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[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, read the room. Public opinion of the police is at an all-time low - it's almost like they wanted their message to backfire.

[–] Casmael@geddit.social 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah could be right. No date for the image tho

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was posted to Reddit 2 years ago; obviously that doesn't mean the billboard or the meme is new as of that date, but that's the earliest date a quick search found.

Even so, it's not like public opinion of police was great in 2020, either.

Also, the website is current, so there's that.

[–] Casmael@geddit.social 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah fair. I wonder if they’re self aware enough to understand tbh

[–] totallynotfbi@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

That billboard is probably recent, I went to their website and they prominently display it on their homepage

[–] query@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Chances are they'll be a starving criminal or a homeless person who the police will be spending their limited time and resources on abusing, because they'll be growing up in the families without the means to travel for healthcare.

[–] xantoxis@lemmy.one 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

When you consider abortion, consider this: What if this baby could have grown up to throw a brick at a cop?

[–] lugal@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You mean if the cop doesn't just pass by? Or to but it differently: if he declines en passant

[–] Mambert@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago
[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're also saying it as if there was a shortage of people.

[–] DessertStorms@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In reality overpopulation is a myth and rather population decline is a real concern in many countries.

Now of course we can talk about who this concerns and why (under the current system? It concerns those who need workers to exploit, white supremacists looking to "overturn" the "great replacement", in some cases both, and it also concerns the aging population that will end up with very little support, something which wouldn't be as big an issue if we had stronger communities, but alienation and all that jazz, as well as the fewer workers who will remain to keep the economy going for minimal pay as they get bossed around by AI, because capitalism), and also about who pushes the overpopulation myth and why, but the bottom line is - the population isn't and never has been the problem (we already produce enough food to sustain everyone alive today and then some), it is capitalism and it's dependence on creating infinite growth in a finite world, at the expense of everyone and everything on the planet (themselves included except for the handful who will end up in orbit or whatever. And then die) that is the problem, and what we need to get rid of if we want to stop this dystopian spiral.

But that would send me in to a rant, and we wouldn't want that..
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[–] GnothiSeauton@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So what you are saying is that given the fact that the world will not just abandon capitalism, overpopulation is indeed a real non-myth problem.

[–] DessertStorms@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No, but thanks for proving you barely read my reply, let alone any of the articles I linked in it, save me wasting my breath on such a loyal bootlicker!

Perhaps you should try reading that again, properly, before attempting to insert words in to (or remove them from) my keyboard again, and showing off your laziness, if not wilful ignorance:

(we already produce enough food to sustain everyone alive today and then some)

Lmfao, you were convinced you "had" me there, weren't you, clown... 🤣🤣

[–] GnothiSeauton@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Oh no, I wasn't "convinced I had you", I knew you wouldn't critically think about what you said. I posted that for the benefit of others. I'm sure you're already aware of the many articles and scientific journals discussing the problem of overpopulation but you intentionally choose to ignore them to push your narrative.

[–] LizardKing@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Self aware wolves?

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