Watch the clip. Police comes right up to her and arrests her on camera.

    • Isolde@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Well you are Okarin- this guy has been to the future. I’ll take your word any day.

    • bearboiblake [he/him]@pawb.socialEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I really don’t think this is correct. The US and China are at odds geopolitically, they have conflicting interests. Why would they join forces?

      • pulsewidth@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Same with Russia, at odds geopolitically - in constant proxy wars across the world.

        And yet… President Krasnov has repeatedly praised president Putin, given him favourable deals (abandoning the Kurds, pausing sanctions around Ukraine, removing sanctions imposed post-Crimea annexation, holding off on using very powerful financial sanctions available to directly squeeze Russia’s plutocrats and Putin).

        Not sure your theory that a country being at odds geopolitically means shit when Trump is president and the Republicans in the house and senate largely enable/encourage him.

        • bearboiblake [he/him]@pawb.socialEnglish
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          3 months ago

          I know it may seem like it, but the entire US is not completely at the whims of Trump. His orders require all sorts of buy-in. He needs to keep generals, police commissioners, mayors, senators, judges etc. at least somewhat aligned with him, at least enough not to actively push back against him.

          I know it seems painful and difficult to believe, but the ruling class (billionaires, oil tycoons, aerospace companies, etc.) in the United States are firmly in favor of the US invasion of Venezuela. Trump would not be allowed to remain in power if he acted against the interests of the ruling class.

          The United States is not a democracy. It has a year-round circus in the forms of elections, and keeps bread affordable enough, for now.

    • olenkoVD@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 months ago

      And they are fighting who exactly? World wars became world wars because the world’s superpowers were fighting each other.

    • 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 months ago

      I’m all for socialism, but what exactly in social ownership of the means of production prevents this? This is plain authoritarian censorship, socialist or not.

      • SuluBeddu@feddit.it
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        3 months ago

        A down-top socialist approach would give actual democratic control over “capital”, meaning for example that those who provide the news would control it independently from those who provide the food on people’s tables, and big decisions inside them would be taken democratically among the big number of workers.

        The reason these police kidnappings happen is that right now those capitals are all controlled by a very small monopolistic elite, twisting the national democratic process, preventing people from having actual control even over the State. Thus, media, food and police are all working basically for the same few guys.

  • bthest@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    If this had happened in Venezuela in last couple of days the media would be loosing it’s shit. The image of that arrest would be immortalized and treated like the Saigon pistol execution.

    • Afaithfulnihilist@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 months ago

      Immediately following the attack, bombing and kidnapping of Maduro, journalists were rounded up around the country.

      Our media isn’t making a stink about it because they are complicit in the manufacturing of a narrative here and you can’t have people in Venezuela contradicting that narrative.

  • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    USA is cooked, man. It’s no longer a free country. Party of no censorship and free speech, yeah right.

    • Ocean@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      3 months ago

      If you aren’t a rich white man it was never free. Most of us are just more adjacent to poverty(increase cost of food and housing) and injustice(ice raids in the suburbs) because we’re in an economic valley. IMO If/ win the employment number recover the median voter will forget all about this

    • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Meh. This was the local police. They wanted the group off the road, and the group wouldn’t move. I don’t really have a problem with this. These protests that block traffic and stuff hurt the wrong people. The guy or girl driving wherever shouldn’t be the target. Try disrupting actual commerce or production if you want to get the attention of the people in power.

      • SoloCritical@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        It appeared to me that she was on the sidewalk?? How you gonna say she was blocking the road when she’s on the sidewalk? Isn’t that where people are supposed to be?

        • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          What it said was that she was leading the protest, and both her and others had refused to leave the road when ordered. Likely this was by one or two cops. When they had to call more out, they arrested the people who had refused the order. At that point she was on the sidewalk, but they knew who she was.

      • apftwb@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Try disrupting actual commerce or production if you want to get the attention of the people in power.

        Economies utilize roads. Average Joe driving to work is engaging in commerce and/or production.

        • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          And the boss will take it out of average Joe’s payif he is hourly. If he is salary he will have to make up the lost time. The company will feel no pain at all.

        • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          Yes, but disruptive to who. I am saying this was disruptive to people who have no power to change anything. Go block the access point to a major commercial point of entry or something. That will at least hurt the trucking company because they have to pay the drivers either way.

  • olenkoVD@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    I remember watching a video like this but it was on Reddit and it was top post. It was also happening in Moscow, not the USA.

    “The country of freedom” accuses the other country of their censorship in media, but then it starts doing the same things.

    Freedom my ass I say

  • lilpatchy2eyes@slrpnk.net
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    3 months ago

    They had me cut my flag off my PVC flagpole because it’s dangerous, but I can still legally carry a gun to these.

  • TheRealKuni@piefed.socialEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Good ol’ GRPD. They made a whole show on HBO Max to try to improve their image, and then they turn around and do shit like this.

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldM
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    3 months ago

    Hi, mod here.

    In the future, please avoid sharing links from news aggregators. Sharing from the original source helps community health by providing transparency, and allows others to avoid reposting the same article.

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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      3 months ago

      Fuck every US tech company while you’re at it

      Once this is over, and one day it will, we can’t forget this, we can’t forget what IS tech companies did under trump

      Which, I’m sure, means that people will forget in about 5 minutes and then they return to the cool US napy tech

      • BoycottTwitter@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        3 months ago

        No need to wait, we can start right now.

        One thing we can all do is switch from Microsoft Office (if you or someone you know is using that) to Libreoffice. Especially important that everyone cancels their Office 365 subscriptions. I singled this out because this is likely the way most people are directly funding big tech. Office 365 funds OpenAI which donated $25 million to Trump.

        Also of course cancel your Copilot and ChatGPT subscriptions too.

        In addition Reddit users should switch to Lemmy or Piefed.

      • Mulligrubs@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Hmmm, I wonder who gives the tech company low-interest loans and much more? This tech bubble would not be possible without the support of international banking. Too big to fail, and so on.

        Don’t stop at tech or the USA, that won’t accomplish anything. International banking cartel will buy the drop at bargain prices, AND give loans for the rebuild. I wonder who controls USA money? Oh, the FED. I wonder who these guys in the FED are? Oh look, those same banks.

        They are not even hiding it