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Malicious Compliance

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 hour ago

combining words of the pleistocene and Palestine.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Why do these deep-fried rectums need to be in quasi-military garb and high-visibility vests?

[–] viking@infosec.pub 1 points 1 hour ago

That's a British police uniform, standard issue.

[–] Knightfox@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm all for saying fuck the police, but what are you talking about with quasi-military garb and why are you bashing them for wearing high-vis vests?

These look like the worst equipped cops I've ever seen. I'm from the USA and I've seen Italian Police look harder than these guys, they at least had cars and sub-machine guns. These guys have boots, handcuffs, pepper spray, a fucking belt mounted medkit, a collapsible billy club, a baseball cap, cheap-ass-commercial-laundry-uniform-contract cargo pants, a black t-shirt, and a stab vest. The pigs don't even have guns and they are wearing "please-don't-run-me-over" safety vests.

The guys on the street have the right reaction, there's obviously no threat here.

[–] PolydoreSmith@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Dude, the Carabinieri are fucking SCARY. I’d rather face a US state trooper and a Canadian Mountie at the same time.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 hours ago

Pal,It'sTime ~for~ Action

Oh sorry didn't see you there officer, I was just saying its time for my #sick dance 🕺 moves, is dancing a crime, officer? 😏

[–] Banzai51@midwest.social 44 points 8 hours ago

You have the right to free speech...as long as... you're not dumb enough to actually try it.

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 55 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

I've got a friend trying to move from the United States to England to escape our current shit show, and I've been telling him that England tends to do what America does, just with a posh accent to give it an air of legitimacy.

[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

At this point, leaving England for America is the saner choice...

I mean unless you're brown, then ICE will just lock you away if you try

[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

I don't know, we locked up an extremely white new Zealander for 3 weeks at the border recently...

[–] huppakee@feddit.nl 17 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

If you think they do it with a posh accent you've not been to England lol

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I'm mainly thinking of Tony Blair making the same case for invading Iraq that George W. Bush was, just with the accent.

[–] RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 4 hours ago

I'm mainly thinking of marshmallows.

[–] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Nowhere is truly safe at this point. Better the devil you know than the devil you don't.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I'm currently working out moving to Jamaica. Got a friend there to help, but he says it ain't all sunshine and cheap pot like the movies.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not LGBT but I usually use that as a guideline of "is this a good place to be?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Jamaica

And its not looking great.

Pick somewhere else.

[–] SloppyJoe@toast.ooo 6 points 3 hours ago

Super simple and smart way to sort places that care about human rights. Thanks for sharing.

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 55 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

It’s already working. Due to the terrorism claims, each of these arrests requires a special review, and the system is being overwhelmed. Get a few more hundred or thousands of people to get an arrest for this, and the whole government scheme will have to be abandoned, because there will be no practical way for system to follow the required procedures for each case.

[–] Bamboodpanda@lemmy.world 21 points 5 hours ago

Fascists get pretty clever at solving that problem. They create these camps where they can just concentrate them in one place.

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

See how that worked out for USA, when push came to shove - the law was abandoned.

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

Yes, and that will be an important lesson to people. Then we can move to the next step to topple the capitalists.

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[–] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 36 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

In what other profession are you allowed to just stand there in public with a constant hand on someone?

[–] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 45 points 10 hours ago

Who is Donald Trump on Jeffrey Epstein’s island, Alex.

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[–] wulrus@lemmy.world 15 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

To be fair, the (good) British cops are by far not as likely to assault an innocent person as many others. But they do love to stop you and have a chat if even the tiniest thing stands out. I once walked around London, 15 years old, with toy handcuffs on one wrist. Cop came up to me and wanted to know the whole story, like one of those super-chatty people. Where are you from, how old, name, where are the cuffs from, why am I wearing them right now at this moment, ...

He seemed happy with the answers, and we both moved on.

Well, it's still a bother, especially when you are not free to walk away at any moment.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Yeah before anybody spoke I was fairly clued in that this was not America by the fact that the cops were just standing there acting chill instead of holding him on the ground and screaming at him to stop resisting arrest.

[–] Doorbook@lemmy.world 17 points 6 hours ago

If the toy looked like the real thing, You are 15, an underage with handcuffs, for all he know someone was trying to keep you captive and you manage to get out or you plan to cause damage and handdcuff someone. Good for him to make sure no one actually was hurting you..

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 14 points 9 hours ago

Picture yourself in a train in a station

With Palestine porters with looking glass ties

[–] wulrus@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

It's not just the two we see - they are apparently in radio contact with additional tax fraudsters / wasters, probably of higher rank or even with a law degree.

Never let them tell they need more funds. Could defund plenty without affecting any actual service one bit.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago

I mean at least they are actually discussing if this is arrestable, in the USA, cops would just shoot you.

[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 175 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 118 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

About five minutes later, the arresting officer approached him again. “He said: ‘I’ve got good news and I’ve got bad news.’ I said: ‘What’s the good news?’ He said: ‘I’m de-arresting you.’

“And I said: ‘What’s the bad news?’ He said: ‘It’s going to be really embarrassing for me.’ And then I walked free, while all the real heroes are the people that are actually getting arrested.”

The officer seems to understand his mistake at least

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (3 children)

The poor copper lost all that time arresting a guy with Plasticine Action on his t-shirt only to have to de-arrest him when he could've been arresting an old lady with the words "Palestine Action" written down on a piece of paper for her to be prosecuted and maybe even get a jail sentence.

That mistake was making it hard for him to make his quota of arrests for that week, the poor bloke.

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[–] ExhaleSmile@lemmy.world 98 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

Pardon my ignorance, but is wearing a shirt with the word Palestine on it and arrestable offense in England?

[–] Acamon@lemmy.world 21 points 10 hours ago

Pretty sure that's Scotland, not England (Glasgow to be specific). But yeah, the British government decided carrying a Palestine Action sign was basically terrorism.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 130 points 14 hours ago (19 children)

Palestine Action yes. An activism organization called Palestine Action was classified as a terrorist organization a few weeks ago by the UK government.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 93 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Y'all seem to have a lot going on across the pond, what with "who's a terrorist," or "is this dystopian?"

Have y'all considered electing a terrorist leader so that you instantly know the answers to those questions?

We are all domestic terrorists

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 10 points 9 hours ago

Ah yes, the accelerationist approach. Fight fire with fire, etc. Let's see how it pans out!

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