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Portland cops destroy a shitload of property basically every night.

I just get reminded of the Black woman talking about Target and breaking the social contract, though I realize a lot of people don’t.

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Greensboro, NC doesn’t recognize their union and there isn’t a collective bargaining agreement protecting the workers’ rights.

6747

Everytime someone says this I give them this video that explains that there are 3 types of people at protests and to lump them all together is a disservice. And this is a phenomenal video.

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That…is a powerful video. The Monopoly metaphor is spot-on, and so is the argument about the social contract.

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There is a reason my brain goes to that video when people talk about property.

In related news:




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Walter Anonsen is probably regretting his name being first alphabetically.

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Cop - “So I broke into this woman’s house and she had the audacity to defend herself which gave me a license to murder.”

6754

That’s been the mantra of police since probably the Mesopotamian era. It’s just gotten worse over the millennia.

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6756

Ok, sure, this sounds awful, though I wonder why something from three years ago is being brought up now…perhaps to show a long-term pattern?

6757

I think it’s from the report the NYCLU sued to get released, the disciplinary records from New York police agencies or something like that?

6758

What the fuck?!

6759

Ah, that would make sense.

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6761

Just came to post that. Very disturbing, and I’m stunned he’s still alive; the cop shot point blank seven times.

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https://twitter.com/fodderyfodder

This might be worse. The public defender who exposed a lot of police misconduct records- it sounds like the police put out a fake warrant against them and tried to make them “disappear”.

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Cops create an environment where they are hated. This environment prompts people to threaten cops. Cops use those threats to justify their violence. Their violence reinforces the environment of hate. The police have no interest in actually creating an environment where they would be less needed, or where they would be less able to use violence as much as they want. Without the threat and violence cycle, they would be reduced to civil servants, and couldn’t live out their own Dark Knight fantasies.

6764

So would you say (pseudo)fascist superhero fantasies are partly at the root of the cultural problems with the police?

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