That’s how it works in communities that don’t trust cops, too. Our old folks (our village elders) keep an eye on things and make sure we stay safe all across the world. I mean if you ask me, its something we should lean into and embrace. Fuck a neighborhood watch association. We don’t need to snitch to cops. We already can keep our neighborhoods safe without them
Neighbors who want to keep the community safe are great. Nosy neighbors are a whole different bag
And now that more of our grannies are living longer, they’re losing their minds and seeing things that aren’t there, if they even remember they saw them.
My trust in police is generally low because they fail to address the actual crime sometimes, but it’s not that low to depend on people snitching my every move when I’m out and about.
I mean, if Google and other large data collectors would disappear overnight, the advertisers could simply ask these people anything about me, and get a reliable amount of data (half /s).
My octogenerian neighbor fulfills this function in my neighborhood. Sometimes she gets a bit carried away but I can leave my home unlocked for hours without fear of a single pebble on my driveway moving without her having spotted it.
In France, we have both!
We stayed at an Airbnb in Croatia probably 10 years ago. One night out friend got too drunk and crashed with us. The dude said he heard from the old ladies that there was another person with us one of the nights. I always wondered if that was the case or if he had a hidden camera, but cameras weren’t as ubiquitous then as they are now. Nosey ass old ladies.
Explain like I’m 5
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It’s actually a bit deeper than that, at least from my Romanian perspective. Our old ladies were literally hired by our security services to monitor and report on everything going on in their neighbourhoods. They were essentially human CCTVs, facial recognition and behavioural pattern matchers all rolled into one while being paid pennies.
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Deadly serious. By the end of communism, they had over a million informants. You had to make the assumption that everyone you talked to and every old lady on a park bench was an informant.
Funny story, I know someone who was recruited to inform on her colleagues at work, but after the third time in a row she told them everything is wonderful, everyone is happy and productive, she was promptly fired (as an informant, not from the factory).
We hired you to give us DIRT 😤😤😤 MAKE IT UP IF YOU HAVE TO
Doesn’t mean it’s all turning into a surveillance state like western countries, which this meme is about. Totalitarian shithole yeah, CCTVs no, the romanians crossed the borders and stole all of them.
Modern Romania isn’t totalitarian. Thankfully, these days the old ladies just snoop on everyone to gossip and complain passively aggressively, not to report to the state. I’d argue that’s an improvement.
Last time it was they stole (murdered) their own tyrant so yes, no
@possiblylinux127 Some eldery people like to stay and watch the world go by, then gossip around about what happens in every single detail. If you live there, they also like to ask questions about every thing they notice, to the point it just gets super annoying (e.g. Who is that person you brought here last night? Where do they live? Where are they working? Etc.).
Also see the other comments for examples.
