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All Cops Are Bastards
Please at least know that's not inherently the case. I've never been treated unfairly by the RCMP, but then Canada is my country, not yours, so I can understand you've probably never seen a cop who actually helped people. Police in the US are fucking awful, but that's by design and not by trait.
ACAB is a slogan. It's not factual in the strictest sense but it captures a truth. Statistically speaking, there is at least one good cop. Maybe even two. Real Andy Griffith, Carlton Lassiter types. Their existence does not change the fact that the system is rotten to the very core, and their tacit support for that system makes them bastards, even if they themselves have never abused anyone or covered for a colleague's malpractice. Good cops exist, but they don't last very long.
And as the sibling comment pointed out, institutionally speaking the RCMP is a god awful example if you're trying to make a case for good cops.
There are better cases, that I agree on.
This is going too far, though. You don't have to keep hammering like you can force me to do whatever serves your viewpoint above all others. Public conversation is about actually improving things, and I literally can't drive a car or buy a bus ticket (and for reasons unrelated to money, politics and the topic at hand). If you want change, I have less social pull than you and I can accept being argued against, but I will not be forced to change just because every fucker on the internet has to have everyone else be part of their echo chamber.