Brickbat: What Did You Expect, Dressed Like That?

Video showed police in Suzhou, China, detaining a woman for wearing a Japanese kimono in public. "If you came here wearing Hanfu (a traditional Chinese dress), I wouldn't say this," an officer said. "But you are wearing a kimono, as a Chinese. You are a Chinese! Are you?" When she asked what law she had broken, an officer accused her of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble." The woman, who wasn't identified, was reportedly cosplaying as a manga character. She said the police held her for about five hours, searched her phone, and took her kimono.
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There is no such thing as absolute freedom.
The nature of culture and civilization requires following rules. Different cultures different rules. The Chinese will change their culture if they want to.
Do you want to live in anarchy? Where only might makes right. In that mad max society, it would be your skull adorning someone’s dashboard.
So says the Nazi.
Misek wants a land where the might of the Nazis makes the rules.
California?
"Sometimes rules are good and necessary, therefore, ALL possible rules are good and necessary."—Misek logic.
Why is anarchy less legitimate than any other form of society?
So some people don't have a natural human right to liberty? Anarchy means "without rulers". In a libertarian society where government is prohibited from initiating force there would be no rulers yet liberty would still be defended.
No civilized rules? Then might makes right. The strongest decide the conditions of your slavery.
Why would anyone give a flying fuck about your pursuit of happiness?
I like feeding you lying waste of skin trolls what you can’t refute, anything really, and laugh while you choke.
"Such is life in the land of the Poo Bear"
The Poooolar Bear has been white-washed (butt NOT in a RACIST way)... All that He does, is because He LOOOOVES His People!
(Much like Government Almighty everywhere. They love us here... They love us there... They love us EVERYWHERE!!! And they also say that they are NOT Scam-I-Am!!!)
...and took her kimono.
A thorough search, indeed.
Spoiler alert: the video cuts out before that part.
Also, needs more yiff/tentacles.
"and took her kimono"
Reminds me of the old public awareness campaign, "I'd rather go naked than wear fur."
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How exactly is this a Brickbat? Chinese cops harassing people? That's so unlike the Chinese! This woman is lucky she wasn't imprisoned for 20 years.
Or summarily shot.
Cultural appropriation finally taken seriously enough and it had to be the Chinamen.
Looks like the Communists are still ahead of the democrats, but only a little bit.
"Wearing the wrong dress" is an example of "belonging to the wrong tribe"... And so, too, is believing that "Biden won the elections", "vaccines are a good idea", "white people used to hold blacks as slaves", "there was a whites-on-blacks massacre in Tulsa", (and that school children should know these things), and many more! Plenty of blame to go around!
"Libertarian Party of New Hampshire Slammed for Ghoulishly Mocking Meghan McCain Grieving: ‘What the Actual F**k"
https://www.mediaite.com/online/libertarian-party-of-new-hampshire-slammed-for-ghoulishly-mocking-meghan-mccain-grieving-what-the-actual-f/ for those who have time to bother reading this, which doesn't include me right now... SOOOO sorry, y'all will have to make do WITHOUT my opinion, my opioids, or my hemorrhoids, concerning this matter! Which may or may not matter!
Where' sarc? The idea that the police shouldn't be stripping women of their clothing for no other crime is too straightforward. I need him to selectively obfuscate certain nuances and use Ben Shapiro's arguments to defer for the Chinese police and Lt. Byrd for this woman's crime of wearing Imperial Japan's ceremonial garb in China.
Recall AOC's dress with "tax the rich" plastered across her ass?
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-responds-backlash-tax-rich/story?id=80010808
I bet many authoritarian "Team R" types would be happy to steal her dress! And MANY more of us all in general, would LOVE to behold (maybe even hold) her naked ass, afterwards!
That whole type of thing, of course, violates libertarian principles. First we must ASK AOC, what is her going rate for this kind of thing? And when we PAY her, can we then tax most of it all right back?
>>to steal her dress!
could talk her out of it in under 10.
Reason sucks.
Actually, IMO, this is one of the better Brickbats. The libertarian angle is exceedingly clear from a number of angles and opposes a no-shit communist dictatorship. Admittedly, it's not a high-profile, hard-hitting case of globe-altering government abuse of power, but it's an actual libertarian brickbat.
>>and took her kimono
kimono offends
five hour search for phone porn
released, no Hanfu
Cops seize kimono
don't even realize that
she was without mask.
no picking quarrels!
dudes. cosplaying as manga
provoking trouble!
Kimono taken!
at least Shouzou is not near
Tiananmen Square.
You are a Chinese! Are you?" When she asked what law she had broken, an officer accused her of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble."
So the Chinese government is like Jack Dorsey or Susan Wojcicki.
Chines *cops* are like Jack Dorsey or Susan Wojcicki.
*sobs quietly into palm*
Huh, apparently they have literal fashion police.
China is a kind of weird place because they systematically murdered every single person in the country with a spine. It makes for a very... unique social dynamic.