cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/23769089
Reminder: police unions are not worker unions
this post was submitted on 21 Dec 2024
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One thing is for sure donuts would go missing right there immediately.
Unemployment is at 3%! Who is crossing the strike lines to work at Amazon of all places?
If unemployment is so low then why can't I find a god damn job? I've been searching since October!
You can find jobs, just not careers. Lower your standards and their are infinite shit jobs that you can take.
Why do they all look like Mario?
They do behave aweful a lot like an occupation force
See guys? Together anything is possible!
Do we still have to keep calling their gangs, "unions"? Clearly they have zero interest in class solidarity, and have only reinforced the reality that they exist to protect capital.
Throw a brick.
Yes, from the back of the crowd where the only blame is one out of twenty people. Where else?
Shouldn't people be boycotting Amazon, otherwise working people are hanging themselves with the rope they bought and brought to the party.
Spread out that spend, but being a discerning consumer will only take us so far.
At least some of us have already.
im sure they are just trying to prevent legal protester from leveling before they get beat. ACAB
AACAB
Bastards and scabs. Itβs a good look
Imagine complaining about people taking a job to support their family, instead of taking that job for themselves and doing it "the way it should be done". If you actually wanna change the system, you might wanna try to take control of it first.
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills when people beat the drum about cops enforcing the laws we tell them to enforce.
Did all of you sleep through Civics?
Union busting is illegal
Yes, but crossing a picket line isn't.
Did you ever study labour history in the US?
No because they don't teach to peasants haja
The irony of you using "peasant" as a slur in a pro-labor conversation...
In tejas that's called being direct!
Main issue in US is that all these plebs think they are "middle" class when really they are one adverse medical event of bking the family.
Police are unionized lmao. Let's break up that union and see how they like it. They should be on our side but the fucking cowards bent the knee. I'm not the least but surprised, it's no longer the police but a gang of violent goons protecting the elite.
I wish the irony wasn't lost on them as having the police as allies would do us all a lot of good.
I floated the idea to someone that we should make police unions responsible for any legal payouts when a cop is found at fault and there is a civil payout. The police won't hold themselves accountable and they don't even have to pay and fines. The tax payers do. Making the police unions pay would give them incentive to actually cut ties with bad cops.
I was told that was a terrible idea and the fastest way to bankrupt the police. I didn't see the problem.
Oh no, the police going bankrupt. The horror!
They're not smart enough to take sides. They just do what they're told.
They just do what theyβre told.
That, and they do what they are well paid to do.
And what they can get away with!
Fucking class traitors
This is why strikes are so important.
They remind the workers who's side the cops are really on in the class war.
Not only are all cops bastards, Cops are class traitors. Police unions should not be allowed.
class traitors
Daily reminder that cops are not working class
I would say the majority of cops, in America, are firmly in the working class, financially speaking. Unless you've got some theory reason for why police are excluded from the proletariat or something. Which I don't know if I'd argue with. They exist to protect capital.
Do you mean they arenβt working class cause theyβre cops, or cause yours make a lot of money?
Ours make shit money, and class is inherited.
Idk, in my estimation they ARE working class, which is precisely why they are class traitors
Cops of overpaid pos idiots
If this doesn't tell you how much of the authority, your local police, are in the back pockets of corporations. Then nothing will.
That's supposed to be NYC's finest? They look like lazy mall cops. Sloppy as hell, out of shape, and disorganized.
Well, they are as fine as it gets. Which just happens to be not a lot.
Remove the police union see how they like it.
Shockingly, they're all fat useless pieces of shit too.
ACAB
Class traitors, every single one
Pigs will always protect capital
Itβs something to do with why they were invented.
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Foot soldiers of capital doing the one thing they're paid for.
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