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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

The right used to at least pretend to be into law and order.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They still pretend, they just also pretend that the rule of law is different than what it is.

You know how many far-righters have "back the blue" and thin blue line bumper stickers?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yes the same guys who rant about government tyranny yet defend police (government employees/enforcers) at every opportunity love to also rant about the rule of law unless those rules are applied to them or their current flavor of the week messiah.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

And yet here were are in a thread about the state murdering someone over words and liberals are falling over themselves to "back the blue" hardest.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

They still are.

"Law and order" is a racist dog whistle.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

They've always backed conservative cops enforcing conservative laws against "other people" but letting conservatives off with a warning.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They were never into law and order.

They were just into law beating and brutalizing black and poor people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

He never said they were. He said they pretended to.