Not my original content, but something I stand by

    • Melllvar@startrek.website
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      5 months ago

      Shouldn’t we be working against that, though? Isn’t that the whole point of Pride… AND TREK?

        • ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world
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          5 months ago

          wellll… defund the police. Those are very different things. Taking money away from their protection and toys, for example, and putting it into training and non-police personal has been a major point of it.

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            5 months ago

            A policing force that were not fundamentally corrupt in the way police are, would necessarily be an all new organisation with all new people, and it would not be called the police. Abolish the police and replace them with something better.

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              5 months ago

              If the new police, whatever you want to call them, have the power to enforce laws then they will be subject to all the same pressures as current police. Power corrupts!

              The fact remains though is that there’s a very large number of people in the US who want the police to commit the violence they have. They’re voting for the politicians who pass these laws.

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        5 months ago

        neither the point of pride, nor the point of Trek, has anything to do with including your oppressors/keeping your enemies closer. Unless you think Cardassians were the point?