• davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    17 hours ago

    This is why All Cops Are Bastards: their primary purpose is to protect private property, AKA the means of production.

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      14 hours ago

      “Policing Enables Bastards”

      A shorter phrase allowing for exceptions, e.g. a sheriff in town of thirty people who works one year and retires (without covering for dirty colleagues or breaking strikes etc.)

      • LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        8 hours ago

        Policing = being a bastard

        Police are class traitors. They have abandoned their working class communities in favor of being given a privileged position in society and being the one who pulls the trigger on working class people themselves. They are scum, all of them. There is no exception. Being a police officer is being scum. Once you’ve chosen to be a police officer you are no longer a member of the working class. You are now an agent of state violence dedicated to protecting the ruling class. It’s the whole reason police exist at all.

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          13 hours ago

          If I join their ranks for a day to leak their brutality “we investigated ourselves and found we’ve done nothing wrong“ files I’m a bastard. No leaks from me then.

          Implications of law of large numbers distracts from otherwise understandable arguments.


          ACAB

          -Sith

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              8 hours ago

              Hmm, sorry - I took my sheriff example to the extreme and assumed it would still fall under your bastard definition, which sounded like guilt by association.

              Given how many cops there are out there, I know that at least one new hire was chill and reported colleagues the first time they saw bad behavior, then got fired for it. I don’t like to call whistleblowers “bastards“ even when urgently describing an important and systemic issue.