• Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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      8 hours ago

      Who does he work for? Why do 1 in 5 black men in the US spend some time in jail or prison? Why are US drug laws the way they are, that mostly are tools to lock up black men?

    • Hadriscus@lemm.ee
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      10 hours ago

      This kind of meme, as well as ‘ACAB’, calls out systemic issues. I agree that you can punctually do good as an individual cop, but you are still going to be controlled by and subjected to a fascist organization, participate in their quotas, arrest people for breaking arbitrary and racist laws, and so on. Also anyone can internalize racism, as recently evidenced by that poor lieutenant governor Robinson.

  • Eevoltic [she/her]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Never stop posting, Hamid. These are great. I especially love it when you piss off a bunch of cop lovers, gets me every time! (Although seems like most of them have blocked you already… shame)

    ACAB

  • Harvey656@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    This one made me spit my food out, I’m at a restaurant casually scrolling Lemmy lol.

    Edit: this is my 500th comment. Woohoo.

  • RiQuY@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    Wait till you learn how people dress up to celebrate Holy Week in Spain. 😂

      • RiQuY@lemm.ee
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        20 hours ago

        Yes, the meaning is totally different but I find very funny that both use the same clothing.

  • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Whenever I hear “but how can the police be racist if there are so many black officers?!” I think of this line from NWA:

    But don’t let it be a black and a white one

    ’Cause they’ll slam ya down to the street top

    Black police showing out for the white cop

    • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca
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      2 days ago

      Who the fuck “works forces”? That line’s been bothering me since the first Matrix movie.

      It’s just poor grammar; put together for a snappy lyric, and everybody repeats this selfsame line on every single ACAB thread without even thinking about it.

      Fuck!

        • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca
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          1 day ago

          True, and even that Kyle Wren guy’s lightsaber was a burning cross; I think we’re on to something here

        • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca
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          2 days ago

          Did you read my whole diatribe or just react to the first five words?

          Maybe I’m the one that can’t read English. Can you point out to me, where exactly within the definition you linked to me does it say the proper pronoun to refer to these bastards is ‘force-worker’?

          What I’m saying is that the grammar is fucked. Nobody says, ‘Remember Ted? He works forces now.’ No, they’ll say, ‘Remember Ted? He’s a fuckin’ pig now.’

          • Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml
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            2 days ago

            “Working the forces” is a colloquial way to refer to doing police work. It’s just missing a “the”, calm down.

          • lemmyman@lemmy.world
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            2 days ago

            I read the whole diatribe at least three times before responding.

            The grammar pedantry is just silly, it’s fucking song lyrics, have you listened to music before? Read a poem? Liberties are taken, and that’s that.

            the reason the line is repeated so often is because it is unique and atypical (deriving from its “poor grammar”), and therefore recognizable

            Try it out - “some cops are kkk members.” Not as catchy or iconic, sorry.

            • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca
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              1 day ago

              All they had to add was the word “in”; barely a silly bull

              “Some of those that work in forces, are the same that burn crosses”

              But noooo that would be too much work!

              Well, let me tell you sonny jim, no revolution is won by laziness! Anyone whose played Dance Dance Revolution can tell you that.