
https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=dNxc8YKHlpw
Good ol’ GRPD. They made a whole show on HBO Max to try to improve their image, and then they turn around and do shit like this.
If this is NOT another reason why you should study socialist/communist theory, I don't know what is. https://redsails.org/
America today: “oh no someone should stop this!”
Also America today: “ooooh new iPhone!”
Reporting Team Watches Women Kidnapped In Broad Daylight, Openly Wonders why Nobody Trusts Journalists
I don't understand. ELI5?
He suggests the journalists should protect the girl from the police, get shot and die in order for him to trust journalists.
Yes, this is my stance. Anyone who would watch this happen and not intervene is a coward. If anyone reading this is tempted to interpret these words as sarcasm, you are misinterpreting me.
edit* The number of cowards downvoting this post is why I don't expect to survive this regime. Piss off.
A little sus that the reporter and camera operator weren't arrested for "blocking a road" even though they were standing in the same place.
This is a really stupid take. The reporters had nothing to do with the arrest.
You can't trust anyone. Be extra careful about what you tell people as in this wretched police state you can never be sure if you could suddenly be arrested anything that you say.

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