I did exactly that when lemmy.world leaked my user registration e-mail address to Israel (I! Kid! You! Not!) as I was loudly anti-Genocide and critical of Zionism and I started receiving invitations to an online "learn about Israel" event in it.
It was a very easy transition.
What a wonderful murder meme!
A shape like a right-angled triangle is pretty easy to produce from a square or rectangle, so if it was only that reason we would also see a lot of right-angled triangle shaped flags.
Could it be that the physics of the shape makes rectangles more resiliant as flags (as in, remaining at least partially intact) in the wind?
Or maybe it's some Historical reason that boils down to some common origin of that shape as tradition?
Or maybe a bit of all including ease of manufacturing?
I bet this is just the usual public relations exercise of "We have investigated ourselves and concluded we did nothing wrong"
In the UK too the coppers tend to be rightwing (not just the "mild" Far-Right Tory but actually the extreme Far -Right Reform) and judging by all the Brits that were involved with the Epstein, the pedophilia thing might also apply.
Certainly in my personal experience they mainly act as willful minions of the very rich and are very Racist.
Having lived in the UK as an EU immigrant with Indian, Black and Muslim friends I always found it ridiculous how so many Britons genuinelly thought that Britain wasn't at all Racist, even all the while from all I heard it is spectacularly Racist, well beyond other countries in Europe I lived in.
The entire system in Britain, including the Law, is all about suppressing the most visible effects of all the shit going on there (managing appearances is THE top skill and concern of British Upper Class, especially the English), which when it comes to Racism means punishing people for voicing Racism, but in practice not for acting it - as long as the thing is properly swipped under the carpet, it can be treated as non-existent and there is no need to look into or actually fix it (even when brought up like this, it's dealt with a bit of talkie-talkie, some meaningless measures that just hide the statistics or push down on the reporting that made it visible, and that's it)
More so than other countries in Europe, Britain is the kind of place were the garden looks perfect but if you turn any rock the most digusting things turn out to have been under it.
It's called Oligarchy and it predates Tech "Overlords" in America.
Per the statistics of violent behavior men should not be around other men.
Men are statistically more likely to be violent than all other groups defined by gender.
However, there are far better groupings of humans to use when it comes to predisposition for violence than "gender" (for example, "people espousing rightwing ideologies" display a higher tendency for violent behavior) and the thing that needs questioning here is why the German police association chief purposefully chose to use a grouping of humans with a lower correlation to violent behavior rather than one whose members are far more likely to engage in violent behavior, and the same questioning applies to the "journalist" that wrote the article.
This shit stinks of "stirring identitarianism to avoid pointing finger at certain specific groups".
Not long ago their Bundeskanzler openly said that Germany unaveringly supports a state activelly commiting a Genocide along ethnic lines because of the dominant ethnicity of that country.
There's also plenty of videos of the abuse of force of the German police towards anti-Genocide demonstrators.
Both in terms of Racism and Authoritarianism the German views (certainly those of their political mainstream) and even practices aren't anywhere as far from their "good old days" as the rest of Europe.
Yeah, well, if you're "just" an Engineer at the Death Star you're still a willing part of the baddies and complicit in their actions.
It was always a White Jewish Supremacist Colonialist project anchored on a late 19th century Western way of seeing the World (the same perspective as Europeans with "colonies" in Africa were they often forced the locals to work for them - a form of Slavery, not Chatel Slavery but still Slavery - or Canada's Indian Residential Shools).
Whilst most of the West actually evolved away from that (even if recently some of that was reversed), Israel was a bubble of White Jewish Supremacy (more White than Jewish, as shown by how the Israeli Authorities treated Black Jews from Ethiopia) stuck in time and with whatever little evolution toward Humanist values they imported via the minority of immigrants they had from the West (the majority by a wide margin of immigrants to Israel came from Russia and the Middle East, not the West) being reversed by amongst other things a Press and Politial environment that purposelly fed "Fear of the Other" and extreme Racism disguised as righteous anger at "violent" Palestinians (at times even openly called "vermin").
So yeah, not only was the Nakba a display of the dominant values in Israel (as is their overtly ethnically discriminatory Constitution), but since that time the country has not evolved away from that original perspective on other human beings and those racist late XIX century and early XX century views on human beings.
(Whilst, for example, Canada ended Indian Residential Shools and that is even looked back as a bad thing, Israel is now commiting a Genocide in Gaza and Lebanon even more deadly than the Nakba and Israeli Jewish "settlers" are openly commiting a Pogrom on Palestinians in the West Bank with the support - sometimes activelly so - of the Israeli Police and Military)
I'm shocked that the current government of my homeland - Portugal - has, finally, chosen not to side with the baddies.
Considering all the pro-Zionist shit they've been doing over the years and the pro-Israel Consent Manufacturing shit of the TV channel aligned with them, this is quite unexpected.
By the way, time for one or more of the countries in the side of good to start using the cannon of "veto" against the interests of the pro-Genocide countries. Certainly Germany and Italy will only ever adjust their positions in this if they get seriously fucked up at the EU level by other countries vetoing anything that mainly benefits them (and there are quite a lot of Trade measures that pretty much only help Germany).
PS: Italy and Germany are pretty much Orban's Hungary when it comes to this specific violent and genocidal nation (as Orban's Hungary itself was, since the both supported Russia and Israel) and should get a similar treatment from the rest as Hungary did back when Orban was in power and showed the true colors of those in power there.