• Chev@lemmy.world
    663·
    10 months ago

    How is it worse when the the people that are enforcing laws and making laws are not the same? Or is this just some shitpost?

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
      44·
      10 months ago

      I interpreted this as “it’s shitty to write terrible laws, but even shittier to just blithely enforce them and vaguely acklowledge that they are shitty while doing so”.

      After all making laws doesn’t itself matter in the slightest, what matters is enforcement so enforcing terrible laws is the worse thing.

      • Wakmrow@lemmy.world
        151·
        10 months ago

        Concrete example: Houston food not bombs. You couldn’t pay me an amount of money to harass people feeding the homeless.

        Also, just following orders is not a defense.

    • RegularGoose@sh.itjust.works
      26·
      10 months ago

      The implication is that cops may acknowledge that a law is unjust, or flat out unconstitutional, but in the end they don’t give a shit and make the invalid “I’m just following orders” excuse to gleefully ruin your life by putting you jail for it anyway.

    • li10@feddit.ukEnglish
      11·
      10 months ago

      I think it would make more sense if it said “I don’t understand the laws, I just enforce them”, which is a very real thing.

    • Zorque@kbin.social
      141·
      10 months ago

      You don’t want to read about the police unions lobbying history, then…

  • UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world
    101·
    10 months ago

    The phrase is a response to the question “why do you choose to do evil things?” And they think saying they only do it for money is somehow better than saying they agree with it. When it’s actually worse

  • Transcriptionist@lemmy.world
    3·
    10 months ago

    Image Transcription:

    A wojak wearing a police hat with the text “I don’t make the laws. I just enforce them.” Below is two stills from The Good Place showing Chidi talking to Eleanor. In the first still he is saying “Okay. But that’s worse.” In the second still he continues “You do get how that’s worse, right?”

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  • Wanderer
    411·
    10 months ago

    Police already have a shit load to do they shouldn’t be required to write laws.

    That should be given to an entirely different group of people that either study law and are experts in the matter or are voted in to create new laws.

    Also independence is great or you can have a police state

    Seriously this is like post colonial Africa logic.

  • blanketswithsmallpox@kbin.social
    1049·
    10 months ago

    Ehhh technically everyone is making the laws via voting for their representatives. So you both made the laws, and the cop is enforcing them.

    Depending on his department, more like th DA enforcing them since they won’t bother with anything that’s pointless usually.

    • AeroLemmingEnglish
      25·
      10 months ago

      Yup. That’s why Roe v Wade was overturned despite the majority of people being against it.

        • AeroLemmingEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          A court case that determined what the law was. It also enabled state legislatures to pass extremely unpopular laws.

      • blanketswithsmallpox@kbin.social
        31·
        10 months ago

        And yet Republicans continue to vote in representatives who legislate against their own interests because of single issue voting.

        They know what they’re doing. They don’t care about the hypocrisy.

        You can’t have 4 years of Trump and pretend white women and Latinos didn’t vote for him in greater numbers round 2. They know what they’re voting for.

        Dispel the notion they don’t know what they’re doing. They know exactly what they’re doing lol.

        • AeroLemmingEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          That’s the issue with the two party system. Single-issue voters will vote in reps that do some truly awful things.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
      114·
      10 months ago

      Aww, you still think that politicians accurately represent the wishes of the people who voted for them? That’s adorable! 🥹

        • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
          13·
          10 months ago

          Yeah because all Democrats are great 🙄 You blue no matter who zombies would do well to remember that the lesser evil is still evil.

          For all the campaign trail promises and press releases, there’s maybe a dozen US national level politicians who aren’t the loyal lapdogs of billionaires and their corporations and Biden is NOT amongst that dozen.

      • Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        91·
        10 months ago

        His comment is just logical fallacies that move the goalpost. Lawmakers make the laws and cops enforce them. But he wants me to believe voters make the laws and the DA enforces them.

        • blanketswithsmallpox@kbin.social
          1·
          10 months ago

          You keep using that word. It does not mean what you think it means lol.

          Also, true objective reality doesn’t care what you believe. You can shove your head in the sand as much as you want to. It doesn’t change the fact that the systems in place are largely due to the will of the people electing them. For better or worse. Yes, that just means that a large portion of your neighbors and potentially friends vote for people who want to remove your rights, and opt for fascist nationalist Christian nation in the USA.