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shovelbum
Oct 21, 2010

Fun Shoe

pop fly to McGillicutty posted:

Yeah, no in-between. If I don't call the FBI scum, I'm an idiot who is beating off to Trump in cuffs. This mentality is everything wrong with people.

I live in a world where I know poo poo is hosed but have hope that it can improve. Sorry that I'm not calling all police the Gestapo. I seriously can't wrap my head around people like you because what it sounds like you're saying is "law doesn't matter, gently caress everything." I don't think or live like that. I have a family and want the future to be better so I'm looking for that, not endless chaos.

There is no future op

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Zerg Mans
Oct 19, 2006
Probation
Can't post for 4 hours!
why are there so many shut the gently caress up liberal photoshops though

shovelbum
Oct 21, 2010

Fun Shoe

zegermans posted:

why are there so many shut the gently caress up liberal photoshops though

They can't spell zegermans

Halloween Jack
Sep 12, 2003
I WILL CUT OFF BOTH OF MY ARMS BEFORE I VOTE FOR ANYONE THAT IS MORE POPULAR THAN BERNIE!!!!!
Because some people aren't smart and adult enough to have nuanced opinions on whether concentration camps are good. It's really complicated!

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011

pop fly to McGillicutty posted:

Sorry that I'm not calling all police the Gestapo.

It's ok just try to be better in the future

SHY NUDIST GRRL
Feb 15, 2011

Communism will help more white people than anyone else. Any equal measures unfairly provide less to minority populations just because there's less of them. Democracy is truly the tyranny of the mob.

gimme the GOD drat candy posted:

good people who join a police force either stop being good people or stop being cops. there is no middle ground.

Enough cops have been fired for reporting corruption that this should be more obvious

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

Nap Ghost

pop fly to McGillicutty posted:

Yeah, no in-between. If I don't call the FBI scum, I'm an idiot who is beating off to Trump in cuffs. This mentality is everything wrong with people.

I live in a world where I know poo poo is hosed but have hope that it can improve. Sorry that I'm not calling all police the Gestapo. I seriously can't wrap my head around people like you because what it sounds like you're saying is "law doesn't matter, gently caress everything." I don't think or live like that. I have a family and want the future to be better so I'm looking for that, not endless chaos.

The FBI is, right now, spending time infiltrating BLM and other non-radical organizations and attempting to either suborn them into supporting the existing system or to get enough dirt on them to break them up. This is what the FBI does. This is what the FBI has always done. They are not on your side. Pointing to a particular handful of G-Men and saying, "These here are good cops and that means that this could be a good organization" is naive because the purpose of the entire policing system is to suborn or remove any kind of challenge to the frankly monstrous status quo.

When you realize that the system is working in the manner that it was designed to work and that the major objection that the ultra-wealthy and the political class have for Trump is that he's crude and unruly, you can start to perceive the outline of the actual problem that we face.

It's a hard-rear end leap to get there, and it took me all of Obama's presidency and the poo poo that came after to get there, but once you're here poo poo starts making a lot more sense.

tl;dr: Cops are bad even if they seem good because the system is poison, and Marx was 400% right.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:

Enough cops have been killed for reporting corruption that this should be more obvious

Dr.Caligari
May 5, 2005

"Here's a big, beautiful avatar for someone"

Halloween Jack posted:

Law enforcement in the United States is primarily oriented toward occupying and intimidating marginalized communities. If they do good and necessary things, it's to maintain the status quo (and sometimes purely for public relations).

Reminder, in a still active court case, that the FBI also spent 10+years and millions to ban the Mongols MC logos

quote:

“If the court grants our request ... then if any law enforcement officer sees a Mongol wearing his patch, he will be authorized to stop that gang member and literally take the jacket right off his back," O'Brien said

I don’t believe it’s just a coincidence that they are estimated to be 75% Hispanic where other larger and older clubs are predominantly white.

I’m no friend of theirs nor defending the actual crimes members are charged with, but the feds telling you what you can’t wear is taking a step you can never go back from and definitely a ‘Gestapo’ tactic

e; I should clarify it’s not just ‘full-patch’ Mongol members who are under the spotlight, but anyone they deem part of “The Mongol Nation” , and good luck finding out where that begins and ends.

Dr.Caligari has issued a correction as of 16:52 on Feb 6, 2019

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Zeroisanumber posted:

The FBI is, right now, spending time infiltrating BLM and other non-radical organizations and attempting to either suborn them into supporting the existing system or to get enough dirt on them to break them up. This is what the FBI does.

https://twitter.com/KyHealthJustice/status/1091444854792568833

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually

Zeroisanumber posted:

The FBI is, right now, spending time infiltrating BLM and other non-radical organizations and attempting to either suborn them into supporting the existing system or to get enough dirt on them to break them up. This is what the FBI does. This is what the FBI has always done. They are not on your side. Pointing to a particular handful of G-Men and saying, "These here are good cops and that means that this could be a good organization" is naive because the purpose of the entire policing system is to suborn or remove any kind of challenge to the frankly monstrous status quo.
This happened just last month

https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1086440258781220867

Halloween Jack
Sep 12, 2003
I WILL CUT OFF BOTH OF MY ARMS BEFORE I VOTE FOR ANYONE THAT IS MORE POPULAR THAN BERNIE!!!!!
As the Left becomes more of a threat to power, you can count on the FBI to go back to the bad old days of infiltrating every civil rights organization they can find and orchestrating assassinations of civil rights leaders--if indeed they ever stopped.

And I don't just mean people who define themselves as leftists and join socialist orgs. Demanding public services like healthcare, higher wages and redistribution of wealth, and an end to systemic police brutality are all leftist ideas, and as they become more mainstream, more people will be targeted.

Al !
Jan 5, 2019

by Hand Knit

what are they going to do, bomb an empty lot for lacking an abortion clinic

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011

Al ! posted:

what are they going to do, bomb an empty lot for lacking an abortion clinic

tell women they don't have to listen to their husbands

Kitfox88
Aug 21, 2007

Anybody lose their glasses?
not exist because it was fake and made up by the fbi just like the ice college because acab

pop fly to McGillicutty
Feb 2, 2004

A peckish little mouse!
I'll say the same thing to you all that I say to the QAnon idiots:

If you believe that things are as corrupt and evil and broken as you claim, why aren't you doing anything about it? It's pathetic. You claim that everything is hosed but you're just sitting here bitching.

Serf
May 5, 2011


pop fly to McGillicutty posted:

I'll say the same thing to you all that I say to the QAnon idiots:

If you believe that things are as corrupt and evil and broken as you claim, why aren't you doing anything about it? It's pathetic. You claim that everything is hosed but you're just sitting here bitching.

lmao recognizing the problem is better than sitting around sucking the dick of the status quo

Al !
Jan 5, 2019

by Hand Knit
ahh, yes, the "if you're so mad about things why don't you do a mass shooting about it" defense

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007

Serf posted:

lmao recognizing the problem is better than sitting around sucking the dick of the status quo

there are many books about the immense power of positive thinking. maybe try reading something from the self-help section sometime. institutional corruption doesn't exist because i don't want it to.

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011

Well if the Tsar is so bad, clearly he would have been overthrown already, QED

Dr.Caligari
May 5, 2005

"Here's a big, beautiful avatar for someone"
Maybe partially because we are given two parties to realistically choose from and they each run puppet talking heads every time, except for the one time they run a compromised retard. A portion of people voting for him, wearing rose colored glasses, foolishly thinking he might be a change from the talking heads

Politics is very similar to law enforcement jobs, the people that should be in those positions are the type of people that would never want them.

Halloween Jack
Sep 12, 2003
I WILL CUT OFF BOTH OF MY ARMS BEFORE I VOTE FOR ANYONE THAT IS MORE POPULAR THAN BERNIE!!!!!

pop fly to McGillicutty posted:

I'll say the same thing to you all that I say to the QAnon idiots:

If you believe that things are as corrupt and evil and broken as you claim, why aren't you doing anything about it? It's pathetic. You claim that everything is hosed but you're just sitting here bitching.
I march against fascism and police brutality, volunteer for Remote Area Medical, and donate to orgs helping immigrants who have just been released from ICE custody. But go off, king.

Waaah! Waaah! Uhhh buhhh muh police waaah

Admiral Joeslop
Jul 8, 2010




pop fly to McGillicutty posted:

I'll say the same thing to you all that I say to the QAnon idiots:

If you believe that things are as corrupt and evil and broken as you claim, why aren't you doing anything about it? It's pathetic. You claim that everything is hosed but you're just sitting here bitching.

If you want to gently caress a cop this bad there are plenty of dating sites.

Kitfox88
Aug 21, 2007

Anybody lose their glasses?
just be careful they have a way higher rate of domestic abuse than non cops

An insane mind
Aug 11, 2018

*Kramers into thread* Actually, I think you'll find, there are good and bad people in any situation!

What's that officer? Deeper? Alright, just tap me on the head when you're ready.

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



zegermans posted:

why are there so many shut the gently caress up liberal photoshops though

because there's so many liberals

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007

Kitfox88 posted:

just be careful they have a way higher rate of domestic abuse than non cops

that's part of the appeal for cop fetishists.

Al !
Jan 5, 2019

by Hand Knit

Kitfox88 posted:

just be careful they have a way higher rate of domestic abuse than non cops

oh yeah, several of my aunts friends were murdered by one of their cop ex husbands

30.5 Days
Nov 19, 2006
*watches Serpico* I bet next you'll tell me JFK Jr. is still alive!

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



Dr.Caligari posted:

Reminder, in a still active court case, that the FBI also spent 10+years and millions to ban the Mongols MC logos


I don’t believe it’s just a coincidence that they are estimated to be 75% Hispanic where other larger and older clubs are predominantly white.

I’m no friend of theirs nor defending the actual crimes members are charged with, but the feds telling you what you can’t wear is taking a step you can never go back from and definitely a ‘Gestapo’ tactic

e; I should clarify it’s not just ‘full-patch’ Mongol members who are under the spotlight, but anyone they deem part of “The Mongol Nation” , and good luck finding out where that begins and ends.

One thing I always like to point out to people when I'm at a Pokemon Go raid is that, by every metric law enforcement uses, we players constitute a legally defined "gang" and having such a designation, many of our rights vanish into thin air and they can take all our stuff and disappear us into a black site and fabricate criminal activity and leak it to sympathetic press and nobody can stop them


lol yeah they made up a "pro abortion extremist group" and used this made up group as an excuse to tell local PDs to crack down on anybody opposing forced birther terrorism

Epic High Five has issued a correction as of 17:25 on Feb 6, 2019

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

Nap Ghost

pop fly to McGillicutty posted:

I'll say the same thing to you all that I say to the QAnon idiots:

If you believe that things are as corrupt and evil and broken as you claim, why aren't you doing anything about it? It's pathetic. You claim that everything is hosed but you're just sitting here bitching.

Read some Marx, take some time to absorb the message. And never, ever post about anything that you plan to do to support the cause of left-wing activism on a public message board.

Tetrabor
Oct 14, 2018

Eight points of contact at all times!

Halloween Jack posted:

I'm a police abolitionist because I have hope that society can be run on something other than fear and terror visited on the powerless by the powerful.

Law enforcement in the United States is primarily oriented toward occupying and intimidating marginalized communities. If they do good and necessary things, it's to maintain the status quo (and sometimes purely for public relations).

No one is going to respect you or give you the time of day for this "Uhhh wuhhh muh cops buhhh well I'm sorry I'm such a nice person." Quit your childish whining.

What gently caress is it with anarchists and wanting to remove systems that prevent chuds from going on shooting sprees, who's going to stop Chad the Nazi from murdering you?

If you're going to abolish the police, you better have a good replacement because this is a country that has more guns than brains.

The system is broken, so you fix it. You don't go on macho tirade about how other people are wrong because you have an insanely bad idea.

Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit

30.5 Days posted:

*watches Serpico* I bet next you'll tell me JFK Jr. is still alive!

Frank Serpico was the rare good cop

Serf
May 5, 2011


Tetrabor posted:

What gently caress is it with anarchists and wanting to remove systems that prevent chuds from going on shooting sprees, who's going to stop Chad the Nazi from murdering you?

If you're going to abolish the police, you better have a good replacement because this is a country that has more guns than brains.

The system is broken, so you fix it. You don't go on macho tirade about how other people are wrong because you have an insanely bad idea.

the system actively resists all attempts to fix it. it has to be destroyed and something else has to be made in its place

Agean90
Jun 28, 2008


Tetrabor posted:

What gently caress is it with anarchists and wanting to remove systems that prevent chuds from going on shooting sprees, who's going to stop Chad the Nazi from murdering you?

If you're going to abolish the police, you better have a good replacement because this is a country that has more guns than brains.

The system is broken, so you fix it. You don't go on macho tirade about how other people are wrong because you have an insanely bad idea.

Remember when the FBI received several reports of a chud about to do a school shooting and didn't do anything about it.

The cops are not here to protect you and the assumption that they are is pure fsntasy

30.5 Days
Nov 19, 2006

Tetrabor posted:

What gently caress is it with anarchists and wanting to remove systems that prevent chuds from going on shooting sprees, who's going to stop Chad the Nazi from murdering you?

If you're going to abolish the police, you better have a good replacement because this is a country that has more guns than brains.

The system is broken, so you fix it. You don't go on macho tirade about how other people are wrong because you have an insanely bad idea.

Cops, famous for protecting people from right wing violence.

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



pop fly to McGillicutty posted:

I'll say the same thing to you all that I say to the QAnon idiots:

If you believe that things are as corrupt and evil and broken as you claim, why aren't you doing anything about it? It's pathetic. You claim that everything is hosed but you're just sitting here bitching.

I'm deeply involved in local organizing, which is not anithetic at all to my firm belief that electoralism is a fraud and the USA is doomed as many seem to believe. Wanna know what day 1 training is for pretty much any group that does work for or with marginalized groups? It's "how not to get the cops involved"

Tetrabor posted:

What gently caress is it with anarchists and wanting to remove systems that prevent chuds from going on shooting sprees, who's going to stop Chad the Nazi from murdering you?

If you're going to abolish the police, you better have a good replacement because this is a country that has more guns than brains.

The system is broken, so you fix it. You don't go on macho tirade about how other people are wrong because you have an insanely bad idea.

The standing legal precedent is that the police have no moral or legal obligation to defend you or your property from any one of any thing, much less a spree shooter. Their job is to enforce the racial caste system and protect capital. If you got rid of the police, the only people whose lives would meaningfully change would be the rich people, because most people are bound by the law but not served by it. The legal system has nothing to do with preventing crime or punishing people for commiting crimes, it's all about social control, and when you look at it through that lens a lot of things make more sense.

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



Agean90 posted:

Remember when the FBI received several reports of a chud about to do a school shooting and didn't do anything about it.

The cops are not here to protect you and the assumption that they are is pure fsntasy

then they did a ride along on the tow truck to keep a tarp over that van to make sure nobody thought this guy was a right wing terrorist lmao

Tetrabor
Oct 14, 2018

Eight points of contact at all times!

Serf posted:

the system actively resists all attempts to fix it. it has to be destroyed and something else has to be made in its place

With what?

The only reason why we don't have pure anarchy is because we have three institutions of law that protect us, remove one and people will have no reason to follow any semblance of morality.

All I'm seeing is whining with no suggestions to fix the broken issue.

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Halloween Jack
Sep 12, 2003
I WILL CUT OFF BOTH OF MY ARMS BEFORE I VOTE FOR ANYONE THAT IS MORE POPULAR THAN BERNIE!!!!!

Tetrabor posted:

What gently caress is it with anarchists and wanting to remove systems that prevent chuds from going on shooting sprees, who's going to stop Chad the Nazi from murdering you?

Hey, remember that time the Proud Boys worked out an agreement with the police in Portland so that they'd basically have a special Nazi door into a protest zone, so they could show up with weapons and beat people unopposed?

Hey, remember that time the left wing protesters in Murfreesboro, TN got patted down twice and had all their personal effects confiscated, while the Nazis were allowed to take the field with sticks and signs?

Hey, remember when Unite the Right 2 happened, and barely any fascists showed up, and it was just an excuse to flood the city with riot cops to corral left-wing protesters?

Hey, remember that cop who got outed as having Nazi tattoos? And that other time? And that other time? And that other time? And that other time? And that other time? And that other time? And that other time? And that other time? And that other time? And that other time? And that other time? And that other time? And that other time? And that other time? And that other time? And that other time? And that other time? And that other time? And that other time? And that other time? And that other time? And that other time? And that other time? And that other time? And that other time? And that other time?

quote:

If you're going to abolish the police, you better have a good replacement because this is a country that has more guns than brains.

The system is broken, so you fix it. You don't go on macho tirade about how other people are wrong because you have an insanely bad idea.
This isn't hard. I mean, you're dumb as poo poo, but this isn't that hard to understand.

Policing and prisons are based on oppression. In a just society, we'd still need wardens of the public good, and some people would still have to be institutionalized against their will. But this wouldn't take the form of an occupying and terrorizing force, shunting people into a system of slave labour. Just policing would be so different from what police and prisons actually are in this country that you couldn't rightly call them the same thing at all.

And this can't happen by reforming the existing system. New systems have to be built from the ground up. And it has to be done in tandem with ending economic oppression and de facto segregation.

Tetrabor posted:

With what?

The only reason why we don't have pure anarchy is because we have three institutions of law that protect us,
Who is "us" in this scenario?

It's not Ferguson, it's not Flint, it's not Chicago, it's not Portland, it's not Charlottesville.

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