• @[email protected]
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    3010 days ago

    I wish the 12 were intellectually honest enough to just walk up and demand “papers”, acknowledging they have fully become a police state.

  • @son_named_bort
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    2810 days ago

    Cop realized he should’ve used rock instead. Nothing beats rock.

      • @MutilationWave
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        39 days ago

        You get philosophical or meta about it, paper always beats rock.

        Rock thrown by a protester - use paper to buy the media and control the narrative

        Molotov thrown by a protester - a rock - use paper see above

        Paper always beats rock in the US. Hopeful to see it change.

    • @[email protected]
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      2110 days ago

      Cops. No one knows why.

      One theory is ACAB = 1312 = All Cops Are Bad, so shortened to 12 (why not 13? also the slang predates “acab” popularity.)

      Another is the show Adam-12, about cops.

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        610 days ago

        I thought it came from when there’s police going by you tell people to keep their heads at 12. Don’t look at them or they’ll accuse you of being “suspicious” and want to detain you and run your ID for warrants etc

    • @[email protected]
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      410 days ago

      I didn’t learn this until I heard Post Malone/HARDY’s “Hide My Gun” with the lyric, “If the three times four’s banging at our door, would you stall and let me slip out the back?”

      Which overall the whole song almost works as a Luigi theme song.