When I walk into the mall and see Christmas decorations up the day after Halloween, I feel the same way Hamlet did when his mom married his annoying uncle so shortly after his father’s death.
Here’s the thing: if the Republicans don’t suffer significant losses in the midterms, then they will interpret this as meaning that the racism and the xenophobia and the scapegoating of Jews and muslims and transgender people are winning propositions, and they will double down on all of these things. Yes the Democrats are frustratingly mediocre, and it sucks. But things still have a LOT of room to get worse.
not to be controversial but the reason they wont pass a law saying that people with a history of domestic violence arent legally allowed to purchase a gun is bc half of the police force would no longer be legally allowed to hold their jobs.
this ain’t tea this is hennessy
based on reporting, 10% of families in the general population endure domestic violence.
escaping abusive partners in law enforcement is made particularly difficult for these victims, because police officers
are armed
know the otherwise confidential locations of domestic abuse shelters
are able to game the system in order to avoid punishment
are often friends with the very officers who would be called to assist in a domestic situation
and can sometimes redirect blame onto the victims—one of my coworkers knows someone whose spouse was a cop who got her arrested for kidnapping when she fled with her children.
Same reason they don’t treat rape like a real crime – if they did, half the cops, male lawyers and male judges would be forced to think of their own fraternity hijinks as crimes and they can’t have that.
Keep the fucking cops outta our synagogues. That’s not gonna help at all besides alienate black and brown Jews, trans Jews, and other intersectionally marginalized Jews more and put the whole community further on edge
Cops can’t and won’t save us, white supremacists are in the force.
Okay. We’ve gotten a lot of replies to this post from people like @halfwitwolf or @sideshowaarti who are ignorant or confused on the subject, and many more who are intensional boot lickers, so let’s make our position clear.
Cops exist as an institution to feed into the legal system, ensuring the prisons maintain population and ensuring that civilians are subjected to state violence. The rich are essentially immune to these punishments. The enforcement is lopsided against minorities, and then the legal structure is ALSO lopsided. On top of that, the laws themselves are lopsided. Every single cop – regardless of their individual details – are the actors of state violence and, by definition, carry out the most direct front ofbcivilian contact with oppression. Every single cop upholds every single form of oppression because the law is oppressive, the legal systems are oppressive, the prisons are oppressive and the state is oppressive. A black cop is still upholding and enforcing white supremacy, no matter how much he deluded himself into thinking that he’s “changing it from within”. We don’t want representation in the police force – the police force is oppressive by definition. It’s domestic state violence. They are the footmen of enforcing bourgeoisie sensibilities and desires at the expense of everyone. It’s the same with the military. We don’t want “diversity” in the military – the military’s only real function is imperialism and murderong millions abroad in the name of securing profits and markets for the capitalists to benefit from. A black soldier is still shooting kids in the Middle East, him being black changes NOTHING. A gay cop is still participating in class warfare on the side of the bourgeoisie, working against her own community and other marginalized communities.
All cops, every single one, are bastards. They are class traitors and “diverse” cops is the most ridiculously liberal bull crap. Individuals cannot and do not disrupt the systematic nature of oppression from within the system. Individual cops are irrelevant, and ones thinking they’re good apples are the biggest fools of all.
I wish i could find this one article written in I believe the 90’s that went under the radar on abortion. The author said that the “life” arguments are basically useless on either side and what actually matters is that humans shouldn’t have a right to use other human bodies as a resource without consent no matter how alive or sentient they are, even if they’re on the brink of death you have the right to deny them access to you. It probably was too radical for pro-choice activists back in those days but like…that’s the most robust arguement lol so we need 2 being that back and dead the pontifications and splitting hairs about “life” in my honest onion
I found it. Actually, it was written in the 70’s. She was way ahead of the curve.
The article is ‘A Defense of Abortion’ by Judith Jarvis Thomson. Essential reading!
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