• davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

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

    • Skeezix@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      I was having a think about that and realized it needs to be AACAB because in my country cops are definitely not bastards.

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      23 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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        16 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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          21 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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              16 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.

              • AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee
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                4 hours ago

                To me, that’s a perfect example of why all cops are bastards. That person is no longer a cop, so it doesn’t apply to them. But all the bastards didn’t like having their awful behavior called out and pushed out the non-bastard. Thus all cops are bastards.

                • brbposting
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                  2 hours ago

                  I’ve heard that before yet when we think about 700,000 different individuals aren’t we almost guaranteed to have one or more cops undergoing a disciplinary process right now (and at any and every moment)?

                  It’s so badass to stick up for what you believe in, what’s right, citizens’ rights, to the point of getting fired for it - & knowing you’re risking harassment, possibly for the rest of your life you live in that same jurisdiction. If the sheer scale suggests there must be at least one agitator in police ranks at any given time, I can’t in good conscience say “all”.

                  Stubborn…!