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[–] RiotDoll@hexbear.net 72 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Derek Chauvin was sin eater for the entirety of the police force. A sacrifice to sate the dogs. Our fascist police state was never gonna give an inch beyond that. ACAB etc.

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago
[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 58 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And the streets are empty.

It really seems like having a Democrat as president demobilizes the masses.

[–] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 45 points 2 months ago

I remember Adam Johnson calling a Democrat admin a pressure release valve for US politics, and it's a very apt metaphor

[–] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 51 points 2 months ago

Well at least Brianna Taylor got some justice in her murder wait hang on

Ah ,well. Nevertheless

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 47 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Ok but have you considered some democrats feel really bad about it, and that this is all caused by Donald Dump not having the police arrest enough people?

Checkmate tankies smuglord

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And don't you tankies realize that the real violence is when you use the word "all" in "all cops are bastards"?

[–] the_post_of_tom_joad@hexbear.net 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lol i had a chud jerking that rope in a thread just a day or 2 ago. You could almost hear how proud he was to have come up with this wisdom

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The civility-brained libs in my life trot this one out all the goddamn time. It's the most thought-terminating of the thought-terminating cliches. They interpret all systemic critiques as "dehumanizing," broad generalizations. It doesn't matter how I phrase it, I absolutely cannot get through to them.

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Chuds (and many liberals) cannot grasp that we do not believe that literally every cop is a spouse-abusing, mega-racist, wanna-be serial killer with a badge; rather, they are all in service to institutions that treat people as being worth less than property, and a system that is designed to protect and elevate the interests of the rich and elite over those of others, and THAT is why they are bastards. That many of them are abusive sociopaths only emphasizes the point, it is not the point itself.

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

we do not believe that literally every cop is a spouse-abusing, mega-racist, wanna-be serial killer with a badge

Speak for yourself lol

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

Eh, there are ones who start off naive and with good intentions

They just tend to get run off, killed, or beaten into line

[–] Vampire@hexbear.net 44 points 2 months ago (1 children)

More deportations under Democrats too.

[–] Pentacat@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months ago

More genocides, or at least, the intensity of genocide has increased dramatically.

[–] Hexamerous@hexbear.net 33 points 2 months ago

You can vote for the jails to be half full or half empty.

[–] StalinStan@hexbear.net 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I am always mad at libs when they talk about harm reduction cause they can never really point to any harms that have been reduced. Cause like, even when they are better about some things they are just the same or worse on others

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It is almost like it not a Republican or Democrat problem but an American Problem.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 29 points 2 months ago

I think it's more accurate to say it's both a Republican and Democrat problem. Calling it "an American Problem" instead just mystifies the institutions that are actively perpetuating this.

[–] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

Is this what they meant when they said Biden has a stutter? 🤔🤔🤔

[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 26 points 2 months ago

maybe-later-honey Vote blue, no matter who.

No matter who, you're voting blue. the-democrat the-republican

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months ago

Uh yeah of course. Democrats gotta win and the way to prove that you're winning is to make numbers go up. Any numbers. Doesn't matter what those numbers are or what they represent if they're going up its good smuglord

[–] refolde@hexbear.net 23 points 2 months ago

Okay but Drumpf would have made it even more worser!!!!!

The democrats are just making the HARD DECISION that GET STUFF DONE you loony lefties!!!

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago
[–] GenXen@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

Obligatory:

liberalism

[–] Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

do they actually get worse under dems

or do they just get worse every year no matter what

[–] whogivesashit@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 months ago

Both are true

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

They’re punishing the serfs for getting too uppity in 2020

[–] egg1918@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

And yet I've seen bumper stickers that say refund the police agony-acid

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

the-democrat See, we're tough on crime!

[–] chemicalprophet@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago

ACAB. About to have a first bastard. Freedumb, amirite?

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

It should be emphasized that the cops since George Floyd have beaten, hospitalized and crippled over 1 million Americans

And these are just the reports we know about