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Well, no. There are no good cops because they work within and prop up a broken and corrupt system. How many cops are you seeing stopping the vanishing of civilians and tourists, for example? If you were to step in and try to stop it yourself, how many cops would be by your side, defending you?
It works because these heinous ideas are boiled down into simple orders, and people follow orders. There were well-meaning people within the nazi party as well. I'm sure there were even well-meaning people in the concentration camps, leading people to their deaths, but they weren't good.
That's why all cops are bastards.
By that logic, you're a bastard for thinking democracy is a good system because the US isn't a good example of a democracy and you live in the US. By that logic, you have to defy all orders instead of question them (because you either obey or defy at all times), which is anarchistic at best. By that logic, capitalism is a good thing because it makes innovation profitable and thus desirable by penalizing stagnancy, which is patently false.
Poor people don't choose to live in a society where they have no value, why would a good cop be able to choose to be in a society where all cops are perfect? Why would anyone be able to choose to be in a society where they suffer?
This isn't a policing issue, it's a cultural issue. This is what anarchocapitalism looks like, the inevitable result of a society brainwashed into thinking socialism and communism are the same thing.
I'll give you a hint: The US has never been communist, but everything Trump took from you were socialist government systems that actually (barely) helped combat the money bias. Why? Because capitalism has an end goal, industrial feudalism where you are property of a corporation or a wealthy owner. And right now, the US government and it's police force are even "deporting" white people to El Salvador.
It's not authoritarian to follow rules that seem to make sense, it's authoritarian to say the rules make sense if provided with opposing evidence. Some of the rules still make sense here. That is all I'm saying.
This is true. I've never been a fan of the U.S. and their notion of democracy and freedom has always been gross to me.
Big assumption.
I never said this. If more cops questioned orders, that'd be a good thing. Unquestioningly obeying is part of the problem.
Honestly. I'm too tired to reply to you. You've clearly got a bunch of ideas about who I am and what I think, and I've no idea where you got these ideas from but it sure as heck wasn't my comment. Have a good night.
I think you're a human being, and that not one of the people commenting in this thread seem to care that blanket statements don't help, so why am I not also entitled to make blanket statements like "humans are stubbornly unaccepting to the point of cruelty"?