Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world to THE POLICE PROBLEM@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago376 boys in blue sat around and let 19 kids and 2 teachers dielemmy.worldimagemessage-square327fedilinkarrow-up11.51K
arrow-up11.51Kimage376 boys in blue sat around and let 19 kids and 2 teachers dielemmy.worldPotatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world to THE POLICE PROBLEM@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square327fedilink
minus-squareMango@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoYou can always ask them nicely to step down.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months agoObviously that won’t work either, but at least you won’t have the public’s sympathy on the side of the cops, which you absolutely would if some guy gunned down a few of them before they shot him.
minus-squareMango@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoAt least I’d be dead and it’s everyone else’s problem to solve.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-26 months agoYes, that was the point of my sarcasm. You’re not solving a problem, you’re feeding your egotistical dream of going out in a blaze of glory.
minus-squareMango@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoI don’t care about the glory. I just want out. If nobody is gonna work together to fix it, I’m not sticking around.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoAnd yet you’re sticking around talking to me. Obviously something is stopping you from walking into a police station with a gun right this moment.
minus-squareMango@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoYeah I don’t have a gun. Effort.
You can always ask them nicely to step down.
Obviously that won’t work either, but at least you won’t have the public’s sympathy on the side of the cops, which you absolutely would if some guy gunned down a few of them before they shot him.
At least I’d be dead and it’s everyone else’s problem to solve.
How selfless of you.
No, it’s about me.
Yes, that was the point of my sarcasm.
You’re not solving a problem, you’re feeding your egotistical dream of going out in a blaze of glory.
I don’t care about the glory. I just want out. If nobody is gonna work together to fix it, I’m not sticking around.
And yet you’re sticking around talking to me. Obviously something is stopping you from walking into a police station with a gun right this moment.
Yeah I don’t have a gun. Effort.