Friendly reminder that blue lives don't exist.
You choose to be a cop you don't choose your skin color
this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2023
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Exactly. But the “blue lives matter” group only formed as a counter to Black Lives Matter so 🤷🏻♂️
Yeah... But it was promoted through money paid by Russian Intelligence in order to sow racial discord in America.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/russians-biggest-facebook-ad-promoted-blue-lives-matter
Somehow, that makes perfect sense. I’m not even a little surprised by that
Yeah, but a lot of dumb people who could have supported BLM were swayed by Blue Lives Matter or All Lives Matter bullshit, especially if they work in or around emergency. There's a lot of non-conservatives in emergency fields that are especially succeptable to that kind of bullshit despite being otherwise good human beings.
I've talked at least two away from the "Blue/All Lives Matter" ledge. You have to do it delicately, but the whole problem with all this shit is that there ARE people who are not really racist who can be convinced that "there's a lot of cops dying in BLM riots" because that's what they're being told. When you have black friends who says "I don't want to be anywhere near BLM because they just make us look bad", you know that people are spreading some real fake shit. But instead of hating on them, you can just show them that BLM is not riots and Blue Lives Matter is not about stopping cops from being killed.
And then, the ones who aren't racist... they do listen.
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You mean ACAB doesn't mean Assigned Cop At Birth?? 😱
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But the other professions don’t need to defend themselves against blatant racism and abuse of power. “This is a dangerous profession, which is why we shot an unarmed black teenager 117 times.”
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Isn't soldier also a job?
Even if it's counted, is it even more dangerous, counted using the same metrics? I have no idea, but it's not far-fetched that it's not, at least if we mean American soldiers. Like, it's way more dangerous to be an Iraqi civilian than an American soldier.
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It's not a job.
It's an adventure!
The most dangerous part of police work is vehicle accidents, just like delivery drivers.
Covid was also a top fatality result of police for a while there. Just showcasing their amazing decision making skills as they refuse to get vaccinated.
Clearly they represent the best of the best there.
My local city jail literally got shut down by the tail-end of the pandemic, because of all the COVID outbreaks due to none of the cops would wear masks.
I worked in a worker's comp adjacent field for a while. The majority of injuries in police were absolutely vehicular in nature. Second place would be "was trying to chase a far more physically fit suspect on foot and fell/pulled something", that happens waaaay more frequently than you would expect.
Delivery drivers also are more likely than police to be subject to robberies...
It's also not unheard of for robbery to end in murder.
I thought the most dangerous one was president, at an 18% fatality rate (8 out of 45 so far)
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Where do you get the idea that pilot is the 3rd most dangerous job? How often do you hear about pilots dying? And more dangerous than driving jobs? Lol no.
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What about fire fighters? At least they do everything in their power to keep your dog alive.
So they're the opposite of the ATF?
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As far as i know the most dangerous job is either Under Water Welder or Septic tank diver (yes thats a thing) among those, most heavy industry Jobs are very dangerous as well (mining, steelworks...)
Septic tank diver is the shittiest job. Change my mind.
I could make one up, but literally submersing yourself is hard to beat. Um... how about Professional sewage-eating-contest contestant?
Pilots have no business being on there. Just because people are scared of flying, doesn’t mean it’s actually dangerous.
And yet they do, statistically, die more than most other jobs. Pilots have every business being on here because the comic creator just literally took a "top X dangerous jobs list" and turned it into a meme.
Passengering is safe. Piloting, less so. Just like riding in a bus is statistically safer than being a career driver. Because you get off the bus, and that driver does 7 more runs. Alongside a long-haul truck driver carrying zero people. Etc. But Piloting is more dangerous than driving a truck.
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Bush pilots probably drive the statistics up pretty far because it's dangerous in general and many of them keep flying long after commercial retirement ages.
Most pilots aren't commerical passenger pilots. Most are crop dusters and priority freight
Police officers have the highest suicide rate after Doctors and Dentists. Not sure if it's because of poor stress management or being constantly in contact with some of the shittiest people to live.
“being constantly in contact with some of the shittiest people to live.”
So other cops then. I’d probably kill myself too if I were a cop.
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It's because they have too much power. Gets to their head. Same with politicians, though they usually don't go round shooting people.
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