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[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Reminder: Cops are class traitors.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Cops are kept attack dogs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Animal Farm in real life through every generation. The dogs on the farm were the police.

[–] [email protected] 96 points 4 days ago

If this doesn't tell you how much of the authority, your local police, are in the back pockets of corporations. Then nothing will.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 days ago

Reminder: police unions are not worker unions

[–] [email protected] 79 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Not only are all cops bastards, Cops are class traitors. Police unions should not be allowed.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 days ago (4 children)

class traitors

Daily reminder that cops are not working class

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

Idk, in my estimation they ARE working class, which is precisely why they are class traitors

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I would say the majority of cops, in America, are firmly in the working class, financially speaking. Unless you've got some theory reason for why police are excluded from the proletariat or something. Which I don't know if I'd argue with. They exist to protect capital.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 4 days ago

This is why strikes are so important.

They remind the workers who's side the cops are really on in the class war.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 47 points 4 days ago

Class traitors, every single one

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Police are unionized lmao. Let's break up that union and see how they like it. They should be on our side but the fucking cowards bent the knee. I'm not the least but surprised, it's no longer the police but a gang of violent goons protecting the elite.

I wish the irony wasn't lost on them as having the police as allies would do us all a lot of good.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I floated the idea to someone that we should make police unions responsible for any legal payouts when a cop is found at fault and there is a civil payout. The police won't hold themselves accountable and they don't even have to pay the fines. The tax payers do. Making the police unions pay would give them incentive to actually cut ties with bad cops.

I was told that was a terrible idea and the fastest way to bankrupt the police. I didn't see the problem.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

Oh no, the police going bankrupt. The horror!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They're not smart enough to take sides. They just do what they're told.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They just do what they’re told.

That, and they do what they are well paid to do.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Pigs will always protect capital

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

It’s something to do with why they were invented.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 days ago

Foot soldiers of capital doing the one thing they're paid for.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago

Fucking class traitors

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago

Bastards and scabs. It’s a good look

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

They do behave aweful a lot like an occupation force

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Do we still have to keep calling their gangs, "unions"? Clearly they have zero interest in class solidarity, and have only reinforced the reality that they exist to protect capital.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

They have interest in class solidarity in the sense that they have set themselves in a class separate from the majority of the people, and they experience significant solidarity within that class.

But their insular "solidarity" is a shadow of what they could experience if they didn't throw their communities under the bus to appease capital. I find it quite sad, in a way, because capital cares about police officers no more than it cares about me; capital considers them a resource to be exploited, just as it does me. We should be on the same side, but alas.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

the police are now traitors to the american populace.

gross.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Before too, but also now and in the immediate and distant future

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Unemployment is at 3%! Who is crossing the strike lines to work at Amazon of all places?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If unemployment is so low then why can't I find a god damn job? I've been searching since October!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

You can find jobs, just not careers. Lower your standards and their are infinite shit jobs that you can take.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Dude I can't even get hired at a grocery store. I apply and apply and apply to all sorts of shit and nobody ever responds. I've filled out over 100 applications, and all I got out of that was 3 interviews and no offers.

It was easier to find work when I first entered the job market in 2008, right after the economy crashed. The last time I had to look for job was right before COVID, and it was easy as hell. Literally applied to 3 jobs and was hired within 2 weeks. What the hell changed in recent years?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

You are too old/skilled/educated/mobile/employable for non premium works, so the non-premium works take a pass on you.

Dumb down your resume or work for a temp agency for a bit. Pretend you have addiction issues. Be a little emotionally volatile. People will hire you on the basis of, they can potentially exploit you.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Unemployment is a misleading statistic since it only counts people who are or actively looking as members of the workforce. Those who have given up or who just aren't getting any responses at all are considered not to be part of the work force which artificially inflates the employment rate.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

Shockingly, they're all fat useless pieces of shit too.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Shouldn't people be boycotting Amazon, otherwise working people are hanging themselves with the rope they bought and brought to the party.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

But Amazon can deliver that rope free, within two business days!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

As much as possible yeah

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

At least some of us have already.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

Remove the police union see how they like it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

Is it any surprise that a pig is also a scab?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

That's supposed to be NYC's finest? They look like lazy mall cops. Sloppy as hell, out of shape, and disorganized.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Well, they are as fine as it gets. Which just happens to be not a lot.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Fuck Bezos right in the pussy

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