• @[email protected]
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    389 hours ago

    A secret police is something different from officers without uniforms. A secret police is an instrument of the ruling party to oppress opposition and are part of a “justice” system outside of the official one, e.g. secret police can arrest you on whatever charges (don’t have to be revealed) and you’ll be put into a secret prison where your relatives can’t find you. The fact that they don’t wear uniforms goes beyond why regular police goes it: it’s to create an atmosphere of fear that everyone around you could be secret police, and that they can just arrest you, and there’s nothing you can do.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 hours ago

        Yeah their distinction is completely arbitrary and meaningless. Of course the widespread knowledge that anyone you could interact with could be a plainclothes officer or a federal agent instills a certain amount of paranoia in Americans, the difference is that just we have massive and effective propaganda machines convincing us that America secret police are all good guys while also telling us that non-Western secret police are mustache twirling villains.

    • Justas🇱🇹
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      148 hours ago

      Yes. Secret Police makes people never relax. You never know who’s watching, you never know who’s listening. Your neighbours and teachers could be informants too. Apartment buildings are built with thin walls so you are not safe even within your own home. It’s a constant source of terror.

      It’s also why people older than me don’t talk to strangers, and especially, to foreigners.

      • Maeve
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        58 hours ago

        Last couple of evenings has been cool enough to not have window units running. The neighbor’s drunken bellowing has been off the chain. Yes, I heard it over the AC but without is truly revealing, and impossible to sleep.

        • Justas🇱🇹
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          47 hours ago

          Mine gets drunk and talks to people on the phone. When she gets drunk, her soft tissues swell up and she sounds like a troll. That also doesn’t stop her from finding men to get drunk with and have loud sex with, but she never manages to keep them around for long, and I occasionally get a night of drunken crying.

          • Maeve
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            34 hours ago

            I mean the drinking isn’t the issue. The relief they seek from underlying issues is not the issue. The despair and sadness and rage are problematic. Address the despair and other issues can be resolved.

    • @P00ptart
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      38 hours ago

      If you’re getting arrested by secret police, then you fight to the death. Otherwise, you’ll spend the rest of your life wishing you did.

  • @[email protected]
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    4614 hours ago

    Plain clothes are always incredibly obvious and oblivious to that fact. I’ve known them to stop and search people because they are baffled someone spotted them.

      • @affiliate
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        24 hours ago

        what’s the deal with the white arm bands?

        • @[email protected]
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          94 hours ago

          it’s so they can identify each other in a crowd, they usually do a “color of the day” system. the last picture has an orange armband.

          • 2ugly2live
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            64 hours ago

            If I ever spot this I am 100% greeting them with “officer.”

            • @[email protected]
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              74 hours ago

              while funny, I would absolutely not recommend doing this. warn the people around you, point the officer out to organizers, but do NOT interact with the police. do not give them a reason to harass or arrest you, because I promise they will take the opportunity and could possibly ruin your life.

              • 2ugly2live
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                Hadn’t even thought if that. Thank you, will do. 🤝🏾

                Edit: And I’m black too. I should have know better. 😔

        • @Alwaysnownevernotme
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          24 hours ago

          Gotta know who they can’t hit in the face with a teargas grenade.

    • @Spiralvortexisalie
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      1812 hours ago

      IME they try too hard to look like street people, but it doesn’t work because their clothes are clean and they bathed, your average skel substance abuser hasn’t seen a shower in 24+hrs even if they got new donated clothes.

    • db0OP
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      1215 hours ago

      Fuck, what happened here, lol. Fixed >_<

        • db0OP
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          1014 hours ago

          Understandable. I’ll refund you asap.

          • @jaybone
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            511 hours ago

            I’m calling the secret police.

            • @P00ptart
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              28 hours ago

              Do it! They can’t unsecretrape you!