I’ve even heard people tell they’re designed to keep government and federal agents away.

more likely that they are trying to stay off the radar of big ip holders. That is who would shine the feds eye of sauron on you and if the feds want to look at your files they will.

Okay so what are cops?

Are cops just the ones on the beat, in uniform, harassing the unhoused, killing protestors or just innocent people caught in the gears of capital? I think most of us would say no, obviously not. There are also detectives and all manner of plain clothes officers, but there are also all the prosecutors, the judges, the DAs etc.

These are all surely also cops, right? After all, we call her Kopmala for a reason. So what about landlords then? Do they not slot neatly into this power structure? Are they not just a half step removed from that legitimized arm of violence that is the state enforcing property rights?

Can your landlord inspect your home? Can they decide on a whim to utilize that violent arm of the state to kick you out on the street if they feel that you are not adequately maintaining - or even better, improving - the value of their property?

In all of these ways the landlord is more of a cop than the DA or the judge.

Not all cops wear badges or uniforms.

I don’t dislike Russians. I am also curious of your definition of “authoritarian.” I am pro-liberation and pro-revolution, both things which would require a change in authority, either the colonized or the otherwise oppressed exerting their “authority” over their oppressors. Revolutions are by nature authoritarian. Also most of those things should be reviled and are not contradictory.

Sorry I am at work I’ll give you something meatier when I get home.

The free marketplace of ideas strikes again.

To elaborate on what @[email protected] said, as a landlord they must collect rent. That is inherently an extractive and exploitative relationship and they can only extract rent with the implicit threat of violent removal from your home if you do not pay it. And the arm of the state with the monopoly on said violence is the police, ergo landlords are cops.

I almost got evicted over a bogus noise complaint. You are basically illustrating the point of the meme.

You just reminded me of Jeffry Toobin and I hate you for that lol.

god dammit I didn’t read down to this comment before making the exact same joke

Stanley Kubrick was asked to fake the moon landing and he agreed, but being Stanley Kubrick he insisted they film on location.

Rhode Island is actually the third largest state in the US but the other states are trying to keep it down.

also this sounds fucking hilarious where can I read more?

He had hoped for precisely 12002 spears.

The one on the right is clearly Lenin

Abolish intellectual property (and private property in general)

Not sure. I can see this post, obviously. I forwarded this post to the admins though.

Nah they haven’t been resolved, you’re throwing a tantrum because you got called out for being racist and ableist.

The context is that I pointed out their ableism and the fact that the whole “tankie” thing is often leveled at non-white organizations and people striving for liberation and they removed my comments while using more ableist language in the modlog.

I tried to be diplomatic and will still put forth that effort but wrt this Moss person, the gloves are off.