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[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That’s because back the blue is just a more polite way to say the 14 words

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Wait I don't get this one. What's the 14 words? I'm an elder millennial and sometimes I miss the new slang.

Edit thanks for the quick answers.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

I remember seeing some wild story in 2020 about someone getting banned from some game because their name was something like corona1488 but corona was their last name and Jan 4th 1988 was their birthday. I think they were able to get it fixed and maybe they changed their in game name too.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't remember the exact words off the top of my head and too lazy to look it up, but it's a neonazi dog whistle. Something about 'protecting the future of the white children'

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

It's not even a dog whistle. It's deafening.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

It's a Nazi thing I am pretty sure

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

The 14 words part Is adequately explained below, but in case you are unfamiliar as well, often 14 will be used in conjunction with the number 88 as well for HH or Heil Hitler.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You are not too old, you are just not hanging around the right people.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

These 14 words don't really have the "punchy" characteristic I'd expect from a slogan.

Fake Nazi graffiti

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

Haha that failed swatiska!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Emphasis on right

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’m also an elder millennial and I learned about it from the incredible podcast “Weird Little Guys”. I cannot recommend it enough. Such a good show.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

"Fuck it, I do not care how big the room is, I cast fireball?"

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 week ago

I’ve always liked this meme format, and this is one of the best uses of it I’ve seen.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Luckily we don't have to put up with this misinformation again.

I will repeat myself one last time.

She had a record number of convictions for cannabis. She had the lowest number of convictions resulting in jail time.

She went after banks that affected her district. They did not like that one bit.

There's a bunch more stuff. But this is plainly a shitty attempt at painting Harris supporters as relying on some form of cognitive dissonance.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

another 100% truthful post from return2ozma

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To be fair, Harris had a contentious relationship with cops, when--IIRC--she didn't pursue the death penalty for a cop killer.

Prosecutors have to work with police, but aren't police. Prosecutors want to win, because that's how they get elected. When cops do dumb, illegal shit, prosecutors get pissed because then they can't win a case. Cops usually blame prosecutors for not locking everyone up. Prosecutors get pissed at cops, because cops botch investigations and make stupid, illegal arrests.

Of the two, I have much more respect for prosecutors. Prosecutors are often very good attorneys (in their field).

To reiterate a point: district attorney are elected. The public expects them to win cases. When they don't, even if it's because cops are handing them steaming piles of garbage, they tend to lose their jobs. Shitty, but true. We may say ACAB, but when it comes down to it, a prosecutor that refuses to, for instance, prosecute certain low-level crimes will tend to get voted out of office because it pisses off the constituents.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

a prosecutor that refuses to, for instance, prosecute certain low-level crimes will tend to get voted out of office because it pisses off the constituents.

unless it's US Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, then Republicans can just say no to whatever we vote for.

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

Fair enough.

I don't really think that D.C. should be a state, but I think that it should have more autonomy for the administration of the city than it has.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Puerto Rico needs it more than we do but Republicans annually propose a removal of our voting rights.

They genuinely want to see DC burn.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago

what crazy times we live in!

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

ITT: people who don't know what "cop" means

Edit: prosecutors are cops, judges are cops, spooks are cops, etc

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

But usually only cops practice street justice with no due process or consequences. Never saw a prosecutor suffocate someone to death for being accused of a petty crime or shoot a kid for holding a toy.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Does anyone actually consider a prosecutor a cop?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I call myself Robocop. Does that make me a police officer, too?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (8 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"You need to know the difference between cop and prosecutor, stupid progressives."

She literally calls herself a cop personally and branding

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I’m progressive, so your weird quote is even weirder.

I never think lawyer when I hear ACAB. I do think “fuck lawyers” all the time, but rarely towards public servants (I mostly dislike corporate and greedy defense attorneys)

Are ya’ll just lumping them together out of convenience of disliking both, or do ya’ll really not understand the difference between a lawyer and a cop?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

If she calls herself a cop, despite not being a cop, I can call her a cop.

Is she one? No. But it's weird that when she uses it in her branding, and people use that branding at critcism, we're the naive idealists for saying "Cops aren't going to solve fascism."

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

ROBO WANT AN OREO.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, legal professionals are very different than law enforcement

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

“Where’d you learn that, drug school?”

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

chief law enforcement officer representing ... an area

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_attorney

Well there you go...

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I might consider them worse actually

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Easily more influential. Broader scope, that's for sure, and in a strong position to either amplify or counteract the typical "cop bullshit", depending on their choices.

ETA: don't think many of them work very hard at the "counteracting" side. To put it mildly.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, police requires minimal education and training. Prosecutor is a lawyer, doesn't carry a gun or shoot innocent people.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

They only lie, hide evidence, and cover for the cops to put people in jail. But yeah you're right, the education makes all the difference! (Let's forget that cops in other countries get a metric fuckton more education and they aren't all that different). Both serve mostly to protect the state and ruling class's interests.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Shhh, people don't like it when you point out that DAs and prosecutors enforce the state's monopoly on violence. That's far too much thinking.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

But they're educated though 💅

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Hilarious

Well, I had a sensible chuckle at least.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As long as you kept it civil.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Doing my part to tone down the rhetoric!

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

Can I wake up now? I just want to wake up.

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