• @kerrigan778
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    119 hours ago

    Really shows the degree to which cop unions ARE NOT labor unions.

  • @inclementimmigrant
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    1314 hours ago

    And journalist and Democrats still wonder why we fucking hate the police.

  • @madcaesar
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    06 hours ago

    Look at those well trained, peak physical condition tubs of lard 😂

  • @Professorozone
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    1616 hours ago

    Am I the only one who is bothered by the fact that these police probably suffer as much as the people they are oppressing?

    • @[email protected]
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      914 hours ago

      I don’t think that’s logically a possibility? Not unless the police also have a group of thugs that can assault them without consequence.

      Being a lapdog of the capital class has its benefits. The police have some of the strongest unions in the nation and are way way overcompensated for their level of training and education.

      • @Professorozone
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        311 hours ago

        Well I meant that they are closer to us than the oligarchy. Their wives work there. They pay more for shipping. That sort of thing.

    • @[email protected]
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      We cannot have a tiny number of very rich elite without a very large number of working class serving the interests of those rich elite rather than their own.

      Severity varies. Some are class traitors, some just need that paycheck.

  • @Mango
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    214 hours ago

    Depose

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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    541 day ago

    If there was ever any question about who the police truly protect, this should clarify it.

    • @[email protected]
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      -261 day ago

      According to the gun control pushed by liberals, they want to rely on these people for their personal safety.

      • @Nalivai
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        22 hours ago

        You watch too much action movies.

        • @[email protected]
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          1417 hours ago

          Folks who make posts like that are incapable of distinguishing between “we’re coming for your guns” and “we’d like to ensure everyone is a bit safer with their guns.”

          • @[email protected]
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            815 hours ago

            Yeah, very much has vibes of “and yet you participate in society, curious! I am very intelligent.”

  • @Mango
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    114 hours ago

    The chained market.

  • IninewCrow
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    1552 days ago

    Why is everyone surprised … this what the police have always done against striking workers.

    By design they are meant to maintain law and order … not to serve and protect people … the whole ‘serve and protect’ phrase was marketing campaign by the LAPD created by police propaganda in the 1960s and it didn’t have any actual obligation for the police to serve or to protect people … it was just a catchy phrase that made the police sound good when they in fact could do the opposite or nothing at all. But no matter how they treated people, they always throughout history have always consistently protected wealth, property and those with power.

    • @Madison420
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      By design they are meant to maintain law and order

      Not at all or qualified immunity, officer and prosecutorial discretion wouldn’t exist.

      … not to serve and protect people

      Correct, they’re asset protection for the highest earners.

      • @[email protected]
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        101 day ago

        If they truly were meant to uphold the law, they would be held to the highest standards of said law and prosecuted for the slightest deviation from it.

    • @UnderpantsWeevil
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      Why is everyone surprised …

      Nice to have a bit of physical imagery to wave around when you’re dealing with a liberal who insists police are these neutral non-partisan agents.

      Not that it’ll necessarily work, of course. I can already hear some pensioner with a Harris sticker insisting that “um, aktuly, its the union that’s being violent and the police who are being civil and restrained”. But for the younger and more clear-eyed, its a damning current indictment of a system you mostly just read about in history books.

      • @frostysauce
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        31 day ago

        What kind of liberals do you know that would stick up for the police!?

        • @P1k1e
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          Old people I’d imagine, tho throwing the Liberal blanket on them seems pretty disingenuous. Old folks gonna be old

      • @[email protected]
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        My favorite passages about how to win against the cops in a worker movement come from Farrell Dobbs Teamster Rebellion:

        Under capitalism the main police function is to break strikes and to repress other forms of protest against the policies of the ruling class. Any civic usefulness other forms of police activity may have, like controlling traffic and summoning ambulances, is strictly incidental to the primary repressive function. Personal inclinations of individual cops do not alter this basic role of the police. All must comply with ruling-class dictates. As a result, police repression becomes one of the most naked forms through which capitalism subordinates human rights to the demands of private property. If the cops sometimes falter in their antisocial tasks, it is simply because they – like the guns they use – are subject to rust when not engaged in the deadly function for which they are primarily trained.

        No police organization is exactly the same day in and day out. Two essential factors determine its character at a given moment: the social climate in which the cops have been operating and the turnover of personnel within the force. An unseasoned cop may tend to be somewhat considerate of others in the performance of duty, especially while class relations are relatively peaceful. Even in such calm times, however, the necessary accommodation must be made to capitalist demands, including readiness to shoot anyone who tampers with private property. Otherwise the aspiring cop, if he is not kicked out of the force, will have little chance of rising beyond a beat in the sticks. By gradually weeding out misfits along these general lines, a police department can keep itself abreast of requirements during a more or less stable period in class relations.

    • @mojofrododojo
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      171 day ago

      but when it’s the cop’s union under scrutiny, they stand united.

      because it’s getting them off of a murder rap

  • @Gammelfisch
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    121 day ago

    There’s a Netflix documentary about the police. Very interesting and they are not on worker’s side.

  • Rentlar
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    952 days ago

    Solidarity for Bezos and his yachts, can’t have him suffer from these rabblerousers living paycheque to paycheque taking a stand - NYPD.

  • ohellidk
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    531 day ago

    They do this… unless it’s their own union, Then they don’t!

  • @mydude
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    762 days ago

    This is at it’s core the police problem. They are class traitors.

    • IninewCrow
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      152 days ago

      They’re not traitors … they never had any loyalty to the population to begin with

      They were created to ‘maintain law and order’ … not some fanciful idea of protecting or serving people.

      • @mydude
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        602 days ago

        Police are working-class ergo they are class traitors.

        • davel [he/him]
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          231 day ago

          👆

          Getting libs to develop class consciousness can feel like a Sisyphean task.

          • @[email protected]
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            51 day ago

            hey guys! make sure everyone goes out and votes! nothing more important in a democracy than voting! 😁

            • @[email protected]
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              41 day ago

              damn we missed our chance at political action for another 4 years, let’s go into cold storage until it’s time to vote against the worst candidate in favor of the slightly less bad candidate.

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      How are they traitors if they never ever worked for that class in the first place (in USAs case)?

      Edit: to clarify, it’s a joke in the sense that that was the core job description

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        It’s not about working for a class, it’s about being part of that class.

        Police, whether we like them or not, are also part of the working class. They are class traitors in that respect. They serve the ownership class and fight “their own.”

        There are a class of people that own capital to make capital, and there are a class that labor to acquire capital.

        The cops labor to acquire capital on behalf of the class that owns capital to make capital that does no labor.

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          Yes, ofc, the comment was intended as a joke - all dogs serve a master, won’t ever be masters, and are “betraying” wolves by not allowing then to get to the sheep (which they also can’t/arent allowed to get).

      • @mydude
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        Blue collar working-class, I’d say. What class are they then? Not all goldfish living in a buble know they are goldfish living in a buble…

  • davel [he/him]
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    371 day ago

    This is why All Cops Are Bastards: their primary purpose is to protect private property, AKA the means of production.

    • Skeezix
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      116 hours ago

      I was having a think about that and realized it needs to be AACAB because in my country cops are definitely not bastards.

    • @[email protected]
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      “Policing Enables Bastards”

      A shorter phrase allowing for exceptions, e.g. a sheriff in town of thirty people who works one year and retires (without covering for dirty colleagues or breaking strikes etc.)

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        Policing = being a bastard

        Police are class traitors. They have abandoned their working class communities in favor of being given a privileged position in society and being the one who pulls the trigger on working class people themselves. They are scum, all of them. There is no exception. Being a police officer is being scum. Once you’ve chosen to be a police officer you are no longer a member of the working class. You are now an agent of state violence dedicated to protecting the ruling class. It’s the whole reason police exist at all.

        • @[email protected]
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          If I join their ranks for a day to leak their brutality “we investigated ourselves and found we’ve done nothing wrong“ files I’m a bastard. No leaks from me then.

          Implications of law of large numbers distracts from otherwise understandable arguments.


          ACAB

          -Sith

            • @[email protected]
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              Hmm, sorry - I took my sheriff example to the extreme and assumed it would still fall under your bastard definition, which sounded like guilt by association.

              Given how many cops there are out there, I know that at least one new hire was chill and reported colleagues the first time they saw bad behavior, then got fired for it. I don’t like to call whistleblowers “bastards“ even when urgently describing an important and systemic issue.

              • @[email protected]
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                To me, that’s a perfect example of why all cops are bastards. That person is no longer a cop, so it doesn’t apply to them. But all the bastards didn’t like having their awful behavior called out and pushed out the non-bastard. Thus all cops are bastards.

                • @[email protected]
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                  113 hours ago

                  I’ve heard that before yet when we think about 700,000 different individuals aren’t we almost guaranteed to have one or more cops undergoing a disciplinary process right now (and at any and every moment)?

                  It’s so badass to stick up for what you believe in, what’s right, citizens’ rights, to the point of getting fired for it - & knowing you’re risking harassment, possibly for the rest of your life you live in that same jurisdiction. If the sheer scale suggests there must be at least one agitator in police ranks at any given time, I can’t in good conscience say “all”.

                  Stubborn…!