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[–] WrenFeathers 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

We always see what we want to see.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Not to mention one did their act in NYC and fled to suburban Pennsylvania while the other had to deal with police from a far more mundane environment. People who think the comparison can be used to paint police intentions (as if they're even a single body like some army of droids and not individuals who have free will to show up) are just sad, it would be like saying "the 1918 plague was not as widely reported or is as known as the smallpox plague, therefore it killed less or was less a priority". People are sadly disproportionate, that's just how things seem to have worked in history.

[–] WrenFeathers 1 points 4 minutes ago* (last edited 2 minutes ago)

It really just comes down to whatever helps the narrative. Empirical truth is no longer required anymore. All everyone really needs now is just a good profound meme-

and this dude is destined to become one. His entire message is going to become lost amongst all the edgy salivating kids, climbing over one another to see who can make the coolest cartoon out of him.

[–] Anticorp 15 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Violence is never the answer. Violence is the question, and the answer is "YES".

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 hours ago

"Yes to violence" is never the answer.

[–] Shelbyeileen 6 points 4 hours ago

It's all about attention. They wanted their photos taken. Luigi made history, while children getting massacred is just another day in the USA.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

It's because of the circumstances of how both were found.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

It's so everyone can see who's the boss.

[–] RizzRustbolt 3 points 4 hours ago

They had to maintain their "fearful" image, or they wouldn't be able to do their job.

Not like they're even doing a good job with their real job. $7.50 an Hour ended up doing their job for them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

This meme is STUPID! Those Kids were POOR Dumby! I'm Pro Life and I want to Save The Children!

[–] A_Random_Idiot 15 points 11 hours ago

of course it was.

What else would they use it on? Helping low income and disadvantaged people? Pfffff.

[–] madcaesar 34 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Are there any photos online, where cops don't look like absolute bitchmade pussies? JFC

[–] Duamerthrax 12 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

There were a few pictures during the BLM protests were the cops were friendly with the protesters. Reportedly, the cops beat the protesters right after the press left.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Is there anything stopping normal folks from wearing PRESS attire when demonstrating?

Seems like a logical defense against this sort of shit.

[–] Duamerthrax 8 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

You think press people weren't being targeted by the end? The press ops pictures were from the beginning, but very quickly, the cops started beating and arresting journalists once they started putting tape over their badges.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 13 hours ago

They wouldn't be cops if they weren't absolute bitchmade pussies.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

it's class warfare, that's what it is.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

They kept us busy fighting culture wars post Occupy protests.

And we larped it too.

God willing the pedons got a clue what we are dealing with there.

Insurance is just the tip of the iceberg. All corpos behave like this.

They fuck us on labour side and then turn around and do the same on consumer end too.

Parasites got a good grift and most people can't even ID the enemy.

Warren buffet worship is prime example...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

No, it's the maga, I mean the wokes, I mean the global warming deniers, I mean the alphabet people...

[–] FabledAepitaph 10 points 13 hours ago

There really is no other interpretation. Who can look at this and possibly suggest that they are on our side?

[–] houstoneulers 6 points 13 hours ago

I wish ppl would understand this more. Instead they're hyper fixated on more superficial issues.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago

It's plain and simple. Clear as day.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 13 hours ago

"The function of that police action, those interventions in Central America and the Middle East, is system sustaining. It is to maintain that overall system. You don't look at the particular cost. I can demonstrate to you that in every single bank robbery, the cost of the police was more than the actual money that the robbers took from the bank. Does that mean there's no economic interest involved? They're not protecting the banks? No! Of course it's economic; of course they're defending the banks. If they didn't stop that bank robbery, regardless of the cost, it could jeopardize the entire banking system. There are people who believe that the function of the police is to fight crime. That's not true; the function of the police is social control and protection of property."

Michael Parenti

[–] [email protected] 80 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

They're treating him like he tried to blow up Gotham City when all he did was kill Lex Luthor.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Nah, more like one of Luthor's underlings. Andrew Witty would be more equivalent to Lex Luthor.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

That guy is still a cog... Bezos or gates or buffet or musk is closer to luthor

[–] SacralPlexus 75 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

It’s always worth the budget for this shot.

[–] AngryRobot 1 points 3 hours ago

This tells me they see Luigi as a more dangerous threat than the military saw fucking Superman in that movie.

[–] JcbAzPx 20 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

lol, there are actually fewer escorting Superman in a scene meant to be over the top.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago

My favorite part is when he stands up to talk to the mirrored glass the handcuffs just pop apart like they weren't even there in the first place. Four military soldiers in this picture for a man who could literally turn them into pink mist

VS the entourage NYPD gave Luigi. An unarmed man with a back injury. They really are scared.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

So, given that 4 students is equal to 1 cop and that 1 CEO is more or less equal to 30 cop, We can say that a student is equal to 0.25 cop So a CEO is equal to 120 students live. As they have been around 70 victim to school shooting by year and around 300 school shooting for the last 3 years in the USA, we can deduct that the death of a CEO is around 2 year of school shooting combined (not taking into account the wounded) so around 600 school shooting.

Is my math correct?

[–] modus 32 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

What color are the students?

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

This sounds like a cursed math question on a standardized test.

[–] untorquer 1 points 3 hours ago

You're supposed to set up a system of equations and use substitution or row reduction to solve. It's easy! They let you use a ti-89plus titanium, so make sure you're familiar with how to do this on your calculator.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 13 hours ago

The Mayor of NYC had nothing better to do, too.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago

Y'all laughing but this how pigs make careers

[–] MehBlah 29 points 16 hours ago

They want to look super scared and weak. Its how I see them when it takes that many fedbois for one dude.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 21 hours ago (7 children)

He's high profile and people might want to break him out. That's probably the reason.

[–] Fredselfish 66 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

Bullshit take a good look at that photo. Fucking mayor is standing right behind him. If there was any chance of violence or a breakout the fucking mayor wouldn't be there. This was a publicity stunt.

[–] dukeofdummies 1 points 3 hours ago

I was gonna call bullshit but you're totally right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwbeq_3GILk&ab_channel=AccessHollywood

That's totally Eric Adams walking in the back.

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[–] General_Effort 24 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

On a possibly unrelated note. If you were with the NYPD, would you pull strings to be part of that escort? Just a shower thought.

[–] MutilationWave 26 points 17 hours ago

Oh yeah. Like I said in another post, they probably billed six hours of overtime for the ten minute walk. Cops love money just like most of us and they have all kinds of ways to make overtime and danger bonus pay and shit like that without actually working.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

~~that's a trick question: pigs don't shower~~

i apologize. i'm going to stop calling police pigs. i have been working on it for a year and failing but i am going to xmas gift myself the right to stop calling them pigs.

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[–] apfelwoiSchoppen 92 points 23 hours ago

The shareholders demand blood and a show.

[–] Warl0k3 147 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (16 children)

Why are we pretending like this isn't prudent on NYPD's part? If this weren't 2000 miles away I'd probably show up, if not to try and bust him out then at the very least to throw shit at the cops and yell. And if I'm considering driving a prius thru the fence to free the guy, I can only imagine what the non suburban-cishet-white-male-techie demographic is feeling about it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 16 hours ago

That sounds completely reasonable, until you realize the mayor of NYC was there right behind him. That one little detail blows up the whole story and makes you realize that it was just a photo op.

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