I feel like wearing a shirt critical of Trump and walking past the reflecting pool right now might be an effective way to bait a federal thug into doing something you could sue the government over.
When in Rome?
Submitted 4 weeks ago by Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to [deleted]
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ceenote@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Sue and lose.
ceenote@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
IANAL, but it’s a hypothetical (and a joke). If you get charged with vandalizing the pool or beaten for no other reason than wearing a shirt, you could probably win that lawsuit. There’s a lot of things they could do to ‘punish’ you that you couldn’t win a lawsuit over, like detaining.
VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
Yeah, they were threatening to arrest a reporter for the Swedish national TV who was doing a story and touched the water as a part of it.
A new low among some truly low lows
Akasazh@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Wasn’t it Xerxes who had the sea whipped?
Caligula did declare a war against it, though.
Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 4 weeks ago
Yeah, Xerxes.
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Everyone and anyone willing to uphold this countries military with their service at this point is nothing other than a dog of the state. Soulless, mindless, tools of the regime, and fucking cowards to boot, every single fucking one of them.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
On what authority can they do this? Has it always been a crime to touch the reflecting pool?
rainwall@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
Its a national monument, which have rules about “removing marerials” in the law protecting them.
Its a pretty thin offense, and this is a wild over reaction, which is always a facists favorite move when they are wrong in a very visible way.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
That is at least a laws waste of resources calling the national guard in, but that could be worse.
So to clarify the meme is referring to people removing the floating bits of liner and not simply touching the water
Mac@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
Wouldn’t want someone to mess it up!
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Is the government really blaming the algae on saboteurs, or was that a joke?
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Trump did blame “vandals” on ripping up the blue paint material from the bottom of the pool.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Yes, really. It’s pathetic.
krisevol@lemmus.org 4 weeks ago
No. And i could see someone doing that. There are a ton of crazies out there.
Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 4 weeks ago
Yeah, the entire Trumpf cabinet.
Lazer365@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
Why would they stop people from touching it? Like that’s gonna fix the issue lol
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
People are probably sneaking the algae little snacks.
anon_8675309@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Anyone who dares touch it are clearly people who are vandals.
— d j t probably
Formfiller@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Chomo Caligula
lokalhorst@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Why do they always call it “reflecting”, I thought it was full of algae? Not from the US so maybe I just don’t understand your national symbols.
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s normally a pool that’s made to reflect the Washington Monument, but Trump is a giant fucking grifter who fucked it all up
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
To be fair, it was fucked up before him. He just spent 14 million to not fix it at all and pay his friends to paint it which was never needed and made the problem worse.
someguy3@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Who’s doing the real reflecting?