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Malicious Compliance

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[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 89 points 1 week ago (5 children)

It’s already working. Due to the terrorism claims, each of these arrests requires a special review, and the system is being overwhelmed. Get a few more hundred or thousands of people to get an arrest for this, and the whole government scheme will have to be abandoned, because there will be no practical way for system to follow the required procedures for each case.

[–] Bamboodpanda@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Fascists get pretty clever at solving that problem. They create these camps where they can just concentrate them in one place.

The British invented them in fact!!

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oooh they should come up with a clever name for them... Focus Groups? Nah that doesn't quite work.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

It can't be any worse than Butlins

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

See how that worked out for USA, when push came to shove - the law was abandoned.

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Yes, and that will be an important lesson to people. Then we can move to the next step to topple the capitalists.

[–] SippyCup@feddit.nl 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

laughs in American prison system

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There isn't enough prison places in the UK. They'd have to let actual criminals out early so they can arrest a grandmother. I don't think even they are insane enough to actually do that the media would eat them alive.

[–] SippyCup@feddit.nl 1 points 1 week ago

laughs harder in American prison industrial complex

[–] LampKraft@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

so then they declare martial law

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 hours ago

and then the mask is off

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

Every city has had the capacity to bus a few thousand people to a holding facility since at least the 2000s