• Flaps [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Bruh something like

    we are not your enemy. We are the thin blue line. And WE ARE the only thing standing between order and anarchy

    sounds like something that would be blasted through speakers during a foreign occupation, or the speech of some lunatics with guns wandering around the post apocalyptic plains.

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Hate to bring him up, but it's actually pretty Orwellian. Shame Orwellian now means when China censors video games and not this kind of blatant propaganda.

      • StellarTabi [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        now you can't point out actual Orwellianism because of all the bad faith people who called everything Orwellian.

        Kind of like how you can't point out actual nazis because allegedly somebody misidentified a nazi once.

        • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          can’t point out actual nazis

          No one actually cares if you do this in my experience. One of my coworkers is a Nazi and I pointed it out and literally only one of my coworkers cares and that's because she's Jewish and has personally been harassed by him multiple times

          • StellarTabi [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            but if you do on the internet, which is leaking into IRL, you get this: https://old.reddit.com/r/SmugIdeologyMan/comments/aoe0pj/old_but_gold/

    • Owl [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      If these fuckers are what stands against anarchy, maybe we should all give anarchy a try.

  • LibsEatPoop3 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Funny how that happens, eh?

    Also, only two cops got fired and the city’s gonna pay the 2 mil. So basically no justice at all. Arrest all the cops involved, reprimand the union and take away their posting privileges, and cut the police budget by 2 mil. That’s literally the least they can do.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      It's so great to just be able to be the worst kind of criminal and if they caught you, you get vacations and the city funds are used to pay whatever consequences of your crime, your gang friends don't get even bothered. It's awesome.

  • taxidea [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I assumed it was something cynical when I originally saw this. I couldn't imagine it would be quite this bad. A new low even for the cops.

    • StellarTabi [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      probably trying to legislate the installation of Patriot™ cameras in the bathrooms and a task force for reporting suspicious mentions of CRT in schools.

  • richietozier4 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    And WE ARE the only thing standing between order and anarchy

    I’m not even an anarchist but

    • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Communists are just anarchists who are scared to dive in head first, so it makes sense you'd be down

  • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Cops in South Africa have just been found to assassinate environmental activists protesting against new mines. But it totally wasn't the police, the people carrying out the assassinations were just dressed as the police, we promise!

    Hopefully both the pigs in Philadelphia and South Africa get punished, and the families get justice, but I don't see it happening unfortunately.

  • carbohydra [des/pair]
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    3 years ago

    This is just plain evil. I imagine most of the time, cops can delude themselves that they are doing the right thing, but with this shit that must be impossible. Either I'm underestimating how evil cops are, or how strong the power of delusion is. Cops are completely irredeemable.