insane

“Boys will be boys”
“Well, why would he do that he’s a captain he can get girls”
”What were you wearing”
”Maybe you just didn’t remember the night accurately you said you were both ‘wasted’”
”So have you like heard of the bro-code before?”
- This made me angry.
  
  As it should.

Boo!
RAPE
So Scary!!!
No idea why people censor themselves like this.
- It's so it can be shared on places with algorithmic censorship for the most likes as possible
  
  Boycott those places, otherwise we are consenting to being censored in the name of advertising profitability.
- 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.
  
  How is that capitalism's fault, and not the fault of the ridiculous puritans the censorship is trying to cater to?
- Welp, there goes my YouTube monetization.

Watching Live PD last night. Guy runs on a motorcycle. They have the area surrounded after he ditches. They're looking for him and one cop spots him. He commands the guy and he's complying. He's almost on his knees and another cop spots him. He ran, full on run, and leapt onto the guy that was almost on his knees. The other guy that was commanding jumped on him after that as well. Guy wasn't resisting. Guy was complying. Guy had hands in the air. Guy wasn't reaching for anything.
Cop after: "He ran and we didn't know what he was capable of. So we tackled him and restrained him."
It's absolute cop wank material. All of it. The majority of the time they are way over reactive and then try to justify it all. They have that disclaimer, but then most of the time they never really follow up with info, or proper info. "Guy was booked on blah blah." Ok, but was he actually convicted? Was he found guilty, or did you just over react and your "oh I totally for sure smell weed" was bullshit. I'm fucking sick of seeing that too. How many times has jackass said that only to find...nothing.
- And then they say "he was following his training" when people get rightfully angry
  And that's a huge part of the problem. That is a part of the training. They are taught to see everyone and everything is a threat that wants them dead.
  Add onto that cops the constantly work overtime you got a group of people who are sleep deprived, hyped up on caffeine and ready, willing, and able to shoot you for looking at them sideways and won't be held accountable for doing so.
- How are there so many men growing up that want to abuse people and get away with it? It's becoming a pandemic. Cruelty is becoming trendy. I'm so scared
- They're immune to punishment for their actions, like the president of the US. That always ends well.

One night I walked home from work, in my work uniform, and some old guy with a personalized license plate asked me if I wanted to get coffee, at 9 pm. I was like, um no, and you're weird, and then I went home and thought about it and decided to report it, wasn't that long after the Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo serial killings of young girls in my city. The cop who showed up to take my statement asked me what I had been wearing, and then called me back to tell me he was just a lonely old guy looking for someone to talk to. Like who on Betty White's green earth pulls over to try and convince a stranger to get into their car at 9 pm, a young woman many decades your junior, and thinks that's normal? Fucking cops.

My favorite thing about it is this the more you watch cop shows and cop movies the more you notice a pattern. The biggest villain for all of those shows, the most consistent threat? Internal affairs. It's like every single movie and every single series it has shown up at least once. Those God damn Internal Affairs people stopping good cops from doing what they need to do. It's maybe the single strongest trend throughout all of these shows and movies.
Hell it was even a plot point in Psych. The show about fake psychic detectives had a bad guy Internal Affairs officer.
- 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.
- This is why I say the Wire is the best cop show out there still, espevially growing up with a cop. It raises up the parts of police work that deserve praise; eg. the individuals that get in for the right reasons or have appropriate respect for the job once there, the opportunity police have to make a positive impact on outliers in our society, etc. It also gives a pretty realistic look at how these things go wrong or become ineffective at an institutional level (and 100% don't shy away from idiot/aggressive cops, narratively equating them to gang members). As far as I can remember there is never a "big, bad internal affairs" plot line. When it does come up it's in reference to a character's problematic behavior and treated as a fair consequence of their actions.
  Watch the Wire if you havent and you like crime-drama. It's as good as it gets.
- If only Stabler could have freely roughed up every single suspect, they might have caught a couple of the rapists sooner. Probably would have got some coerced confessions out of some creeps who were destined to rape in future too.
  
  It's called pre-crime and Tom Cruise said it's illegal in his documentary, "Minority Report"
- Reminds me of that one cop show from the BBC that covers an internal affairs and anti-corruption team. It's called Line of Duty.
- I've recently realized that this is true even for Russia.
  The demonization of KGB and FSB, popular at some point, is ... not really against the regime, the regime is fine with it. Of course these organizations fulfilled their clearly stated function. But they are not the pinnacle of evil. Cause, well, evil likes uncertainty, and being an organization with rules is not that. KGB had whole universities, most of people from those work in tech, not in FSB.
  And FSB is not only doing what public perception says about it. They are doing a lot of usual security stuff, say, phishing and phony ATMs and public systems' security audits are all their job. Actually those people I've met likely to have professional contacts with that service are ... one can say very intelligent and perfectly understanding of good and evil.
  While thousands of cops, anti-riot units, internal troops and such are the real foundation of the regime. People kinda dumb, not well-paid, heavily dependent upon that state and also led by pack instinct.
  With that in place, the evil itself doesn't need FSB to do whatever it wants, drug trade, murdering those they don't like, undocumented prisons, kidnappings, whatever.

I posted this on FB today and my friend that works in the domestic violence shelter system told me she'll tell me over coffee how many cops show up to harass women staying at the shelter.

Why is there self-censorship on the word "rape"?
- Entirely warranted fear of overbearing content moderation on corporate social media.
  
  I guess that's one of the reasons I don't use corpo social media, goddamn. Use the words you need to, for fucks sake.
  
  it’s mostly a trend from tiktok… there a huge list of words you can’t use, and substitution words.
  but now it’s habit for them and you see youtube videos where they say shit like “and so he graped her til she was unalive” and not thinking anything of it….
  
  I've never seen any evidence that it's actually warranted and not just a superstitious offering to the algorithm
- Capital is taking away our ability to speak to power about societal problems.
  It's not a silly little thing, it's a real problem that we need to address. Nearly a quarter of the US adult population is functionally illiterate. They are taking our power to communicate away slowly, little bits at a time. They start with the big, heavy topics that make people upset, the topics that might make people rally together and push back against the system. Rape? Murder? Nazis? Suicide? No no no, those aren't acceptable so we don't say that. Monkey see no evil, say no evil, hear no evil. Be quiet and buy your new phone and buy your celebrity energy drinks.
  Tune in tomorrow to see what the next banned ideas are.
  Grab your rake and shovel and work those fields, serf.

Thank you for anticipating the words that I cannot stomach with my weak-ass feelings and censoring them for me. You're my hero. you cunt.
- Get upvoted lil bro

Courtesy of Dick Wolf

I like “The Rookie”.
But all these cops obsessing over the letter of the law, keeping each other in line, caring about perp’s life choices and victim’s problems…
This is fantasy. Might as well be Lord of the Rings.
- 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
- I used to like The Rookie, but honestly after George Floyd I just couldn't stomach any propaganda cop shows anymore.
  Those motherfucker CHOCKED the man to death while smiling.
  The show tried to pay lip service to it but honestly nothing they could do could possibly be enough.
  
  This happened to me with Brooklyn 99, than even for a cop show is kinda woke.
  Or the Dota show, that V, who has been oppressed by the police all her life became a cop officer on the first episode of the second season.
- Might as well be Lord of the Rings.
  The longer I live, the more real LOTR seems.
  
  Pining for the well-defined good and evil; the inherent goodness even in some misguided heroes, the honor, bonding, and integrity of the protagonists, despite trial and tragedy. Our characters all striving for a better world despite any personal cost. Something missing these days.
  It’s easy to wish for that. But also easy to forget that it was terrible war, both the fantasy one and the one Tolkien himself participated in, that brought about such a grand story. It is real, to an extent.

What's "rapo"?
- It’s the word “rape”, it just looks like an O because the unnecessary censorship strikes a line through the letter E.
  
  I'm sure they understood that and were making a joke about it.

I used to work for the Medical Examiner's Office. I've picked up more than my share of rape/murder victims. You wouldn't believe the shit I've heard cops say about the victims. I've only ever met a few detectives who really cared and were decent human beings, and coincidentally, they all came from years (or decades) in some other industry before joining their departments as detectives because they had advanced degrees. Never met a single uniformed cop or "promoted from within" detective who was anything other than a soulless piece of power tripping shit at their core.
- 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.
  
  Nothing made me more ACAB than having to work alongside cops.

same thing for the military. I mean, I love Stargate, but I will not pretend for a second that it's not propaganda.
- Then you get into the actual military. It's a bunch of high school kids with responsibility. Good leaders? Rare. Those higher end crazy weird assignments, like SG would have been? Those breed the worst because they usually attract the worst.
  "Here, Lippyballscacker will train you on this."
  Wait, Lippyballsacker? Wtf?
  "Yeah, his supervisor was hanging in the building and remembered he had to pick him up at the last minute from the airport. One guy asked him what the new guy's name was. "I don't know, Lippyballsacker or something." That name stuck." - actual story from my time in aircraft maintenance
  When they guy left, he was gloating the name wouldn't follow him. One of the maintenance supervisors had contacts at the new base. The name followed him.
  We also had a fuck up who was good at taking tests, so he made rank fast, but was an absolute moron. Didn't realize he had to put his manual truck in gear or set the brake. Always had to repeat lefty loosey every time...out loud. Walked right through an antenna on the bottom of the plane. Didn't skip a step.
  They show the military way too organized and disciplined. No. Bunch of blind leading the blind.
- 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.
  
  That is absolutely how they think. I had to turn off an episode of "Dogs with Jobs" of all things because it pissed me off. There was one with a police dog and his handler talked about "the enemy" and I was like "you mean the community you serve, which may include some people suspected of crimes?"

Just say no to unnecessarily censored posts
- "Dick Wolf"
  
  Dire Dick Wolf
  
  "I have some real problems with this SVU script. We can't say 'dick wolf' on TV!"
  
  "You can't say that on television!!"
  
  Is this the part where I say "hello", or...
- Thank you, self censorship drives me up the wall.
- Maybe it was posted to Reddit and then taken here?
  Either way, thank you for your service, soldier!
- and miss out on all the activity of like 10 free comments?
  
  You suck.

Feck off, censors.
The internet isn't for babies, we can take words.
- You mean fuck off?
  
  Don't you fucking swear, my dad fucking yells at me otherwise.
  
  Depends if Obinice is Irish.
- you've never seen a 2-year-old on a tablet. frightening stuff.
  
  I've never seen a 2 year old read.

Then you watch "The First 48" and realize that unless someone actively snitches or the fool immediately goes to the cops "to give their side" and/or flat out confesses, cops would never "solve" crimes.
Moral of the story: Shut the fuck up
- 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.
  
  Sounds like how the East German Stasi did things.
  If you tell me that 65% of your towns entire budget goes to "law enforcement", I would not be surprised at all.
- 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.

They can even have gang tattoos and still don't get sent to the work camps.
1312! Fuck the police
- The thin blue line flag is a gang sign. Also, police are necessary and (a lot of the time) earn their pay. We could go a long way in training them better and holding them to higher standards though. Let's start with not treating ID like crack, not escalating, using unnecessary violence, and actually respecting citizens' constitutional rights etc. Let's start with the 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th but not forget all of the rest of them. Authoritarianism is cancer regardless of who is in power.

I wish I could find that Reddit post about the commenter who called the police every time her ex came by and they literally told her that their arms are tied and there's nothing they can do. She asked them what will it take for them to act, and the cops said, "Maybe if he tried to kill you."
And she even said the restraining order meant nothing to the cops.
- 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
- Fuck cops and fuck Reddit.
  
  real

United States: How do the Chinese and Russians fall for such obvious government propaganda!?!
Also United States: OMG, my favorite show CSI: Miami Law Blue Bloods Unit is on! OMG, my favorite movie is on Cop Show, but With More CGI and Colorful Costumes!
- I feel like you can both enjoy cop shows and know that ACAB IRL.
  
  I enjoy swat, but even with the occasional episode about bad cops, it's ridiculously pro cop. I've decided that the reason I like the occasional cop show is the fantasy of what if cops were actually good.
  
  I personally tend to find it difficult tbh, unless the parts of the show that AREN'T the copaganda hero worship is exceptionally well-written and/or stupid in ways that delight me.
  Examples of cop shows (including hybrids with aspects of other genres) I will watch and rewatch for all time:
  Lucifer, Brooklyn 99, Paradise PD, Mindhunter, The Wire, Dexter
  Examples of shows with so much or so awful copaganda that I believe they should not be allowed on TV without a disclaimer:
  Every CSI show; NCIS; every Law & Order show, but especially the ones where they torture and otherwise abuse presumed innocent people the most; 24; Blue Bloods
  Cop shows I go back and forth about:
  True Detective, Castle, The Blacklist, White Collar, Bones

Those cop shows also glorify cops who breaks rules and trample rights as good cops who do what they need to do to solve a crime. It leads to people excusing abuse by cops in the real world
- 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.

Yeah, shows make cops look better than they are for sure, but they totally do the opposite by accident a lot too, just in stupider (and still realistic) ways
another murder? That's the 12th this month, Jimmy! We'd better start looking into this!
- I appreciate shows with civillian detectives like Murder She Wrote, that spend half their episodes making the cops look like incompetent assholes.

Pretty much the worst thing about The Wire is that I can't get past cops giving a shit about anything
- What? Have you actually seen the show? Most of the cops are assholes, especially up the chain of command who just want to make themselves look good. Several examples of them just wanting to close the case without caring about the truth.
  It’s actually one of the reasons why I love the show so much. Even the “good cops” have their own issues to deal with.
- That's an odd take, since I think the show makes it pretty clear that it is a tiny minority of cops which actually gives a shit, and of those and even tinier minority are actually capable at their jobs and they are getting hassled about it from every senior officer all the while.

I really like how Brooklyn 99 addressed this at the end.
- 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.
  
  Well, yes. If you expect any TV show to be a 100% unbiased, accurate representation of reality, you're an idiot.
  That doesn't mean they can't address societal issues in a meaningful way.
- Addresses what? That entire series, especially the final season, is all copaganda about "Sure, there are corrupt cops out there, but there are also squads on your side that are breaking the law in order to enforce their own morals, so you shouldn't hate cops"
  
  Yes, they addressed that there's corruption in the LEO system beyond what I've seen any other cop show do. An extremely popular member of the cast quit the force because of the George Floyd shit. What other show even addressed it?
  I'm waiting for some examples.
  Also, it's a fucking sitcom. Fuck off with your negative bullshit. A fucking sitcom did what no actual procedural cop drama would.
  
  Final Season:
  "Our bad guys, we just realized we're part of the copaganda machine so all the best characters are going to quit the force"
  Some people: "Omg that makes it worse why didn't you all kill yourselves instead?"

I’d say daredevil does the best version of portraying police. A few good apples while most get radicalized.

ACAB every day but don't you dare come for Mariska Hargitay. 1) we all know SVU is fiction (that's why they say it every episode), and most of us are aware it's mostly fantasy and also 2) svu often points out the shortcomings of other non-them svu teams and the NYPD in general.
Mariska is a gem irl. Let me enjoy my fantasy cop show.
(It has to be said: this is a tongue-in-cheek comment and I understand the point that was being made in the meme, I just really love svu ok.)
- Okay but, hear me out—are we not going to look back one day and feel that it was really fucking weird that we had a cop show dedicated entirely to rape? Maybe I’m thinking about it all wrong but that seems exploitative in a weirdly fetishistic way
  
  It is a bit odd.
  
  The fans of it are the ones who are weird to me--I've never wanted to watch a single episode of that shit.
  You all showed them there's a market for it, don't call them weird for giving you all what you all wanted, lol.
- That's her name??
  Sounds like sea food in Spanish: mariscos

What is r and why does it warrant investigation?
- 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.
  
  "got em on the ropes", "show em the ropes", "rope-a-dope", "soul on a roll but you treat it like soap on a rope cause the beats and the lines are so dope", it was right in front of our faces!
- r is a slur fort mentally disabled people and it's being investigated because the police love beating up disabled people of all sorts.
  
  To be fair, sometimes instead of beating them up they shoot them.

Hey, it's not always like that. Now they can also report the victims to ICE, which makes the problem go away much faster.

I encourage everyone to watch Skip Intro's series on Copaganda: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2ac8vr2QyTdlWwd8OQIc1it6bAfMGPPC (also available on Nebula)
- And to do so on Nebula if you have a subscription.

So more like Daredevil: Born Again.
- I mean, they still have the commissioner being this impossibly pure naïve good guy instead of being fully complicit in covering everything up, which is what would be (and already is) the case IRL.
  Don't get me wrong - the show's clearly a step in the right direction, but it's still got too much of an "a few bad apples" vibe for me.

they leveled up

RAPE