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But not really past the point of what you get from a lot of copaganda.
Sure. I personally read him as intended to convey that even the "good cops" are bastards. I'm personally of the philosophy that things don't need to be handed to the player/reader/etc on a plate—depending on the degree to which you agree, one might think that Kim should've been more clearly/explicitly a bastard, but like, imo the game is from a cop's pov and from the pov of a character who has a good relationship with Kim, and what the game does with writing him as a bastard whilst still being personally likeable from the pov of the protagonist is well-done.
Disco Elysium's writing is not subtle.