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   𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight" (lana@beige.party)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 07:52:22 JST 𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"

   The fact that:

   1. This election is between a black female cop and a 34-time convicted white male felon

   2. Almost every police union supports the felon

   Should tell you everything you need to know about who the police really serve.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 23-Aug-2024 00:53:30 JST Rich Felker

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     @bmalsuj @janisf Police unions aren't unions because police aren't labor. Police are organized crime and police "unions" play the role of crime family.

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     B’Mal Suj (bmalsuj@ohai.social)'s status on Friday, 23-Aug-2024 00:53:31 JST B’Mal Suj

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     Police unions are the one kind of union, historically, not busted by the cops.

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     Janis (janisf@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 23-Aug-2024 00:53:33 JST Janis

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     @Lana And how unions *can* go bad. It's also telling that just one key union can make the idea of unionization turn sour in the public's mind.

     No for real, it's white dudes and their attachment to their automatic weapons, and that they want, so, so bad, to think they're smart.

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     Church of Jeff (jeffowski@mastodon.world)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 02:34:40 JST Church of Jeff

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     @Lana — need to be brave enough to use all the right hashtags. #ACAB #BluePussies #badcops #policebrutality #policemurder #shootfirst #askquestionslater

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     Log 🪵 (log@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 02:37:12 JST Log 🪵

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     @Lana I have a pithified quote from a lawyer acquaintance that goes "I quit being a prosecutor when I got tired of putting poor people into prisons." The ones who only stopped prosecuting because they got elected to a better office never hit their limit.

     Putting rich people into prisons, on the other hand... if it happened more often, maybe I'd feel more generous to prosecutors.

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     𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight" (lana@beige.party)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 02:37:13 JST 𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"

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     Hey guys, I fully recognize the distinction between a cop and a district attorney, and I agree that the distinction matters.

     I also know that when I write posts, I sometimes have to make an editorial choice between pithiness and total complete accuracy. And in this case, I decided that "cop" was pithier than "authorized agent of the judicial system which systematically brutalizes minorities in ways that are equally horrible but legally distinct from the ways in which police do".

     Okay?

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     v̾i̾t̾r̾i̾o̾l̾i̾x̾ (vitriolix@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 02:37:50 JST v̾i̾t̾r̾i̾o̾l̾i̾x̾

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     @Lana those awful thin blue line copaganda punisher skulls tell you everything else you need to know.

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     Church of Jeff (jeffowski@mastodon.world)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 02:42:11 JST Church of Jeff

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     @vitriolix @Lana — https://ballotpedia.org/Section_6265,_California_Government_Code