Rusty Corgi ➡️ FurcationlandOkay Fedi, what's your chronically online hot take? 
🏳️⚧️Pastel The Skunk🏳️⚧️@Rusty dunno if its a chronically online hot take but I know its gonna make a lot of people angry but what the heck. Not every countries police is as bad as the US's and the fact that people treat it that way is pretty annoying and a continuation of the whole line of thinking of "everything everywhere is just like america" that I've seen quite a few americans believe over the years.
@PastelFurry I'm not familiar with how Swedish police operate so I can't really speak to it, but I can say that I think police being decent is an exception and not the norm globally. I also would hazard that, while yes the police may be okay now, they would quickly become the tool of the oppressor if Sweden ever somehow fall to fascism. It's not that police are all universally bad, it's just that they hold a very abusable position, and it's worth asking ourselves if that position is worth the potential trade-offs of their existence. It's also worth mentioning that Swedish pulled race-related information out of statistical metrics for policing, so if there is institutional bias it'd be very hard to track.
@Rusty See your argument I can agree with. I do agree that its a very abusable institution I just have an issue with how most people tend to just phrase it as a "police bad cuz I said so" kinda thing and never really explain their position on it. Then again in my opinion a lot of institutions have both good and bad in them. And I deffo agree that the US cops are pretty horrible from what I see people describe and talk about but again I have completely different experiences seeing as I'm in a completely different country.
@PastelFurry Well, my experience with US cops has only ever been really positive. They don't abuse their authority with me, they've helped me out of a few instances, they coached me through when I knew someone going through a mental health crisis. Like. 
If we go off of the metric of my own experiences, cops are great.
That said, I'm also a cishet-passing white guy. 
There's a lot of privilege that affords me the ability to have a positive relationship with police. Not to say that everyone in Sweden is privileged but also, like, y'all are the fourth happiest country in the world. 
@Rusty Dunno how true that 4th happiest country is anymoe tbh. And I'm sure we are "priviliged" compared to a lot of other countries but that doesn't mean everything is sunshine and roses here, for example sure I get our version of social security so I can pay my rent and bills but it wont cover food so I either have to not buy food for long stretches of time or beg my parents for money, while my older brother is unemployed gets no money from the government or social security at all and is forced to live with my parents who themselves are retired and can barely afford to have him live with them.
@Rusty also sorry if the later part of that post comes off as aggressive, I misread a part of your statement as being "everyone in sweden is privileged" big dumb brain moment.