• qooqie@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    A bit brutal. I know it’s just a meme, but I don’t think them dying is the answer. We can be better, we can do better

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        2 months ago

        I don’t really mind if you disagree because sadly cops will always be a part of modern society. So making them better is important to future generations

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            2 months ago

            Okay, what about calling it current society? I don’t see current society being able to change this for a long long time

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              2 months ago

              The main function of cops is to protect the bourgeois, white-supremacist, patriarchal, colonialist state. I would like to get rid of the latter, so the former needs to go.

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                2 months ago

                So if and when we make that happen, and we have a society free of that stuff, do we think everything will always be perfect and free of conflict and no one will break the (hopefully much improved) laws? That seems unlikely, so we’ll need some kind of way of keeping the order, right? Will it not be the responsibility of a specific job? Will there be people with that job but we won’t call them any of the names we currently have for that general job category?

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                  2 months ago

                  You won’t be able to recognise the so-called “justice system” or “order” in that hypothetical society, so no: that job won’t exist anymore.

                  Yes, harm can still be done and this future society should and will find ways to prevent and/or heal that harm. Neither of these things are the police’s job, so why should we call that hypothetical job like the old system of violence?

                  Even if you think that those things are done by the police: do you still call a shoe designer/manufacturer a cobbler?

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                    2 months ago

                    What a wonderful imaginary society, amazing that you’ll solve all violence and crime, truly unbelievable

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                2 months ago

                The idea that people can live without some form of policing is ricidulous once you’ve seen some of the darker parts of humanity. Visit Haiti, Somalia, slums just about anywhere on the planet.

                You sound like some 22 year old with a couple years of higher education, and now you think you have all the answers.

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                  2 months ago

                  You sound like a child who still believes what they told you in Paw Patrol.

                  So… do you know any of the history of Somalia and Haiti? How they got into that situation?

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                  2 months ago

                  The idea that people can live

                  People don’t live. They always die. Living and dying are the same process.

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          2 months ago

          One of my first memories is my father’s domestic violence against my mother. She called the police. They laughed at her.

          The one time they arrested him, no matter the physical evidence, no matter the testimony from any number of witnesses (e.g. neighbours), was when he kicked a police officer.

          Fuck the police.

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      2 months ago

      Cops don’t seem to understand much except when a thing is alive or dead. This is the only kind of message that will get through to all of them.

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        1 month ago

        “I dislike cops because they shoot people to solve a crisis. Anyway, let’s shoot people about this crisis.” - a lot of people, apparently

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      1 month ago

      Thank you.

      Imagine being so diluted that you think all cops should die.