yglesias should have a warning like trump election posts but with a warning that"this take can smooth your brain by even looking at it", like PEOPLE DID NOT DEFUND THE POLICE THE POLICE HAD ALL THEIR TOYS AND FAILED and the take is WE SHOULD GIVE THE MORE!
like if anything the events of yesterday is evidence why what we should really do is push straight on past defund and just abolish the current police institution and put in something new and egalitarian from the ground up with better processes for operating.
It is completely clear that the police is compromised at a systemic level and giving them MORE weapons and MORE money is fucking asinine.
edit: I know that getting america to abolish the police is an impossible task I'm just saying... it's the right thing to do.
Like, no, i get it, what people should take from this is that they had all this fucking money and tech and failed because they did not want to do anything, which should be the point like WHY GIVE THEM MORE MONEY IF THE REASON THEY ARE FAILLING IS NOT A FINANCIAL PROBLEM BUT A INSTITUTIONAL ONE like matty is an asshole and one of the worst people on twitter but to look at this and think that the police is not deeply flawed is insane, like the bare minimum that should be done is a total police reform, but no matthew want the capitol to have snipers that will not be used next time something like this happens again
they had all this fucking money and tech and failed because they **did not want ** to do anything
preach lol
To fix the police would require a reform so thorough it may as well be abolished and substituted. There is reactionaryism at every level, it's really beyond saving how infected and decrepit it is as an institution.
yglesias should have a warning like trump election posts but with a warning that"this take can smooth your brain by even looking at it", like PEOPLE DID NOT DEFUND THE POLICE THE POLICE HAD ALL THEIR TOYS AND FAILED and the take is WE SHOULD GIVE THE MORE!
like if anything the events of yesterday is evidence why what we should really do is push straight on past defund and just abolish the current police institution and put in something new and egalitarian from the ground up with better processes for operating.
It is completely clear that the police is compromised at a systemic level and giving them MORE weapons and MORE money is fucking asinine.
edit: I know that getting america to abolish the police is an impossible task I'm just saying... it's the right thing to do.
Like, no, i get it, what people should take from this is that they had all this fucking money and tech and failed because they did not want to do anything, which should be the point like WHY GIVE THEM MORE MONEY IF THE REASON THEY ARE FAILLING IS NOT A FINANCIAL PROBLEM BUT A INSTITUTIONAL ONE like matty is an asshole and one of the worst people on twitter but to look at this and think that the police is not deeply flawed is insane, like the bare minimum that should be done is a total police reform, but no matthew want the capitol to have snipers that will not be used next time something like this happens again
preach lol
To fix the police would require a reform so thorough it may as well be abolished and substituted. There is reactionaryism at every level, it's really beyond saving how infected and decrepit it is as an institution.