• CanadaResists
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    3 days ago

    I’m super pro union but your arguments are sloppy.

    In 1981 Reagan fired and banned for life over 11,000 striking Air Traffic controllers. People sadly haven’t forgotten.

    Without cops, what does a person assaulted or burgled do? How are the 20K+ murders a year investigated? Firefighters? They respond primarily to medical emergency. And about a million fire incidents a year.

    • YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub
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      3 days ago

      The world stops without teachers working. Many people rely on them for childcare so that they can go to work. Air traffic controllers are very important. But many orders of magnitude less important for our economy than teachers.

      We can discuss abolition of cops some other time, but we aren’t going to see eye to eye on this. They and firefighters are not on the critical path of daily capitalism like teachers though.

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      3 days ago

      Cops rarely, if ever stop, or investigate crimes. Cops have single digit clearance rates for homicides.