Stumbled upon this in the France community when browsing Local. Needs to be shared wider.
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May a thousand dinosaurs eat the french
wrote 12 days ago last edited byFrench fries, shorly.
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Okay, but what if I depict security as a pug?
What I'm saying is I'm having trouble with the initial premise, not necessarily the conclusion.
wrote 12 days ago last edited byThe pug becomes rabid and bites you. You succumb to rabies because you couldn't afford the $2000 for the rabies vaccine. Not that you have any paid sick time to take to go see the doctor anyways considering you've paycheck to paycheck.
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May a thousand dinosaurs eat the french
wrote 12 days ago last edited byClimate change will consume us all, so this is true in a way.
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Too much security and the general public loses their human rights.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/03/21/police-tesla-attacks/
We reached out to Chicago Police Department to confirm whether the officers in the picture were deployed to protect the dealership on March 8 and whether any arrests were made. We await the department's reply.
Trump and Musk both commented on the attacks. Posting on X, Musk called (archived) the attacks, "insane and deeply wrong."
Trump said on Truth Social on March 20 that: "People that get caught sabotaging Teslas will stand a very good chance of going to jail for up to twenty years, and that includes the funders. WE ARE LOOKING FOR YOU!!!"
wrote 12 days ago last edited byYeah, Trump? Well, come near anyone to defend those fucking nazimobiles (provided there was no one in them, I'm not crazy) over people and see how long you last. This is war, doesn't matter that you're a handful of people with a shitton of money, WE WILL END YOU.
The article itself fits, thank you.
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There is nothing inherent about technology that means it must be used for evil.
Sure. In theory. But there are things we know about humans and their weaknesses, and these things are not going to change overnight (except perhaps in the fever dreams of some Marxists, of whom you might be one). Technology of this power did not exist before, and now it does. So technology is indeed the proximate problem.
wrote 12 days ago last edited byPeople are the problem, then. All people. And not in a solvable way.
I can't fucking fix you or myself or anyone else. If technology was the problem, machines can be repaired or replaced. People can't, yet you all insist on being fucking insufferable.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2694719
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2685916
OK, c’est pas vraiment "l’image du jour". Elle correspond plus à la période troublée que nous traversons actuellement.
wrote 12 days ago last edited byAn important distinction is security for whom? When a capitalist government passes some piece of security legislation, 99% of the time it is security for the bourgeoisie class, not the proletariat class.
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Delegating the task of protection of our rights to someone, thereby allowing the gap, in the ability to apply force, between you and those who are supposed to protect your rights, to widen, always carries the risk of your delegates one day refusing to fulfill their end of the bargain by using their power to violate your rights instead.
But is it really the case that most of us are willing and able to protect our rights by ourselves?
wrote 12 days ago last edited byNo, it isn't the case that we are able to protect our rights by ourselves. I hate reality and all of humanity.
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That's missing the context of when this image was first posted (post 2015 Charlie Hebdo attacks when the government went full authoritarian) - https://www.liberation.fr/debats/2016/01/28/la-derive-autoritaire-de-la-france-inquiete-bruxelles_1812820/
wrote 12 days ago last edited byThanks, I didn't realize that was the context.
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Okay, but what if I depict security as a pug?
What I'm saying is I'm having trouble with the initial premise, not necessarily the conclusion.
wrote 12 days ago last edited byAn attack happens and the pug gets so worked up that it is unable to breathe properly due to generational line breeding, seizes, and dies. Libertiegh gets her purse stolen and is super bummed about the whole thing. She goes to the pound just to look and the OP image occurs.
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—Chuck Norris
wrote 12 days ago last edited by-Wayne Gretzky
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Thanks, I didn't realize that was the context.
wrote 12 days ago last edited byNo worries!
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Eh, one can't really make a decent analysis using vague abstract ideals like 'liberty' and 'security'.
In some ways, security is liberating! For example, some religions have anonymous (private) confessionals and electoralism has anonymous private ballot booths to encourage freedom in voting. I don't know if I'd be as honest online if I knew people with too much time and money could track my posts back to my real identity and harass me.
And obviously, on the other hand, state security understandably sees certain personal liberties (like downloading bomb-making guides and then buying fertilizer) as a risk beyond the liberty they're willing to permit. Corporate security might see user anonymity techniques as a legitimate fraud/bot risk. I've picked diverse and good-faith examples to demonstrate, there's plenty of midground and abusive examples of both, don't worry, I know. (I left reddit many years ago partly for privacy reasons, no need to preach to the choir).
I guess my point is, security and liberties don't necessarily contradict. But if you have governments run by the owning class, they have a material interest in suppressing your liberties for their own security. To make that appealing and tolerable, they have an incentive to rebrand this as being about your security. I've been in protests that obviously wouldn't harm a fly and the police presence is consistently absurd. It's clearly not actually about any of our security, or even the security of property owners, but rather the security of the bourgeois owning class.
wrote 11 days ago last edited bysure security is important. but notice how the dog has grown to be much larger than the person walking it
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—Chuck Norris
wrote 11 days ago last edited byFuck Chuck Norris in his Maga supporting and Christo fascist face.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2694719
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2685916
OK, c’est pas vraiment "l’image du jour". Elle correspond plus à la période troublée que nous traversons actuellement.
wrote 11 days ago last edited byWhat's the hat pattern?
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Fuck Chuck Norris in his Maga supporting and Christo fascist face.
wrote 11 days ago last edited byWait, he's MAGA? Christ, it's so hard to keep up on who's gone off the deep end.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2694719
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2685916
OK, c’est pas vraiment "l’image du jour". Elle correspond plus à la période troublée que nous traversons actuellement.
wrote 11 days ago last edited byAnyone know the source of this version? I've seen several similar versions over the years. And what is the hat representing, since that's new to me.
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An important distinction is security for whom? When a capitalist government passes some piece of security legislation, 99% of the time it is security for the bourgeoisie class, not the proletariat class.
wrote 11 days ago last edited byThe Marxism/privacy intersectional analysis of society is something I never expected to see. Although I welcome it thoroughly.
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What's the hat pattern?
wrote 11 days ago last edited byIt's commonly known as a 'liberty cap'. They show up in a lot of flags and media from the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Anyone know the source of this version? I've seen several similar versions over the years. And what is the hat representing, since that's new to me.
wrote 11 days ago last edited byIt's a cap reused by the French revolution. A woman with such cap represents Marianne, the personification of the French Republic.
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Wait, he's MAGA? Christ, it's so hard to keep up on who's gone off the deep end.
wrote 11 days ago last edited byI knew that before I knew it.
He always was that type.