• Flying SquidOP
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    283 days ago

    I have a feeling cops would shoot each other all the time if they thought they could. Especially if it’s a white cop shooting a black cop. The whole “brotherhood” thing is performative. I’ve had the misfortune of doing ride-alongs with cops working for a local TV station. They can’t wait to tell you how all the other cops suck.

    • @kava
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      I used to regularly visit a kava bar that happened to become a hang out spot for cops and military people. Honestly they didn’t seem that bad. One guy would come in every day for a kratom we’d take shells together. He played Slay the Spire on his switch, would ask for tips cause he kinda sucked.

      Really they take easily impressionable young men and through the system mold them into something toxic. We become the roles we play. Shakespeare or something

      • @CascadianGiraffe
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        82 days ago

        kava, kratom, taking shells, slaying the spire in a switch…

        I’m so confused.

        I feel like one of us had an aneurysm.

        • Edgarallenpwn
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          42 days ago

          “slaying the spire” as in playing the video game Slay the Spire. Taking shells is lost on me, and Kava and Kratom are just legal highs/organic substances/dietary supplements/whatever it is called now.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 days ago

      Not to sound like I’m defending them but are you sure it wasn’t just workplace gossip tier stuff?

      • Flying SquidOP
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        32 days ago

        Maybe if they weren’t cops, yeah. But these are already people willing to murder for pretty much no reason at all. The only thing really stopping them is this stupid “brotherhood” crap which they drop in a second when the other cops aren’t around.

        So sure, maybe it’s just workplace gossip, but I know I’ve never worked in a place where I was expected to always defend my co-workers no matter how heinously they acted.