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Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

Its called swatting. You call police and say someone is dangerous and they come running with all the gear to justify the bloated budgets. Kids were doing this pretty often in the news a decade ago. Especially to streamers.

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whoisearth@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
America is a dystopian capitalist nightmare lol

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- Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Just missing the cyber punk.
  
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DillDough@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
It never stopped btw. This has been a constant and consistent issue for well over a decade, it rarely ever makes “the news”.

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- Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Cant believe it got so normalized. What a country.
  
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  - DillDough@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Swatting becoming normalized is the logical conclusion to a “justice” system that offers immunity to trigger happy officers with practically 0 training or oversight.
    
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