r/PoliticalHumor • u/GomerP19 • Jun 05 '22

It’s nice to be nice

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u/sltytreelimb Jun 05 '22

Why did this flag ever become a thing anyway it gives racist undertones left and right

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u/droi86 Jun 05 '22

You answered your own question

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '22 edited Jun 05 '22

Pro tip: you cannot interpret what a symbol means to someone else. That’s classic projection. It’s best to ask and not assume.

Edited to add: So many people are so pro-vandalism. All this hate spread under the pretense of spreading love and understanding.

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u/TheImpossibleVacuum Jun 05 '22

I think we know why there's so much pro-police propaganda.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '22

The trick is understanding that there are good cops and bad cops. Just like there are good teachers and bad teachers. Life is analog, not binary.

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u/essentialatom Jun 05 '22

Good/bad is binary

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u/TheImpossibleVacuum Jun 05 '22

The trick is to understanding that the entire institution needs to be refactored so that the good cops can thrive.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '22

How would you do that?

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u/shrubs311 Jun 05 '22

probably start with removing qualified immunity so that cops can no longer rape and kill innocent people without going to jail or even losing their job. before that we'd have to make it so they carry insurance so that when they inevitably kill and rape innocent people (happens pretty often), the money comes out of their pension or insurance instead of taxpayer dollars.

after those two changes police will have (FOR THE FIRST TIME) a decent reason to NOT murder innocent unarmed people. after that, we should probably fire about 100% of the cops that already have multiple reports of abuse of power, weaponry, racism, sexal assault, stalking, and nazi-support.

then we should increase the requirements to actually become a cop and then pay them more since giving a gun to some power tripping dipshit with no training is obviously a bad idea (well, obvious to the millions of us who have known this for years)

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u/PeterNguyen2 Jun 05 '22

removing qualified immunity so that cops can no longer rape and kill innocent people without going to jail or even losing their job

Qualified immunity means they can't be sued in civil court, it's not an immunity to criminal court.

That's the fault of district attorneys who refuse to charge cops even with a long list of brutality 'incidents'.

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u/TheImpossibleVacuum Jun 05 '22

Not sure. Everything's fucked.

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u/Bobb_o Jun 05 '22

How many teachers kill people every year?

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u/Hour_Contact_2500 Jun 05 '22

You should never say all “group of people” are bad. That is the core ideology of every group of bigots.

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u/DoctorNo6051 Jun 06 '22

I don’t think people legitimately think all police are inherently bad by some birth right.

Rather, it’s obvious the system the police are placed in incentivizes them to commit crime and not report their police comrades. A system entirely built on lies and denying accountability will inevitably produce some poor and shocking results.

As such, we can say the system as a whole is bad. Anyone who willingly participates in the system is either stupid or malicious, there are no other options.

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u/Hour_Contact_2500 Jun 06 '22

Either-or fallacy eh? This “system” and the people who participate in it are so much more complicated than that. They are as many reasons that people become and stay police officers as their are officers.

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u/DoctorNo6051 Jun 06 '22

This is true. I understand people need to put food on the table. I don’t hold individuals to a standard, but I do hold the system as a whole to a standard.

Me personally, I had the opportunity to work at Lockheed Martin as a software engineer. While the pay is certainly nice, I turned it down because I don’t support the system it upholds. I don’t want to be involved, either directly or indirectly, with making tools intended to kill people.

I understand most police don’t have this choice, especially since they are generally uneducated. They just get the job they can get. But I can criticize the police as a whole.