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An international (English speaking) socialist Lemmy community free of the “ML” influence of instances like lemmy.ml and lemmygrad. This is a place for undogmatic shitposting and memes from a progressive, anti-capitalist and truly anti-imperialist perspective, regardless of specific ideology.
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Chiapas: In low-income, low-density population areas without technology, policing is easy. Small towns on the American frontier operated like this for decades. Some still do.
Rojava: Am I taking crazy pills or are you? I thought the SDF had control of the region? Like, full on military occupation...but I know nothing recent, so maybe things changed?
Let's agree, for the sake of keeping the conversation flowing, that ALL cops ARE bastards. Ok, fine. Rapists and murderers are bastards, too. Checks and balances. Let the bastards fight one another. It's the foundational principle of our nation, an entire system of government betting that each and every citizen is, at times, a greedy, selfish, lying prick.
(It's so weird, btw, using "bastards" as a derogatory term. Very elitist. Like, fuck you, my parents' marriage status has no bearing on anything. You're gonna make Jon Snow cry.)
Rapists and murderers are like 0.05% of the population, and police do not stop those crimes from happening. They sometimes arrest someone afterwards, often ignoring sexual assault crimes entirely.
The police will not protect you, we have absolved our duty of protecting the community to a handful of bastards who don’t live in the community and do not have its best interest at hand. Directly empowering community defence works, absolving it does not.
The entire system is fucking broken if you’re basing it on empowering the worst people. That is not human nature, we are extremely altruistic and generally want to see peace for ourselves and others. We have abstracted society to such a degree that we allow governments to do horrible things in our name.
Yes, the system is broken. EVERY system is broken. None are perfect. It's very easy to point out their shortcomings.
It's difficult, though, to construct a system - even in the abstract - that works better.
I'm sorry, I disagree. Very firmly. There are evil people. Broken people. People who feel no empathy, show no mercy. And there are a good deal more people who think they are "good" but are really just passive. See also Nazi Germany.
It's really not, our history is full of better systems. Our current system is relatively recent and is one of the worst things we've made as a species to the point it's going to wipe us out.
You can disagree all you like, but the fact that we form communities, seek out and connect with others, and feel empathy says otherwise.
I didn't mean to imply that ALL people are evil and broken. And sure, even an evil, broken person will seek companionship. We are social creatures. That doesn't make us inherently good creatures, any more than it makes a pack of wolves inherently good.