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    What kind of absurd image do the cops think they’re projecting here? "Look. We’re the badasses who hunted down the nation’s #1 fugitive "

    Uhh, no. You had no idea where Luigi was and it took a freaking McDonald’s employee to tell you that he wasn’t even in the state, anymore.

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      It’s probably their masters telling them to look strong. The same masters who were shocked, and who are out of touch. They aren’t showing us what we don’t already know because they live like emperors.

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      Well so far I’ve gotten none removed, but someone did threaten me privately that they notified the FBI about a post, I have no idea what. Cool.

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              Pretty sure I’m getting a watch from them this Christmas! They put me on the list for one and everything.

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                I drunkenly ordered four black eyeslit balaclavas from fucking Amazon. All this time stealthily getting things from the Internet and get drunk and Amazon one time. I’m on the list for sure

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                  Make sure to buy loads of guns as well, make sure they pay attention to you. If you buy enough stuff they’ll come around and investigate you and then you’ve made a new friend. Pro-Life tip.

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            Imagine being so unpopular not even the FBI warrants following you and storing your content in a database.

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              Or they get so fed up with your weird anime habits that they end up white-listing you because they are sick if it.

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          I already have a relationship with the FBI because I give them information on Nazis. We get along well. They won’t care.

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            When you say Nazis, you mean actual nazi nazi, or anyone who doesn’t politically agree with Lemmy.worlds world view? Genuine question, like for Palestine for example Edit: nvm you answered it later

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              When you say “When you say Nazis, you mean actual nazi nazi, or anyone who doesn’t politically agree with Lemmy.worlds world view? Genuine question, like for Palestine for example” do you mean to imply you care about the meaning of words or are you perhaps a little too sympathetic with Nazis?

              Just kidding.

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                I get you’re joking, tho personally, I find the whole nazi thing stupid personally (tho in Scotland you wouldn’t be calling people Nazis unless to be funny). Also as I learn more about history, I see as simplifying the fact Nazis werent the only bad guys. The only technical good guy with the allies was kind of America (at least initially) all the European ally nations (specially, UK, France, Belgium and Netherlands) were all evil nations that did “nazi like things for longer and then more brutally” Bad enough, Britain had “operation legacy” to essentially burn or destory all colonial documentations of crimes. Are Nazis the bad guys because they uniquely awful and despicable? Or is because they killed white Europeans and wanted to create a new empire that opposed the hegemonic power of UK and France. The whole “we did it for the Jews” I don’t buy, the same Europe that persecuted them for years and had been banned or in ghettos in most nations. Do you really think they’d have such a war over a people they despise so much?

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                  Nazis were always like “normal people” in my mind. You might say any single one was nice, loved their family and pets and neighbors, made funny jokes and beautiful art, they’d give you the shirt off their back, invite you to a BBQ, stubbed their toes in pain like us, etc. They just had these certain traits where when stressed, they felt relieved by populist, xenophobic, masculine/warlike rhetoric, which snowballed.

                  With that I’m probably more lenient towards people being called Nazis because I’m not looking for a literal 1:1 match anyways.

                  I agree that we’re simplifying that era, feels like we’re taking a snapshot of a continuous process. Nazis (or other groups from other eras) are like the extremes or model specimen of how we perceive the period. Nazis were green as fuck in a green era, America was emerald, UK was lime, Japan was chartreuse, it just blends out to a spectrum.

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                Dat fuckin title lmao

                Hello my name is Grand emperor centaur of Idaho for the dickless ku klux klan

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                Holy shit dude, you’re doing god’s work. If you don’t mind me asking, what got you into/how did you start doing it? And do the FBI only care if there in these groups or are they also interested in people saying awful things online. Keep up the great work

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                  When the Charlottesville Unite the Right riots happened, I just began to wonder if I could find the average Nazi on Facebook. Like not Bitchard Spencer or any of the prominent figures, but just average Joe Blow imperial Wizard types. I just began searching for more minor figures, and began linking them all together one by one, and began reporting all their Nazi posts to Facebook and getting their accounts nuked. I was SO good at it and they began to get really paranoid. One night on Ambien I decided to make an account and begin friending them, and little by little it took off. I’ve never had to participate in any Nazi shit, I just allude to “our beliefs” once in a while. Then I began collecting all their photos and putting them on r/beholdthemasterrace so they could be endlessly mocked. Even though they are VERY not social media literate and Facebook is about the maximum they can do (some of them did make it to VK because it’s much less censored but that’s it), one of them did find his picture on there and complained to the Reddit admins who banned me (lest you think Reddit doesn’t support Nazis, they sure do).

                  Anyway I have a few journalism friends who do work in right wing extremism and I began just to give them information, and met more and more and began helping them with it. I got involved with antifa and we do this in a much more organized way now. We have outed a lot of them to their jobs. We got a Nazi dishonorably discharged from the military, and we catfished Enrique Tarrio into sending us a dick pic.

                  Re the FBI: three of the White Lives Matter dingdongs were driving to random college campuses in their state and dropping Nazi flyers all over it in the middle of the night as well as defacing the postal office and other dumb shit, so my alt told the local cops who they were and they were arrested, and they connected me with a joint task force agent, and we talk a lot and I give him information when I have it. They are not an organized bunch by and large and most of their shit is really petty but I like having them show up to wherever they are doing their dumb three person protest and have a cop waiting for them. He doesn’t know my real name but everything I have given him has turned out to be true so we have a good relationship; I even found him a few January 6 rioters, including the wife of a deceased prominent Nazi who died in prison who brought his ashes to scatter some in the Capitol building. Pretty wild. I’ve been doing it for ten years next year.

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        Hey .world mod that reports this shit to the FBI. Go ahead and pound sand. Report me for this comment, i need more friends.

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              I have a fake white supremacist Facebook alt and i have befriended thousands of white supremacists, and I send the FBI all the information about what they do that I see.

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                I have to ask, how hard is it to be in that world? I’d have a hard time staying positive seeing the absolute gutter trash of humanity like that.

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                  I think part of me is a bit pleased with myself that I’ve managed to fool them so thoroughly that it seems sort of funny as well while I do it, but it is also hard. They’re all very insecure, they have zero hobbies or interests, like not even sports or TV, and they all just seem to have no emotional connection to anyone really. For some reason their pets are ALWAYS dying, like at least once or twice a week one of their pets die, and it’s because they don’t take care of them. They mostly all have shitty jobs, although one is a physician assistant and one is an editor at Pluto TV, but the rest are pretty marginal. That makes them wildly pathetic in my eyes, and that overshadows their hate. I think of them as lead babies, they’re just so emotionally blunted.

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      In another thread someone said the fbi could seize their hardware as part of an investigation as it would contain evidence. Here’s what I’m wondering though, why wouldn’t the fbi just set up their own Lemmy instance. They’ll have access to all the same info. Except for PMs I suppose.

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              Considering .ml was the first Lemmy instance, for it to be a honeypot the entire Lemmy network would have to be, it’s just a bunch of tankies

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              I’m thinking it’s .world, which is why it’s my main instance. Now .world has all of my info, I can rat out the rest of you scoundrels and neerdowells while maintaining plausible deniability.

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            It doesn’t need to be a big instance. It just needs to link with them. In fact it’s better if it never shows up in posts or comments at all. Just send those tendrils out to every instance they know of and let their data tools filter through it all.

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        Maybe they already have

        They like to focus effort and money on anything but the real people causing harm. School shootings are a near daily occurrence in the US…

        Trump still isn’t in prison and his degenerate crew already embraced declaring themselves domestic terrorists, as their banner stated, and he’s now going to be president….

        So if any fbi are, maybe think about that; what you are serving and what they really think about you

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    That’s the terrible secret. It’s not that the big guy doesn’t care about the little guy. It’s that they have their own agenda and our only purpose is to be sacrificed to that agenda.

    Roof was rewarded because he did what the state wanted, if they could have gotten away with it they’d let him off like they did Zimmerman and Rittenhouse.

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    You guys think there’s an element of everyone wanting to be in the picture? As in it only takes one cop to walk him from A to B, but he’s famous and this is a huge important case so they all come with just because you want to be close to important things

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      For sure. Look at the guy behind him with full tactical gear, sunglasses and headset.

      It’s a fucking costume party.

      Maybe the theme was “Tactical” in Roblox Dress to Impress. Got the poses right and everything. He ate. So slay.

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      “I want tell you about the town of Stockbridge, Massachusets, where this happened here, they got three stop signs, two police officers, and one police car, but when we got to the Scene of the Crime there was five police officers and three police cars, being the biggest crime of the last fifty years, and everybody wanted to get in the newspaper story about it.” - Arlo Guthrie, Alice’s Restaurant Massacree

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      Pigs will get six hours of overtime pay for this ten minute perp walk. Anyone depraved enough to be a cop would jump at the chance to steal more money from the citizens.

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      Fun fact: dude to the left of Luigi walking behind him is NYC mayor Adams. His positioning is definitely intentional to be in the shot.

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        Vultures, someone (parasite or not) died in the street and their concern isn’t a lost life or even the motivations of the alleged killer but how can they get their photo op.

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      Die I miss something? That guy is called Mangione, which is: “Gluttony”

      But… if translated into German and then to English it’s “Wolverine”

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        I think the joke is on the pronunciation.

        The G is followed by an I, making it “soft” in Italian, so Mangione could sound sort of like mansion-eh.

        Not really, but close enough.

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    They need that many because even cops hated that CEO and the quantity here is to ensure they don’t just let Luigi go.

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      Because if there’s one thing US police are known for, it’s accountability

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          I wish the police would get woke. They think they’re on the team with the capitalists because they protect them. Nope, not getting in the bunker, they don’t care how many family dogs you shot to protect American freedom.

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          As a collective they are, but there are always traitors amongst them. This is also why they socially isolate from the places they police.

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            Also a lot of places police work pays a really nice wage with opportunities for nearly unlimited overtime.

            My local metro PD has what’s called “secondary work” where various (large) venues will hire off-duty officers to essentially stand around and be present. Those jobs regularly pay $50/hr and you get to see events for free. These guys rack up insane amounts of “secondary work.” It’s a total racket, a few years ago there was as scandal with a guy working secondary work *while on duty," it’s wildly open to abuse and the police hierarchy protects everyone at every step.

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              Ignore the other one I fucked up and hit reply with like 2 words.

              Anyways its openly corrupt but it is also open to breakdown. The Deputies in my county are only nominally under the sheriff and more or less work as watchdogs on the police themselves. There are also instances where folks who were propagandized end up in the police system but are effectively sleepers against them.

              My point is that the police are probably a lot weaker when it comes to unity than we often times think. Frankly speaking if this turns into an open class war I suspect that the police will splinter hard.

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                I have first-hand knowledge of the workings of my local metro PD is the only reason I referenced them but you make a valid point that they don’t all like each other. In my local PD at least (and I imagine a lot of others) it’s hyper political. People try very hard to attach themselves to up-and-coming command officers to try to become a sort of right hand or assistant (while still being badge carrying LEO) to them.

                It’s extremely hierarchical, it’s not uncommon for peoples parents and grandparents to have been cops and institutions like that definitely have a memory. People spend decades finding their little niches and if you step on the wrong toes you may get screwed over before you understand what’s happening, it’s an extremely toxic place filled with assholes and psychopaths lol.

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                  Kinda sounds like the Roman bureaucracy, specifically the Eastern Roman or Byzantine bureaucracy. Bunch of cut throat motberfuckers who all hate eachother and are only not actively killing eachother because their mere existence is putting them under pressure preventing collapse. But just like said system all it takes is the right external factors to force said collapse.

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    The whole thing of “they took him for Burger King” is a red herring. Cops are required to feed you. Some departments have policies about always checking if a new arrestee is hungry, and getting them some fast food if they say yes, so their attorney can’t say later that they were coerced during questioning because they had been denied food for whatever amount of time.

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    Don’t even think about rescuing your hero that we’re parading out here. Because we have like, 10 armed police and that means we’re able to take on at least um, hold on, let me count…

    Three rescuers. Ten armed police are enough for 3 attackers, if we’re in flack jackets.

    Actually, make that two attackers…and they can only have knives and rocks.

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      Still banging that drum I see. Don’t you have some boots to lick somewhere else?

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        It’s ok. They think they’re intelligent, but also think that machibe learning models can’t be biased. They have no self-awareness, and are incapable of understanding that they don’t know what they’re talking about.