• Grail@multiverse.soulism.netEnglish
    5·
    3 hours ago

    Australia has a department of defence. The biggest threat to Australia is climate change. The department of defence should be defending us from climate change.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    8·
    9 hours ago

    I suspect that intelligence and education are no longer prerequisites for law enforcement work as they were (more so, at least) in the late 20th century. The police unions of the 21st century seem to prefer officers who shoot first and think later.

      • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        5·
        8 hours ago

        In the 1970s, some departments prized their detectives and investigators, and there was more of an interest in using forensic science that was sound to identify and convict a culprit. That sentiment had certainly waned by the 1990s.

        • NannerBanner@literature.cafe
          3·
          8 hours ago

          There are still places that ‘value’ those things, it’s just all bunk. I know of a local department that requires applicants to have a college degree. It’s just that (some) college(s) has both become a degree mill, and there are plenty of places ‘captured’ by conservative thought/material.

          You could still be a fool, and a bigoted asshole, and graduate no problem. Even just going by intelligence, it’s not like being intelligent carries with it concern for your fellow man. There are brilliant individuals who are every bit evil.

          I think that the overall push for why police are the way they are is that only certain types want to be a cop in the first place, much more so than intelligence, education, or desire to find truth in scientific ways.

  • Malyca@lemmy.zip
    5·
    10 hours ago

    Or their kid’s lives, or their friends and family. No one. No one in this country gives a shit.

  • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world
    21·
    15 hours ago

    Intelligent people don’t join such professions and even if they tried these institutions intentionally filter them out. They need idiots who would jump into a meat grinder for someone else’s greed, just so they can feel powerful over someone for 5 mins

    • Rooskie91@discuss.online
      5·
      7 hours ago

      That’s not it either.

      It’s people made desperate by hyper-individualistic vulture capitalism. People in desperate need of health care for their ailing family members. People desperate to put food in their children mouths. People desperate to pay of their school loans.

      I’ve done ICE watch, lived in a city with a heavy police presence, and been in the military. Sure, there are idiots, abusers, and fascists. But the majority are people from marginalized communities looking for their come up in capitalism, or “doing what they gotta do for them and theirs”. The sad reality is the machinery of capitalism turns by the force of the dispossessed more so than any other group. They don’t call it a system of contradictions for nothin’.

      You should be thankful to have the privilege of not having to throw your body against the machinery of capitalism, and use that to build networks of mutual aid that provide the means to circumvent this awful system. Until we can provide that, the machinery will continue to turn.