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Malicious Compliance

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People conforming to the letter, but not the spirit, of a request. For now, this includes text posts, images, videos and links. Please ensure that the “malicious compliance” aspect is apparent - if you’re making a text post, be sure to explain this part; if it’s an image/video/link, use the “Body” field to elaborate.

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 3 hours ago

combining words of the pleistocene and Palestine.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 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? 😏

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 64 points 10 hours ago (4 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.

[–] huppakee@feddit.nl 26 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 2 points 57 minutes ago

in US english posh is a synonym for british

/s (½)

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 10 points 9 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 6 hours ago

I'm mainly thinking of marshmallows.

[–] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 10 points 10 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 6 points 7 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 17 points 5 hours ago (2 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.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 24 minutes ago

At a certain time (around 2000) I'd count the number of women/men outside (like 20 to 40 year olds), very telling about the insecurity in a city.

[–] SloppyJoe@toast.ooo 7 points 5 hours ago

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

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[–] Banzai51@midwest.social 49 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 65 points 11 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 26 points 8 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 12 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 8 points 6 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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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 0 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] viking@infosec.pub 7 points 3 hours ago

That's a British police uniform, standard issue.

[–] Knightfox@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 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 3 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] themaninblack@lemmy.world 1 points 14 minutes ago* (last edited 9 minutes ago)

I’d definitely rather deal with Carabinieri, they’re usually just twenty-something year olds from anywhere in the country doing a little military service and that give varying degrees of a shit. Maybe not at airports and landmarks. American cops are jumpy and hyper aggressive always. You can get that from the Carabinieri but it’s half-hearted, not baked in to their identity.

[–] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 40 points 12 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 48 points 12 hours ago

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

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[–] wulrus@lemmy.world 17 points 11 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 6 points 5 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 21 points 8 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 11 hours ago

Picture yourself in a train in a station

With Palestine porters with looking glass ties

[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 182 points 17 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 48 minutes ago

Pickering has made copies of the T-shirt, which he is selling through his own website to raise money for the charity Medical Aid for Palestinians. It has sold in 28 countries already.

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 126 points 16 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 66 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (4 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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