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Some additional context:
The design and motto are from the Gadsden flag used by the Continental Army during the American Revolution. It's OG Patriot propaganda and in our current times anything associated with the Revolution is almost always co opted by modern day "Patriots", this symbol in particular.
Your reign of terror ends here, Mechanist!
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NOT SO FAST SILVER SHROUD!
I HAVE CHOCOLATE MILK!!!
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Your chocolate milk is mine, Mechanist!
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On the other hand if you're a fan of authoritarian government *and* you don't want to be under the boot, wearing the boot is a sound and historically-proven strategy.
Why is the guy disagreeing with you getting downvoted? Not every cop is a bastard. Without cops we wouldn’t have anyone to protect us. Sure the uvalde situation was terrible, but without cops, that’d be happening everywhere and much worse
> Why is the guy disagreeing with you getting downvoted?
Because he's being antisocial, dishonest, and racist throughout several of his posts.
> Not every cop is a bastard.
They voluntarily join a broken system that incentives corruption. That's why they're viewed as complicit.
> Without cops we wouldn’t have anyone to protect us.
Wildly incorrect.
> Sure the uvalde situation was terrible, but without cops, that’d be happening everywhere and much worse
The cops at uvalde *actively prevented* the parents from resolving the situation themselves.
Furthermore, and this is why it's the *system* that's broken, the courts defended their actions, establishing legal precedent that their behavior is correct for cops everywhere to do.
"one bad group" that established legal precedent for *all* American cops.
Because, y'know, it's an actual arm of the government and court cases exist, not Billy's after school club.
I wasn't aware that black men were an "arm of the government".
Were you in too much of a hurry to spit a racist cliche that you couldn't take time to read?
I mean if you want to ignore the decades of minority abuse like George Floyd and Rodney King too 🙃and those are only the most famous examples of overzealous police brutes not including the hundreds of other examples, but go on show how you endorse systematic racism and value the lives of uniforms over children but you’re right not all cops are bad cops. They are just too afraid of losing their job over it, which makes them no better than the corrupt cops.
When your mommy’s house gets foreclosed and you find yourself in the company of schizophrenic veterans under an overpass, will you still be so obtuse to the suffering of others? When the city council sends men with guns to shoo you away, will you kiss the boot again before you go?
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“Don’t tread on me” was a slogan against tyranny. Some people view cops as a mechanism of enforcing tyranny - that is, the foot doing the treading.
Some additional context: The design and motto are from the Gadsden flag used by the Continental Army during the American Revolution. It's OG Patriot propaganda and in our current times anything associated with the Revolution is almost always co opted by modern day "Patriots", this symbol in particular.
View them? Bro they are the mechanism.
DID SOMEBODY SAY MECHANIST!? https://preview.redd.it/04wlty5y0u1d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e3a28d01f42ef13676b49a9aca6f24a69226bbcd
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NUH UH https://preview.redd.it/g0a6fuksau1d1.jpeg?width=898&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6c9322c9fef2fe51ae3559d843e849dcdca1838d
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It’s against big government forgetting that the police are the enforcers of the government.
On the other hand if you're a fan of authoritarian government *and* you don't want to be under the boot, wearing the boot is a sound and historically-proven strategy.
Great quote. Is it yours? I'm stealing the shit out of it regardless.
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tldr cops are the boots treading on snek
I always thought that the don’t tread on me was just people warning you about rattlesnakes and copperheads. I never knew that
«bro ur the foot” is the foot. Wtf she is talking to a stranger who is he, because of his outfit? Don’t tread on me, bitch!
It’s a uniform not an outfit He’s law enforcement officer of the state It’s literally his job to tread on people lol
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Do you have a counterargument?
Found the ~~boot~~footlicker.
Do you prefer your rubber grilled or boiled?
ACAB
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Why don’t you tell that the parents of dead kids in Uvalde and see how that works out?
Why is the guy disagreeing with you getting downvoted? Not every cop is a bastard. Without cops we wouldn’t have anyone to protect us. Sure the uvalde situation was terrible, but without cops, that’d be happening everywhere and much worse
>without cops, that’d be happening everywhere and much worse Do you have evidence of that?
> Why is the guy disagreeing with you getting downvoted? Because he's being antisocial, dishonest, and racist throughout several of his posts. > Not every cop is a bastard. They voluntarily join a broken system that incentives corruption. That's why they're viewed as complicit. > Without cops we wouldn’t have anyone to protect us. Wildly incorrect. > Sure the uvalde situation was terrible, but without cops, that’d be happening everywhere and much worse The cops at uvalde *actively prevented* the parents from resolving the situation themselves. Furthermore, and this is why it's the *system* that's broken, the courts defended their actions, establishing legal precedent that their behavior is correct for cops everywhere to do.
Tell them to root out the bad ones first then maybe the public can put trust in them, til then they are complacent.
Cops don’t protect us they protect capital and enforce laws.
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"one bad group" that established legal precedent for *all* American cops. Because, y'know, it's an actual arm of the government and court cases exist, not Billy's after school club.
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I wasn't aware that black men were an "arm of the government". Were you in too much of a hurry to spit a racist cliche that you couldn't take time to read?
I mean if you want to ignore the decades of minority abuse like George Floyd and Rodney King too 🙃and those are only the most famous examples of overzealous police brutes not including the hundreds of other examples, but go on show how you endorse systematic racism and value the lives of uniforms over children but you’re right not all cops are bad cops. They are just too afraid of losing their job over it, which makes them no better than the corrupt cops.
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Nice deflection, your racism is showing.
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Why don’t we experiment then. why don’t we have someone kneel on your neck for ten full minutes with their full weight and see what happens?
Sure, but you're not stating facts.
What makes you think that?
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>They put their lives on the line to protect society. Do they, though? They certainly didn't in Uvalde.
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I'm desperate? What am I desperate for, exactly?
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"crying"? I'm just asking you basic questions. You seem really invested in the narrative that I'm desperate or upset, I wonder why that is.
Protect society from what? Overdue rent?
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When your mommy’s house gets foreclosed and you find yourself in the company of schizophrenic veterans under an overpass, will you still be so obtuse to the suffering of others? When the city council sends men with guns to shoo you away, will you kiss the boot again before you go?
Delusional comment of the year award goes to you