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Ehhh technically everyone is making the laws via voting for their representatives. So you both made the laws, and the cop is enforcing them.

Depending on his department, more like th DA enforcing them since they won’t bother with anything that’s pointless usually.

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Aww, you still think that politicians accurately represent the wishes of the people who voted for them? That’s adorable! 🥹

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So stop voting in Republicans who legislate against your own interests lol.

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Yeah because all Democrats are great 🙄 You blue no matter who zombies would do well to remember that the lesser evil is still evil.

For all the campaign trail promises and press releases, there’s maybe a dozen US national level politicians who aren’t the loyal lapdogs of billionaires and their corporations and Biden is NOT amongst that dozen.

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I don’t get why you’re heavily downvoted

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His comment is just logical fallacies that move the goalpost. Lawmakers make the laws and cops enforce them. But he wants me to believe voters make the laws and the DA enforces them.

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You keep using that word. It does not mean what you think it means lol.

Also, true objective reality doesn’t care what you believe. You can shove your head in the sand as much as you want to. It doesn’t change the fact that the systems in place are largely due to the will of the people electing them. For better or worse. Yes, that just means that a large portion of your neighbors and potentially friends vote for people who want to remove your rights, and opt for fascist nationalist Christian nation in the USA.

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Really? I see it at 9/1 on my side lol.

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Trust me, I didn’t make the laws.

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Not a voter eh? RIP.

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eh, maybe if we started from scratch every year.

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And yet Republicans continue to vote in representatives who legislate against their own interests because of single issue voting.

They know what they’re doing. They don’t care about the hypocrisy.

You can’t have 4 years of Trump and pretend white women and Latinos didn’t vote for him in greater numbers round 2. They know what they’re voting for.

Dispel the notion they don’t know what they’re doing. They know exactly what they’re doing lol.

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That technically wasn’t a law, it was a court case.

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They only enforce the laws they like, when they feel like enforcing them.

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Police already have a shit load to do they shouldn’t be required to write laws.

That should be given to an entirely different group of people that either study law and are experts in the matter or are voted in to create new laws.

Also independence is great or you can have a police state

Seriously this is like post colonial Africa logic.

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How is it worse when the the people that are enforcing laws and making laws are not the same? Or is this just some shitpost?

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The implication is that cops may acknowledge that a law is unjust, or flat out unconstitutional, but in the end they don’t give a shit and make the invalid “I’m just following orders” excuse to gleefully ruin your life by putting you jail for it anyway.

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I interpreted this as “it’s shitty to write terrible laws, but even shittier to just blithely enforce them and vaguely acklowledge that they are shitty while doing so”.

After all making laws doesn’t itself matter in the slightest, what matters is enforcement so enforcing terrible laws is the worse thing.

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Concrete example: Houston food not bombs. You couldn’t pay me an amount of money to harass people feeding the homeless.

Also, just following orders is not a defense.

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I think it would make more sense if it said “I don’t understand the laws, I just enforce them”, which is a very real thing.

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I think OP wants to live in the world of Judge Dredd.

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i don’t like cops but i feel like the meme is kinda dumb

cops are a necessary evil sadly

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They shouldn’t be a necessary evil, they should just be necessary.

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Agreed. Look at Europe. They have the right idea when it comes to police enforcement.

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They already are depending on your income.

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