#TDSThrowback to Roy Wood Jr.’s piece about Atlanta’s “Cop City,” the $90 million police training facility that sounds a whole lot like Six Flags for cops. He speaks to the “forest defenders,” protestors fighting against the facility’s construction, and learns about their unique strategies…which may involve poop. #DailyShow #Comedy
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ReplyWage labor is renting yourself via “self ownership”. Employment is literally renting another human being as if they’re property. The employer-employee relationship is a very insidious dynamic. Employment is a rental contract, like if you rented capital (say, a chainsaw from Home Depot), you pay rent for the “time preference” (basically the cost of time) for a piece of property. Capitalism is based on a principle of self ownership, which sounds empowering, until you realize that most people don’t own enough capital goods to make enough income other than themselves, and must rent out the authority over themselves as pieces of “human capital”. This is a process of dehumanization where human beings are valued for their return on investment as capital goods. This is why, at the very least, capitalism needs unions and safety nets (or abolishment), or else the system won’t value people for their human value. Importantly we must also think about our sick, elderly, and disabled people, as they can’t provide competitive economic return for the investor class to value. We must figure out a way to change this economic system if we wish to value each other.
ReplyDeomocrats love destroying the south
ReplyThis was so interesting. I’ve been wondering exactly what cop city was. Thank you for what you’re doing. I’d rather have the beautiful trees than cop city
Replypolice brutality and the militarization of officers is terrible and should be stopped by any means necessary… but don’t we still want the police to be well trained…? In this case I’m not quite sure I agree with pop dropping owels sitting in the trees…
ReplyThere’s a difference between protesting and terrorism. Protesting is peaceful and terrorism is not. I hope they drop the illegal RICO charges on those people.
ReplyEverything else aside, cop city is an obvious corporate welfare program. And the $90 million price tag, is most likely 40-100 percent low. That was before the protesters slowed things down.
ReplyThe autopsy showed the police lied about the young man they murdered. They claimed he shot at them first, the autopsy showed zero gun powder residue on him.
ReplyThis whole “cop city” BS makes me sick!!! 🤢🤮😤
Replythe “Georgia Ewoks” 😂😂😂 i really wish history records that the Georgia Ewoks prevented Cop City.
ReplyTyler Perry Presents 🤣😂
ReplyHardly any of the residents here want cop city
ReplyIts messed up that they want to have a fake city to practice Bombing and tear gassing cities
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