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Well, now we're straying from the original, but there's the libertarian copypasta on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/7iqxko/libertarian_poli
by renewiltord 3y ago
Well, now we're straying from the original, but there's the libertarian copypasta on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/7iqxko/libertarian_police_department/ https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/7iqxko/libertari...
> I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief.
> “Bad news, detective. We got a situation.”
> “What? Is the mayor trying to ban trans fats again?”
> “Worse. Somebody just stole four hundred and forty-seven million dollars’ worth of bitcoins.”
> ...
and so on.
- renewiltord 3y agoI've later found that this is a New Yorker humor piece https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/l-p-d-libertarian-police-department https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/l-p-d-libertari... That makes sense. Their fiction was always top notch when I subscribed.
- greenyoda 3y agoWhen Michael Bloomberg was the mayor of NYC, he did actually ban trans fats from NYC restaurants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bloomberg#Political_positions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bloomberg#Political_po...
- throw0101b 3y agoLOL: > “Not yet. But mark my words: we’re going to figure out who did this and we’re going to take them down … provided someone pays us a fair market rate to do so.” > “Easy, chief,” I said. “Any rate the market offers is, by definition, fair.”