Hands cop a pepsi moment.
I feel like the propaganda is so strong that a lot of people (not just pigs) whose roles are to oppress the working class don't actually know that's what they're supposed to be doing.
Well the police came from being a force mainly to against slaves before, then against proletarianised black people. I am actually not that surprised, the police force of america is a racialised force and it's easy to for it to mistake its job protecting property vs working class people compared to just protecting white people vs black people.
In this case it also looks very much like cops being unionised and cops liking their union causes them to be sympathetic to anyone that wants to unionise which is funny as fuck.
Helps that unions aren't regarded as left/right in the US yet. If they were regarded as commie leftist antifa then they'd be behaving very differently.
The one cop saying he's thankful for his union really gets me. Everyone understands material conditions, even if they don't understand how it intersects with politics :marx-joker:
It's literally capitalist realism, where the brutality of capitalism has to be invisible and any discussion about it is considered taboo. Which means, any tools that capitalism uses to brutalize others are also considered taboo and off-limits. Essentially, you CANNOT acknowledge racism, because that breaks the illusion.
I see this all the time in my corpo job. White dudes are at the top of the hierarchy, and have zero clue about the privilege of their status. Literally like the fish to water analogy.
The ones who are semi-aware of their status and the benefits it provides usually continue to take advantage of it anyway.
"Well, we have the union, but Amazon hasn't recognized it yet because they're bullies and they're aggressive and they're doing everything in their power to challenge it ... they're in there giving [mis]information, and that's a violation of [workers'] rights, and also, by the way, borderline illegal"
:wonder-who-thats-for:
:the-pigs:
Yes, fellow union members, if we simply enter into a reasonable dialogue with these "copper" fellows, they will see the justice of our cause!!
Cops and organized labour are not and habe never been on the same side
Oh yeah, props to the organizer, i had just got done reading all the twitter replies who think that cops are unionized labor who are gonna help them out and thats what was in my mind
Cops and organized labour are not and habe never been on the same side
Incorrect, the AFL-CIO did plenty of regime change work in Latin America. :agony-shivering:
"Gee, these SocDems are starting to notice we're our government's domestic terrorism arm. Guess it's time to do another photo op"
All Cops Are Based
EDIT: please don't ban me, I'm just joking, I really like it here
My HR department is smiling down at me proletariat, can you say the same?!
i love the valiant "defense" of this statement :meow-floppy: good bit
