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    7 days ago

    I’m noticing a trend whenever something evil happens that was caused by Christian theocrats, Americans feel the need to compare them to fascist “Islamist” groups.

    what’s the point when you’d have much more impact focusing on your homegrown fascists? I’m not saying people can’t criticize Hamas, but it amounts to nothing more than posturing because they’re not in charge of your society.

    maybe the joke would work better if you replaced Hamas with IOF soldiers because American cops actually do have institutional collaborations with them at all levels.




  • Those power hungry people who WOULD have become cops just to bully people, are just going to do it without a badge, and we’d find ourselves in a modern wild west. Whoever has the gun, will make the rules. Even the facade of regulation we have now would be gone.

    I’m not trying to be rude but this is exactly what’s happening rn in the US with ICE agents and their mercenaries.

    they’re not able to commit the deportations because of a lack of law enforcement, but because laws are inherently racist. this shit started before Trump took power during a “progressive” presidency like Obama’s. most people would probably agree he was following the rules of democracy yet he deported the most people.


  • sorrry, I deleted that lived experience comment because I meant to @ Ryhnoplaz not you.

    so we both agree that lynchings are bad. i fail to see how police still existing helps in any way?

    the same mechanisms that deputize white people to kill Black people are what leads to justifications of the police existing. the way to solve that is through abolishing hierarchies not by creating more. Black people should have an unconditional right to self-defense against racists and the police still existing is a way to prevent that. their argument is that taking justice in your own hands is harmful because white people/cops always know better than the victim.

    also why do we need law enforcement in the first place? the law is inherently arbitrary and is used to criminalize people stealing food to survive and many such things. i think there needs to be a distinction between crime and harm. some crimes are harmless like distributing food and water while some harmful actions like wage theft are not de facto crimes.

    lastly, I’d be curious to find out which criminalities you believe aren’t caused by socioeconomic factors? i don’t see how you could argue for that besides appealing to the human nature fallacy.