• @kameecoding
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    Well some people want kiddie porn and cops are in the way of that too, so probably not the best line of reasoning there.

    • @Viking_Hippie
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      402 months ago

      But trotting out a mountain sized false equivalence is? 🙄

      • @kameecoding
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        It’s not false equivalence, it’s negation of your logic, but different.

        I might have put down, some people want to get drunk and beat you up, and the police is in the way of that too, now unless you are into that you provably don’t want to get beaten up by drunks.

        The crime doesn’t matter, I choose extreme example to get the point across that your reasoning as to why ACAB is flawed and meaningless point farming.

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          It’s not false equivalence

          It very much is. You’re equivocating alcohol and child abuse.

          it’s negation of your logic

          Nope. Just because cops arrest child abusers doesn’t mean that they’re the only answer. In fact, a well-funded social safety net is much better at discovering and stopping it and most if not all other societal, psychological and psychiatric problems than cops will ever be.

          but different.

          Well, at least you got that part right 🤷

          I might have put down, some people want to get drunk and beat you up, and the police is in the way of that too, now unless you are into that you provably don’t want to get beaten up by drunks

          Another case of giving cops credit for something that they do by default even though their way of dealing with it is much WORSE than alternative ways less focused on use of force and punishment as a deterrent.

          The crime doesn’t matter

          It very much does, as treating every societal problem with the same blunt tool is an awful idea

          get the point across that your reasoning as to why ACAB is flawed

          Overly simplified for the sake of brevity, maybe, but otherwise nope, wrong again.

          meaningless point farming

          This might be difficult to understand to someone whose opinions are unpopular because they’re bad, but sometimes people express honest opinions that other people agree with, rather than playing pretend for points.

          • @kameecoding
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            So you genuinely think that all cops are bastards? No nuance, no nothing?

            • Masterbaexunn
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              The “good” cops stand up for the same system that shelters, protects, and encourages the bad cops. There’s no nuance. It is what it is. Therefore ACAB.

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                Right, the nuance is that there are bad cops and worse cops. It’s not a system that’s capable of change from the inside, and will actively fight anyone who tries until they give up, get shuttled away to a place that doesn’t matter with no hope of promotion, or even end up dead.

              • @postmateDumbass
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                So in your opinion, the cops that bust kiddie porn makers are bad too?

                  • @LaLuzDelSol
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                    There is nothing inherently immoral about being a police officer though (as opposed to being a Nazi). Everyone but anarchists understands the need for police officers/“Violence of the state” in some capacity.

                  • @postmateDumbass
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                    If your society is regulated by Nazis, i blame the entire country and all its citizens.

                    the collective would have embraced facism and murderous eugenics as guiding principles.

                    So it is the fault of the citizens, because they created, nurtured, and tolerated an environment to sustain the Nazis.

                    So all citizens are bad.

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                  A pig with lipstick is still a fuckin pig

                  Edit: and honestly, they get a metric fuckton of help from non-profits and the like. Stop romanticizing law enforcement

              • @kameecoding
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                So when I pull on a gun on you and take your money, your car, you will definitely not call those goddamn bastards, right? You swear?

                • @[email protected]
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                  32 months ago

                  Always one of these cucks projecting their cowardice. Don’t worry I won’t punk you for your shit today little man…

                • @[email protected]
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                  Why would I call the cops? To report that I killed someone that tried to rob me? Naw man, I know plenty of places to dump a body where it’s not gonna be found for years, if ever. Welcome to Appalachia.

                  Oh, you think that people that think ACAB aren’t armed…?

            • @LaLuzDelSol
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              Haha welcome to Lemmy m8. I’ve gotten into this exact argument before. I’m all for police reform and I was out there in the George Floyd protests but the hatred of police officers on this platform is absolutely rabid.

              Imo, the argument that ACAB because the good ones don’t stop the bad ones can be applied to virtually any group of people. So we’re all bastards I guess.

              • Masterbaexunn
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                No it can’t be applied evenly. Cops have legal authority to use force, including lethal force. Name another group of people with that right.

                • @LaLuzDelSol
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                  Soldiers.

                  But anyways, i think it’s just as reprehensible for, as an example, an engineer to not report his coworker cutting corners on an infrastructure project that could jeopardize an entire community (maybe he wanted to meet a deadline to make himself look good, maybe he took money under the table from an interested party) as for a cop to not report his coworker who took a bribe from a drug dealer. In both cases, the bystander has equal ability to intervene and potentially save lives. The fact that the police officer has the right to use force as part of their job description isn’t really relevant.

                  • Masterbaexunn
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                    12 months ago

                    What? No, according to international law and the Geneva Conventions, soldiers generally do not have the legal authority to kill a citizen unless that citizen is actively participating in hostilities during a declared war, meaning they are considered a combatant; killing a civilian who is not actively involved in combat would be considered a war crime

    • @Olhonestjim
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      32 months ago

      Well THOSE assholes are not welcome in the hot rod community, so there’s that.