While I completely agree with your second paragraph and much of it deeply resonates with me, I gotta point out that “laid down their lives” is far too passive to describe what the average cop is doing at a scene like this.
Ignoring all your weird takes, I just wanted to call this out.
No one is talking about how homeless lives matter, either.
Yeah we fucking do. We talk about providing mental health care. We talk about getting food stamps, providing housing, creating a basic income… You know, shit that Republicans continue to push to cut because “it’ll make people lazy!”
I do like that you went to complain about all of this under a post about dead cops though.
If they did, which I’m not certain to say one way or the other, you wouldn’t hear about it. It’s hard to manufacture a culture war out of that. It’s easy when “protesters are attacking our helpless innocent police.”
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We don’t just want to call police murderers, we also want them to stop murdering people.
Yeah, everyone wants to stop calling them murderers. It just happens that they keep on murdering.
How does that cop boot taste? Does it have a bacon aftertaste?
While I completely agree with your second paragraph and much of it deeply resonates with me, I gotta point out that “laid down their lives” is far too passive to describe what the average cop is doing at a scene like this.
Ignoring all your weird takes, I just wanted to call this out.
Yeah we fucking do. We talk about providing mental health care. We talk about getting food stamps, providing housing, creating a basic income… You know, shit that Republicans continue to push to cut because “it’ll make people lazy!”
I do like that you went to complain about all of this under a post about dead cops though.
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If they did, which I’m not certain to say one way or the other, you wouldn’t hear about it. It’s hard to manufacture a culture war out of that. It’s easy when “protesters are attacking our helpless innocent police.”
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Ain’t no US fuckin Marshall taking in only $50k.
Honestly, the response from this story has been utterly vile.
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It’s obvious you’re new around here.
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Your account is 19 days old. Why would I go work for a systemically corrupt agency? Do you think that one person can change it?
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If you’re not new, then you should not be surprised by the strong hatred for cops on Lemmy.
Actually no, being an officer is a horrible job, and even where I live, it’s not very well paid.
Actually check out your state’s or provincial sunshine list. Being an officer pulls in a 6 figure salary when you include the overtime scams they run.
Yeah, if you spend all your waking hours working and have no personal life.
75 dollars an hour to play on your phone parked outside a construction site. Pretty great deal.
Ironically, that’s what I’m doing right now, as I’m on break.
It’s not really a win if the only way to make decent money is to work a huge amount of overtime though, I quite like having a personal life.
Just claim the overtime and go do whatever you want, whose going to stop you? The enforcers all have your back.
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