Still a cop, still a bastard.
“All cops are bastards” means “All cops are bastards”, no exceptions. Simply put: even the most polite, most protocol-abiding, most progressive-coded police officer still ultimately serves to impose the will of the capitalist class upon the working class. Rarely do they ever protect, rarely do they ever even make the situation better, and the rare times that they do anything positive are basically when calling a monster with a gun is better than calling no one at all.
It’s not a “barrel of apples” situation. It’s more like a barrel of radioactive waste: some of it might be less bad than the rest, but ultimately we need to get the whole barrel as far away from humanity as possible forever.
It’s that the police are categorically a bad thing. It literally does not matter what else a cop does, as long as the individual is still a cop and still have cop powers and privileges, then like all other cops, they are bastards.
Dude got beaten by his fellow officers.
That sucks and that shouldn’t have happened. But he still went back into policing, even becoming an arch-cop. So fuck him.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I mean that same argument also applies to any positions of power. Politicans are also responsible for this. cops are just the lowest ranking pawn, the politicians and oligarchs are the ones running the show. “ACAB” is an easy sentinment to latch on to, but it sounds like just a diversion so the working class forgets about the real issue.
Fuck the politicians. Fuck billionaires.
If cops = the gangsters/thugs on the street;
Then politicians = mob-bosses
If you hate cops, fine, I don’t really have sympathy for them, but you should hate the rulling class 100x more.
If you kill a cop, another one will replace them, nothing changes.
If you kill a tyrant, however, maybe things can change for the better.
Its the same during war. People like the hate the pawns but forget who the real enemies are.
That is not to absolve the pawns for playing their roles as pawns, its a reminder to redirect you focus from merely “ACAB” and instead focus on “Eat The Rich”.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
Okay but what on earth makes you think I’m not focusing on eating the rich?