Mersey Police post Rainbow Fist on Twitter

Very good point, @TorkTorkBam!

Because for some bloody ridiculous reason we keep being told Twitter matters, because it's managed to leech into the internet nervous system and keep itself alive by symbiotic clickbait articles on Twitter mobs sending everyone round in circles, so that government bodies and various authorities think they have to wave their credentials on there

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I think that is a really interesting point. Twitter does not represent public opinion. It is a self referential echo chamber which amplifies the shoutiest proponents of the new orthodoxy. When Owen Jones and his fan club can't process why the Conservatives got an 80 seat majority when the breathless Tweeters were predicting a Corbyn landslide? That is a reality gap. Rebecca LB et al with their Stalinist purges are determined to make it a chasm.

Nothing makes it better. There is no better.

The police have left it up there for four months. Nobody listened to the original complaints. Nobody thought, oh shit, that's bad, we'd better apologise, take it down and give some training to the copper who posted it. Four months makes it worse not better.

Dances, you've not upset me, worry not. I probably need a break from all this, self care is important, and my personal life has enough crap in it to drown a whale right now, so, priorities. Welcome out of lurkdom, btw, and dig in. We're nowhere near done yet.

Because for some bloody ridiculous reason we keep being told Twitter matters, because it's managed to leech into the internet nervous system and keep itself alive by symbiotic clickbait articles on Twitter mobs sending everyone round in circles, so that government bodies and various authorities think they have to wave their credentials on there. And because they've invested in this kind of multi coloured virtue display, with no bloody thought about how a fist appears, even if it is in pretty colours, they think that it counter-balances not doing all the other stuff they're supposed to do.

Twitter is cheap, basically. Cheap, shit, and needing to be binned off so that it can be dismissed along with all the nonces and creeps who currently reside there.

Public confidence in the police is at an all time low. They are failing to protect the public against recidivist criminals. But they are zealously checking the thinking of dissidents on Twitter. Why are they waving the flag of any political lobby group? Why are they acting as an enforcer for a lobby group?

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/02/14/poll-reveals-dwindling-faith-police-ability-solve-crimes/

It looks like it was retweeted and called out in the last day hence the interest

Although it's a few months I reported it for violence as I do any tweets threatening violence however old, doubt twitter will uphold it but no harm reporting

I don't know why anyone thinks it's a good idea to bite.

People will always bite.

Twitter's algorithm has brought this back to the surface, that's why people are now seeing it. It would get comment regardless of what is posted here.

Dances, I do get why a fist is an unpleasant image here, and I'm not absolving the police. But Twitter is designed for this kind of soundbite, image based vacuous shit, and encourages the police to interact in unthinking soundbite ways.

Tbh, I'm in a permanent state of crosspatch at the moment, the Morning Star cartoon debacle being the most recent, and that was all because of a manufactured bit of 'outrage' on Twitter, and I'm afraid you caught the sharp end of my frustration at the power Twitter has to stoke up situations which threaten women. Apologies.

It's not just you, is it? It's Glinner and lots of others on Twitter responding to it suddenly, months after it was posted. Which is exactly what I mean. Stupid little fury machine, rolling round and round feeding itself. I don't know why anyone thinks it's a good idea to bite. And there's no need to make this personal, I haven't made it personal to you.

Yes it would. When they did it, four months ago.

Not doing this. You all can if you want to. I'm done with that stupid bloody website.

this kind of thing makes women and minorities feel more vulnerable because we might not be able to trust the police, the police are not doing what they should do, even though they might have good intentions, bad faith actors are happy to use it to stoke up genuine hatefulness and on and on it goes.

That would be the fault of the police, not the fault of the person posting.

But we can’t trust the police on this topic. Or on VAW. I’m glad to know this. I would have been very trusting otherwise.

Yeah, so use it as a pin board for stuff like that and stop encouraging everyone to get sucked into a vortex of sound and fury. I'm not necessarily having a pop at you for linking to it, but I'm just fed up of seeing Twitter linked both here and elsewhere when it's not even slightly constructive most of the time, and the format of the bloody website is so conducive to miscommunication and rage.
And this kind of thing makes women and minorities feel more vulnerable because we might not be able to trust the police, the police are not doing what they should do, even though they might have good intentions, bad faith actors are happy to use it to stoke up genuine hatefulness and on and on it goes.

There are so many, better ways to help women and others.

The first thing I thought of is like a sort of fist bump, solidarity, we stand with you type of gesture.

one unity under the fist!
The fist is caring!
Lenin would agree.

...And a very male fist at that.

All leftie media students will know the meaning of a text is dependent on the anchoring. There are plenty of examples of black and white fists held aloft as a symbol of anti-racism, or hands clenched together.

To show a fist-bump, you would, I would guess, show a fist bump.

A fist directed at your gaze would seem like a clear enough message.

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