Saw this today at my local library, they were having a fun little propaganda session. Wish there was a way to stop this shit.
I was able to pickup the sixth Wheel of Time book, which I guess was nice.
Just reminding the populace that they will stop at nothing to “protect and serve”
The new Citations Needed ep on police reform is really good, guest talks about how this kind of thing is part of Foucault's boomerang - that this is a well-established counter-insurgency strategy
What the fuck. I've never seen such a car in person in Poland. For this to be a police car in front of a fucking library is wild to me. Jesus Christ America.
This isn't what they normally drive. Pig mobiles are typically big SUVs. These are exclusively for use against protestors, not that that makes it okay or anything
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Amerikkka wants to be the sparta of the modern day.
I don’t know much about Sparta. Military rule, mandatory service, maybe some killing of their less able young?
Librarians should get an AT4 under their desk for this kind of thing
You may think this makes it feel like you live under military occupation.
Yes!
You'd think they're occupying a library in Fallujah by looking at this with no context
Lords of Chaos, WoT book six or the a name of a special pig task force?
Lmao, the chief and sheriff are Forsaken Dreadlords and the pigs are all Trollocs
Town of probably like what 10k people and it has an IED resistant bomb truck with a machine gun turret you'd see in Afghanistan when the USA occupied it.
150k but yeah I think this is an MRAP, I was trying to find the specific model but no luck so far.
I should’ve asked them for the specs lol
“How big of explosion could this handle, specifically?”
My city of a similar size had an armored truck until a few years ago when it mysteriously went up in flames.
I think I had this happen as part of Cub Scouts when I was in grade school...I would've been 5(?), and this was in the late 90's
Been going on for a long time
I wanted to try joining the Cub Scouts in first(?) grade because a friend did and was talking about it, and my mom took me to a meeting thing and noped out after like 10 minutes and said it was like a little Hitler Youth rally and wouldn't let me join lmao
I guess the scout leader was some kid's thumb head cop exmilitary dad and he was known from the PTA as being a huge chud
Shout out to mom for dodging that bullet for me
Think mine also yanked me out for similar reasons lmao
I found WoT to really become a slog around book 8. If you’re feeling that way I’d highly recommend finding some summaries and skipping to wherever Brandon Sanderson picks it up. Most of my friends that have read the series dropped off somewhere around book 7 - 9 so I always want people to know that it’s ok to skip some just to get to the finale.
Also lmao to that pigmobile
Good to know! Yeah Jordan can take a while to get to the point already.
My hometown did city wide budget cuts, including a comparatively smaller cut to the police budget. In response the police threatened to cut their K9 unit. They started posting pics on their Facebook from all the copaganda events of kids posing with the dogs, with messages like, "Say goodbye to Hunter, were going to miss this good boy!".
