• chingadera
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    192 months ago

    But sir, this doesn’t sound like protect and serve at all!

    • @MrVilliam@lemmy.world
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      352 months ago

      Courts have ruled that the police have absolutely no duty to protect and serve you. That shit is a slogan. The reality is that they exist to protect capital and serve capitalists. Cops are class traitors, punishing anybody who steals or threatens value of capital. Some cops do some good, but that isn’t and never was the real intent.

      • chingadera
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        62 months ago

        I have seen a video of police playing basketball with the community, problem solved?

        • @MrVilliam@lemmy.world
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          62 months ago

          I’m 99% sure that you’re kidding, but a shitload of people actually think like that. Decades of copaganda in TV and movies weren’t for nothing, and now social media is full of it. The 80s was saturated with loose cannon cops who get results and it convinced people that sometimes it’s okay to violate rights. Now it’s cops doing tiktok dances or flipping water bottles to convince people that hey, they’re regular people just like me, and well, golly gee, I’m not a fascist so how can I possibly believe that they’re fascists?

          Have one involuntary interaction with a cop and your view will change. The cops primarily target brown and/or poor people, so it’s no wonder that the vast majority of thin blue line dipshits are financially comfortable honkies who’ve never had the cops target them.

          Sidenote: I’ve always chuckled at the people who have both a thin blue line bumper sticker and Gadsden flag bumper stick/license plate. Basically a billboard that says “tread on those ones, officers” but they’re always the same people claiming “I don’t have a racist bone in my body!” Okay, but only because bones can’t be racist; it’s your brain that’s racist.

          • chingadera
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            32 months ago

            i absolutely am. I’m also just jaded at this point and don’t have the patience to put into words what you said. You’ve been hitting the nail on the head this whole thread.

            Humans are top dog because of two things, sweat and communication.

            We’re nothing without communicating, and you’re doing a killer job at communicating these issues. Keep being you, homie.

            • @MrVilliam@lemmy.world
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              12 months ago

              Thanks, much appreciated! I just hope that some of what I say gets through to at least one person and teaches them something or helps them in some way. It’s all for nothing if I’m just telling people who already know all of this.

              It’s tough to hold onto hope regarding these things, but it’s worth it.