this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2023
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

some republicans are good people in the same way some cops are good cops.

... ARAC

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

you got the last letter of the C-word right, but it's one letter too short.

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

All Republicans Are Chops

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

Somehow less awkward than if he got it right...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Good analogy. Imagine if there were no good cops

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

There are a few but we must assume all cops are bastards as a matter of self defence because the consequences of being wrong about it are atrocious. But you know that, don't you?

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

I do but I’m open to there being good ones. Assume they’re bad but be open to the idea there might be good ones

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

Any individual cop may prove they specifically are not bad right now, but keep your guard up because it only takes a bad day to change that, and/or the system and constant exposure to bad cops and stupid laws and criminals to grind them down

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

unfortunately, I entirely lack imagination. happily, however, this is not a case where one is needed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah but they are stupid. Its the same in my country. People are simply sheep so they vote for the person who they see the most in ads and thats the guy who distroyed our economy and does racist and homophobic stuff...

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

How can something so vague and superfluous be reality shattering?

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

The good ones are usually very misguided people, oblivious to what they are really up to in my experience.

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

It's hilariously ridiculous to know that those who downvoted this post can not accept such a simple reality.

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

It is odd to observe. It’s like the idea of being right or wrong has zero nuance to these people and the only viewpoint is being 100% right about everything but then again, may be I’m wrong about that

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Every person who think that their vote (in a representative democracy) matters, is a victim of the illusion of universal participation in the use of institutional coercion, that is, the state.

However, what makes the state different from other coercive entities, such as organized crime groups, is that it enjoys some form of popular legitimacy. In other words, in addition to enslaving its inhabitants physically, it needs to secure their mental servitude as well.

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