cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/15032962

Alt text: a screenshot of a microblog post with the text “you walking down an alleyway with a gram of weed in your pocket, who would you rather catch you?” Below are two pictures side by side. One of Kamala Harris and the other of Batman.

  • tacticalsugar@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    221·
    5 months ago

    She’s not a cop anymore. She was the DA of San Francisco in 2004-2011, and she was the Attorney General of California from 2011-2017. She was responsible for prosecuting people, and lead an effort to police black and poor families harder. She also was directly responsible for transgender inmates having their gender-confirming surgeries withheld. Also remember that time she mocked people chanting “schools not jails”?

          • tacticalsugar@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            6·
            5 months ago

            Do you have anything of value to contribute to the discussion, or is your sole issue that Kamala Harris has not ever actually served on a police force?

            • Alexstarfire@lemmy.worldEnglish
              91·
              5 months ago

              If somehow not serving on a police force makes you a cop then I guess we’re all bastards.

              And yes, that’s really my sole issue. I didn’t think it was going to be controversial to point out that she wasn’t a cop.

              • tacticalsugar@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                4·
                5 months ago

                You do understand that we say “ACAB” because it’s catchier than “I dislike the so-called justice system that does nothing but destroy lives for the state, and that includes cops, lawyers, prosecutors, etc.”, (IDTSCJSTDNBDLFTSATICLPE) right?

                I bet you also say things like “You can’t call everyone you don’t like a nazi, the nazi party ended decades ago!”

                I say this with all the kindness in my heart, please log off and go outside.

          • Superb@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            4·
            5 months ago

            No, prosecutors prosecute. Prosecutors are not literally cops (duh), but they are a very important part of the criminal ”justice” system. Cops couldn’t put people away without their help

      • tacticalsugar@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        7·
        5 months ago

        That doesn’t make her less of a cop though. I don’t even understand your response. You get mad at people trying to push for progress because… Trump is a fascist? I don’t know, your argument doesn’t make sense.

        My choice is easy, because I’m unable to vote due to voter disenfranchisement! But even without that, I’m a chronically ill trans person. I’m unable to get my basic, uncontrolled medication or my HRT because of regressive transphobic and ableist policies that are being made every single day. I don’t really care if it’s Trump or Harris overseeing the trans people being murdered, unhoused, and forced to go without health care.

        Exercise your vote how you wish, but voting is the bare minimum and some of us can’t even do it. Go buy a trans person a pizza or a night in a motel if you want to make the world a materially better place.

        • nublug@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          11·
          5 months ago

          enforcing a ‘don’t talk about voting ever, only encourage not voting’ anarchist community is sus af. not voting isn’t gonna make the govt disappear. not voting is just laying down and saying ‘do with me what you will’. not voting, especially from anarchists, inevitably gives more weight to explicitly fascist votes. i’d like a world without goverment as well, but we aren’t gonna get there not voting nor by banning people from anarchist spaces who advocate for slowing the rise of more violent fascism. material conditions, bud.

          • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            4·
            5 months ago

            enforcing a ‘don’t talk about voting ever, only encourage not voting’ anarchist community is sus af.

            Yeah… That kind of action does not really say “acting in good faith” or seem like supporting anarchic philosophy.

              • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
                3·
                5 months ago

                “Anarchism is when vote”

                In some forms, when needed, yes. See: anarcho-syndicalism.

                What is contrary to most anarchic philosophy is using power over others to suppress voices that express dissent in good faith. In fact, I can’t think of a branch of anarchism where that’s not outright contradictory to central tenets of the philosophy.

                • Ranger@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPMEnglish
                  2·
                  5 months ago

                  In some forms, when needed, yes. See: anarcho-syndicalism.

                  Yes.

                  But how does that even resemble the electoral system we have? I don’t tell people to vote or not & I don’t tell people who to vote for. You all can decided that for yourselves, I’m not your master. The no electioneering rule exist for a few reasons one being to stop drive by comments from people who have zero interest in anarchism from overwhelming people who do & it’s not uncommon in anarchist spaces.

          • Ranger@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPMEnglish
            3·
            5 months ago

            Yes totally that one rule in this little corner of Lemmy is totally the driving force behind the rise of fascism.

          • Superb@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            1·
            5 months ago

            This is the same problem that libertyhub has, its sus as hell there too.

            I get not wanting straight propaganda or canvassing, but no one is allowed to push back when you say don’t vote? Its just sucks :/

    • friend_of_satan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      5 months ago

      A gram of weed would get you a citation at most in SF back then, but most likely some “get that high school shit out of here” comment.

      Source: I lived in SF back then and had friends who had nearly that exact experience.