Very relevant tweet

Wake up, sheeple me up, before you go (go)

      • blobjim [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        It seems like they have this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asayish_(Rojava_regions)

        The Wikipedia article says:

        In addition to the use of weapons, Asayish members are also trained in "mediation, ethics, the history of Kurdistan, imperialism, the psychological war waged by popular culture and the importance of education and self-critique."

        Which is basically what every socialist country aims to do anyways. It seems like they put an emphasis on autonomy, but isn't that basically how every police department is? In the US, local police departments have tons of authority and the federal level pretty much doesn't oppose them.

        You can argue they're different in character, but every socialist country's police are different in character. It just depends on whether you want to be honest with the terminology or make new words for the same things.