cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2685916
OK, c’est pas vraiment “l’image du jour”. Elle correspond plus à la période troublée que nous traversons actuellement.
There’s actually quite an interesting documentary on Euronews about the situation, made by an italian reporter living in France for over 2 decades (so she doesn’t seem to be trying to push one the political sides in France).
It’s interesting that the miltarization of the police started with Sarkozy who stopped the whole “police in proximity” that was being done before with a lot of success. Interestingly enough Sarkozy has in the meanwhile been convicted for corruption, which does hint at why he transformed the style of policing from a “close to the population” style to a “thugs of those in power” one - crooks in power often treat the legitimized use of force for law enforcement purposes as a possible mechanism to enforce their will on the rest whilst hiding behind “the Law” (which they themselves made: a lot of the legitimization of the use of excessive force by the police in France came via laws passed in the meanwhile exactly for that purpose).
I’ve lived in a couple of countries in Europe and at least in Britain and Portugal the politicians in government nowadays display quite the authoritarian and even anti-democratic tendencies.
So, obviously democracy is under attack in a myriad of ways, but this has big “I’m 14 and this is deep” energy.
If there are indeed more layers to it than the immediatelly obvious (i.e. it actually has what you call “depth”) and you’re not seing them, then that’s you, not others, and your “14 year old” jib is really just you compensating.
Hello! Apparently I hit the wrong reply button and replied to your comment instead of the image! Sorry about that! Wasn’t trying to imply your comment was shallow or anything, that was my bad!
I was trying to reply to the original image, which struck me as a shallow interpretation of Franklin’s quote about Liberty being sold out for security. It’s not generally wrong, but I saw a lot of Americans abuse it during the pandemic which was incredibly frustrating.
Sorry again, didn’t mean to imply your thoughtful addition was bad or anything!
In Germany there is a play with words, that does not translate well into other languages, but the saying is:
Die Freiheit stirbt mit Sicherheit.
Prost
I’m not German, but does this roughly mean: Freedom clashes with security?
Yes, but it also means Freedom will die with certainty. “Sicherheit” translates as all of these: security, safety, and certainty
Ah got it , its a wordplay on sicherheit !!
More like dies
The world is currently halfway through step three.
Step three of… ?
…a galactic twelve step program?
Well this is what has been happening in my country , the govt restricts / bans anything they feel insecure about and call it national security !
India?
Woah wow yes !!!
They CGI’d a dress over naked Florence Pugh in Oppenheimer 🫠
Yeah, the religious groups joined with some of the business groups, they’re going to control the government forever.
Brahmins and Banias…
I like it but i feel like the T. rex in the first one would still absolutely annihilate you.
I’m pretty sure my cat can fuck me up (he’s like 20 pounds of piss and vinegar and beat up the german shepherd down the street) but we have an arrangement
Maybe it could still fit…it’s capable of annihilating you but if you are well trained and prepared you could have controls over it
