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Leaked webinar reveals Flock employees teaching police how to surveil anti-Trump No Kings protestors and track their cars (cdn.imgchest.com)

submitted 4 days ago by waltersf@bookwyr.me to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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[–] waltersf@bookwyr.me 0 points 4 days ago (2 children)

In a normal and functioning democracy
[…]
there’d he riots in the streets

Pick one.

this is the US, it’ll just blow over in under 24 hours and even until then, nobody will care enough to give enough fucks to do something about it

Unfortunately true 😔

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Functioning democracies sometimes have riots to keep them functioning

[–] waltersf@bookwyr.me 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Then you have a functional proletariat, not a democracy lol. Why would the minority riot the majority rule?