Why the fuck do the police still use horses?
Are there still bandits in the wild west robbing steam trains?
Fake democracy
If only the cops of my own third world south American country could do the same against criminals.
The police badge is the most common gang sign that I regularly see.
Those aren’t cops, those are murders.
Bunch of fucking nazis.
As someone raised in LA I think this is the first time I’ve actually seen police on horses. Where in the protests did that particular one happen?
The United States is no different than Russia. If anything, y’all are worse.
yup, weve been saying this shit. and that isnt considering the fact they have been doing it to other countries as well for decades.
What have y’all been saying? World will never know because my comment had to be removed under ‘Rule 1’. What is rule 1? No fucking clue because this community does not have any listed rules. Nor did I get notified at all because Lemmy.ml seems to refuse any sort of basic common courtesy.
I keep forgetting just how redditor the administration/moderation of lemmy.ml is. Had no idea I was on a lemmy.ml community. If I knew that I never would have posted shit here in the first place.
Go ahead and ban me. Y’all already did a couple years ago and had to reverse course when users started openly questioning where all the content went. By all means. Go for it. Y’all can miss my content but I sure as shit won’t miss you admins.
??? No different than Russia? HAVE YOU READ THE HISTORY OF THE U.S.? THERE ISN’T EVEN A SIDE OF COMPARISON RUSSIA LOOKS LIKE THE LAND OF PEACE COMPARED TO THE U.S.
I suggest you read “Endless Holocausts: Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire”
Whatever you say kiddo
Try reading about the Russian Civil War some time.
average .world user, how is the Russian civil war worse than anything the U.S. did?
Well you see they shot some monarchists and that’s equivalent to murdering tens of millions of brown people somehow.
Buddy I’m already on team “Fuck the Tsar”
A bloody Civil War to end monarchism is not equivalent to what the US gets up to on a regular basis for the sake of making capitalists richer.
The capitalists in Russia aren’t exactly sitting on their hands either. I’m on team “Fuck the Capitalists” no matter where they come from
[Video] LA cops force their horses to run over protester
If anything, it’s US cops learning from the cossacks, whom tsar always send against people when police was not enough. Running over unarmed people with horses was their favourite tactics.
From 1917to 1922 between 7-12 million Russians, mostly civilians, were killed. This includes hundreds of thousands of Jews killed in pogroms (genocidal race riots). The Red Terror involved Bolsheviks conducting executions to wipeout political dissent and any threats to their power. The White Terror involved a collection of conservatives, monarchists, and proto-fascists executing communists and genociding Jews. This doesn’t count people who died in forced labor camps, which by some accounts saw a 10-20% fatality rate per month. There were mass rapes and looting wherever the several armies went. It’s been described to be as close to Hell on Earth as it gets. Between WWI and the Russian Civil War, the total population fell from around 170 million to 134 million.
Citation?
Using whole Wikipedia pages as citations is terminally lib brained. At least cite the specific wikipedia sources jfc.
Citing “pogrom” wikipedia like you’re trying to prove the concept of it exists is just the dingleberry on top of this shit cake.
Is your point that the people fighting against Tsarism shouldn’t have done so? That they should’ve continued to suffer without complaint?
Of course the monarchists and reactionaries are going to accuse their opponents of their own crimes, nothing surprising there.
My point is that saying Russia is a “Land of Peace” compared to the US is not historically accurate in the least.
I don’t think that’s being disputed. Both the USA and Russia had incredibly violent labor histories in the late 1800s and 1900s. The main difference is that in Russia, the workers+peasants organized and won, and in the US, they lost.
Either way this both-sidesing of violence makes no sense. You might as well demonize every just cause in history, or every person that defends themselves from an aggressor with that outlook.
This is not comparable to the U.S. still
If that’s what you call a “Land of Peace”, I don’t think your opinion is worth much.
In comparison to the U.S.
Oh fuck right off with that bullshit.
That’s true, the USA is even more disruptive currently.
In the mind of the USAian liberal, this is also because of Russia. Things used to be great, but now they’re bad because the foreigners are controlling the president.
In the minds of anyone with a passing understanding of Russian foreign policy can absolutely see they have their hooks in Trump and you would have to have a significant deficit in logical thinking skills to believe otherwise. That being said that only accounts for some of the war, violence, and agitation the USA is involved in.
The Police DO love a little Fascism.
Not surprising at all, there’s been so many cop brutality incidents over the years. Off the top of my head, a cop broke the arm of an elderly woman with dementia and the cops laughed and joked about it. There was another case where the cops make a man crawl on floor before executing him. People don’t just become monsters overnight. They’ve been trained over the years to behave this way.
The job also attracts monsters and that’s who they want to hire
Bodycams are making a lot more of these available now too. Saw a brutal one where cops paralyze a handcuffed guy by breaking his neck, then they sit prop him up in a sitting position and complain that hes uncooperative because won’t move.
That was a year ago, the dude is dead and the cops got off scott free.
It makes it more available to view, but it hardly does anything to prevent it from being done because the cops face no consequences regardless usually.
George Floyd? Iirc one of the officers went to prison for that
No, sadly most of the abuse never makes widespread news
shout out to Loveland Colorado, one of the most overfunded police districts in the country. If you haven’t seen that video definitely look it up. It’s not even an altercation it’s literally just two dudes sitting and yukking it up while they torture a screaming geriatric woman.
All cops are cowards.
Notice the first horse refused on the left.
Good horse
The only good cops are horses and dogs.
The dogs are brain washed to attack.
A regular person training this viciousness into a dog would be called out, if not arrested (depending on the animal cruelty laws).
Idk. Police dogs are brutal. They’re regularly sicced onto black and Latino people to maul em and if they try to defend themselves they’re charged with assaulting an officer.
Dogs should at most be used to smell for bombs. The fact that they trust their owners so much that they’d be violent against whomever is precisely why the cops shouldn’t be allowed to have them, it’s animal abuse but even more importantly, it’s a huge vector for police brutality.
Arent you guys supposed to have weapons in case a tyranical government or something like that?
That was a lie. The ones who don’t like tyranny don’t like guns, and the ones who like guns don’t actually mind tyranny, so long as it hurts the right people.
If those who oppose tyrany wont starting using guns, they can rest well assured repression and death awaits
Can you legally shoot a cop if they were shooting at you for no reason?
Show him the constitution and he will unshoot you
You wouldn’t be alive to defend yourself in court. But not only that, US cops are extremely protected legally. If you put a hand on them that’s assaulting an officer and you’ll get prison time.
The arming was (and remains) mainly about keeping the US settler garrison empowered to carry out indigenous eviction, and keeping non-white populations under control. Not protecting from a tyrannical government.
You can see that when those groups did try to arm themselves, such as the Black panthers or the American Indian Movement, laws were passed and repression carried out to disarm them.
Highly recommend reading Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - Loaded, the disarming history of the second amendment for more on this. You can find the audiobook on torrents.
Thanks for the reading recomendation, will look into it. Yeah, times of crisis are really fast destroyers of lies, such as that the ruling classes would allow the ruled to arm against them. If the propaganda meltdown was in turbo mode after israel started the genocide, a civil conflict inside the us will give it a spaceship engine
How many of you up in arms now didn’t vote to keep that orange fucker out of power?
This is the America you all bought while chortling like retards to TikTok hoes instead of getting your asses into gear and defeating fascism with your vote.
instead of getting your asses into gear and defeating fascism with your vote.
Lol, lmao even.
CA voted blue. You can bitch like that about other places, not CA
There are plenty of MAGAts here. Technically more here than in any other state, they’re just a minority.
In LA? Really? I’m very familiar with rural California. This ain’t it.
Kamala feels the same about protestors.
The US is not a democracy.
Yuuuuup. Same shit different can.
I always know that whenever some shit like this happens the first comments will be dumbass libs reveling in the violence. I’m sorry that you didn’t get to pretend it wasn’t happening (because your guy/gal did it) and could more comfortably stay in your armchair. But find a way to stay in the armchair you did, by reframing it as “well, I did my duty, not my fault! Bring out the guns and see if they learn their place!”.
Fucking cowards.
This is who you wanted us to vote for.
Bruh I thought “what’s with the hair” until I realized the coconut joke, 10/10
When criminals wear badges.
