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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not everyone in Europe has forgotten what it was like to live in a police state. And if my fellow Americans could fully comprehend it, it wouldn't be happening.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I believe universities in the US often have their own "campus police" with normal police not being allowed to enter the premises without permission. This is really tricky as it could theoretically be used as a buffer to protect students from the police violence of normal police but this raises the question of how this campus police is governed and if it is maybe not an improvement at all. This post pushes me to think its the latter.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Military bomb disposal robot, with a 40 mm grenade launcher

https://www.militaryfactory.com/armor/detail.php?armor_id=616

did not use any military equipment

Could have fooled me.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Oh we Europeans are definitively going there. We're just late, as usual.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

speak for yourself, sweden is continously telling private schools here to fuck off with the uniforms, as clothes are covered under the freedom to self expression.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Or early... Berlin had a wall.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

They need to fire the manager who approved that request. For shame