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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Are you a bot designed to start inflammatory discussion? Because I see no police apologists.. yet.

Not that it won't happen, it will, but.. why preemptively cause friction? Makes me suspicious of your account when you are posting "right bad" before they even showed up. Weird.

That said, your point is valid, but to me it's also shouting, "I'm a bot here to catalyze disagreements and derail into partisan bickering!"

I suppose there is also a chance a comment was removed? Idk. But I do know 100% that rich folks invest in "division" bots, it makes perfect sense from a chaotic evil PoV.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm not a bot. I insight inflammatory discussions because calling out the right for their lack of humanity is low hanging fruit. I do it because silence is acceptance and I do not accept their bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Fair enough, I agree with you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why don't you have the same anger towards democrats? The majority of them are just as pro cop as conservatives... I mean Biden is more pro cop than Trump so it does seem like you don't actually care about victims of police violence and just want to blame conservatives.

If you want proof just look what happened to all the BLM protests in blue states. They were met with police violence with no accountability or change just like in red states.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Biden is more pro cop than Trump

And yet...

In 2020, the FOP endorsed Trump over Democrat Joe Biden, even though Biden had often won the support of police unions when he was a U.S. senator and vice president. “The FOP is proud to endorse a candidate who calls for law and order across our nation,” FOP president Patrick Yoes wrote of Trump then.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-jan-6-police-unions_n_65d67a16e4b0b65d69218857

It was a familiar sight: “The former president often takes pictures with the police who accompany his motorcade on the campaign trail, and his aides regularly share videos of the interactions on social media to highlight the officers’ support.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/28/us/politics/trump-nypd-officer-wake.html

And then there was the time Trump was president and stood in front of a bunch of cops and told them to rough up suspects... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eVPKpBKGCE

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Why don't you have the same anger towards democrats?

explains why

NOT LIKE THAT!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you a bot designed to start imflammatory discussion?

Because their post has some upvotes and nobody has started any inflammatory discussion on their post other than you accusing them of being a bot.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's bots all the way down 😭

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Except that's not at all what the commentor did. Seems you're stirring up bs for no real reason other than to stir up bs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I did it out of curiosity, but I can see validity in your perspective as well.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you incapable of detecting sarcasm?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What division? That is literally what the GOP does when the police kill someone.

How about we have ourselves a pig fry? Fry a couple of pigs, in front of their brothers and sisters—it would be so great! I’m hungry, are you?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I certainly share that sentiment each time I see a new victim of police brutality.

It's enraging.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Democrats: let's put on these African cloths and pray on one knee while we continue to over fund police and make zero policy changes.

Yeah dems are sooooooo much better on this issue /s

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Well, the one thing I can say is that democrats aren't abolishing civilian oversight. Wasn't that just passed in Florida, Texas, or some other red stronghold? I feel like I saw a conservative governor who banned civilian oversight.

That's certainly one difference. If you want oversight, it's hard to get conservative politicians on board.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Voting Democrat is not choosing your gender, it only has to represent you if you want that, like Trump voters, totally unnecessary.

Voting Democrat is a strategic choice one could make so that their job of helping those in need is easier and less risky (you are working to help others right? or just throwing a wrench to make things harder for others?). Republican cruelty will put those who support Palestine or feed homeless at risk for jail and things like that. Making your own job harder to make a statement nobody will see because it will be drowned out by the presidential results doesn't seem like a very smart thing to do.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh you mean like all the protesters being beat and arrested for protesting the genocide under Biden?

Or all the homeless people being beat and arrested under Biden?

Like do you think no one here has eyes?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You understand the world is not black and white right? Like you are familiar with the word "worse"?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You understand

I'm going to stop you right there and say no, they don't.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know the word "enabling" right? When you keep voting for dems and not holding them accountable you are enabling them to do things like I dunno a Genocide.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Do you think giving up your voice is actually holding them accountable?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

the topic itself is inflammatory because its death meted out arbitrarily by police without process or threat.