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Just a reminder, since I got some boot lickers in my notes today: fuck cops. All cops. Fuck the institution of policing itself.
The function of the police is to enact state sanctioned violence as punishment against people, disproportionately marginalized people, which neither prevents future crimes nor repairs the harm done by past crimes.
What does it mean to be a “good cop” when that is the function of being a cop? How does one be a good cop when the job that cops do *is bad*?
We don’t need good cops, we need fewer cops. As few as possible, honestly, especially when it comes to cops on patrol.
Defund- minimize the duties and responsibilities and powers snd numbers of the police as much as possible, and instead fund community programs and services that fulfill the needed roles *without* the authority or expectation of violence.
We’re watching the Return of the King right now, and got to the part where Denethor is introduced. My husband asks me for the context of why Denethor is Like That, since I just finished reading the book. So I explained how Denethor has been using a Palantir for years to get information, and how Sauron has been manipulating him by only letting him see events that give him a worst possible impression of reality.
So my husband replies “Oh! So Denethor is basically just like your grandpa after he starts getting all his news from Fox.” And honestly, yeah pretty much.
Warn people before you make statements like that. I was not ready.
You order a package off Amazon. When the Amazon delivery guy shows up to your door, instead of giving you the package you bought, he beats the shit out of you. Then, when he sees that you are not dead yet, he calls all of the Amazon delivery people in the area and they all proceed to beat the shit out of you. Miraculously, you survive. Another miracle: a friend in your neighborhood caught the assault on video. After a month of recovery and extensive hospital bills that you have no idea what to do with, the video has gone viral. You read the comments below. “This is what happens to people who fuck with Amazon!!!” Someone says. “I’ve never been beaten up by Amazon employees, and I’ve been using them all my life!” Someone else comments. Later, you start to see articles popping up about your story. They all mention that when you were 17, your license was revoked for reckless driving. In a Facebook post on your mom’s feed, someone is going on a rant about how not all Amazon delivery guys are bad, and that if you look really close, the “bad” ones are just stressed out. Your name is trending on Twitter. Jeff Bezos films a response to your attack, denouncing the video of you getting beaten to within an inch of your life by his employees as becoming “a symbol of hate towards Amazon.” The people who attacked you still deliver packages around your neighborhood. You saw one of them just yesterday as you were watering your plants. You still can’t pay your hospital bills. Your phone dings- Twitter again. “Maybe if you didn’t order from Amazon,” someone pipes up, “this wouldn’t have happened!”
Holy shit
Someone did not get the analogy
I didn’t get it at first and I thought it was gonna be a lolgoofy post about amazon delivery people beating people up, then about three or four sentences in I was like oh wait a sec
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