"Dick Wolf"

I feel like you can both enjoy cop shows and know that ACAB IRL.

unless someone actively snitches

Then you go to The Innocence Project and find out how many jailhouse snitches are issuing false testimony to lighten their own convictions.

My town's police department posts info on wanted criminals on FB and people comment on the posts basically doing the cops' jobs for them. Every person who has been posted about has been caught. The cops here rely on the public to catch criminals and they're shameless about it. Meanwhile they spend their time on duty harassing people who ride ebikes.

On top of that, if IA was as powerful and menacing as they are in the shows cops might actually be held accountable.

IA feels like HR at any mega Corp, there to protect the institution not actually solve anything or ensure things are fair.

I was a medic back in the day in a large city. Cops are assholes. Big goofy dumb goons. I've seen them do the dumbest shit. Light a smoke for a dead man. Was just one example. I sat at trial two times just to fuck up a cops day cause they routinely fucked people up for no reason. Goons.

The restraining order means nothing to the supreme court, also.

"Castle Rock v. Gonzales, 545 U.S. 748 (2005), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled, 7–2, that a town and its police department could not be sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for refusing to enforce a restraining order, even though the refusal led to the murders of a woman's three children by her estranged husband."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_of_Castle_Rock_v._Gonzales

Love how Brooklyn 99 addresses that. Peralta is basically a caricature of the "loose cannon that gets results" cop, but even he doesn't cross the line when it comes to illegally obtaining evidence.

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

-John Rogers

You mean fuck off?

Honestly I'm not a military fan, but in general they tend to be better trained and are actually a necessary evil, see Ukraine. Sometimes you need people to defend you from tyrants.

Cops are just so much worse, they are given all the privilege in the world and they have comfortable jobs, at least in the western world, yet they act like they are dodging 50cal rounds all day every day.

They think they are at war with the people they are supposed to be serving so this is never going to work.

B99 was a very good comedy that took place in an absolute fantasy world.

But hey, that's sitcoms for you. Nobody in Big Bang Theory has to spend a season wiggling out of date rape allegations. Nobody in 7th Heaven gets molested by a priest. Nobody in Cheers beats their spouse.

Rope. Marijuana. It’s often censored on social media because algorithms refuse to promote anything controversial or violent. As a result, folks online have created euphemisms for it. Rather than saying “I’m smoking rope” you’ll often find people stating “I’m king grope” to avoid AI cancelation. Hope that helps.

Capitalism has neutered our ability to speak freely about the most important, most painful truths in our society.

The platforms that most people spend most of their conscious thought-power have told our children and adults alike that things like rape, suicide, murder and nazism are so distant from us, so "unreal" that we don't even have words for them anymore.

This isn't a small thing. Language has massive power in our minds to reshape our world. We use language to abstractify complicated ideas and learn how to examine them from different perspectives. Language is how we built a world a wonders and miracles, but we're being conditioned every day to stop using language. Don't read, scroll. Don't debate, retreat to safe spaces. Don't say bad words, someone might feel bad if you say "rape." As if people aren't currently being raped right now. I wonder how they feel about the word.

But did you knoooowwww, that nearly a quarter of US adults are functionally illiterate? Meaning, they can answer texts, they can read street signs and a grocery list, but are almost incapable of stringing together a whole paragraph? This isn't a small problem, it's why the west is falling, it's why we have nazis marching again. I mean... why we have "armband baddies" marching, or whatever the sanitized term is.

Entirely warranted fear of overbearing content moderation on corporate social media.