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Where are these resources and efforts for crimes against regular people? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by robocall@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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[–] mortalic@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago

Stop calling them elites. Start calling them wealth parasites.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Police are not allies in a class war.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 week ago

They are.

To the upper class.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)

These are not law enforcement (peace) officers these are policy enforcement (police) officers. And the highest priority policy is protecting the people who pay their wages.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 20 points 1 week ago

It's funny because rich people notoriously do NOT pay the wages of police because they tax dodge so hard that it often crosses the line of illegal, even with all of the extremely pro-mega-rich laws and exemptions that america has.

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago

There there are the kind that are the crime, aka political assassins.

[–] Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Its obviously not a crime if its against a poor person or an ethnic minority, duh

[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

As evidenced by the other guy who literally just got away with murder

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Not quite terminator enough.