A bit brutal. I know it’s just a meme, but I don’t think them dying is the answer. We can be better, we can do better
deleted by creator
I don’t really mind if you disagree because sadly cops will always be a part of modern society. So making them better is important to future generations
Fuck what you call “modern sociey” if it requires cops.
Okay, what about calling it current society? I don’t see current society being able to change this for a long long time
The main function of cops is to protect the bourgeois, white-supremacist, patriarchal, colonialist state. I would like to get rid of the latter, so the former needs to go.
So if and when we make that happen, and we have a society free of that stuff, do we think everything will always be perfect and free of conflict and no one will break the (hopefully much improved) laws? That seems unlikely, so we’ll need some kind of way of keeping the order, right? Will it not be the responsibility of a specific job? Will there be people with that job but we won’t call them any of the names we currently have for that general job category?
You won’t be able to recognise the so-called “justice system” or “order” in that hypothetical society, so no: that job won’t exist anymore.
Yes, harm can still be done and this future society should and will find ways to prevent and/or heal that harm. Neither of these things are the police’s job, so why should we call that hypothetical job like the old system of violence?
Even if you think that those things are done by the police: do you still call a shoe designer/manufacturer a cobbler?
You must live in a very privileged bubble to think like that
Why?
The idea that people can live without some form of policing is ricidulous once you’ve seen some of the darker parts of humanity. Visit Haiti, Somalia, slums just about anywhere on the planet.
You sound like some 22 year old with a couple years of higher education, and now you think you have all the answers.
You sound like a child who still believes what they told you in Paw Patrol.
So… do you know any of the history of Somalia and Haiti? How they got into that situation?
The idea that people can live
People don’t live. They always die. Living and dying are the same process.
some form of policing = modern cops apparently
One of my first memories is my father’s domestic violence against my mother. She called the police. They laughed at her.
The one time they arrested him, no matter the physical evidence, no matter the testimony from any number of witnesses (e.g. neighbours), was when he kicked a police officer.
Fuck the police.
Is she stabbing herself?
*Dismissive wanking gesture*
This is the Trump dance i believe?
They could not be cops, in which case… They wouldn’t be cops
“Your truths make me uncomfortable, please stop”
No, its just stupid. But no surprise to see a Lemmy.ml account here promoting this divisive crap
Cops don’t seem to understand much except when a thing is alive or dead. This is the only kind of message that will get through to all of them.
Fwiw, I agree with you.
deleted by creator
Same, people promoting this are close minded and shortsighted
Unlike you. You are so smart and enlightened. /s
Compared to the morons here encouraging murder, yeah
Where?
The only good cop is a dead cop
Thank you.
Imagine being so diluted that you think all cops should die.
Yeah this thread and its commenters are acting like cops
“I dislike cops because they shoot people to solve a crisis. Anyway, let’s shoot people about this crisis.” - a lot of people, apparently
The best cop; officer down
Save a life. Shoot a cop.
Huh, you sound like a cop…
That just makes cops more paranoid and thus more likely to shoot someone who isn’t a threat.
Removed by mod
deleted by creator
Wish I could do that as well but I have to mod their shit TwT
“Liberal” doesn’t mean what you think it means. Liberals generally don’t want to abolish the police. You’re thinking of anarchists.
Is there context? Like is there someone in particular this is about? Or just in general?
The only good cop…
US centric, here in Europe nobody wishes Cops dead.
That’s not true. ACAB everywhere, including Europe.
yeah but cops don’t go round killing people so people don’t go round thinking about killing cops. The system’s just as corrupt but it stops short of murder.
Well, cops are responsible for quite a few murders/homicides over here and I’m quite sure that the intention of the meme is quite as crass.
I see a lot of people in this thread justifying murder when that’s REALLY not what’s needed. That will just lead to the only people willing to be cops is maniacs with a gun (who are NOT in short supply) when we really need cops who can take a moment and think.
when we really need cops who can take a moment and think.
Those people are actively filtered out by police.
We need to murder the concept of cops as we know them today. That’s the only murder we need. No individual’s death will fix a fucked up system, gotta kill the system itself.
My guess is its Kremlin propaganda, the same divisive stuff they pushed during the George Floyd riots
No man, there is plenty of organic distrust of the police here. The whole legal industry is fucked.
Sure, that’s how they work. They find a crack and use a wedge.
deleted by creator
No, you’re ignorant.
deleted by creator
I’m not an idiot, but you are an asshole.
I wish. There was that one cop was put away for defending a woman from SA a year after snitching on his fellow officers. His laywer said never heard of jail time for 1st time misdominer. They literally put him in a cell with a known cop killer. Who said naa this is one of the good ones.
This one time a bad thing happened so now its OK to advocate murder
Sure, all the police violence incidents are “individual outliers”. /s
Can you think in anything more nuanced than anecdotes and sweeping generalizations? Got anything better than a strawman to respond with?
Why would I think of something better than a strawman when replying to a strawman?
As I said in another post: Cops protect the bourgeois, white-supremacist, colonialist, patriarchal state by enacting violence on the ruled class. That’s not a judgement: it’s their purpose in the system.
Individuals with bully-like personalities self-select into that job, while decent people are actively shunned. Because group cohesion is more important than “doing the right thing”.
Why do you defend cops so much?
deleted by creator
