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[–] TriflingToad@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago (32 children)

I see a lot of people in this thread justifying murder when that's REALLY not what's needed. That will just lead to the only people willing to be cops is maniacs with a gun (who are NOT in short supply) when we really need cops who can take a moment and think.

[–] fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee -3 points 3 weeks ago (19 children)

My guess is its Kremlin propaganda, the same divisive stuff they pushed during the George Floyd riots

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 3 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

I wish. There was that one cop was put away for defending a woman from SA a year after snitching on his fellow officers. His laywer said never heard of jail time for 1st time misdominer. They literally put him in a cell with a known cop killer. Who said naa this is one of the good ones.

[–] fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee -3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This one time a bad thing happened so now its OK to advocate murder

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Sure, all the police violence incidents are "individual outliers". /s

[–] fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee -2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Can you think in anything more nuanced than anecdotes and sweeping generalizations? Got anything better than a strawman to respond with?

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why would I think of something better than a strawman when replying to a strawman?

As I said in another post: Cops protect the bourgeois, white-supremacist, colonialist, patriarchal state by enacting violence on the ruled class. That's not a judgement: it's their purpose in the system.

Individuals with bully-like personalities self-select into that job, while decent people are actively shunned. Because group cohesion is more important than "doing the right thing".

Why do you defend cops so much?

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