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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.
I agree about blanket statements and calls for death, but it looks to me like this meme is just calling cops trash.
No one made such a statement, but thanks for the pearl clutching.
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.
"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.
Yeah because cops have always existed
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.
Police doesn't stop crime, it never has and it never will. You have to get this idea out of your head.
I'm with you. People can be so fucked up sometimes...
You're apparently the only one if this comment chain is any indication.