PhilipTheBucket

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 0 points 1 week ago (30 children)

Here's the full bodycam footage. I was right about him failing to ID.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i88VDrI3VA

He commits a misdemeanor 21 seconds after the stop begins.

Cop: "Give me your driver's license, registration,"

Dude: "No."

Cop: "... and proof of insurance."

Dude: "No. Call your supervisor."

That "no" is enough to arrest him. Most cops won't do it, they'll have a conversation about it instead of just busting out the cuffs, but if you go out of your way to piss them off, sometimes they will not. We're past reasonable suspicion at that point. He pulled him over, explained the reason, and asked for ID, and the guy refused. This is an excellent way to get arrested, and refusing to cooperate with the arrest is an excellent way to get dragged out of the car and thrown around. IDK what the guy expected to happen. The only reason this is news is because the cop hit him in the face, but this was 100% a dude-created situation from start to finish.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 17 points 1 week ago

I'm not saying he should quit and go home and start watching YouTube videos while the world around him collapses into fascism. I'm saying he should fight.

Lots of federal employees did the "Okay, fire me then" game when Trump demanded various things from them. It still takes time, effort, and organization to fill the roles they left behind. It slows things down. You can sue the administration for their blatantly illegal attempt to remove you. You can show up with a megaphone outside the office, now yelling about how it's a power grab. You can do something other than just going along with it.

This isn't even "just following orders," because he clearly knows it's wrong. But, he's still putting people on cattle cars, because they told him if he didn't, he'd lose his job. THE RIGHT ANSWER IN THAT SITUATION IS, EVEN IF NO OTHER OPTION IS AVAILABLE, TO LOSE YOUR FUCKING JOB.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 5 points 1 week ago

Dude, watch the video. You're literally doing the "Who are you going to be believe, me or your lying eyes?" thing.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 133 points 1 week ago (19 children)

You fucking ass hole.

Sure, people are getting snatched and sent away, to never see their families, maybe never taste freedom again, and in the meantime torture. But if someone wants to remove you from office, all of a sudden it's a problem.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Some say that the Black Rabbit hates us and wants our destruction. But the truth is — or so they taught me — that he, too, serves Lord Frith and does no more than his appointed task.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Surprisingly enough, the cops are often pretty reasonable about stuff like this. The first step is to interview witnesses who aren't involved, and if they all have pretty much the same story, then it doesn't really matter what the participants in the conflict have to say. If there are no uninvolved witnesses and it's just two people accusing each other of being the problem, they often can't really do anything, because there's no possible way it will hold up in court.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 5 points 1 week ago

Oooooh! That hadn't even occurred to me. I thought it was just garden variety shitty behavior. I think you're right, though.

I also see the appearance of thelemmy.club (which as far as I can tell is now, whatever it started out as, a full-time conservative troll instance at this point) as interesting there.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Dude, go fuck yourself.

https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/long-covid-mecfs-and-the-importance-of-studying-infection-associated-illnesses

There are entire things in the world that you haven't heard of. I know it's hard to conceive of, but these things happen.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 4 points 1 week ago

Is your impression that that's what Hamas is accomplishing?

I don't know what the hell else the Gazans could do, no one's helping them and they are dying. But there is a reason Israel was making sure Hamas was getting funding for years and years and supporting them against domestic opposition: Because what they're doing doesn't work, except to provide additional excuses for Israel to keep mowing down villages. If what they were doing worked, Israel wouldn't let them do it.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 2 points 1 week ago

Correct. The central issue is that "and powerful enough" part, since the US military will go 100% to war with them if they try to do anything about it, and no country wants that, generally speaking.

The correct choice would have been to pressure the American government to do something, but since our whole strategy for doing that was to let the person come to power who is ten times worse than even the horrifying standard of US presidents on this issue, we sorta fucked that whole thing up.

 

Russian military commanders are classifying missing soldiers as deserters to obscure the true scale of battlefield losses, the Russian independent outlet IStories reported on July 28.

By labeling missing soldiers as deserters, Russia not only conceals its true war losses but also avoids paying social benefits to the families of the deceased, the outlet noted.

Moscow and Kyiv rarely officially report their losses, and the Kyiv Independent could not verify the figures. Ukraine estimates that Russia's overall casualties during the full-scale war have surpassed 1 million.

IStories received over 50 complaints from relatives of missing soldiers sent to Russian President Vladimir Putin's administration and found similar falsifications in at least 25 units across 11 Russian regions. In most cases, falsified documents claim the soldiers went missing during combat missions.

While commanders are not supposed to declare a soldier a deserter without cause, the investigation found that in practice, simply missing a duty call can result in a wrongful "deserter" designation.

IStories also found a case where a soldier was still officially labeled a deserter even after his death and burial.

Between January and June 2025, Russian military courts processed over 26,000 cases seeking to declare individuals missing or deceased, surpassing the total for all of the previous year, Russian independent media outlet Mediazona reported on June 5.

Meanwhile, around 50,500 Russian soldiers were officially recorded as deserters in 2024 and charged with evading military service, IStories reported on March 5, citing OSINT-group Frontelligence Insight.

Russian independent media outlet Mediazona, in collaboration with the BBCRussian service, previously identified nearly 120,000 Russian military personnel killed in Ukraine, noting that the actual figure could be higher.

Ukraine's General Staff reported on July 28 that Russian military losses reached around 1,050,250 personnel, including those killed, wounded, and missing.

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UK intelligence has noted that Russia will cancel its Navy Day parade entirely for the first time.

Source: UK Ministry of Defence intelligence update from 27 July, as reported by European Pravda

Quote: "It is almost certain that Day of the Russian Navy parades, originally expected to take place on Sunday 27 July 2025, have been cancelled across Russia due to force protection concerns."

Details: The UK Ministry of Defence recalled that from 2017 to 2024, the main Navy Day parade was held in St Petersburg. It featured reviews of naval vessels, some of which were brought in from other regions of Russia. Historically, ships and delegations from other countries also took part in the event.

Quote: "The main naval parade was reduced in scale in 2024, but this is the first time it has been cancelled since its 2017 inception. Small ceremonies will highly likely take place and Navy Day remains a Russian national holiday."

Background:

In one of its recent briefings, UK intelligence analysed Russian losses in the war against Ukraine in 2025.UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy stated that the loss of one million Russian troops in Ukraine demonstrates Vladimir Putin's use of Russians as cannon fodder.

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