ACAB, especially that bastard relative of yours.

The capitalist state and it’s forces in the form of Police and Military primarily exist to protect the private property of the rich. All other functions are secondary.

  • ggleblanc@kbin.social
    11·
    1 year ago

    That said, [the police’s] main job at the moment is to protect hoarders of wealth from the social consequences of wealth hoarding.

    We are all wealth hoarders. What are the social consequences of wealth hoarding? Is it okay to steal? How much does a person have to have before it’s okay to steal? Most of the people of the world live on a couple of US dollars a day. Is it okay for them to steal your wallet when you have 40 dollars?

    • Sharkwellington@lemmy.oneEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Sealioning (also sea-lioning and sea lioning) is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity (“I’m just trying to have a debate”), and feigning ignorance of the subject matter. It may take the form of “incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate”, and has been likened to a denial-of-service attack targeted at human beings. The term originated with a 2014 strip of the webcomic Wondermark by David Malki, which The Independent called “the most apt description of Twitter you’ll ever see”.

      • dtc@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Wow you just described all the conservatives I’ve ever talked with.

      • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
        11·
        8 months ago

        As an aside, i still remember someone on reddit going off their shits accusing me of sealioning when they kept spewing out highly specific buzzwords and i kept very genuinely asking them what the everloving fuck they were on about.

        Not to mention that accusatory shit gets…problematic with people who are ASD.

        Either respond to the question or ‘nah bro’. Not every thing needs to be high dramatics.

    • chaogomu@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      If you have $40 to your name, the cops are just much more likely to beat you and take it, than they are to protect you from someone else taking it.

      Cops don’t actually spend much time on solving crimes, they mostly spend their time ticketing and harassing the poor in favor of the rich.