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LOL, the pigs fuck up, the state shuts up and the taxpayers pay up.
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1312?
Alphabetical index — ACAB
Ah got it. Unfortunately makes me think of 88 so I probably won’t adopt it.
I think of it as "taking number substitution back", or 20-14-19-2. We can't let fascists, Nazis, and general scum bags ruin everything.
I'm still trying to take "libertarian" back.
I want 👌 back to meaning OK!
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I get that but I am not particularly attached to number substitution as social messaging personally lol like no disrespect to yall who want to use it, I just live in the south and the dog whistles are endless. Misinterpretation can get weird here too.
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Yep my immediate thought too
Yeah I'm with you. Just say ACAB. No sense in obscuring it further than the acronym already does.
MCCCXII
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Obligatory: end qualified immunity. Let them get "malpractice insurance".
This is settled law. It's been this way for a long time. Multiple people have had huge monetary settlements in multiple states for being arrested for flipping off a cop.
My father-in-law smiled and waved at a CHP cop when driving through California and got pulled over and told that was illegal, but was let off with a warning. Which I always thought was bullshit. Sounds like it is.
But the guy liked cops. He was literally just saying hi to a cop because he liked cops.
Did he like them after that?
He was a white evangelical (but never preachy) Republican from Indiana who was born in 1931. So not even a boomer, someone who had kids who were boomers. He died loving cops. He didn't even hold it against that guy because he assumed he'd broken the law and was glad the nice cop let him off with a warning.
He was an old man and had some very archaic ideas about the world. When he was home, he watched old Westerns, sports, or Fox News. I assume he voted for Trump in 2016. But he was also super nice to everyone no matter who they were. He was just not a judgmental sort of guy on an individual level. He was the sort of person who would would have a friendly conversation to find out when the restaurant waiter got off their shift and what they were planning to do that day and said he hoped they had a good time doing it.
So he probably (I never asked) believed in the "gay agenda," but would also be happy to have a friendly chat with some people hanging outside a gay bar if he happened to walked by and saw that people were standing there. Even if he knew it was a gay bar.
[It's his birthday today, so he's been on my mind.]
That's really nice.
We've also lost a lot of this, which is a shame.
I'd love to be part of bringing back being able to disagree with people on issues but still treat each other well. Like people.
I do try to remember to try. We all should.
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Happy Birthday, Flying Squid Sr (in-law). 🎂
In-law. Not my dad. Although they were both born in 1931 coincidentally. Both no longer with us unfortunately.
Imma gonna go flip off some cops and get rich
Or die trying. Be careful you dont get the road rage ranger.
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"Do you know why I pulled you over?"
"Idk because you're butthurt?"
"Small dick?"
Yeah but cops don't care about the law.
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Flipped off a cop when I was a teenager and that fucker tried following us home.
Tried? Like you somehow escaped a cop following you?
He didn't turn on lights and sirens and had to wait on a few cars before he could turn around so it wasn't that hard but we saw him driving slowly around the neighborhood looking for my friend's truck. Fortunately it was in the garage with the door shut before he was on the right block.
I did way back when I was 18/19... I was riding my bike home from work, and a cop directing traffic yelled at me to get out of the street. Without even thinking, I yelled back "go fuck yourself". He called to his partner across the intersection, "Mike, get him!". Mike was on a motorcycle. I was sure I was fucked, but I knew the neighborhood, so after salmoning up a one way street full of double parked cars, and taking a couple turns, one being into a narrow alley that's almost invisible unless you already know it's there, I got behind him - figured that was the best place to be... He never looked back, just slowed down, looking in doorways, between/under parked cars, until I got within a couple blocks of my house, then I hauled ass and locked myself (and bike) in the basement for the next half hour.
I was riding my bike home from work, and a cop directing traffic yelled at me to get out of the street.
Wait what did he want you to do? Ride in the pedestrian area with your vehicle?
Yeah, this was in Boston, Beacon Hill to be specific, not known for wide sidewalks... I was in good shape in those days, I could cruise all day at 15mph, for my half hour commute I could maintain 20mph easily, I would pass cars pretty much continuously in downtown areas, the street was where I belonged...
I give em the bird every time I see em, because I know this is settled law.
If you do it well enough, you'll get paid for it too!
The American Gestapo exist to enforce their feelings and advance the interests of wealthy property owners.
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Good. Fuck that cop.
Audit the audit did a cool video on this
Yeah, I watched it the other day. That cop was nuts. "I thought maybe you were signaling me because you needed help." Bullshit. He just wanted him to admit he'd flipped him off because he thought he could charge him for that.
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