BendingUnit

BendingUnit , 12 days ago

@violetmadder @mozz @ninjaphysics
Higgs and I disagree on a lot. But on cops, we sync up well:

"The whole Good Cop / Bad Cop question can be disposed of much more decisively. We need not enumerate what proportion of cops appears to be good or listen to someone's anecdote about his uncle Charlie, an allegedly good cop.
We need only consider the following:

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BendingUnit , 12 days ago

@violetmadder @mozz @ninjaphysics

A cop's job is to enforce the laws, all of them;

Many of the laws are manifestly unjust, and some are even cruel and wicked;

Therefore every cop has to agree to act as an enforcer for laws that are manifestly unjust or even cruel and wicked.

There are no good cops."

• Robert Higgs
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BendingUnit , 12 days ago

@mozz @ninjaphysics @violetmadder
I'm talking about the cops. Should be eminently obvious.

Nothing in your 2 paragraphs addresses the reality we exist in: cops are hired thugs, who use violence, to enforce bad laws that are written by and to protect the wealthy.

Your 2 paragraphs of mess ALSO fail to recognize that things in that regard have gotten WORSE in my 40ish years living in this country.

Nothing in the system reliably reigns cops in within a reasonable expectation.

BendingUnit , 12 days ago

@violetmadder @mozz @ninjaphysics
THIS.
We were taught to fear "the gulag" in school. The US prison system has grown into a bigger, crueler gulag than that we were told to fear. And the violence that keeps it running is supplied by a certain group of bastards.....

BendingUnit , 12 days ago

@mozz @ninjaphysics @violetmadder
This reads like a lot of projection mixed with a LOT of ignoring reality and swallowing propaganda.

I apologize for attempting to bring your attention to the reality that hundreds of millions of us 'revolting peasants' struggle to survive within. I shall not trouble you or your utopian fever dreams any further.

But understand that for the safety of myself and my community, I consider ACAB to include gaslighters like you, too.

BendingUnit , 12 days ago

@violetmadder @mozz @ninjaphysics
Talking about prison populations only tells part of the story, too. It's ignoring evictions; violence against the homeless, striking workers, random POCs cops encounter; the murders gotten away with that the few sacrificial lambs thrown out as a distraction doesnt solve; the straight up theft; the sex crimes; the school to prison pipeline.....in short, the spoiled bunch.

Dude is using very little to whitewash and recuperate a lot.