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[–] 107 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Oh I am so here for mexican duct tape batman. More, please. 🍿

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  • [–] 30 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I’d support a GoFundMe for serious Batmen to fight crime. These should be executives though, not petty thieves.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    The Batmen of course need to be executives other wise it won’t be historically accurate

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  • [–] 47 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Cops drag their asses in going after motorcycle thieves. -> Vigilante(s) go after motorcycle thieves, most likely out of frustration with police. -> Police organize manhunt for Vigilante(s).

    The cops really asked "why have one problem when you could have two problem?"

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    Cops drag their asses in going after personal property thieves.

    Fixed that for you!

    EDIT: Not sure why I'm being downvoted. They absolutely don't care about stuff stolen from you or me...

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Personal property != private property

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Okay... I changed it. Not sure how that changes the point that they don't care about us, lol.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Well, they don't get paid to solve problem. They get paid according to the amount of crime there is. Fixing that just makes fewer jobs for cops. They can't be having that!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    What? They don't get paid according to the amount of crime, they get a salary from whichever government budget is set for their municipality. Mexican police tend to be understaffed and underworked, so it's no surprise things get by them all the time. The government reaction also appears to stem more from the premise of the state asserting it's monopoly on violence rather than whether or not they actually want to solve any problems. I think their silence on what caused the vigilantes to do what they do speaks volumes to how much they care about the actual crime and broken system that facilitates it, though.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 month ago (1 child)
    [–] 31 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    God, I love vigilante stories.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    We had a superhero in my town who was, I'm pretty sure, also the serial killer he was hunting. The serial killer hunting in my neighborhood. Months worth of entertainment.

    Be careful with the crackpots and wingnuts, some of them are crazy.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Like the KKK?

    Vigilantes are usually racists just murdering marginalized folks, historically

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    Man, I have seen you a lot recently. You're obnoxious! If anyone says anything, you come flying in purposefully misconstruing what they said to act like they said they support something evil. Either you're a troll, or you're as good as one. If you don't want to become known as a troll, I suggest you chill the fuck out. No one meant like the KKK, and you know that.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Not a troll. I recommend reading Emma Goldman. Vigilantes have been bad news forever.

    It's only recently society idealized them, forgetting their true nature.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    They've often been bad, but they haven't exclusively been bad.

    Anyway, what do you do when the justice system fails to protect the people, and only protects the wealthy and oppresses the people?

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    Isn't revolution a form of vigilantism?

    To use your own argument, wasn't the KKK trying to cause a revolution?

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  • [–] 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    How would this happen? It'd take a while to duct tape someone to a poll and if they move at all it would fuck it up, so you'd need them to be very compliant. Was he holding them up at gun point?

    Also why wouldn't the people tied up explain what happened?

    none of those found tied up have provided information about who carried out the attacks.

    This seems more like a cartel selectively tying up thieves for not giving them a cut and threatening them to not say anything.

    Or these could just be some random guys who crossed the cartel for whatever reason and the cartel did this to frame/embarrass them

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago

    Yes, but…is he wearing hockey pants?

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 1 month ago

    Instead of organizing a manhunt for the vigilante's arrest, I will rather say they should give Bro title for CID boss, he's doing a better policing than the so called police

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    Toronto had a massive bike theft problem in the 90s the police did nothing about.

    They found a guy duct taped to a tree in High Park with a bicycle frame pump up his ass. There was no outrage.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    El hombre murciélago

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    The ongoing manhunt has also fueled broader criticism of local policing

    It's very much the nature with politics to fight symptoms instead of finding the cause.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Isn't this more Spider-Man, but with duct tape instead of webs?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    Oooh! Bat man! A guy with a bat! Yeah that makes sense. "Un bato en bata con un bate"

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    This is what happens when you have lazy fat doughnut eaters not doing their job.

    I won't say that everyone should be a vigilante, but those whose moral compass is working properly should definitely do it.

    I definitely couldn't do it, i could probably hold back against petty theft and such but against rapists, murders and such i don't think i would allow them to get a chance for "redemption", seen it too often where they get released on "good behaviour" and are back within a week because they went back to the same old familiar life.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    "Public trust in police" - that's fucking hilarious.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    No, that is my bike dude! Cmon!

    Oops!

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