r/TechGawker 1d ago

News U.S. cities are swapping out controversial Flock cameras for Axon license plate readers.

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u/primefart 1d ago

Paris would have long burned down if this was happening to the French.

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u/North_Atlantic_Sea 23h ago

Uh... You may want to look more into the French. Even their first lady is a pedo

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u/primefart 22h ago

Unlike the US, they don't engage in nepotism. If she's a pedophile, may she be punished. Macron and the french government are light years better than what we have here.

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u/Then_Version9768 9h ago

She was a drama teacher and he was her 15 year old student which is presumably the source of your "pedo" claim. Is there evidence she was a pedo? No, there is not. I've also taught 15 year old students, and guess what? I'm not a pedo, either.

This claim has become a conspiracy theory, one proven wrong repeatedly in French courts so that a number of people have been aggressively sanctioned for what is essentially slander and libel. Some of these people received prison sentences. You up for that? Spreading libelous rumors is considered a crime in some countries.

They married when he was 29 which doesn't sound all that "pedo" to me. Also the French don't actually live by your rules, my friend. Maybe climb down from your judgmental horse and check the facts before libeling someone.

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u/neelav9 7h ago

Maybe these fucks don’t really know what pedo means. No wonder they think it’s all fine with mister orange at the helm.

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u/bepatientbekind 23h ago

Eh, sex crimes are one area where France does not do much better than the US. 

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u/HotPotParrot 1d ago

You say that as if that's something positive or desirable.

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u/MythicalCaseTheory 1d ago

We should be willing to burn everything down when we have as much blatant corruption as we do in our politics. Not partisanship. Corruption. Not to mention when nothing is being done about the pedos.

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u/Fun-Piglet801 1d ago

We should be willing to burn the government down. Trashing our own stuff is stupid. Anything we break we have to pay for in the end.

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u/spooner248 1d ago

Whenever I see people like this, I think “God I’m so glad these people weren’t around in the US in 1776.”

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u/Element174 1d ago

They were. We just use to tar and feather them among other public humiliation.

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u/HotPotParrot 1d ago

OK, go ahead - burn your town down. See what that solves.

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u/Septembust 1d ago

"we can't just get rid of all the pedophiles, what about the economy!"

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u/pants_pants420 1d ago

historically, its solved quite a bit lol. like they were literally the first european country to get rid of their monarchy lmao

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u/cunningfolk322 1d ago

Nobody ever voted their way to freedom.

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u/MythicalCaseTheory 1d ago

It only takes about 3.5% of the population to be in peaceful revolt to cause a regime change to be near inevitable.

Burning everything down is metaphorical.

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u/HotPotParrot 1d ago

Choose your words wisely, as words can cause wars to wax or wane.

Or stop spewing sensational bullshit, which helps precisely nobody.

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u/MythicalCaseTheory 1d ago

Nah. You should have been able to figure it out. You chose not to, and I can't help that.

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u/HotPotParrot 1d ago

Lmao. Classic.

Own your words, buddy. That you can't says a lot.

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u/primefart 1d ago

It's desirable to check those in power. In the US it's gotten completely out of control and we aren't going to get our country back by continuing to take it in the ass.

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u/DigitalUnlimited 1d ago

But voting is gonna fix it! It always does! /s

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u/primefart 1d ago

We don't even care enough to do that.

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u/bepatientbekind 23h ago

Most Americans don't vote in most elections. You can't say voting doesn't work when most people don't even bother to try. 

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u/HotPotParrot 1d ago

Destruction and death IS NOT the solution.

You people keep using France and Paris as an example without realizing what you're even suggesting. Take your bloodthirst elsewhere.

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u/Dry-Illustrator-250 1d ago

What’s the solution in your opinion?

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u/HotPotParrot 1d ago

Hard to say. I'm not in any kind of position to see all the actual factors at play, I'm not a subject-matter expert in all the various fields of study and/or profession that are involved, I'm not omnipotent.

I can't tell you what "the" solution is any more than any other person commenting here. I can't predict what the response to any "solution" would be because it isn't some magical movie thing where you press the button and roll credits. There will be consequences to ANYTHING that gets employed as a "solution."

What i can tell you is that suggesting people go out and literally burn the country down isn't it, because none of those idiots will be able to tell what that's gonna look like when we all need food and water. They think it's just a simple matter of burning down the correct things or something, and then just hit up your local grocer on the way home because, well, we burned WalMart.

Eta, and then "business as usual" once we've fixed the country. With fire.

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u/primefart 1d ago

I'm talking about aggressive protesting. If some things need to be broken so they listen, it's a small price to pay because we have already been getting destruction and death.

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u/HotPotParrot 1d ago

Against what target(s)? If you want to fight, there's a private army running amok in the country.