Watch the clip. Police comes right up to her and arrests her on camera.
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”
I’ll drink to that
My favorite album/song from my favorite band! 😍
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What? The land of the free?
Whoever told you that is your enemy!
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Hi, mod here.
In the future, please avoid sharing links from news aggregators. Sharing from the original source helps community health by providing transparency, and allows others to avoid reposting the same article.
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
Nazis like to make examples of people
Flashback to people getting arrested in the red square for holding a white piece of paper
Reporting Team Watches Women Kidnapped In Broad Daylight, Openly Wonders why Nobody Trusts Journalists
This is a really stupid take. The reporters had nothing to do with the arrest.
They stopped her there (obstruction of the road, the given reason). They were the reason her voice was heard in that second and not later, and lead to the arrest (the real reason).
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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.
Bad take.
If the journalists had intervened, the cops would have just arrested them and confiscated/deleted the interview.
You wrote horribly stupid wrong
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.
She was arrested for blocking roadways earlier during a march she organized.
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
What a shithole country.
🎵 In the laaaand of the unfree… And the home of the depraved.🎵
Land of the fee, and the home of the slave.
🎶Ain’t that America? Home of the fee, baby! 🎶
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You’re just a flight away! Come and save us! Show us how good for something you are.
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You have the right to self-autonomy, use it to save the world.
Or will you just watch Hitler? You’d rather watch Hitler than take one flight and save Earth?
The final boss of shithole countries
Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon summed it up so well in Preacher
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Fuck every US tech company while you’re at it
Once this is over, and one day it will, we can’t forget this, we can’t forget what IS tech companies did under trump
Which, I’m sure, means that people will forget in about 5 minutes and then they return to the cool US napy tech
No need to wait, we can start right now.
One thing we can all do is switch from Microsoft Office (if you or someone you know is using that) to Libreoffice. Especially important that everyone cancels their Office 365 subscriptions. I singled this out because this is likely the way most people are directly funding big tech. Office 365 funds OpenAI which donated $25 million to Trump.
Also of course cancel your Copilot and ChatGPT subscriptions too.
In addition Reddit users should switch to Lemmy or Piefed.
Hmmm, I wonder who gives the tech company low-interest loans and much more? This tech bubble would not be possible without the support of international banking. Too big to fail, and so on.
Don’t stop at tech or the USA, that won’t accomplish anything. International banking cartel will buy the drop at bargain prices, AND give loans for the rebuild. I wonder who controls USA money? Oh, the FED. I wonder who these guys in the FED are? Oh look, those same banks.
They are not even hiding it
Reform or revolution.
-Rosa Luxemburg
You can try this
Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNxc8YKHlpw
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.
And the boss will take it out of average Joe’s payif he is hourly. If he is salary he will have to make up the lost time. The company will feel no pain at all.
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.
Yes, but who you inconvenience matters. Do it to the right people.
“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 sheet#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).
The second example doesn’t give an abbreviation as the origin of the link to rap sheet, is what I was saying; records, arrests, and prosecutions to mean RAP instead of rap sounds like a backronym.
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.
Soon enough, those threats aren’t going to be relevant.
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!
How Russia-esque
Land of the free1, home of the brave
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*Land of the Thief, home of the Slave
–Brother Ali
Yep, that came to mind, but I wanted to keep the original phrasing.
Land of the free
Whoever told you that is your enemy
That whole ass record goes exactly as hard today as it did on release.
(Rage Against the Machine’s self-titled debut, shit rips)
I think “brave” also needs a footnote.
Yeah, probably something along the lines of “only if you agree with someone’s ideology”; the same “Terms and conditions apply” also works.
Fight back soon?
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What do you think this lady was doing? What exactly do you suggest people do?
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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.
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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.
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At a certain point we’ll have to.
Walking around unarmed while being brown. I suggest people don’t do that.
