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All cops are bastards but some bastards aren’t cops.
I may have been born out of wedlock, but I'd never become a cop.
There's a tiny blue dot outside the red circle.
Kim Kitsuragi
Kim: No Lieutenant, I'm actually a bastard too. You are as well. Technically, we all are.
Logic: He has a point. 'All' makes no exceptions.
Rhetoric: It's a professional hazard. But that doesn't preclude the existence of a 'good' bastard. You can be it. A communist bastard cop. A bastard for the people.
Not all cops
and that dot very quickly becomes not blue because they are fired.
That blue dot is like quantum fluctuations.
Except that quantum fluctuations only have enough of a chance to get bigger when in a void.
I AM THE BIGGEST COMMUNIST IN THE WHOLE GODDAMN RCM!
No there isn't
Just a tiny one, occupied by a single person
ACABBNABAC
*Euler diagram
To be a Venn it has to show intersection not just overlap.
The Houston Eulers?
not since 1996, apparently. Try Edmonton
(nb: I googled all of this, please don't hold me to any standards w/r/t sports trivia)
Cops are bottom right Bastards? Who's Top Left?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Nazis?
They're the same picture
Not all Nazis are cops
No but they easily could
Cops as well
Fatherless children.
ah, yes. Not all Bastards are Cops
I would assume that the racist circle is so large it can’t be seen in this meme…
I subscribe to the philosophy of Roy.
People. What a bunch of bastards
Great. Now I need to binge that show again. Not that I don't want to. But still.
“'F the Police' but who's stopping you from killing me?” ―Harder Than You Think - Public Enemy
I do believe about 20% of police officers have good intentions and significantly more signed up with that attitude, not knowing that they protect the wealthy elite and crooked politicians more than they uphold democratic values and ethical standards in society.
Unfortunately, probably more of them consider such a career because of the authority it gives them. Therefore I prefer to say that "many cops are bastards"; granted, it doesn't have an equally nice ring to it.
But pretty much none of those cops are protecting me from being murdered. They will investigate who murdered me and fuel the prison-industrial complex. Unless solving my murder is hard. Then all the docs pertaining to my murder case will be put in long-term storage. If cops’ one job was the protection of others/life at all costs, I’d think they were cool.
Intentions vs actions.
All cops are bastards because it doesnt matter what their intentions are when their actions mean they prop up injustice, legal slavery, oppression of the right to protest, and corruption.
Cops enforce what their boss tells them to enforce, as is the way in extremely hierarchical organisations. Their intentions no longer matter, they do as they're told.
But then following your logic, any employee working in a company doing something bad is a bastard.
Don't blame the guys at the bottom of the ladder, blame the system.
This article is a fun read.
The system only works because millions of cogs step in line and allow the machinery of that system to work.
I have been part of a larger evil system. Because where I grew up that's what everyone did, you went into the industry propping up the local economy (oil and gas). As I grew older I learned of the evils of fossil fuels, about climate change, and no longer work in oil and gas. I have no intention of ever doing so again.
So you could quite rightfully call me a bastard. But I left and will never be returning, does that absolve me of the bastard title? I don't know. But while you're actively part of the machinery you're definitely a bastard. Especially if you're the part of the machinery that is systemically racist and assaults and restrains people on a daily basis.
Many Nazis also signed up with good intentions to the Werhmacht
Only if the good cops wouldn't continue shielding the corrupt ones I could agree with 'many cops are bastards'.