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[Video] Cops not sure whether to arrest man with "Plasticine Action" shirt for supporting terrorism

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  • blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This guy got de-arrested

    theguardian.com/…/protester-arrested-wearing-plas…

    Hopefully everyone will buy these t-shirts just to take the piss

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    • whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      About five minutes later, the arresting officer approached him again. “He said: ‘I’ve got good news and I’ve got bad news.’ I said: ‘What’s the good news?’ He said: ‘I’m de-arresting you.’

      “And I said: ‘What’s the bad news?’ He said: ‘It’s going to be really embarrassing for me.’ And then I walked free, while all the real heroes are the people that are actually getting arrested.”

      The officer seems to understand his mistake at least

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      • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The poor copper lost all that time arresting a guy with Plasticine Action on his t-shirt when he could’ve been arresting an old lady with the words “Palestine Action” written down on a piece of paper.

        It’s making it hard for him to make his quota of arrests for that week.

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    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Pickering has made copies of the T-shirt, which he is selling through his own website to raise money for the charity Medical Aid for Palestinians. It has sold in 28 countries already.

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    • OrteilGenou@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Start a glassware company called Pal-3 Steins

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  • ExhaleSmile@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pardon my ignorance, but is wearing a shirt with the word Palestine on it and arrestable offense in England?

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    • Acamon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Pretty sure that’s Scotland, not England (Glasgow to be specific). But yeah, the British government decided carrying a Palestine Action sign was basically terrorism.

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It is now!

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    • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But it doesn’t even say that.

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      • ExhaleSmile@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m aware. He was being harassed for something similar which was why I asked

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  • GraniteM@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve got a friend trying to move from the United States to England to escape our current shit show, and I’ve been telling him that England tends to do what America does, just with a posh accent to give it an air of legitimacy.

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    • huppakee@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If you think they do it with a posh accent you’ve not been to England lol

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      • GraniteM@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m mainly thinking of Tony Blair making the same case for invading Iraq that George W. Bush was, just with the accent.

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      • cypherpunks@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        in US english posh is a synonym for british

        /s (½)

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    • Echolynx@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nowhere is truly safe at this point. Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t.

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      • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m currently working out moving to Jamaica. Got a friend there to help, but he says it ain’t all sunshine and cheap pot like the movies.

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    • Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Didn’t /u/flyingsquid move to England? He hasn’t posted in 6 months :o

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      • WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah, he moved into the badlands near Manchester. Ever seen the movie “The hills have eyes”? Its like that up there.

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    • Nalivai@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh, as not great as they are, they aren’t even close to being as bad as US.

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      • jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You’re both selling them short. The UK is awful in ways that the Americans can only aspire to. They are each doing their own horrible things, just trading a bit of horrible culture now and then.

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      • Kage520@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I think he is saying they are following the same path, just a few steps behind. So if the US is running over a cliff, the UK will probably consider that a blazed trail and head in that direction too.

        So yeah, the US sped up. Doesn’t mean the UK isn’t trying to follow.

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      • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Modern history, maybe not, but historically, the British Empire was the worst.

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      • MdRuckus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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    • QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      At this point, leaving England for America is the saner choice…

      I mean unless you’re brown, then ICE will just lock you away if you try

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      • Crashumbc@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I don’t know, we locked up an extremely white new Zealander for 3 weeks at the border recently…

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Nah. It’s not great here but that’s like leaving the frying pan and jumping into a volcano that’s actively erupting. ICE aren’t just racist, they get off on hurting people and they’re really not bothered who they are.

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    • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They’ve got better Healthcare (for now). Other than that, yeah I don’t think they’re doing much better. In a lot of ways they’re worse. It could be argued either way which is worse, depending on your opinions on a few things.

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      • bignate31@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        eh, we’ve got pubs and chips.

        oh also went back to the States last week and was appalled that a pint can cost upwards of $10 when a decade ago it was only $6 (London prices have stayed around £6-7). throw on the whole tip racketeering insanity and I’d much rather be in England.

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  • surph_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Bamboodpanda@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The British invented them in fact!!

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It can’t be any worse than Butlins

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      • OrteilGenou@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • postmateDumbass@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • surph_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • SippyCup@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      laughs in American prison system

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        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.

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    • LampKraft@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      so then they declare martial law

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      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        and then the mask is off

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    • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • Banzai51@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You have the right to free speech…as long as… you’re not dumb enough to actually try it.

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    • jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Can’t waste a day when the night brings a hearse
      So make a move and plead the fifth 'cause ya can’t plead the first

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m giving hope by the fact that the police clearly don’t know what to do with the situation. So they’re not automatically arresting everyone in the street the disagreeing with them. Probably because they realise they get lynched if they tried that

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  • Metostopholes@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not fans of claymation, I guess.

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    • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not fans of AI, actually. Under the Plasticine Action, it says “WE OPPOSE AI GENERATED ANIMATION”

      Image

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    • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We need the Pingu version of V for Vendetta.

      Noot noot!

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I swear to god Pingo used to speak English. I have very clear memories of episodes with dialogue. I think I may have somehow transferred from another universe some point.

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  • callouscomic@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In what other profession are you allowed to just stand there in public with a constant hand on someone?

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    • JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Who is Donald Trump on Jeffrey Epstein’s island, Alex.

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    • Woht24@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I mean… The act of not allowing you to leave is the problem here not the fact he is maintaining contact with his forearm.

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      • callouscomic@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I take offense at the unwanted contact.

        If I were to do this to someone, they would have me arrested for it in addition to restraining them. Therefore fuck these pigs. Why are they above that?

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  • wulrus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    To be fair, the (good) British cops are by far not as likely to assault an innocent person as many others. But they do love to stop you and have a chat if even the tiniest thing stands out. I once walked around London, 15 years old, with toy handcuffs on one wrist. Cop came up to me and wanted to know the whole story, like one of those super-chatty people. Where are you from, how old, name, where are the cuffs from, why am I wearing them right now at this moment, …

    He seemed happy with the answers, and we both moved on.

    Well, it’s still a bother, especially when you are not free to walk away at any moment.

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    • Doorbook@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If the toy looked like the real thing, You are 15, an underage with handcuffs, for all he know someone was trying to keep you captive and you manage to get out or you plan to cause damage and handdcuff someone. Good for him to make sure no one actually was hurting you…

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    • buddascrayon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah before anybody spoke I was fairly clued in that this was not America by the fact that the cops were just standing there acting chill instead of holding him on the ground and screaming at him to stop resisting arrest.

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It also helps that it’s in public and they are being filmed.

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pal,It’sTime ~for~ Action

    Oh sorry didn’t see you there officer, I was just saying its time for my #sick dance 🕺 moves, is dancing a crime, officer? 😏

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Palestinian Faction is still allowed, no?

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    • bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Would have also taken Pleistocene reaction.

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      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Palpitating Infarction

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  • themaninblack@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    British authorities: you not only have to decide that approximations of a representation of an outlawed group are illegal, which is shaky ground at best, but you would also have to decide that open support of a group that is guilty only of vandalism of military assets is also illegal. To do so, without encroaching on the fucking Magna Carta, which y’all invented, would require an assertion that direct action on behalf of a subset of members of the group disallows the freedom of expression necessary to support the group writ large. Suck a fuckin dick.

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  • Codandchips@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Are you sure it’s the T Shirt and not those socks they’re arresting him for…?

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Picture yourself in a train in a station

    With Palestine porters with looking glass ties

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  • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Someone should make a TMHT shirt with “Plastron Action” on it.

    I won’t, 'cause I don’t live in the UK.

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    • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Haha, I’d almost forgotten the government made them rename it Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles, including the theme song.

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      • Narauko@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Oh God, tell me that’s not real. That can’t be a real thing.

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  • wulrus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s not just the two we see - they are apparently in radio contact with additional tax fraudsters / wasters, probably of higher rank or even with a law degree.

    Never let them tell they need more funds. Could defund plenty without affecting any actual service one bit.

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    • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I mean at least they are actually discussing if this is arrestable, in the USA, cops would just shoot you.

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  • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why do these deep-fried rectums need to be in quasi-military garb and high-visibility vests?

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    • Knightfox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m all for saying fuck the police, but what are you talking about with quasi-military garb and why are you bashing them for wearing high-vis vests?

      These look like the worst equipped cops I’ve ever seen. I’m from the USA and I’ve seen Italian Police look harder than these guys, they at least had cars and sub-machine guns. These guys have boots, handcuffs, pepper spray, a fucking belt mounted medkit, a collapsible billy club, a baseball cap, cheap-ass-commercial-laundry-uniform-contract cargo pants, a black t-shirt, and a stab vest. The pigs don’t even have guns and they are wearing “please-don’t-run-me-over” safety vests.

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      • PolydoreSmith@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Dude, the Carabinieri are fucking SCARY. I’d rather face a US state trooper and a Canadian Mountie at the same time.

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    • viking@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s a British police uniform, standard issue.

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      • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        All black with a high visibility vest, arresting people for words. Nice country.

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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Anyone else clueless as I am? I’m not in a position to turn on sound if there is any

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    • ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They aren’t saying anything. The UK criminalized pro-Palestinian slogans in public. Namely the “Support Palestine Action” slogan. This guy has a shirt that says “Support Plasticene Action” which, notably, does not reference Palestine at all though the words have an aesthetic similarity to the Palestine slogan. So the pigs are trying to see if they can arrest him for hate speech or not.

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      • AlDente@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        This is close, but it is specifically in regards to a group called Palestinian Action, not Palestine or Palestinian people in general. The British government declared the group Palestine Action a terrorist group, and there is a preexisting law from 2000 which makes it illegal to support ‘terrorist groups’.

        Of course the whole thing is ridiculous (Palestinian Action has never even hurt anyone), and many people have been publicly supporting Palestinian Action in protest. Over 500 people were arrested at a protest on the 10th.

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      • arin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        How is supporting a victim of war crimes ‘hate speech’?

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  • Professorozone@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m sorry, I just see a bunch of people standing around.

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    combining words of the pleistocene and Palestine.

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  • creamlike504@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What’s going on with the guy with a plaid shirt and baseball cap?

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  • sirico@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why not just get a load of stickers and slap em on every car bus etc flood the streets

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  • Trebuchet@europe.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Scot Squad in action

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