• Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      I know it's not America, but here in Aus, our special forces were released to harass and stalk...

      Climate change protesters having a meeting in their own homes.

      They'll deploy force against the mildest of leftist groups while letting nazis waltz into the capitol building.

      • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        It's fairly straightforward, cops are there to protect property rights and queer people don't tend to be property of Exxon Mobil.

    • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Saw a lot of that with January 6th. People that I knew as labor organizers and vaguely leftist were posting rants about "OUR DEMOCRACY."

      • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        The fascists practiced negative opsec by selling 1/6 merch online and yet US law enforcement from the feds down to the local pigs were somehow all caught completely off guard. Very believable series of coincidental intelligence failures.

    • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      When you've been propagandized since birth to believe cops are good it's hard to shake