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[–] 92 points 4 months ago* (5 children)

They ticketed me for parking illegally but I'm rich?!?!?????!?

Aren't there townships in the US that literally survive on setting up bogus cameras and ticketing people who pass by? Doesn't some private equity company get to ticket people in chicago?

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  • [–] 40 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah Chicago Parking LLC is owned by Morgan Stanley, in 2008 they signed a 75 year lease for it.

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  • [–] 22 points 4 months ago

    The townships will control 1 mile of interstate and will ticket anyone who speeds on that one mile. Traffic tickets are internally considered as a source of revenue in most local governments. Not as a safety program.

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  • [–] 74 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    So... they broke the law and caught a fine?

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  • [–] 66 points 4 months ago

    wojak-nooo surveillance

    so-true surveillance, USA

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  • [–] 56 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Communism is when parking ticket

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  • [–] 54 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Our wholesome chungus Flock and Nest cameras and warrantless wiretapping versus their barbaric, oppressive surveillance panopticon

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  • [–] 52 points 4 months ago

    ZQO1y3UmoTPjA3P.jpg

    Meanwhile in the US

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  • [–] 45 points 4 months ago

    My small town in the US has automatic ticketing using license plate scanners. This is not new or unique and was in fact pioneered by US law enforcement.

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  • [–] 42 points 4 months ago

    Meanwhile, me pointing out Flock cameras to everyone in the vehicle with me as we drive around

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  • [–] 37 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    gee thanks age verification party

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  • [–] 33 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Okay well we’re kinda in a pickle because we let rich white men break all the rules to the point people are screaming and pleading for there to be consequences.

    So by all means equate communism with the rules fucking applying. People might say “this communism stuff sounds alright.”

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  • [–] 33 points 4 months ago

    Wow, cameras everywhere! Can you imagine?!

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  • [–] 33 points 4 months ago

    Fox News when a foreigner commits a minor non-violent crime in America: this is a country of law and order, lock them up in a concentration camp then deport them. They should have memorized the laws of the country they're arriving in.

    Fox News when they are the foreigners committing a minor non-violent crime: fined for what? Breaking a law? There's no law that says we can't break laws. If there is I couldn't read it, it's in Chinese!

    The only way this could be dumber is if they said something like "I thought this was America!" while standing in the middle of Beijing

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  • [–] 25 points 4 months ago

    Our glorious Flock

    Their barbarous security cameras

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  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    $40 for a parking ticket is cheap. Minimum is $60 where I am.

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    [–] 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I really don't understand the cognitive dissonance that the "small government, anti-1984" conservative can handle. Between ICE just being allowed to kill and drag people off to concentration camps, and the support of The NSA, Flock, and Palantir and the rest of the extreme surveillance state the US has. They really are just focused on "It's good when we do it, but if I am a victim it is bad. This should be just used against brown people"

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    Ironically i think the conservatives (fascists) and communists see more clearly here than liberals, who are caught in the contradiction of all that civic religion bullshit that just exists to obscure power relations. We can just say "it is in fact good when my faction has the power and bad when our enemies have it" and maybe I give them too much credit, but I assume right wingers just think the same, the difference being that they are wrong.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago

    Parking tickets, USA: Hell yeah Lord bless our justice and democracy!!

    Parking tickets, PRC: Goddamn commies taking away my freedom of breaking the law!!

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    This goes against free park-it capitalism!

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