Post #1945930
2026-05-02 02:07 UTC
I'll never forget my wry surprise that I was surprised at that maneuver. Like how silly and naive of me to have not seen that trick coming. Rules can't bind the criminal gang with a monopoly on violence because no one else has violent capacity to enforce such on them. Laws are, now as ever, a joke.
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@rechelon@mastodon.social 2026-05-02 02:07
The only purpose of a law binding the police is to confuse or misdirect you, so you're caught off balance when you're jumped and beaten up. There is no law that actually constrains the police, there never has been, and there never will be. And the same goes for laws constraining empire.
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@stefani@fr.readthefinemanual.net 2026-05-02 02:28
@rechelon they did similar in the 2000 conventions. also, I understand that Republicans (maybe Dems too, I don't know) have taken out insurance to basically indemnify the local police, so if anything does happen, the _insurance company_ lawyers will take on the legal work, and no protester has the financial backing to take them on.