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Questions about the extent of rule #7 No politicians, no employers, no landlords, no cops

Hello, this is mostly out of idle curiousity but I was wondering if rule #7 was a hard ban with little to no exception (I recall seeing an AMA about a police captain fainting during a protest though). As far as I know the bit about no cops is because of a list of crimes miles long which includes union busting while ironically having one of the strongest unions in the US. ​ I'm not too too familiar with other countries but what about police in countries that don't have the same “Oops I killed the wrong guy, time for a paid vacation” reputation? Are military police (MPs) included in this rule? They're not regular cops and I haven't heard a whole lot about them in the news. As far as I know they haven't really participated (for or against) in most of the antiwork stuff and seem to be…


Hello, this is mostly out of idle curiousity but I was wondering if rule #7 was a hard ban with little to no exception (I recall seeing an AMA about a police captain fainting during a protest though). As far as I know the bit about no cops is because of a list of crimes miles long which includes union busting while ironically having one of the strongest unions in the US.

  1. I'm not too too familiar with other countries but what about police in countries that don't have the same “Oops I killed the wrong guy, time for a paid vacation” reputation?
  2. Are military police (MPs) included in this rule? They're not regular cops and I haven't heard a whole lot about them in the news. As far as I know they haven't really participated (for or against) in most of the antiwork stuff and seem to be a somewhat neutral entity(?)
  3. What about police who are conscripted and don't have unions like the US? For example in korea you have a few choices of public service, one of which is the police force. It's more coveted than positions like the army or navy but they have very high entrance requirements. Admittedly a decent chunk of this is career choice rather than strictly being forced into it but it's not entirely free will either. The discipline is fairly militant and they don't have the same protection(?) as someone who finished their mandatory public service term and continues to work for the force, but I don't know of many people who went to the police academy and left to do other work right after either… So it's kind of a mixed bag.

Such posts are most likely going to get removed first because moderating is a hell of a lot easier that way, but are examples like that disputable? Or is it a blank ban? Anyway I'm curious to see what others think!

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