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When in Rome? (slrpnk.net)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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[–] 25 points 4 months ago

Yeah, they were threatening to arrest a reporter for the Swedish national TV who was doing a story and touched the water as a part of it.

A new low among some truly low lows

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    [–] 24 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    I feel like wearing a shirt critical of Trump and walking past the reflecting pool right now might be an effective way to bait a federal thug into doing something you could sue the government over.

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  • [–] 25 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Sue and lose.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    IANAL, but it's a hypothetical (and a joke). If you get charged with vandalizing the pool or beaten for no other reason than wearing a shirt, you could probably win that lawsuit. There's a lot of things they could do to 'punish' you that you couldn't win a lawsuit over, like detaining.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    My mom died in early 2024, and my sister and I are still in a legal battle for her bank account against the cult she was a member of. Her bank account had my sister and I listed as beneficiaries, and the will made no mention of the cult that would override that, and yet the cult was still able to put a freeze on the accounts and fight us for over 2 years and $50k in legal fees so far, just because they made an unfounded claim to the money. If a bunch of idiots who think vaccines have tracking chips in them can do that, I imagine the government can do a lot more.

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    • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Wasn't it Xerxes who had the sea whipped?

    Caligula did declare a war against it, though.

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    • [–] 11 points 4 months ago*

    Everyone and anyone willing to uphold this country’s military with their service at this point is nothing other than a dog of the state. Soulless, mindless, tools of the regime, and fucking cowards to boot, every single fucking one of them.

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    [–] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    On what authority can they do this? Has it always been a crime to touch the reflecting pool?

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Its a national monument, which have rules about "removing materials" in the law protecting them.

    Its a pretty thin offense, and this is a wild over reaction, which is always a facists favorite move when they are wrong in a very visible way.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago*

    That is at least a law, waste of resources calling the national guard in, but that could be worse.

    So to clarify the meme is referring to people removing the floating bits of liner and not simply touching the water

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    • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    Wouldn't want someone to mess it up!

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    [–] 5 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Is the government really blaming the algae on saboteurs, or was that a joke?

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    • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Chomo Caligula

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    [–] 1 point 4 months ago (3 children)

    Why would they stop people from touching it? Like that’s gonna fix the issue lol

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