• @NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I don’t like police officers as a general rule. But I also don’t really advocate for death as a blanket statement. This is just a poor taste joke.

    Edit: Jesus, ya’ll can stop replying now. No wonder we have genocide, so easy to dehumanized others, and not even notice.

    • @Limonene@lemmy.world
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      493 months ago

      I agree about blanket statements and calls for death, but it looks to me like this meme is just calling cops trash.

    • @verdigris@lemmy.ml
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      313 months ago

      They’re human beings who have chosen to sell their body and will to the state to be used as a cudgel to enforce the state’s will through violence. We would prefer that they voluntarily stop participating in the oppression, but if they don’t they are willingly taking up arms against the disenfranchised, which means I have less than zero sympathy when they get what’s coming to them.

      • @Allero@lemmy.today
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        “The state’s will” in most cases is to stop a murderer or a robber or whatnot.

        People work for the police not to become the instrument of the state, but to prevent actual crimes. The rest sadly often comes after.

        Y’all acting like cops are just useless parasites - good luck surviving a week in a modern word without them.

          • @Allero@lemmy.today
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            In before times, crimes were easier to stop as people primarily lived in small communities and it was easy to find out and exclude people, which then often meant death.

            But even still, plenty of today’s crimes were rampant. As much as I’d love to see anarchism in action, this requires core changes to the structure of society, and we’re not at the point where getting rid of police will be a positive step forward.

  • So in response to cops stereotyping minorities, let’s sterotype all cops? Then let’s take that to the extreme and disrepect a dead person you know nothing about, for laughs.
    Even If you knew for a fact that the person in that cofin was a bad cop, does thier family deserve this image being passed around like this. No. One could understand if your motive was to help effect change, and crossing this line would help. But you are doing it for laughs and internet points. There is nothing good about that.

  • Utter_Karate [he/him, comrade/them]
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    153 months ago

    The guy on the left, second from the front… Is he wearing mime makeup? I know given his profession he is probably proud to be white, but that looks like a pressing medical condition.