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Florida Deploys Police To Stare At Crosswalks, Stop Them From Being Painted Rainbow Colors
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this post was submitted on 26 Aug 2025
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Yep.
We cant give medicine/healthcare that those that need it, cause its to expensive.
We cant give food to those that need it, cause its too expensive.
We can't provide shelter to those that need it, cause its too expensive.
but somehow, magically, when it comes to the police state and fascism.. Theres always an endless waterfall of money.
I guess when one is in a gold-plated conference room with oligarch friends and you collectively have a couple trillion dollars in assets to "protect," peeling away a few billion to pay some of the poors to shoot the other poors before they take your shit (or your head) seems like a pretty reasonable business expense.
When you look at them as the protectors of capital rather than the protectors of the people, it makes a lot more sense.
i mean, you dont even have to look at it that way.
cause it literally is that.
Police, since the begining, have existed to protect the property of the rich. Not the rights of the poor.
They've literally gone to the supreme court to fight against being held accountable to their own "protect and serve" bullshit.
The very first police officers were primarily slave catchers
Yep, the property of the rich.
There's no IRS, just stop paying taxes...
oh no. not paying taxes is only for the uber rich. For all the poor people, they go straight to jail.
Only if they catch you