Comment on Suicide by obedience
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Intelligent people don’t join such professions and even if they tried these institutions intentionally filter them out. They need idiots who would jump into a meat grinder for someone else’s greed, just so they can feel powerful over someone for 5 mins
I’d like to see a breakdown of statistics for cops in the last 20 years
Former military who want that thrill again
Peaked in high school C-student athletes/bullies who want to keep being an asshole
Ties to white supremacy
The 3% who genuinely wanted to keep their cities safe.
Rooskie91@discuss.online 1 week ago
That’s not it either.
It’s people made desperate but hyper-individualistic vulture capitalism. People in desperate need of health care for their along family member. People desperate to put food in their kids mouths. People desperate to pay of their school loans.
I’ve done ICE watch, lived in a city with a heavy police presence, and been in the military. Sure, there are idiots, abusers, and fascists. But the majority are people from marginalized communities looking for their come up in capitalism, or “doing what they gotta do for them and theirs”. The sad reality is the machinery of capitalism turns by the force of the dispossessed more so than any other group. They don’t call it a system of contradictions for nothin’.
That’s why there is no revolution in a world where “it’s not my job to educate xyz group”. If a revolution, or any change, is desired, it’s EVERYONE’S job to educate each other.
tootoughtoremember@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It might not be just that, but it is that too.
Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops