• Munrock ☭@lemmygrad.ml
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    6 months ago

    I love that they’re banning it on National Security grounds.

    They gave Hong Kong so much shit for banning “Glory to Hong Kong” for the same reason.

    The difference is, no one’s humming Friendly Father in South Korea while lighting people on fire, blockading hospitals, stabbing police or turning university campuses into bomb factories.

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        6 months ago

        Police are an arm of state power. If you think ACAB includes cops in China, DPRK, or any other AES state then you probably haven’t met them.

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          6 months ago

          policing and prisons are ineffective at achieving their stated goals, and the human cost of their failures is immense.

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            6 months ago

            Your canned response ignores the point you’re replying to. Police are fundamentally different in AES states because they serve fundamentally different governments which have different class interests.

            ETA: No one here would be saying lib protestors looked based for stabbing Cuban or Vietnamese cops. Saying it’s different for Chinese cops implies China isn’t AES.

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              “different” sure, different enough that they don’t need abolishing, no. or do you think “police abolition” was just a call for reform and rebranding?