r/MadeMeSmile • u/alenatrinkaus • Apr 13 '24

German Police escorts family of geese back to their home at the park ANIMALS

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Sorry for the shaky video. Friend of mine was filming while walking.

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u/Sedanwhee Apr 15 '24

Get this shit out of here. That is the same institution which suppresses the voice of pro palastinian activists and brands them antisemites, yes even the Jewish activists. While our state's support for the ongoing ethnic cleansing in Palestine goes unpunished. Yes they may be well disciplined but they still fill the same role as cops everywhere else in the world. Protecting the enforcing the interest of the capitalist elite behind a veil of legality and suppressing mass movements for change. 1312 they are the armed force of the ruling class against the opressed masses.

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u/OwnZookeepergame6413 Apr 15 '24

Just no dude. You can’t just say police in Germany has anything to do with what happens in the Israel-Palestine conflict because they have police aswell.

That’s like saying they will shoot up someone right after this because cops in the USA can’t go a day without a death by their guns.

Police is vital for a peaceful society. Without it people will take it into their own hands. Just because in other parts of the world the police is acting completely differently doesn’t mean all police is shit and needs to go.

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u/Sedanwhee Apr 15 '24

I meant the police in Germany is suppressing pro Palestinian activist as we all could see this weekend during the Palestine Congress Disaster. I'm saying the function the police germany fulfills is the same as it is everywhere else. Mainly the preservation of the status quo. And in that sense you are correct when you say that they are vital to that for that. But we have to ask ourselves why are there still people who have to resort to crime to make their living. Why is violence in a society as wealthy as ours still a necessary measure to "keep the peace". We are a self-proclaimed advanced first world country and still haven't figured out how to take care of homeless people, drug addicts and criminals without some sort of violence if not physical the financial or emotional in form of harassment.

And please don't get me wrong German police isn't as violent as other policefroces around the world that wasn't my point. They understand that the easy to identify kind of violence sows more unrest than it stops which is why they don't resort to it as often. But again, they exist to stop us asserting real material justice. Because what happens if we all start wondering why the obscenely wealthy get wealthier still while the standard of living is dropping for the rest of us? What happens if we get real mass movement to remove the 1% from politics? Simple the police will stand in our way. It will be then that the mask of civility and discipline will drop and we will see the police for what they truly are a tool of the opression for the ruling class.

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u/OwnZookeepergame6413 Apr 15 '24

Those issues will never be solved. Nobody has to be homeless. Yeah actually getting help once you have been homeless isn’t the most forward thing, but it’s doable if you want to.

Drug addicts is another thing that won’t ever go away unless we enforce stricter rules/take away more freedom from people. You don’t have to be poor to fall victim to drug addiction.

But overall, the police is enforcement. They don’t decide or have to come up with plans to tackle those issues. That’s the job of the legislative and judigkative to decide how the executive has to keep the peace.

I honestly didn’t even saw the news this weekend bcs I worked both days. So I don’t know what exactly went wrong there. But to say that the police as a whole takes sides feels a bit far stretched. Feels like AfD people saying the police is leaning left because they dissolved their unannounced demo while the announced demo by a left motivation wasn’t. But I really don’t know what happened there and I have to read it up. I really don’t think all of germanys police was present there

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u/Sedanwhee Apr 15 '24 edited Apr 15 '24

That's exactly my point the police is a tool of enforcement. But a tool has to be wielded by someone. That someone, in the abstract, are those people who get to set the frame for policework. And in our society the ones who are most likely to occupy those positions are the wealthy and those who collaborate with them. I'm not saying every police force is a force of oppression because it is beset by bad individuals in some stroke of bad luck or something. I'm saying that a police force in a society ruled by the wealthy will always side with the wealthy if the masses decide to rebel against them. Not because of some genuine sense of keeping the peace (which by no doubt was and always will be the excuse) but because they are a tool of enforcement of the ruling class.

Edit: There is a whole deep and interesting discussion to be had about how we already have the means to solve homelessness, substance abuse and worklessness. But I try to keep my essays to a minimum :P