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Really shows the degree to which cop unions ARE NOT labor unions.
Am I the only one who is bothered by the fact that these police probably suffer as much as the people they are oppressing?
I don’t think that’s logically a possibility? Not unless the police also have a group of thugs that can assault them without consequence.
Being a lapdog of the capital class has its benefits. The police have some of the strongest unions in the nation and are way way overcompensated for their level of training and education.
Well I meant that they are closer to us than the oligarchy. Their wives work there. They pay more for shipping. That sort of thing.
We cannot have a tiny number of very rich elite without a very large number of working class serving the interests of those rich elite rather than their own.
Security varies. Some are class traitors, some just need that paycheck.
Yes and that’s what annoys me.
Look at those well trained, peak physical condition tubs of lard 😂
The one time you don’t like seeing unionized workers hand in hand
We have worker solidarity at home!
The worker solidarity at home:
And journalist and Democrats still wonder why we fucking hate the police.
Why are they all so fat? Seems like they need to re-up the physical fitness exams.
They brought the tanks out to hold the line
They might be, but it’s also winter and they are wearing big jackets and a bullet proof vest.
Depose
They do this… unless it’s their own union, Then they don’t!
There’s nothing more perverse than a cop union.
Teen Vogue (I know, right?): Police Unions: What to Know and Why They Don’t Belong in the Labor Movement
I’ve been very impressed with Teen Vogue’s quality.
I follow the RSS feed. I don’t care about most of the celebrity stuff but they do a great job covering things like this.
i wonder if it’s because they’re under less pressure from our ruling class since it’s seen as an entertainment rag for teenagers.
Probably onto something there. Teen Vogue doesn’t need to worry about losing access to politicians like WaPo.
Where’s that campus cop with the pepper spray when you need him
Solidarity for Bezos and his yachts, can’t have him suffer from these rabblerousers living paycheque to paycheque taking a stand - NYPD.
Taxpayers. We’re the fucking taxpayers. This is after NY gave Amazon $3.5B in tax breaks.
That’s just how our country works. It’s by design.
They’re just gonna keep taking shit until you see their face on the front page of Lemmy next to a angry looking dude in an orange jumpsuit.
We’re the fucking taxpayers.
That’s the joke of modern capitalist liberal democracy. It’s not the people paying the rents who are in charge. It’s the folks collecting.
Okay, what are they actually specifically doing though? Making a wall so that…?
Looks like they’re making a corridor so that scabs can get in and warehouse supplies can get out. Cops put themselves in between the business and the strikers so that they can treat and conflict with the business as an attack on the “neutral” police.
Israeli settlers employs similar tactics in Gaza. You’ll have civilians go into Palestinian homes and onto Palestinian worksites, set up makeshift structures, and declare the property there’s. Then the IDF hover over their shoulders, ready to open fire on any Palestinian who confronts the settler.
In this case, the cops on the line aren’t the ones you need to worry about. It’s the cops waiting at the APC ready to charge in, crack heads, grab picketers, and drag them to jail if any of the first group cries foul that you have to worry about.
It “looks” like the police are protecting delivery trucks, and blocking strikers from the drive. They’re preventing the strikers from walking across the drive and hindering deliveries.
They’re helping break a strike like good little oligarchy stooges.
Right, but how is what they’re doing breaking the strike?
Im assuming they are opening a gap in the line.
Yes, but I don’t want assumptions. I want facts
I want more people to be able to understand simple things based on context clues.
this the corniest shit I’ve ever fucking seen lmfao
Why is everyone surprised … this what the police have always done against striking workers.
By design they are meant to maintain law and order … not to serve and protect people … the whole ‘serve and protect’ phrase was marketing campaign by the LAPD created by police propaganda in the 1960s and it didn’t have any actual obligation for the police to serve or to protect people … it was just a catchy phrase that made the police sound good when they in fact could do the opposite or nothing at all. But no matter how they treated people, they always throughout history have always consistently protected wealth, property and those with power.
By design they are meant to maintain law and order
Not at all or qualified immunity, officer and prosecutorial discretion wouldn’t exist.
… not to serve and protect people
Correct, they’re asset protection for the highest earners.
If they truly were meant to uphold the law, they would be held to the highest standards of said law and prosecuted for the slightest deviation from it.
Correct.
Nicely summarized in Robocop.
Why is everyone surprised …
Nice to have a bit of physical imagery to wave around when you’re dealing with a liberal who insists police are these neutral non-partisan agents.
Not that it’ll necessarily work, of course. I can already hear some pensioner with a Harris sticker insisting that “um, aktuly, its the union that’s being violent and the police who are being civil and restrained”. But for the younger and more clear-eyed, its a damning current indictment of a system you mostly just read about in history books.
What kind of liberals do you know that would stick up for the police!?
Old people I’d imagine, tho throwing the Liberal blanket on them seems pretty disingenuous. Old folks gonna be old
As is the tradition.
If there was ever any question about who the police truly protect, this should clarify it.
According to the gun control pushed by liberals, they want to rely on these people for their personal safety.
Never thought this, smart
What do you think liberals mean when they say gun control?
Folks who make posts like that are incapable of distinguishing between “we’re coming for your guns” and “we’d like to ensure everyone is a bit safer with their guns.”
Yeah, very much has vibes of “and yet you participate in society, curious! I am very intelligent.”
You watch too much action movies.
