Suicide by obedience

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• BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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  • Rooskie91@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • tootoughtoremember@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Intelligent people don’t join such professions and even if they tried these institutions intentionally filter them out.

      That’s not it either.

      It might not be just that, but it is that too.

      Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops

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  • Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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• OldSageRick@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Thats like… THE thing of the army, shut up, follow orders of your superiors without question

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  • ddplf@szmer.info ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No no, you don’t understand, it makes you A MAN. And a sub. A manly sub, which is very good.

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    • Thrydwulf@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Manly sub

      My manwich! — Hermes

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    • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Can I get a tuna sub?

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  • ashenone@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They ain’t called jarheads for nothing

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  • NannerBanner@literature.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    American soldiers are taught to be thinkers, and reject unlawful orders!!!

    -some patriot somewhere at sometime in some comment area

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    • OldSageRick@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Image

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• Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Australia has a department of defence. The biggest threat to Australia is climate change. The department of defence should be defending us from climate change.

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• uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I suspect that intelligence and education are no longer prerequisites for law enforcement work as they were (more so, at least) in the late 20th century. The police unions of the 21st century seem to prefer officers who shoot first and think later.

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  • rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Intelligence has never been a prerequisite for police work. Police departments openly reject people who score too high on intelligence tests.

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    • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In the 1970s, some departments prized their detectives and investigators, and there was more of an interest in using forensic science that was sound to identify and convict a culprit. That sentiment had certainly waned by the 1990s.

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• khaleer@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Like if police accept people who can think for themselves lol

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• Malyca@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Or their kid’s lives, or their friends and family. No one. No one in this country gives a shit.

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• DempstersBox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Solid take

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• stickyprimer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We had an election not long ago where I live and I voted against my interests again. I’m an affluent homeowner but I voted for greater flexibility for new housing construction projects rather than be a fucking NIMBY and worry about my property value. I also voted down a sales tax because it’s regressive and hurts people poorer than me the most, even though I know the county will seek that money via property or business taxes next, which I will pay.

  As I did all this I thought about how we lambaste Trumpers for voting against their own interests. I still haven’t thought the issue through enough but I understood at least that people are sometimes willing to vote for a principle which will come at a price for them personally. So we can’t just categorically dismiss this behavior as always dumb.

  I did it to help other people and Trumpers tend to do it to hurt other people, so it’s very different, but still an interesting topic.

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