• Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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    10 days ago

    It is kind problematic to say things like “all cops are bastards”

    Police offers already have a tough time as it is. Let’s not make it worse.

    • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@anarchist.nexus
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      10 days ago

      Police offers already have a tough time as it is. Let’s not make it worse.

      Hell no, complete opposite, make it as unpleasant for cops as it needs to be for them to literally fucking quit! burning cop car thin-blue-line-cool

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        I think this is an over simplification. Unless you think enforcement of rules themselves is evil, then you have to acknowledge that some enforcement is evil, and other enforcement isn’t. Enforcing traffic laws, for example, is pretty important, and not something I’d consider evil. If a cop spends all their time handing out speeding tickets, that’s annoying if you’re the one being fined, but very good if you’re a pedestrian.

        Cops don’t enforce “the system” they enforce specific rules of that system. The evil comes in when cops enforce evil rules.

        • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@anarchist.nexus
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          Cops don’t enforce “the system” they enforce specific rules of that system.

          Ah, I see. You’ve just arrived from Opposite World. Welcome to Reality! Unfortunately, you have arrived into a world where the cops literally do not enforce the law as written, and in fact do selectively enforce the law in favor of the capitalist class (e.g. Reckless Ben case, literally all of Black and Indigenous history in the US, literally all of the history of socialism), which were already written by capitalists specifically to perpetuate capitalist dictatorship (any other effects of these laws are side effects of the capitalists’ hustle).

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      10 days ago

      a cop literally just shot and killed a Black baby. we’re not going to protect them from hurt feelings.

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      10 days ago

      Tell me you haven’t watched Serpico without telling me you haven’t watched Serpico.