• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Yep, the state loves to control the two largest metropolitan areas. They also own St. Louis’ police. They want full control over the cities because we’re the cash cows for the state, despite all the lip service paid to farmers and rural people, who all depend on the money we generate here for their welfare.

    It’s a remnant of Civil War-era law and unlikely to ever change.

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      Yep we damn well didn’t want to give the pigs anymore than they already get. And you aren’t wrong about the situation in St Louis. People don’t even understand how that shit can be like that. It’s completely fucked up in the eyes of most the rest of the world but in Missouri it’s just Tuesday.

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        11 hours ago

        Yup, I hate the KCPD.

        It wasn’t that long ago that they were just letting break-ins happen because they wanted to make Jackson County Prosecutor look bad and try to kill her reelection hopes, all for having the temerity to criticize the shitty job that cops do here. I see them when I’m out walking the dogs a lot and they’re always friendly to my face, but I keep in the back of my mind that these people are a piece-of-refuse gang and they’d happily shoot me and my animals in the head if it were convenient for them.

        Remember the cardinal rule, friends: Don’t talk to cops. Ever.

    • youcantreadthis@quokk.au
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      8 hours ago

      Always a way to change it real democracy comes out the fake vavinal of a fleshlighr or wait no that’s not it but something like thay