Politicians make the laws, if people are being oppressed, its more of the politicians being the root cause of evil.

So… ACAB + APAB?

EDIT:

I’m using these definitions for the word politician: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/politician

noun. [UK] - a member of a government or law-making organization

noun. [US] - a person who is active in politics, esp. as a job

  • jeffw@lemmy.worldM
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    1 day ago

    Most local politicians I know don’t get paid (school board, commissioners, etc) or they get paid very little for the time they put in.

    If you count up all the elected folks in the USA, less than 1% are what you think of as “politicians.” They are mostly just people you see at the grocery store

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 day ago

        School boards are an elected, political position.

        Militias are an illegal organization.

        There’s a gulf of difference between the two.

        There are also plenty of elected politicians that aren’t awful people. Especially at the state legislative level.

          • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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            14 hours ago

            In the US, school boards and superintendents are a common source of political corruption. Many states allow for local control of districts, so these boards oversee the spending of tens or even hundreds of millions of local tax dollars and government grants.

        • over_clox@lemmy.world
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          23 hours ago

          Well today I learned, that school board members are elected. I assume you’re referring to the US?..

          I’m 42 years old and just learned this today. I attempted to run a petition at age 15 for our school of ~1200 students to keep the pizza lunch line, and I got approximately 420 unique signatures.

          I still actually have the signatures somewhere in a file drawer in storage. Back when I did this, I asked people where to turn in my petition. Everyone told me to go to the superintendent’s office.

          But nobody would actually tell me where the fuck that was, nor would anyone take me there ☹️.

          I got more than a third of the students to sign my petition, but nobody would tell me where to take it, like what the actual fuck?