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CMV: The cops in the USA right now are acting exactly like the cops in socialist countries used to.





Folks can debate if they've always been like this or if it's a new thing or whatever, but look at them right now. An adult human with an average IQ might think if everyone is out protesting you because of your brutality, you should probably preform acts that would be the opposite of brutal, and make the protestors look silly. But American police everywhere have responded to protests against police brutality with...even greater police brutality. They've had agents pose as protestors and try to incite violence and preform, they're using drones and facial recognition and other cyberpunk-dystopian-like methods to survive and trace everybody, they're using the acts of looters to justify beating people within an inch of their life who were peacefully holding up protest signs, they're using APCs and LRADs, they're attacking medics, they're attacking journalists, (one journalist arrested on live TV), and we know all this because the videos of these events unfolding are all over reddit, continually, every day. As of recently, secret police have been showing up with no symbols of seals on their uniforms, which are all camo suits with armor plate carriers and helmets to disappear people to god knows where without actually going through any of the process to arrest them, like reading them their Miranda Rights, or anything. They're just tossing people in unmarked vans and poof, they're gone.





As a history nerd, I really feel that there is very little difference between this and the cops of historically socialist nations. I own and have read large books on the KGB and the NKVD and the ever growing similarities are startling. Everything I read about the cops back then is also what I am seeing in videos on reddit right now. I also keep up with what the police are like today in China or Vietnam or Cuba as it's like reading chapters from cyberpunk novels. The same authority of previous socialist cops but with new tech. Then when I look at cops here...the Venn Diagram between the cops here and the cops of socialist nations is nearly a circle.





The cops don't even care, either. They're not dumb and blind, they can plainly see everyone pointing smartphones at them all the time and they know they're being recorded, but they don't care about being recorded beating a person while another guy yells "We've got it all on video!!" because what's going to happen to them? You got a cop maiming people on video? So? Throw it on the pile. There must be terabytes worth of video like that. One drop in a sea of data. IF one of these thousands of videos gets any sort of attention then city governments just tweet out some lines about how they're "very concerned" and that the matter is "currently being investigated" and then we never hear about it again. But hey, who cares about that one" While you were reading that last tweet, 13 new videos have come out exactly like it. The cops don't care you're recording them because they're not going to get in any real trouble from their own video when their crimes can disappear in the ever growing pile of videos of cops doing illegal stuff to people. The only way recording them seems to do anything is if literally the entire damn county focuses their rage on one single video for a month straight.



