Such bravery

Conservatives: Back the blue!
Conservatives on January 6: Kill the cops!
- Where I live, conservatives have mostly figured this conundrum out: "We Back Local Police", followed by red cross-out circles over FBI and CIA.

Blue lives don't exist.
- uhhuh. Sure. (FYI that's what happens when you listen to homeopaths. specifically too much collodial silver)
  
  too much collodial silver = any amount of collodial silver.
- Offensive. Haven't you heard ACAB? Assigned Cop At Birth!
  
  Their pronoun is “officer”?
  
  All Cats Are Beautiful but All Cops Are Bastards.
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White text on a black background reading:
"These Colors Don't Run (Into the Building While Kids Are Getting Shot)"
Underneath is a Blue Lives Matter flag consisting of a black and white American flag where the white stripe under the square of stars has been coloured blue.
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- Hi there! Serious question. Why are you doing this? I have no problem with it; just curious.
  
  If anyone has vision impairment or otherwise can't view the image, then they can still participate in the discussion about it.
  
  Visually impaired users benefit from transcription of an image's contents, especially when that image does not have corresponding alt-text for their tooling to narrate for them.
- You are the hero we need but don't deserve
  
  Thank you 🦸

They like their safe zone.

Why the 51 star flag though?
- lmao I didn't even notice, Puerto Rico must have finally gotten in
- If conservatives weren't trying to be racist, they'd have let Puerto Rico in ages ago and picked up some more senators, which is why Democrats never seem particularly interested in pushing the issue.
  
  I was always under the impression that the D's would pick up seats if PR became a state, that GOP assholery like Trump's treatment of PR after the hurricane, meant that it was a sure thing for Ds. But apparently it is WAY more complicated than that, as most things are -- someone once broke PR politics down for me but I forgot everything except, "outcome would be uncertain."

Pizza delivery men have a more dangerous job. And you know that thin blue line you think is stopping society from chaos? We'll it's society that's holding the blue pen. You work for us.

- I think it's this one (correct me if I'm wrong)

LOL, not a single Lemmy user would even be brave enough to be a police officer.
- These days it takes a lot more bravery to be a teacher than a cop.
  
  Or a kid at school for that matter.
- Law enforcement isn't even one of the 25 most dangerous jobs in America. Trimming trees is many times more dangerous, for one.
  According to the most recent data available (2020-2021), the most common causes of cops dying were covid and vehicular accidents. Both of which have been directly or indirectly self-inflicted via reckless behaviour in many if not the majority of cases.
  In conclusion: fuck off with your Hollywood fantasies of heroic cops doing one of the most dangerous and important jobs to protect the rest of us, lickspittle, that's not real. Cops murdering and otherwise unlawfully abusing people with impunity is.
- Yes, tell me more about how brave cops are. You know, the cops that, in the US, have no legal obligation to protect you, to know the law, or enforce the law.
  One might as well speak of brave taxi drivers for all the relevance bravery has to the job. A vocation with more injuries and fatalities than being a LEO, I must note.
  
  The worst part is, I'm far less anti-cop than most Lemmy users, probably. I'm convinced that there are a great many good cops and good departments, despite the decay of responsibility of the American police (and their often-unsavory origins as strikebreakers). I also believe that professional policing forces, while not technically vital, are an extremely useful service that should attract men of honor and be regarded as such.
  But repeating copaganda is not the way to empower the good cops out there. The way you empower good cops is by making more good cops - and you make more good cops by creating strong institutions of accountability and using them. Empowering cops without accountability is not a way to make good enforcers of the law - it's a way to make thugs out of ordinary men.
- Brave like the cops at Uvalde?
- https://www.facilities.udel.edu/safety/4689/
  Not even top twenty. Many quite common jobs too...
  Including firefighters, by a mile.
- You mispelled “dumb”. We aren’t dumb enough to be a police officer.
  You mispelled “cowardly”. We aren’t cowardly enough to stand outside of buildings while lifes are endanger.
  It doesn’t take much bravery to stand outside a school and watch kids get shot.
- I'm a farmer; I narrowly avoided death three times before lunch today.