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A member of the Los Angeles Police Department has announced a major career change, saying they have been drafted into the IDF. This comes after the cop was seen on camera shooting Australian journalist Lauren Tomasi.

“They’re a natural,” said a representative for the IDF, “they’ll fit right in, as long as they stop using those rubber bullets.”

“Plus they even got the media to use a passive voice and not identifying who did it despite doing it on camera. They have the exact skills we look for in a soldier.”

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[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

These writers are getting lazy. This is barely satire.

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 5 points 5 hours ago

Sign of the times: the jokes write themselves.

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

The whole thin line between happy and sad tears is eroding

[–] three@lemmy.zip 48 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Man, I took an enthusiastic bite of this one.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 31 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The fascists don't want the public to know that LA is resisting. The fascist owned corporate media in the US won't show it but they can't control the foreign media so they take a page from the fascist playbook and just shoot non-fascist propagandist journalists.

[–] dbtng@eviltoast.org 0 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

This is a 4 fascist post.
I counted!

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

“They’ll only target bad people. I’m not bad people so I’ll surely be fine!” –dbtng while being dragged away jackboots

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

Call a fascist a fascist. Trump is a fascist. The GOP is full of fascists.

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 24 points 12 hours ago

This one fuckin got me. I was like ‘yeah, I believe that unquestioningly.’

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 24 points 12 hours ago

hugs the onion you beautiful bastard never stop being you

[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 hours ago

Heartwarming news violent cops have found a new means of job promotion.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 10 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Posted on Lemmy first (see the meme in the OP text)

https://sopuli.xyz/post/28479761

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago

I think it is the same article, but that OP did get the screenshot of the article first. I came accross it elsewhere tough.