I mean, a few days ago there was a brief window where Elon tweaked Grok to reply literally as him (in first person.) Jury’s still out on whether that was actually him replying to people via Grok but it’s pretty close to certain he was in very close proximity

Not my screenshot. I don’t use genAI

… for now.

There are no good cops.

There are outright bad cops, and there are cops that are somewhat competent at following procedure – but that doesn’t make them good cops. A lot of the time it’s the doing of the job itself that makes them bad cops.

Luckily the cops realized that was an idiot 13 year old white kid

Luckily you were white. If you’d been anything else they would’ve been all over the car, maybe even planted something, and been like “well, we had to take the kid seriously just in case”.

There are no good cops.

Considering a lot of the NYPD straight up said they’d resign if he became mayor, I think he’s got a pretty good chance of bringing change if he really wants to

It could be, but from available context it doesn’t seem that way – it looks like they just got mad that he was in their way and knocked the cart over

I wasn’t concentrating specifically on Aus either, just pointing out that a prominent member of “the west” is brutally attempting to silence dissent, which they are. Yes, I am trying to say that criticism of Israel isn’t looked upon kindly in Australia – or in France, or in Germany, or in Italy, or in the Netherlands – and there’s no dearth of police brutality to be had in the US and Canada either.

As for arresting Netanyahu, Belgium and Hungary have straight up said they’ll be doing no such thing, and Greece was more than happy to welcome him despite there being an ICC arrest warrant out for him. Germany’s obviously not going to arrest him, France has done everything possible to be as lily-livered and non-committal about it as possible while backtracking on Palestinian recognition.

So no, it hasn’t “been permitted” indefinitely. The tide is turning amongst the people, but governments are still being as heavy-handed and militaristic as possible to shield their genocidaire buddies and the military contracts they bring.

the point is about whether criticism of Israel is allowed. It is, both by people and politicians.

May I remind you that we’re discussing this on a post about how an Australian woman in Australia was viciously beaten by state actors (cops) for engaging in criticism of Israel.

There are also instances of EU(Irish) citizens being deported due to Palestine support.

Again, if someone’s being deported for criticizing Israel, I don’t think that really qualifies as “criticism is allowed”. In theory, I’m sure it is. In practice is a very different beast.

league of Arab counties

Which Arab countries? Every single one has been quiet, and some have been actively aiding the genocide.

Even Germany and France have expressed concern

To what end? Germany’s been militant in its support, and France shrank away from actively censuring the genocidaires every chance they got.

The EU as whole is flagging that free trade agreements may be annulled due to war crimes.

They’ve been doing that dance for over a year. What has come of it?

With how cops are, it’s tantamount to the same thing – it’s tacit approval for them to straight up murder protesters regardless of provocation. They can always make that shit up later and get off without consequences.

None of those things automatically give you the right to murder someone. Due process exists for a reason.

This does happen regularly in the US.

No you won’t. It’s significantly higher in the subcontinent, and those are the 10% that actually make it to the news. We tend to cling pretty hard to the “women are property” idea around these parts, unfortunately

Uttar Pradesh is India’s analogue to the US’ deep south. Take the worst stereotypes you’d associate with that, turn them up 11x, and that about covers what it’s like.

Channel 9 reported it as her being “caught in the crossfire”, as if she got hit in a gun battle between protesters and cops or something

They’re two separate statements. I acknowledge that it’s beyond shitty for cops to be shooting anyone (especially journalists).

But also the news outlet in question is known to have shitty politics and therefore while this specific article is more or less accurate (and backed up by other sources) , they are far from a reliable source.

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Okay but also, fuck LBC, they’re a rightwing (and Zionist) mouthpiece