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A photo of a brick with the captio “Ballot”. Next to it is a picture of a police car with the caption “Ballot Box”. The brick has an arrow pointing towards the car.

    • Saleh@feddit.org
      111·
      7 days ago

      Stonewall was a party sponsored by big corporations to virtue signal and then all the liberals clapped and the world was good.

      • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        15·
        7 days ago

        stonewall is when a bunch of respectable cis white gays went to the government and politely asked “hey, can we have rights pretty please? 🥺” and the nice democrats said “oh, what an idea! give you rights! why haven’t we thought of this before???” and after that gay marriage was legalized and queer rights were fully achieved. the end 😇

    • Worthess@discuss.online
      615·
      7 days ago

      Google ‘Million Man march’. Or. ‘Civil rights’ movement. Or. Etc. On and on and on. Violence almost always ISN’T the answer. Disregard what ACAB tells you. There ARE good policemen out there. They just get buried because they get tied to anarchy when they speak out, and it’s our duty as good citizens to let them flourish, democracy dies in the dark

      • Milk_Sheikh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        4·
        6 days ago

        Disregard what ACAB tells you. There ARE good policemen out there. They just get buried

        I went for the praxis of ‘be the lack of bullshit you want to see in the world’ and genuinely went to apply at my local PD, did the 12 hour ride along, the whole thing. I bailed immediately after seeing the reality of what modern US law enforcement actually is, on a ‘normal’ day in my safe, well tax-based and developed county.

        It was bullshit. Any pretense of ‘Serve and Protect’ was immediately shattered when after a few hours of running speed traps on downhill slopes and on the periphery of speed limit changes, the cop needed to ‘show activity’ and decide to head over to the trailer park which has known migrants, and laid in wait for an ANPR hit - “hunting over bait” as he called it. And lo and behold (because this clearly wasn’t the first time this worked) it didn’t take long before he nabbed a Hispanic mom taking her kid somewhere. No license, because she’s undocumented, but still has a job and was trying to provide. “The law is the law” so she went to jail, the kid is crying hysterically, CPS gets called, and the entire time the cop is trying to play like he’s helping by intervening. That this is necessary. That she could be a dangerous driver, needs to take the driving test (which is a joke where I live), all while ignoring the reality that she’s not part of the problem. The laws are. We are.

        It is almost impossible to effect meaningful change from within a structure that inwardly rejects oversight and reform, whilst outwardly enforcing policies against a population without compassion or adjustment to the scenario.

        • Worthess@discuss.online
          39·
          7 days ago

          Sigh… in amounts of man-hours, that was 0.3% of the time, reform is what made things better. Much like the Boston tea party was .25 Of peaceful Protest