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Cake day: August 5th, 2026

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  • That’s the witty snarky lemmy-ism I’m referring to.

    I get it. Obviously the guy should pay taxes. No one should be able to accumulate wealth in that way.

    My point is, it’s daft to suggest the police should make an assessment about whom they ought to protect, without reference to the law.


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    4 hours ago

    So you don’t want the police to protect homeless people, for example?

    I get your witty snarky lemmy-ism, but obviously in practice police can’t conduct an assessment of who ought to be protected. They need to just protect everyone. In this case there’s no threat against the “tax-payers” if you will.


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    To not be there, they’d have to make a choice about which altercations they ought to attend. Does that really sound like a good idea? If there’s a protest with a risk to person or property it seems sensible for a police force to attend to mitigate that risk.

    There’s a lot of criticisms to be made of any police force, and it’s absolutely proper and right to do so in a democracy (even if that’s not how things roll on .ml), but expecting them not to attend a protest just because your opinions align with the protesters is pretty daft.

















  • I’m also curious.

    My supposition is that it’s real but it’s not a swastika nor a number 5.

    The downward slope on the right is not long enough for it to be a swastika. For that matter the top point of the slope on the left should align with that slope on the right, but that’s too short also.

    From the right hand point, it looks like there’s an edge that follows the seam of her pants.

    If it was a fake / AI generated swastika tramp stamp none of the above problems would be present.

    My guess is that it’s some kind of unique geometric symbol someone designed for a college or university or something, and she’s had it tattooed without realising that with the wrong pair of jeans on it looks like a swastika.

    Obviously, of course, that’s just supposition.