Bitching about Cops in the USA
The U.S. has always been a police state. I just grew up with it and assumed it was normal.
Like seriously. I watched this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG8o-9JgCpk
And I found myself thinking "that's what you get for not submitting to the will of the police"
Because that's how things have always been, y'know? "Here's your neighborhood police officer! He's (and always he) your friend! People who are mean to him should be thrown in jail!"
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Bitching about Cops in the USA
@mawr ..... fuck. I think about all the indoctrination and normalization of extremely invasive policing alot. Like making it a fun and exciting game to be fingerprinted D:D:
Bitching about Cops in the USA
@IrisKalmia Yuuup. I remember asking about that when I was younger, too.
"But why do they need our fingerprints?"
"Because everyone has to do it!"
"That doesn't explain why. We've done nothing wrong."
Bitching about Cops in the USA
@mawr I also think they pushed it as a mix of "see look at the pretty patterns, isn't this fun!" "And this way if you get lost it's easy for police to get you home" or some such, it was a long time and a lot of memory ago D:
Bitching about Cops in the USA
@IrisKalmia I remember that the people I was asking didn't have very good answers, and I took that as my answer instead of continuing to ask questions that were clearly annoying them.
I did not trust authority much as a kid. ^^;
Bitching about Cops in the USA
@mawr I do noooot blame you, I stopped trusting it when my age started pushing towards the double digits. D.A.R.E. kinda helped accelerate that.
Bitching about Cops in the USA
@IrisKalmia Heh. I took DARE as a challenge? I started smoking cigarettes at age 12 and pot at age 14. ^^;;;;
Bitching about Cops in the USA
@mawr Nono see, it's to help Scruff McGruff take a bite out of Crime!
gods, that was before school kinda obliterated my trust in authority D: