I think it's many places, and not just police forces. People have become wholehearted materialists as our culture has eroded and been replaced with consumerism, and when you're a materialist, nothing is more important than your own personal life and comfort. Materialists don't deeply feel any kind of attraction to ideals of heroism or generosity. They only pretend to for their own self aggrandizement. They also don't believe in any kind of religion or meaning outside of the self.
To sacrifice your own safety for others, you have to value others and your ideals at least as highly as yourself. This is impossible for a society of materialists.
Atomization and multiculturalism both play big roles in this, too. When there’s no sense of community or extended family, there’s no reason to risk your life - not for strangers and the outgroup.
First of all what these officers did is cowardly, pathetic and morally indefensible.
Yet it is clear that their shameful behavior is the logical end result of a society that is utterly sick to the core.
America as a country has no common unifying culture.
Every major institution has been revealed to be both wholly corrupt and majorly incompetent.
People these days no longer believe in higher callings and there is no modicum of reverence for any male heroism or the value of masculinity in general.
Also the post BLM/defund the police world has clearly incentivized police behavior for the worse.
The COVID culture of safetyism has also helped turn many people into weak fearful neurotics.
What happened here is beyond disgusting but the harsh truth is that when you look at the world we live in, this should be no surprise.
You sadly cannot expect other people to save you anymore.
The sad thing is things will likely get worse not better.
Between you and AllGuns, you've covered every point I was thinking of- well said. As a society, we've gotten the policing we deserve/were asking for =/
Damn, I was just trying to make this same kind of point in the other Uvalde Police thread. They are the international/globalist law enforcement officer, not your local cop. There's no more "from the community; to protect the community", they are replaceable government workers with no ideals or personal attachment to the people they should be in charge of protecting.
It's fine to go all "ACAB- today's police suck!", but it didn't used to be like that. The "thin blue line" movement was based on what people remember police should be like.
Yeah, screw "defund the police", how about "fire bad cops"? And throw teachers, doctors, and public bureaucrats in, while you're at it.
It's the Robin DiAngelo school of CT: don't hold the individual responsible for their own poor actions, target the entire group as "inherrently corrupt" instead.
You're a retard. The shooter was locked in a single classroom and had already killed the kids there. He was contained by the police who had to wait for a key to get in. The title itself is dishonest and so is the framing. The active shooter wasn't shooting anymore. Imagine unironically uncritically listening to media and being on KiA
MattTheBlack is wrong but that gunfire might have been when the border patrol guys who went in had a final shootout with the criminal. Assuming there wasn't any more after that.
Are you fucking kidding me? Just when I think police in that town could get any fucking lower. What the fuck is up with the police these days?
I think it's many places, and not just police forces. People have become wholehearted materialists as our culture has eroded and been replaced with consumerism, and when you're a materialist, nothing is more important than your own personal life and comfort. Materialists don't deeply feel any kind of attraction to ideals of heroism or generosity. They only pretend to for their own self aggrandizement. They also don't believe in any kind of religion or meaning outside of the self.
To sacrifice your own safety for others, you have to value others and your ideals at least as highly as yourself. This is impossible for a society of materialists.
Atomization and multiculturalism both play big roles in this, too. When there’s no sense of community or extended family, there’s no reason to risk your life - not for strangers and the outgroup.
This is Uvalde Texas (yoo-Vahl-dee). Most of these people knew the entire community involved.
The shooter had 3 generations of family in the town, all of them known to local law enforcement and most of them with past records.
First of all what these officers did is cowardly, pathetic and morally indefensible.
Yet it is clear that their shameful behavior is the logical end result of a society that is utterly sick to the core.
America as a country has no common unifying culture.
Every major institution has been revealed to be both wholly corrupt and majorly incompetent.
People these days no longer believe in higher callings and there is no modicum of reverence for any male heroism or the value of masculinity in general.
Also the post BLM/defund the police world has clearly incentivized police behavior for the worse.
The COVID culture of safetyism has also helped turn many people into weak fearful neurotics.
What happened here is beyond disgusting but the harsh truth is that when you look at the world we live in, this should be no surprise.
You sadly cannot expect other people to save you anymore.
The sad thing is things will likely get worse not better.
Between you and AllGuns, you've covered every point I was thinking of- well said. As a society, we've gotten the policing we deserve/were asking for =/
Damn, I was just trying to make this same kind of point in the other Uvalde Police thread. They are the international/globalist law enforcement officer, not your local cop. There's no more "from the community; to protect the community", they are replaceable government workers with no ideals or personal attachment to the people they should be in charge of protecting.
It's fine to go all "ACAB- today's police suck!", but it didn't used to be like that. The "thin blue line" movement was based on what people remember police should be like.
Yeah, screw "defund the police", how about "fire bad cops"? And throw teachers, doctors, and public bureaucrats in, while you're at it.
It's the Robin DiAngelo school of CT: don't hold the individual responsible for their own poor actions, target the entire group as "inherrently corrupt" instead.
You're a retard. The shooter was locked in a single classroom and had already killed the kids there. He was contained by the police who had to wait for a key to get in. The title itself is dishonest and so is the framing. The active shooter wasn't shooting anymore. Imagine unironically uncritically listening to media and being on KiA
Sooo... that video of police holding parents back while gunfire was heard in the background?
MattTheBlack is wrong but that gunfire might have been when the border patrol guys who went in had a final shootout with the criminal. Assuming there wasn't any more after that.