i’m not 100% sure, but i think they meant alternative to the cops, not the wealthy

@capital_sniff@lemmy.world which, i mean. police the police or something. not to mention the system needs so many reforms in general

Years ago there was a sketch in France making parody of local news to denounce racism: Anchor: "A man shot at a group of Arabs arguing they were too loud. After investigations, the police concluded that indeed, the Arabs were too loud".

This news brought that immediately in my mind.

It's ironic how your first thought is not to make them accountable in front of the law just like everyone else.

Good ol Socko.

They are not exempt from guilt, but the that is not the point. The point is that this is not just yet another example of random police brutality and abuse of their powers. This is oligarch dictated suppression of dissidents.

It is different and much more serious than just "cops being abusive assholes".

One of our local public transit advocates did nothing more than present at city council meetings. They ordered the security team to follow him everywhere in the building, to the bathroom, and his car.

Even basic challenges to the people in your government is all too often met with straight up oppression tactics. He got them to stop by going to the press with it. Nothing else worked except more public pressure.

“Shut up, Poors.”

These times are going to make The Onion irrelevant.

You mean like someone hacked their brain stems and was controlling them remotely? Yeah, that is a problem...

I've been using "predator class."

It doesn't matter, they did the will of whoever made the call. That's why we say ACAB, because cops either enforce the will of the ruling class (thus making them bastards) or they lose their jobs and stop being cops.

ACAB has always been a message of class struggle and how all of us have to stand tall and refuse to betray our class interests. Cops betray working class interests for a paycheck and a feeling of superiority.

Yah bruh don't be rousing the rabble! You rabble rouser you!

You're only allowed to protest low-income housing in your local town you fucking idiot! God know's that's how democracy works dumby~

Hail Capitalism, hail the Job Creators. /s

This data center they're hysterically agitating to build is going to take part of someone's yard, someone's entire house and property, and it will be right by a neighborhood making it's stupid noise. And a lot of people outside of the town will have to deal with $400 per month electric bills, and they just can't afford it.

If you read my comment, I did agree with the blame being put on the cops. I just wanted to also highlight the politicians who made the call.

while the cops are blame (I agreed with the ACAB statement) I also deserve the higher ups are to be blamed.

I never indicated that that cops did anything right here, did i?

yes, and they are to blame.
but so are those who gave the orders.

The answer is quite mundane. I've a few friends in a (non-US) police force. The answer is that the rich/powerful are annoying as hell to go against.

They either know the law, or pay someone to know it for them. They can make obviously illegal things legal on paper. They can also nitpick everything. E.g. spending £5K on lawyers to get out of a £100 fine, since they don't want to get the points. Any procedural mistakes, or paperwork errors can kill a case, or at least drag it out for years.

They also have contacts that can apply pressure. When their wife knows your boss's, boss's boss's wife, they can make your life and career VERY uncomfortable.

End result, most officers learn to pick their battles with the rich and powerful. They will make your life hard, and will get away without everything being perfect.

In practice this can easily turn into taking the easy road. Even when the rich aren't even technically in the right.

So ACAB+

How long until someone shoots up a construction site for a data center?

Don't even have to go that far. There are cheap and easily available perfectly safe substances that can be dumped on freshly poured concrete, or in empty forms, that keeps concrete from setting up correctly.

I've used "parasite class," but I think yours is more fitting

The party of “small government” . I’m sure he’s on the maga cancel culture concentration camp list now..brought to you by palantir because f you

Sure there was, they wanted to show their power.

Plausible deniability is the name of the game, or as my lawyer relative would put it - "without the letter of the law (and hard evidence) on your side, don't bother pursuing based on the spirit, no matter how blatant."

Yikes, I really can’t get on board with “blue collar workers are morons”-style thinking.

Maybe this is the (unfortunate) push that drives renewables.

Sugar is very effective at destroying concrete

Link?

These are the same material limitations that has driven renewables for decades, the US has an ideological dedication to absorbing the consequences of sustaining fossil fuel use anyway. The US is a for-profit imperial power with an owning class who sees anyone and everyone beneath them as exploitable and disposable. People in the US have tolerated the fossil fuel industry making their lives worse consistently for decades. Those same people will always adjust to worse conditions if they have to, and that owning class knows it.

There is no breaking point, people have to choose to accept the consequences of resisting with the knowledge that these people will never stop unless forced to.

lets you know who paid the council

It's in the original post.

Oklahoma

Yeah, authoritarian red state shithole. I don't even travel to/through such places when I can avoid it.

I mean, the data centers themselves are flammable. And you would do more damage if you waited til they were built...

Talk too long in a public forum? Believe it or not, straight to jail.

Were all those people cheering that the man was arrested?!

Who gives a shit? You don't give a Nazi a pass because they were "just following orders", do you?

You dismissed their agency in the matter, thus giving them a pass.

Who gave a pass?

I agreed with the acab, but also asked for credit for those who ordered it

You did, by dismissing their agency in the matter. Again, who gives a fuck if they weren't the ones who made the call? They enforced the draconian measures, they are just as to blame.

You didn't ask for anything though, you made a statement. If your intent was to ask for something, then you should restate it as a question.

Used his free speech a little bit too long

Meanwhile, we have two members of Mark Zuckerberg's legal team sitting in court wearing facial recognition capable glasses.

I see, you need everything spelled out.

I specifically agreed to them being bastards, obviously in this context. they are just as to blame. sure thing... I even confirmed that.

The job description is literally to protect the powers that be and in exchange get your own authority to power-trip on too. It is fundamentally a reactionary job that should not exist, and neither should the system they protect.

He exceeded his quota of free tokens