Charlotte WalkerObviously the police force attracts people who enjoy exercising brutal power over others, but seriously, who follows orders to bodily arrest frail octogenarian women for holding pieces of cardboard and doesn’t think, “OK, this is just stupid now, and I want no part of it”?
2xfo@purplepadma@beige.party
If you have the capacity to make that judgement, i suspect the police force won't want you?
Nicole Parsons@purplepadma@beige.party
In the USA, they're paying people to be cruel.
Such people in ICE get $30,000 dollars in bonuses to accomplish a fossil fuel funded fascist hijacking of democracy.
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/07/nx-s1-5494724/ice-is-recruiting-federal-workers-offering-bonuses-to-hire-thousands-of-workers
The fossil fuel industry is funding anti-protest laws.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/25/fossil-fuel-company-donate-lawmakers-anti-protest-exxon-koch
https://www.salon.com/2021/05/25/how-so-called-libertarian-charles-koch-drove-a-national-wave-of-anti-protest-laws/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/26/anti-protest-laws-fossil-fuel-lobby
https://scholars.duke.edu/publication/1560894
The fossil fuel industry is funding anti-immigrant raids.
https://www.iatse728.org/about/news/employers-weaponizing-ice-against-workers
https://www.vice.com/en/article/im-a-mother-of-four-palantirs-tech-helped-put-me-in-an-ice-detention-center/
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/07/749243985/mississippi-immigration-raids-net-hundreds-of-workers
TanekRune@purplepadma@beige.party
"Gee, I do sure love being a big strong man who menaces grandmothers! I bet mine sure is proud of me right now!"