• glimse@lemmy.world
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    Fuck this revisionist history, cops weren’t “nice and lazy” before MAGA.

    The US police system started as slave patrols

  • nobody158@r.nf
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    I would say it was ok at best but we had issues with it ratcheting slowly to the right. Then it snapped to the right.

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      The snap happened when W started two illegal wars and crashed us into a ressesion, and the America voter was like, let him cook.

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    When you’ve been reduced to only wanting to grind yourself down and its politics that have you feeling trapped.