I work in infrastructure construction in a fairly big midwestern city. Sometimes we work in the road which sometimes facilitates having a cop come out and sit in his car with the lights on. Well the guy we’ve got right now is very chatty. Apparently the metropolitan police dept is damn near setting up a task force to catch a man with a sticker on his car that says, “I ❤️DEAD COPS”, and antagonizing police officers. But has not broken any laws. My traffic cops boss came out and is compiling body cam footage of every cops interaction with this guy. Trying to figure out if he’s broken laws or find a way to arrest him.

This is what we pay for in America. I am paying for what is essentially a small task force to catch a guy who is mildly bullying police officers but not breaking any laws. They are literally so fragile… that they are spending time, money, and energy to build a case to arrest a man with a sticker. Who pulls up too close to the backs of their cars, and tells them to fuck off. How fucking embarrassing.

So if you’re that guy, and you’re on this site… your shits based, keep bullying the little piglets. But be careful.

  • ultraviolet [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    In communist countries, police will violently arrest people who make jokes about the people in power.

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    if the cops catch him he should say he just wants to honor the fallen :garf-troll:

    • necrocop [he/him,any]
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      3 years ago

      Thats a really good point.

      And that would be beautiful. There’s under 2000 cops in my city. So yeah I’d say a few hundred cars driving around would definitely start to fuck with them.

    • Commander_Data [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      I flip the bird at every cop I see when I'm out for a run. I also am usually wearing one of two shirts, the first is "ACAB" and the other says "see you later, class traitor" and has a drawing of a pig with a riot shield being flipped on its back. Now I'm not saying that I'm the cause, but the police unions cartels in my city spent 7 figures this summer putting up "cops are heros" billboards because morale had gotten so low.

      • SoloboiNanook [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Lol i have a shirt with a cop porky pig saying THATS ALL FOLKS! while shooting himself with a revolver. Gets great concerned looks from boomers

  • abc [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    lol damn now I kinda wanna get a similar bumper sticker but my ass knows with how often I speed I'd be beaten on the side of the road by a bunch of hogs in like a day

  • Quimby [any, any]
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    3 years ago

    You should drop an anonymous tip to the new york times, cnn, etc. Just a few media outlets. They'd probably love to report on this. Good topic for getting clicks. They have options for contacting via signal and matrix, I think. Oh, and ProPublica, which is actually great!

    • TheFreshestHell [he/him,any]
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      3 years ago

      Seconded. @necrocop , if you're willing to send me a DM with more info and or sit for a text interview, I can try to get this in front of reporters. If your city is somewhere near me I may even be able to cover it myself.

  • corgiwithalaptop [any, love/loves]M
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    3 years ago

    Anyone know where to get such a sticker? I live in a city with a big lefty presence, and while I don't have a car, I would absolutely love to slap this on my guitar case.

  • heihachi [any]
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    3 years ago

    the only good things libertarians have ever done is those youtube channels they have where they antagonize the police. the guy who dresses up as a pig and shouts all pigs matter at pro police rallies and then acts confused when people shout at him, that's the highest art.

  • Dingdangdog [he/him,comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    My friend is a graffiti artist and we lived in a small town. His tag was a very silly name, the goosh.

    The cops called an out of town detective in from the big city to track down the gang putting these up. They got a detective in to track down "the goosh"

    It was so fucking funny. I have another friend, actual comrade, that worked as a city planner there which is how I know this

  • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    NOT praxis: printing out these stickers yourself and sticking them all over cars in chuddy neighborhoods

    please don't do this it's not praxis

    • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Definitely do not find the car of an actual cop who has to start work early in the morning all groggy and won't notice the sticker until after he's parked at the station and the other cops do as well.

      • Quimby [any, any]
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        3 years ago

        And when you're not doing this, definitely don't watch out for the cameras that seem to be all over the place in modern society.

        • emizeko [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          wearing a balaclava and nondescript clothing can help for the cameras you didn't see

  • Omega_Haxors [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    This is what I mean when I say "Free speech is a lie outside protecting abusers"

    • Quimby [any, any]
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      3 years ago

      I agree that's the state of affairs in practice, but I don't know that that inherently has to be the case.

      • emizeko [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        not trying to debatebro and I don't know either, honestly, but this piece definitely raises some interesting points

        The question of “free press” and “free speech” is not separable from the question of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie versus the dictatorship of the proletariat. The idea of “political plurality” as such turns out to be the negation of the possibility of achieving any kind of truth in the realm of politics, it reduces all historical and value claims to the rank of mere opinion. And of course, so long as someone’s political convictions are mere opinion, they won’t rise to defend them. And so the liberal state remains the dictatorial organ of the bourgeoisie, with roads being built or legislation being passed only as commanded by the interests of capital, completely disregarding the interests of workers. Under regimes where political plurality is falsely upheld as a supreme virtue, the very notion of asserting oneself as possessing a truth appears aggressive and “authoritarian.”

        from https://redsails.org/brainwashing/

        • Quimby [any, any]
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          3 years ago

          Maybe a better way to put it is that I don't necessarily believe you should be able to say anything, anywhere. It's more that I believe there should be some avenue to put your thoughts forward in a public way without repercussion. So, for example, even if we don't allow people to post shit online or on billboards or whatever, I they should still have the right to show up at a town hall meeting, or whatever, and safely argue for why their thing should be allowed.

          So, what speech we allow should at least itself be subject to free discussion / public input. That seems like a good way to counterbalance the harm of bad speech with the underlying principle that people in power should be curtailing speech to protect the citizenry, rather than to consolidate their own power.