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Plsik

@Radical_EgoCom Sorry, buddy, I got bad feelings too. Anger, hatred. But I don't support it.
When they work at the point of contact with the police as a de-escalator, as a peacemaker, then they need to be wise and careful. Not under the tow of hate. Hate and wisdom cannot be together.

12 January at 15:50 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social
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𝗖 𝗔 𝗧

@plsik
There are plenty of reasons to hate the police. They don't protect us (unless you're rich), they only exist to protect private property and maintain social hierarchies, the hierarchical nature of the police always results in abuses of power and police brutality, and there are much better alternative models for community safety that can only be achieved without the police, (decentralized, community-based approaches that prioritize cooperation, mediation, and restorative justice).

12 January at 16:03 | Open on mastodon.social
Plsik

@Radical_EgoCom These are observations, facts. You know when the police are doing something wrong and when they shouldn't even be there. But that's no reason for me to hate.

In my country recently a mentally ill person went to university with a very powerful long gun. He had other guns and ammo with him. He killed a total of 3 people before that and 14 more at the university.

12 January at 16:44 | Open on mastodon.social
Plsik

@Radical_EgoCom
The cops to stop him quickly went into the building without ballistic protection, but even those who went after ICH knew his gun would shoot through normal ballistic protection. They risked their lives to save people on campus. Life isn't so simple that I can hate one group of people and love another

12 January at 16:45 | Open on mastodon.social
𝗖 𝗔 𝗧

@plsik
I express hatred towards the police, not because all individual police officers are inherently bad people, but rather due all police officers contributing to the system of oppression that is the state. I'm absolutely positive that all soldier in Nazi Germany weren't individually bad people, and they probably had the same goals and aspirations as all of us, but I hate them all because, whether they realized it or not, they were participating in an evil system.

12 January at 16:51 | Open on mastodon.social
Plsik

@Radical_EgoCom I apologize for the lousy translation.
If they're working at the point of contact with the police, then hate is a completely unworkable concept. Ineffective.

In my day job, they work with the police (working with homeless people). Some are good, some are assholes.

12 January at 17:03 | Open on mastodon.social
Plsik

@Radical_EgoCom If I'm at a protest, a demonstration, then I'm on the other side of the barricade. But even then, negotiating with the cops is better if they treat them like people doing their job. In my country it's not very good, but it's not very bad either. We can work together, or we can harm each other. We're gonna create this, in the moment.

12 January at 17:03 | Open on mastodon.social
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@plsik
I can't more adamantly express the feasibility of negotiating with the police over inherent systemic issues within law enforcement. The police, as an institution, function to uphold existing power structures and capitalist interests, making genuine negotiation challenging, id not impossible. Meaningful change requires challenging and dismantling the existing system, rather than engaging in negotiations within a framework that inherently perpetuates inequality and hierarchy.

12 January at 17:09 | Open on mastodon.social
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