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ALL cops you say?

I have many friends and family who have joined the Scottish Police and given years of their lives to serving their communities, risking their own lives and health. Should I say fuck them too?

I joined the police for six months before deciding it wasn’t the career for me and got back into charity work. Are you saying Fuck Me now or just for the six months I was in? Did my fuckery expire?

How can thousands, millions of people doing a job be reduced to such a binary sentiment.

Thanks for sharing our pain. I don’t understand how people pretend that Europe isn’t going thru the same stuff like we are in the US.

Inflation, migration debates, cost of living crises, rise of authoritarianism, income inequality, all of this is and has been global. Some places affected more than others depending on what you look at.

Haha sounds about right!

Is this based on actual event or is it a general joke?

Or the recent wins of fascist parties in Europe.

It's the best way to sow division. Put everyone into discrete groups and tell them that the other groups are bad.

Yep. I can remember not too long ago that French police blinded people when dealing with the yellow jacket riots. Also the president's bodyguard being there dressed as a cop and hospitalised someone instead of protecting the president. There's also the murder of Stephen Lawrence in the UK and every year here there's multiple cops charged with raping women or using excessive force against a minority.

Cops are shit everywhere.

Not sure about you, but I'll take workers reminding everyone who is in charge and how democracy works over cops constantly shooting the innocent - people, dogs, whatever, and generally carrying on like thugs.

Certified European here, can confirm individual member states and EU as a whole as not being a utopia.

Especially us Dutch folks who have been fucked over and held hostage by a waaay to large upper middle class for years. To the point where we've managed to abolish the ministry of housing, open up the housing market to foreign investors, replace a functioning healthcare system with a healthcare market where insurance firms rule with an iron fist and demand more bureacracy than actual care being provided.

... and the list goes on.

It's a worldwide symptom of economic unequality and the decrease in social skills stemming from the fact that we live our lives increasingly isolated in our own online social bubbles. We're turning increasingly hostile towards each other because we're no longer confronted with all people and perspectives in our surroundings, but just the ones we like.

The United States, being a large country filled with very diverse people, despite all being taught to "love America", still deals with Nebraskan farmers having wildly different wants and needs, and way different social standards than the Californian yuppies.

You're a large country, with 334 million people spread out over a vast amount of land. Meanwhile, we're 18 million living on a patch of marshy land roughly 3/4th the size of West Virgina, and we're further from being united than ever before. The fact that you're even holding together as a country is nothing short of amazing considering the fact that your political systems probably cause way more chaos than ours do.

A lot of Europeans probably mean it when they say "How are you even a country?". And it's not so much an attack on the American people as a whole (though some of y'all deserve to be made fun of), but geniuine amazement at the fact that it has more or less held together since 1776.

It's probably because French citizens are smart enough to put their own well-being before their governing powers well-being.

Yeah we've been together for 200 years, but it's not going well at all.

between being a civilian and being a Police officer

Also, in Europe, police are considered to be a part of civilian society. Here, "civilian" means "not part of the military". Police officers are civilians.

We're younger than the US though.

It was the same with the original development of the country.

The difference is apparent when compared to Canada.

In Canada the pioneers were led or joined by the police, the newly created Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Law and order arrived either before or with the new pioneers.

In the US, it was the other way around. Pioneers went west without any officials, police or law enforcement. Pioneers dealt with everything by the force of a gun. Whoever had a gun was the one with power and controlled everything ..... you could be a good moral person and lead a community or you could be a gang leader, decrepit, immoral and unjust, as long as you had a gun, you could do whatever you wanted.

It's not a thing where I live. There's going to be other countries where the police operate like a gang, but it's just not the case in almost all OECD countries. In authoritarian states like Russia and Iran, sure, but in functional democracies, it's just not the case. The USA is a big exception, it must be part of that american exceptionalism thing.