Wandering Adventure Party

@lokeloski the lack of artist solidarity stings here...those people think everyone else but them can be replaced by an LLM...foolish creatures

@hosford42 like at which point the consequences of someone's active participation in an unjust system become outweighed by the change they made? i hardly feel like one person can do this even if they're really sincere about it. and should they really be a part of said system to be able to change it?

@hosford42

therefore any attempts at radical change are going to be kneecapped without strong, massive action. and if change happens, whatever comes out on the other end might not be even right to call police at all. it probably would focus on restorative action rather than punitive and it would have to look very differently.

forgive if i am incoherent it's kinda 2 am here, but my point is, how much can you polish something before it stops being a turd?

@hosford42 i admire it when people try to change things from within, but there's only so much leeway you can get to change things when a system that necessitated said things to happen is still in place. the rich and the government benefit from having the police, from being able to arrest protesters and throw them in jail, spy on its citizens and so on and so forth.

@hosford42 i think it highly depends on how much change we're speaking of here and how many and how much people are involved.

i find the law enforcement as a structure that has been built to support hierarchy and inequality, because it rests on backing up the will of the ruling class by violence against the citizens. also it doesn't address the causes of crime. to make this system different one would have to transform it until it is no longer recognizable.

ACAB doesn't mean every single cop on an individual level is a morally bankrupt shithead. (a lot of them are, but that's beside the point).

even if you are the kindest samaritan cop in the world who never hurt a fly, being a cop means that you are a part of the system that is designed for violence, for oppression and inequality and has a long bigoted history that spans to this day. you choose to associate with it, even if you don't realize the implications.

this bsky thread made me pick up drawing again

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