PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]

Anarchist, autistic, engineer, and Certified Professional Life-Regretter. If you got a brick of text, don’t be alarmed; that’s normal.

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  • Yeah. They definitely are biased towards the cops, probably because that’s where they get most of their information from when writing the scripts.

    I watch them anyways, but with a healthy dose of skepticism. I really wish there was an explicitly anti-cop true crime channel.

    Ironically I usually end up leaving those videos still irritated at police for failing to do even the most basic detective work. But I also used to watch COPS as a kid because even back then I was like “what the fuck are these pigs doing, what a bunch of monsters” but then I later found out that it was supposed to make cops look good? Like really?!? 😆












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    23 days ago

    I argue that it is, in fact, a right-wing framing 😁. It’s a liberal framing, and liberals are right-wing.

    “Defunding the police” is a liberal distortion of “abolishing the police”. Defunding the police uncritically reinforces the notion that police are a necessary part of a free society, but only need to be “debloated”. The militarization of police is not a bug; it’s a feature! It’s the police evolving into exactly what they are meant to be.

    And the defunding the police issue perfectly reveals why liberals are right-wing: because liberals do not object to capitalism. The primary purpose of police is to deploy violence against the subjects in order to maintain capitalism—an oppression liberals have no problem with. Sure they are the left-wing of capital in the United States, but that still makes them right-wing in the large because they advocate for the unjustifiable hierarchy of capitalism and the existence of police to enforce that power.


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    Cops don’t even keep the peace. What peace is there to be had if you have no money? The cops are trained to deal violence on behalf of the rich. Their training and experience is inextricably linked to the objective of preserving capitalism, and is therefore useless for whatever comes afterward.

    For these reasons, we need to fully abolish the police while simultaneously establishing alternative systems outside and in opposition to the State to keep each other safe.

    Never capitulate to right-wing framings.






  • I watch a lot of true crime. Over the years I’ve come to the conclusion that the cops are just really shitty at anything that isn’t just violence, so they rarely do good detective work even when someone gets hurt or killed either. So many cases are ruined by sloppy or negligent detective work that we know about. Since we know that the cops are systematically not doing the detective work for most other crimes, imagine how bad it is for violent crimes and they just don’t keep track…