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Slightly too big to fit through a school hallway. Just big enough to wait outside in the parking lot. We’ll take it - TX police
Illegally parked, no less
POV your local police department turns into an occupying military force. This is beyond dystopian. 2024 ❌ 1984 ✅
Intra-uterine devices?
It’s Texas. They’re terrified of the demon birth control.
Lol yeah, i like how no one else realizes it’s supposed to be IED (Improvised Explosive Device)
They meant what they said. It’s Texas- they seem far more afraid of women’s issues than explosives.
Militarization of police.
Can’t use military on U.S. soil against its citizens? Turn police into the military to be used against its citizens.
Let’s say you’re a cop and you get a call: there’s a hispanic gay crossdresser armed with a .50BMG sniper rifle with explosive rounds reported on the roof of the KwikeeMart, and they’re threatening to shoot the Walmart across the street unless they’re called by their proper pronouns, black lives/matter. This situation calls for an immediate response with at least a MRAP, and that’s only because they don’t have the funding for an airstrike from an A-10.
Yeah I mean they would need an MRAP to keep them safe while they wait for the shooter to finish up or run out of ammo. We’ve got to think of the officers and their safety.
[…] only because they
don’t have theran out of funding for an airstrike from an A-10.FTFY
Haven’t seized enough cash to fund an airstrike from an A-10.
Operating an A-10, without firing its nose gun, runs about 19k-25k and hour. A full load of rounds is 1200. They fire at a rate of 3900 rounds per minute. The rounds, depending on the exact type, cost between 90 and 175$ per round. This also doesn’t include the cost of maintaining the gun which incurs a lot of maintenance because of all the heat, and forces, involved.
Fun fact. That MRAP does not protect against .50 cal rounds.
Sounds like they are in desperate need of an M1A2 Abrams then
…yet
Didn’t police actually bomb parts of a town? But that might be from my limited knowledge about history
Yeah, the Phillie cops bombed an entire city block into rubble when they went after the MOVE group of fanatics. Coincidentally it was in a black neighborhood. What were the chances of that, eh?
Looks like they are ready to violently suppress the rioting MAGAts when they riot after their criminal leader is imprisoned. What’s that? Those that work forces are the same that burn crosses? I guess they’re ready for any counter-protestors.
… to hide in while your children are being shot at.
I don’t understand how normal people don’t see this and instantly become radicalized
Oh, me? Nah. Now, that car, damn that’s radical. Imma gonna enlist! :D
No, really, why do you think they post these?
because they believe those boots will never be on their necks, that’s why
I’m sure they do. But radicalized to do what? Wave a sign? Write an angry letter? Vote?
Besides, excessively strident opposition to the police MRAP will get you labeled a tankie.
No, shilling for Russia will get you labeled as a tankie. Not wanting police to have what is essentially a light tank, will not get you labeled as a tankie. Don’t try to dilute the term.
Seriously.
It’s like when you see a post about punching Nazis, and concern trolls show up to complain about people misusing and overusing the term. They don’t offer a correction, and they’re not defending anyone because no specific person or group of people was called out. They just saw a negative post about Nazis and fascists, got defensive, and tried to muddy the waters. A hit dog will holler.
Also, obviously any term will be misused and overused, and I don’t know every context people are talking about. But, for my part, I see complaints about people being called “tankies” way more often than people being called tankies, and in situations like the above. And it’s usually accompanied by complaints that right-wingers are calling people tankies, something I don’t actually see all that often. What I see more often than that is the terminally online, gatekeeping left. So, is the problem coming more from actual conservatives, or from leftists that other ostensible leftists want to dismiss out of hand?
I don’t know what’s in anyone’s heart, the specific people they’re talking about, or the contexts and personal experiences they’re talking about. I’m not going to assume bad faith. But, when I see people jump in to say “tankie” is a meaningless phrase, it just sounds like the same rhetorical game when people try to say “Nazi” and “fascist” have become meaningless.
shilling for Russia will get you labeled as a tankie
I’ve heard it aimed at anyone who is anti-cop. I’ve heard it aimed at folks advocating a general strike. I’ve heard it hurled at Palestine protesters. I’ve heard it aimed at people who won’t vote for Joe Biden.
Don’t try to dilute the term.
Way too late for that.
I’m going to need you to stop being so online.
As an intelligent, mature adult, I resort to insults when I don’t like what someone is saying. Thinking is hard!
Aesthelete@lemmy.world
Someone that thinks “tankies” are a thing that most people talk about or have even heard of outside of “online” needs to go listen to the bees buzz.
That’s just some stuff that you claim that you’ve heard. For the rest of us those are not the definitions. Tankie does not mean anti-cop at all, it’s a pro-authoritarian label for authoritarian communists.
Tankie does not mean anti-cop at all, it’s a pro-authoritarian label
It’s a “pro-Russia/China” label. You can be as authoritarian as you like without being a tankie. You just need to couch it as pro-NATO or pro-American.
But any suggestion that Western censorship, trade sanctions, or militant policing is bad can get you tagged as a Russian Bot or Chinese Wumao.
Nope, your last sentence is just plain wrong. Anywhere on Lemmy or Reddit or similar sites you look, it is a mainstream acceptable position to criticize any of those.
This is literally a thread on an anti-communist instance complaining that militant policing is bad…
I would love to believe you. But I’ve been called a tankie too many times in the last few months for the brave position of… “We shouldn’t be funding a genocide”.
Who the fuck cares if some random person calls you a tankie?
I don’t particularly care. But it does show how diluted it is already when Biden stans are using it to “other” anyone who won’t fall in line.
You won’t get labeled a tankie if you think the people’s police shouldn’t have one either. Then you get labeled an anarkiddie
You won’t get labeled a tankie if you think the people’s police shouldn’t have one either.
If you’re going all in on the “Fuck the CCP! Fuck Castro! Fuck Vuvuzela!” memes, maybe. But you need to lean in hard. Never let them think your hate is less than pure.
Then you get labeled an anarkiddie
Sure. Everyone knows why we need the Good Kind of Cops.
Proceeds to scroll through Nextdoor Ring camera porch pirate posts in earnest
I’m actually mixed on Castro. Venezuela isn’t communist. Neither is the CCP (I stand with the Chinese leftward opposition). And while we’re at it, the USSR shot the Soviets and killed the Revolution at Kronstadt.
Vietnam though? I can respect Vietnam. I don’t always agree with what they do, but they’re really doing their best.
It wasn’t the anarchists who keep doing dengist bullshit
I love how they are displaying their parking skills
I feel like these should be used as a sort of honey pot. If your police department buys one of these, fire everyone and start over from scratch.
Iud’s are baby killers. They stop cop sperm from impregnating their victims.
The female body just has a way of shutting impregnation down in the case of cop rape. Its in the Bible.
A lot of police departments are just… gifted this shit by the military industrial complex.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militarization_of_police
They don’t have a need for it, but it looks cool parked at the county fair.
The problem is, once they have it, they reach for reasons to use it.
DOD doesn’t want to pay upkeep and it was designed for roadside bombs in remote mountains not Iranian drones.
Might as well give it to the cops, in case one of their supporters accidentally hits it while trying to bomb a women’s shelter or something.
They’re specifically not to be used on roads because they don’t fit, rollover if sneezed at and destroy our roads but fuck it they’re police right?
I’m confused about the design. If it’s designed for mountain areas but is top heavy and rolls easy, isn’t that a major design floor for an area where the terrain is likely to be steep from left to right in parts?
Maybe my idea of terrain in mountainous areas is wrong.
It’s designed to stay on roads.
Those roads are natural choke points where bombs are often hidden on the ground, which results in a high and heavy design.Correct, they move slow but they are quite explosion survivable past the original design.
The ONLY reason you’d need something like this is maybe hurricane prone areas to get around flooded parts of the city
You mean like a boat? Like they use already?
Protect from IUDs?! intrauterine devices?? They sure are taking birth control seriously in Prosper boys…
Is this a typo? I can’t find what IUD could mean otherwise.
Seems like some sort of understated pun with IEDs and DUIs. Just guessing.
Let’s not pretend the average cop isn’t too stupid to understand "I"mprovised "E"xplosive "D"evice.
It wasn’t some “witty pun on IED and DUI”. It was an idiot cop not knowing the proper acronym, nothing more.
Improvised Uterine Device? Medically-assisted abortions are gone but the police still need protection from coat hangers.
I mean those gentleman need an MRAP to keep all the ladies off of them. You never know when an IUD is going to get you.
Not only is it ridiculous and likely unnecessary, but also consider they’ll need to budget maintenance costs for this.
