• Zink@programming.dev
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    8 hours ago

    I guess when one is in a gold-plated conference room with oligarch friends and you collectively have a couple trillion dollars in assets to “protect,” peeling away a few billion to pay some of the poors to shoot the other poors before they take your shit (or your head) seems like a pretty reasonable business expense.

    When you look at them as the protectors of capital rather than the protectors of the people, it makes a lot more sense.

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      i mean, you dont even have to look at it that way.

      cause it literally is that.

      Police, since the begining, have existed to protect the property of the rich. Not the rights of the poor.

      They’ve literally gone to the supreme court to fight against being held accountable to their own “protect and serve” bullshit.